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           RetroForth & nga 2024.10 Release Notes

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- general

  - added takawiri, a new listener

- toolchain

  - retro-describe(1) now uses embedded glossary data
  - retro-muri.py: increase memory size for initial image
  - retro-extend.py: fix dictionary lookups

- documentation

- examples

  - add ilo.retro

- image

  - `HOME` (in the library code) is now a floating buffer
    above `here`
  - `s:get-word` was not properly breaking on space; this is
    now corrected
  - `n:put` no longer uses temporary string buffers
  - `s:get` now truncates strings longer than `TempStringMax`
  - add `s:oversize?`
  - add `s:truncate`
  - `s:append`, `s:prepend` now truncate if source string is
    at `TempStringMax`
  - `s:temp` now truncates strings longer than `TempStringMax`
  - `s:filter` now truncates strings longer than `TempStringMax`
  - added new `d:stack` field for storing a stack comment
  - added new `d:astack` field for storing an address stack comment
  - added new `d:fstack` field for storing a float stack comment
  - added new `d:descr` field for storing a description
  - `sigil:(` extended to store stack comments (with a form of
    `(:comment)`
  - add `d:describe`
  - stack comments & descriptions are now part of the standard
    system image
  - add `d:words-missing-details`
  - add `add-description`

- library

  - added "tob", a text output buffer
  - added "c:get/ext", for reading keys and returning unique
    codes for arrows
  - added "openbsd", for interacting with an openbsd-specific
    i/o extension
    - adds "openbsd:pledge"
    - adds "openbsd:unveil"
  - remove "describe.retro"

- retro-compiler

- new nga implementations

  - nga-zig

    - added a zig implementation from iacore under vm/libnga-zig
    - build with: zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -p ~/.local

- nga-c

  - use UTF32 internally (translating to/from UTF8 externally)
  - filesystem device no longer included if ENABLE_FILES not
    defined
  - formatting cleanups
  - added ioctl device
  - new "-p" option to run non-Unu format source files
  - now report "<none>" for `script:name` if no file is being
    run
  - now report 0 for `script:arguments` if not running a program
  - source read from a file now truncates (w/null termination)
    input tokens bigger than the defined text input buffer

- nga-python

  - fix dictionary lookups
  - update to current embedded image

Future Notes

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