diff --git a/download/release-next.t2t b/download/release-next.t2t new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6a455b725 --- /dev/null +++ b/download/release-next.t2t @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +GF 3.7.1 Release Notes +October 2015 + +%!style:../css/style.css +%!postproc(html): <meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width"> <TITLE> +%!postproc(html): <H1> <H1><a href="../"><IMG src="../doc/Logos/gf0.png"></a> +%!postproc(html): '<BODY.*?>' '<BODY class=releasenotes>' + +==Installation== + +See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html]. + +==What's new== + +Over 170 changes have been pushed to the source repository since +[the release of GF 3.7 release-3.7.html] in June 2015. + +===GF compiler and run-time library=== + +====New features and notable changes==== + +- GF shell: ``cc -trace`` (preliminary): you can now do things like + + ``cc -trace mkV "debug"`` + + to see a trace of all opers with their arguments and results during the + computation of ``mkV "debug"``. + +- GF shell: you can now parse and linearize with the C run-time system + from the GF shell by starting GF with ``gf -cshell`` or ``gf -crun``. + Only limited functionality is available when running the shell in these + modes (use the ``help`` command in the shell for details): + + - You can only import .pgf files, not source files. + - The -retain flag can not be used and the commands that require it to work + are not available. + +- GF now supports parallel batch compilation of grammars. + + - ``gf -make -j=``//n// uses //n// parallel threads. + - ``gf -make -j`` adapts to the number of processors in the system. + + (This depends on the function ``Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities``, + which is only available in GHC>=7.6 (base>=4.6). + GF can still be compiled with GHC<7.6, but then you have + to use ``+RTS -N -RTS`` to take advantage of multicore processors.) + +- GF shell: more commands (``cc``, ``sd``, ``so``, ``ss``, ``dg``, ``ph``) + can now be used in pipes. + +- GF shell: the ``eh`` (``execute_history``) command now works again. + + +%====Other changes and bug fixes==== + + +====Changes of interest to compiler developers==== + +- The implementation of the GF shell has been refactored, both to accommodate + the C run-time mode (``gf -cshell``), to allow a more uniform treatment + of different types of commands, and to fix some commands that have been + broken for years. + + +===Resource Grammar Library=== + +- Various fixes for several languages. +- Numerous fixes in the translation dictionaries. + + +===GF Cloud services=== + +- PGF service: by adding ``unlexer=none`` (or ``unlexer=id``) + in requests that output linearizations + (e.g. ``command=linearize``, ``command=translate``), + you can leave ``&+`` uninterpreted instead of gluing the adjacent tokens. + This means that the output is left in a format that can be parsed in + a subsequent request. + + +-------------------- + +[www.grammaticalframework.org http://www.grammaticalframework.org]