newLISP 10.4.3 - Changelog

What's new in newLISP 10.4.0:

· Stable release v.10.4.0 has a rewritten message API for multiprocessing, an extended FFI and makes efficiency improvements.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.10:

· Development v10.3.10 has more improvements in the extended FFI, much increased speed on read-line with file handles.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.8:

· Development release version 10.3.8 finishes the extended FFI import and callback functions and fixes bugs.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.5:

· This development release fixes bugs and adds more changes to the rewritten multiprocessing API.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.3:

· Version 10.3.3 fixes bugs and makes performance improvements.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.2:

· Stable Maintenance Release version 10.3.2 fixes bugs and makes efficiency improvements.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.1:

· MBCS coded characters in pathnames in the Windows UTF-8 version.
· Better worded error message when wrong parameter type in implicit indexing of strings and lists.
· Fixed a buffer overflow for interactive multiline mode for long input lines.
· Fix for 'filter', 'index', 'clean', 'exist' and 'for-all' when handling empty list elements (). Also, these functions are now several times faster.
· Check for missing parameter in inc, dec, ++, --. Using these without any parameter messed up the value of 'nil'.
· Fixed crash bug with boolean 'true' parameter in 'dotree' Documentation changes.

What's new in newLISP 10.3.0:

Highlights:
· This release starts the transition to the IPv6 – Internet Protocol version 6 – based Internet with a new function to switch between the old IPv4 and the new IPv6 protocol during runtime.
· A better interactive command-line mode (REPL) when running in an OS termnal or shell window allows multiline entry of newLISP expressions (not available in the monitor window of the newLISP-GS Java IDE).

New Functions and Features:
· Exec now allows binary zeros in the data piped in via a second parameter.
· New date-list returns list of year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and day of the year, day of the week from time value in seconds since January 1st, 1970. The new function is the inverse of date-value.
· Extend will take an un-initialized variable and create a list or string depending on the second argument (similar to push). Before, a variable in the first argument had to be initialized to a list or string.
· net-listen now can create divert sockets to divert traffic to a divert port on BSD OS platforms. Port diversion can be used to capture and process raw network packets.
· The mod function assumes its second parameter as 1 if missing.
· New net-ipv switches betweeen IPv4 and IPv6 internet protocols during runtime. Prior versions had to be compiled for either IPv4 or IPv6. As of today IPv6 is not widely deployed, but will gain importance during the coming years. A command line switch -6 has been added to start up newLISP in IPv6 mode.
· New multiline mode on the commandline, without using the [cmd] and [/cmd] tags: just hitting the enter-key on an empty line gets into and out of multiline mode. The [cmd] and [/cmd] tags still work too and are needed internally when newLISP is working in server mode, for some programming environments interfacing with newLISP and when pasting source containing empty lines into the terminal.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.18:

· This development release adds divert sockets/ports to net-listen (UNIX only) and adds other miscellaneous features and enhancements.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.17:

· This development release contains fixes in the newLISP Guiserver table API and additions to newLISP HTTP server mode.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.16:

· This development release contains miscellaneous changes and bug fixes.
· A new table widget and supporting functions has been added to newLISP-GS the Java bases guiserver.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.14:

· Development version 10.2.14 has bug fixes and other small adjustments.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.11:

· Windows versions now compiled using wspiapi.h in nl-sock.c. This guarantees working of freeaddrinfo(), needed for IPv6, on some older Win 2000 systems.
· New multiline mode on the commandline, without using [cmd], [/cmd] tags: just hitting [enter] on an empty line gets into and out of multiline mode. The [cmd], [/cmd] still work too and are needed internally when newLISP is working in server mode, for some IDEs and when pasting source containing empty lines into the terminal. Tab-expansion (on Unix only) for built-in function names also works in multiline mode.
· Minor changes in version 1.37 of the Java based Guiserver.
· In 'net-ping' specify optional third parameter to get an error string instead of response time, if the host did not respond. This behavior was present in previous versions, but was not documented.

What's new in newLISP 10.2.1:

Bug Fixes:
· The nil? predicate evaluated twice.
· The probabilities calculated by prob-chi2 were too low for odd numbers of degrees of freedom.
· FOOP objects were not protected if held by a protected symbol.

Changes and Additions:
· ersion 2.0 of GMP module file gmp.lsp fixes problems when using 64-bit newLISP.