retroforth/RELEASE-NOTES
crc 66e67bca73 update RELEASE NOTES
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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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