retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12 - 2018.12

In this release, the executables have been renamed to avoid naming conflicts with other applications and packages.

old name       new name
==========     ================
rre            retro
embedimage     retro-embedimage
extend         retro-extend
muri           retro-muri
repl           retro-repl
ri             retro-ri
unu            retro-unu

Bug Fixes

Build

• add Makefile.linux to help with building on some Linux systems

Core Language

• add c:to-number
• minor optimizations throughout
• s:format now treats \0 as ASCII NUL

Interfaces

retro (formerly rre)

• moved Windows implementation to interfaces/windows
• now starts the listener when run w/o any arguments

Tools

• added commentary to Unu

Other

Documentation

• Glossary expanded to cover the new words

Examples

Final Notes