Re: [Chicken-announce] Chicken 4.8.0.6 released

[Jim Ursetto]

Hi all,

We received a couple reports of problems building the 4.8.0.6 tarball on 
systems without Chicken already installed.  This was due to an incorrect 
timestamp on the file buildtag.h.  To correct this issue, we uploaded a new 
version of the tarball with everything identical but the timestamp updated; 
this will prevent a rebuild of build-version.c from the Scheme source, so a 
pre-existing Chicken is no longer required.

If you have already built Chicken successfully, there is no need to rebuild, as 
no code has actually changed.  This only affects users who were unable to build 
from the tarball.

Jim

On Apr 23, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Chicken 4.8.0.6 is now available for download:
> 
> http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/chicken-4.8.0.6.tar.gz
> 
> This release fixes several bugs, including one which could result in
> a runtime panic.
> 
> === What's new ===
> 
> 4.8.0.6
> 
> - Runtime system
>  - The scheduler won't poll() on non-FD objects upon which threads are 
> blocked.
> 
> - Core libraries
>  - Export file-type from the posix unit (thanks to Alan Post).
>  - unsetenv has been fixed on Windows
>  - Make meta-evaluation actually take place in the meta environment.
>    Fixes a bug noticed by Sandra Snan.
> 
> ==================
> 
> The 4.8.0.x releases reside on the stability/4.8.0 branch in git,
> which you can retrieve with:
> 
> git clone --branch stability/4.8.0 git://code.call-cc.org/chicken-core
> 
> Or browse my unofficial github mirror:
> https://github.com/ursetto/chicken-core-stability/tree/stability/4.8.0
> 
> Jim