retroforth/RELEASE_NOTES.md

RETRO 12.2019.6

This is the changelog for the development builds of Retro. I am currently planning to have the next release occur in June 2019.

Bug Fixes

Build

• parallel builds now work
• refactor Makefile
• support for adding custom code to an image at build time (see packages/list)
• only build the toolchain and retro binary by default

Core Language

• remove set:from-results
• add if;
• add -if;
• add hook
• add set-hook
• add unhook
• c:put primitive is a hookable word
• set: is now array:

I/O and Extensions

Floating Point

• add f:adepth
• add f:between?
• add f:case
• add f:dec
• add f:drop-pair
• add f:dup-pair
• add f:dump-stack
• add f:inc
• add f:limit
• add f:max
• add f:min
• add f:nip
• add f:pop
• add f:push
• add f:rot
• add f:sign
• add u:scaling
• improved f:tuck
• improved f:over

Unix

• add unix:count-files-in-cwd
• add unix:for-each-file
• add unix:get-cwd
• add unix:time

Nga

Interfaces

• use strlcpy, strlcat instead of strcpy and strcat
• include copies of the above for users of glibc
• add retro-compiler
• add random number generator

retro

• add random number generator
• add -u filename startup parameter to allow selection of image file
• add image:save

retro-compiler

• new interface for creating turnkey executables on bsd, linux

retro-ri

• support switching between multiple copies of the image
• add random number generator
• add image:save

native

• add port i/o words
• add cmos rtc driver
• add serial port driver
• now builds properly on openbsd
• add ata driver
• add block editor
• rewrite vga text driver in retro

Tools

• use strlcpy, strlcat instead of strcpy and strcat
• retro-extend: cleaner output
• retro-extend: remove unused code
• retro-extend: allow multiple files
• retro-extend: reduce memory usage
• retro-extend: fix potential buffer overrun
• muri: remove the unused c directive

Other

Documentation

• add a collection of papers
• refactor glossary tool
• add HTML version of the Glossary
• add more concise text copies of the Glossary
• add man pages
• add BUILDING.md

Examples

• add Abort.forth
• add ANS-PICK-ROLL.forth
• add atua-gophermap.forth
• add Block-Editor.forth
• add Buffer.forth
• add CaptureOutput.forth
• add DisplayNames.forth
• add EDA.forth
• add EvaluateString.forth
• add FloatVar.forth
• add Forget.forth
• add HTML.forth
• add KeyValueStore.forth
• add Marker.forth
• add NamingQuotes.forth
• add NetFetch.forth
• add paste.forth
• add PasteToSprunge.forth
• add retro-extend.forth
• add retro-embedimage.forth
• add SaveAndRestoreStack.forth
• add share.forth and shared.forth
• add uuencode.forth
• add uudecode.forth
• fix test block in defstruct.forth
• switch to dvorak key bindings in Roo.forth
• remove Hooks.forth (now in core language)
• improved edit.forth from Kiyoshi
• Casket-HTTP now supports server side scripting

Final Notes