GF 3.6 Release Notes
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==Installation==

See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html].

==What's new==

Over [...] changes have been pushed to the source repository since the release
of GF 3.5.

Closed [issues http://code.google.com/p/grammatical-framework/issues/list]:
 25, 30, 41, 57, 60, 61, 68, 80, 81, 82.

===GF compiler and run-time library===

- Token gluing, BIND, SOFT_BIND [...]
- ``nonExist`` now exists. [...]
- The default character encoding in grammar files has been changed from
  Latin-1 to UTF-8. Also, alternate character encodings should now be specified
  as ``--# -coding=``//enc//, instead of ``flags coding=``//enc//.
  See the separate document
  [GF character encoding changes encoding-change.html] for more details.
- Unicode characters in identifiers [...]
- The PGF file format has changed in minor but backward incompatible ways
  GF can still read the old format, thanks to a backward compatibility
  module. Old PGF files can be converted to the new format by loading them
  in the GF shell and writing out a new PGF file with the ``pg -pgf`` command.

- Nonlinear patterns (i.e., patterns where the same variable appears more than
  once) in concrete syntax are now detected and reported as errors.
  (Section C.4.13 in the GF book states that patterns must be
  linear.)
- A pattern matching bug which prevented variables in patterns to be bound to
  table values has been fixed.
- A bug with local variable name shadowing has been fixed.
- The refresh pass
% (and thus the command line option --dump-refresh)
  had become obsolete and has been removed.
- The old partial evaluator
  (and thus the command line options ``--new-comp`` and ``--old-comp``)
  has been removed.


===Resource Grammar Library===

- New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Estonian
  (see the [updated synopsis ../lib/doc/synopsis.html]).
- [...]


===GF Cloud services===

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