Oldes/Rebol3 3.7.0

Rebol v3.7.0

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Features:

• 3d83ca Errors and debug messages printed to stderr
• 95d535 Added possibility to change console output from stdout to stderr (windows)
• 9c4036 Added possibility to change console output from stdout to stderr (posix)
• 53b04b New lcm native for resolving the least common multiple of two integers
• 12794b New gcd native for resolving the greatest common divisor of two integers
• f64cd3 Partial crush decompression
• b7fb49 Optional custom LZ77-based compression algorithm (crush)
• 3a3076 Bincode - added padding command PAD
• fa46cb BinCode - added commands: F16LE, F16BE, F32LE, F32BE, F64LE and F64BE
• 15de62 QOI codec (The "Quite OK Image" format for fast, lossless image compression)
• cc1025 Added example how to prevent hacking attempts to the http test server
• b4789f Added example how to server humans.txt data from the test server
• 5fa5b8 Updated ZIP codec
  • Access to comment and extra field of uncompressed data
  • Added support to include file comments, extras or insternal and external attributes
  • Added support to include uncompressed data (useful when making APK targeting version 30 and above)
• b49781 Possibility to resolve context handle's type
• 27ab5a Make context type handles comparable
• e837a8 Allow insert on object!
• cfe7e2 Allow select on module
• 5ae487 Register .deb file extension fith AR codec
• 3a5f9e Including last git commit version in the system/build/git and full version info when used -v boot argument
• 4b321e Extended maximum number of tuple values to 12
• 6f451f Tweaked doc-string of clear action
• ab5ae7 Improved doc-string for at and atz actions

Changes:

• 3139f4 Keep / at the head of the HTTP request target (httpd module)
• f9fe06 Including some of modules as a delayed (required to import them before use)
• 9458d4 Modified single-line doc string for modules in the help output
• d4e947 Storing system/modules as an object!; added support to include delayed modules
• 04c71d More detailed info about used compilation target; new build output names; rewritten build specification to be better prepared for a future cross-compilation possibility.
• 5d1a4c New wording for repend/only function doc string

Fixes:

• 84090f Resolved possible buffer overrun warning
• 738476 Using system output to print version info
• 03a4b6 Make project compile able with Xcode v13.2
• d0aa12 Accidentally removed --do option storage done in ca7c025
• ca7c02 Interpreter too eagerly consuming command-line arguments & arguments containing whitespace
• 7f1343 Evaluate --do boot argument
• 6588c3 switch with ref! value type
• d744ce Memory corruption when used crush compression
• c33ff2 Force garbage collection before measuring delta-profile stats
• 34e0e2 Missing change for: 15de62c
• a09ee2 httpd module: don't keep opened connection if client (like Rebol2) don't want it
• 5f9695 Enhanced precision in comparison of time with integer
• b1a65b Using call/shell in the launch function
• a14d3a Use user context filtering only for pattern matches and with strict-equal?
• 74d0c3 There must be get-word! used in case that value is a function
• e26d3d Include user context values in the help output
• 067fee Length-specified script embedding
• ef13db Improved resolving console width for help output trunctation
• 43886c Improved resolving console width for help output trunctation
• 7a4a44 Improved resolving console width for help output trunctation
• a96c89 Improved resolving console width for help output trunctation
• cd1afe Improved resolving console width for help output trunctation
• e3520a Opening a library (extension import) requires absolute path
• 2b7b6c Use default terminal width 80 chars when not resolved from system (CI)
• 502382 Generated RL defines were not counting with possibility of variadic arguments (like in RL_PRINT)
• cd463f Make sure that TO_OSX define is used even for 64bit builds
• 5fcb00 Using the new compress in build scripts
• 720514 Wrong member name when RAW_MAIN_ARGS define is used