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+
+==Installation==
+
+See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html].
+
+==What's new==
+
+Over 788 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the
+[release of GF 3.6 release-3.6.html] in June 2014.
+
+===GF compiler and run-time library===
+
+====New features and notable changes====
+
+- GF shell: the commands available in the shell after importing with the
+ ``-retain`` flag are now a superset of the commands available after
+ importing without ``-retain``.
+ (Previously commands that require compilation all the way to PMCFG were
+ not available when the ``-retain`` flag was used.)
+- The command line flag ``-s``/``-q`` now silences all warnings.
+- GF now supports parallel batch compilation of grammars.
+ This is activated with the ``-j``
+ flag. (For the time being, you also need to pass ``+RTS -N -RTS`` to enable
+ parallelism in the GHC run-time system.)
+- Concrete syntax can now be translated to Haskell. The flag
+ ``-output-format=haskell`` translates abstract syntax to Haskell as before.
+ By also adding ``-haskell=concrete`` you get a Haskell module for each
+ concrete syntax of the grammar. These contain translations of
+ linearization types and linearization functions.
+ By adding ``-haskell=variants`` you get linerization functions that output
+ all variants.
+ (You don't get any functions for parsing.)
+- [...]
+
+
+====Other changes and bug fixes====
+
+- Colors are now used to highlight errors and warnings (except on Windows).
+- Even though GF works with absolute paths internally, GF now shows paths
+ relative to the current directory in diagnostic output.
+- GF Shell and ``gf -server``: improved responsiveness when large grammars are
+ loaded (by increasing the GHC RTS idle timeout before full GC from the
+ default 0.3s to 5s).
+
+
+====Changes of interest to compiler developers====
+
+- The compiler is now available as a Haskell library. The module ``GF``
+ serves as a preliminary compiler API. It exports a selection of
+ types and functions from the compiler. [...]
+- Some Haddock documentation improvements to document the compiler API.
+- Various refactoring for readability, modularity and efficiency. Removal of
+ some dead code.
+- [...]
+
+
+===Resource Grammar Library===
+
+- New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Mongolian
+ (see the [updated synopsis ../lib/doc/synopsis.html]).
+- [...]
+
+
+===GF Cloud services===
+
+ - Minibar and Wide Coverage Translation Demo: speech output is now available
+ (in browsers that support it).
+- The Wide Coverage Translation Demo can now draw syntax trees and show
+ inflection tables.
+- PGF service: add commands ``c-abstrtree`` and ``c-parsetree``.
+ These are the C runtime variants of the ``absttree`` and ``parsetree``
+ commands. They work in the same way, but support fewer rendering options.
+- PGF Service:
+ The ``parse``/``translate``/``c-parse``/``c-translate`` commands now
+ recognize the option ``jsontree=true`` to augment the returned JSON
+ structure with a field called
+ ``jsontree`` next to the field ``tree``, or ``jsontrees`` next to ``trees``,
+ containing the the returned syntax tree in JSON format.
+- PGF Service: when using ``full=yes`` with the ``complete`` command,
+ additional information about completions is included in the output, in
+ particular there is an additional field ``seq`` containing the longest
+ possible completion.
+- PGF service: add command ``c-linearizeAll`` to obtain all variants.
+- PGF service: PGFs now expire from the internal cache when they have been
+ unused for 24 hours, to keep memory use down in long running servers.
+- PGF Service: limit the number of parallel calls to the C run-time parse
+ function to 4 by default. The limit can be changed with the ``-j`` flag.
+- [...]
+
+
+--------------------
+
+[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org]