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2009-11-17

GNU Guile 1.9.5 (alpha) released. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.5.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is b8d6055318c8ac3482479df679adf943a2e1c292.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-10-15

GNU Guile 1.9.4 (alpha) released. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.4.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 6fdaab75d25bba1bcfee92c5cc12f99f6ac90a46.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-09-15

GNU Guile 1.9.3 (alpha) released. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.3.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is c8d1d25ed413b48493ec5b0cbf4de8593cab4a21.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-08-15

GNU Guile 1.9.2 (alpha) released. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.2.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 5bf59d9d17841d8d87e1744c9d35b276b5c67133.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-07-15

GNU Guile 1.9.1 (alpha) released. This is the next pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.1.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is d6dff7936e0428639eee0f46c34c4b14a8688e3f.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-07-05

GNU Guile 1.8.7 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.7.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 24cd2f06439c76d41d982a7384fe8a0fe5313b54.

See the NEWS file for details.

2009-06-19

GNU Guile 1.9.0 (alpha) released. This is the first pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.9.0.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 836cffc2d05cd0de938bf24bc91e9debe8fea060.

See the NEWS file for details.

2008-12-08

GNU Guile 1.8.6 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.6.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is a3896f86044a2b3740dac43e045c349d656fba31.

See the NEWS file for details.

2008-05-07

GNU Guile 1.8.5 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.5.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 3ef611cf5c4998a5bdfc7935765bb68730038614.

See the NEWS file for details.

2008-02-19

GNU Guile 1.8.4 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.4.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 1e80fe242acfde2bfa39fd1e8409a8f010e24e2b.

See the NEWS file for details.

2007-10-16

GNU Guile 1.8.3 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.3.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 26cf7b70d4caff8fe2a5fbcc363f2457bc591c2b.

See the NEWS file for details.

2007-07-16

GNU Guile 1.8.2 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.2.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is b5c624b152a45f302e185e20a468a02f2eb73e38.

See the NEWS file for details.

2006-10-06

GNU Guile 1.8.1 released. This is the next maintenance release for the 1.8 stable series.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 184555def153fdbc322045b1fdd90a7b23a84fbd.

See the NEWS file for details.

2006-05-28

GNU Guile 1.6.8 released. This is the next maintenance release for the old 1.6 stable series. The current stable series is 1.8.

You can find it at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.6.8.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 5c244f730d7aaee32db4b0cc77b688f74a5caa71.

See the NEWS file for details.

2006-02-12

GNU Guile 1.8.0 released.

You can find it at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.0.tar.gz. Its SHA1 hash is 22462680feeda1e5400195c01dee666162503d66.

The NEWS file is quite long. Here are the most interesting entries:

Changes since 1.6:
• Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License.
• The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License.
• We now use GNU MP for bignums.
• We now have exact rationals, such as 1/3.
• We now use native POSIX threads for real concurrent threads.
• There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile from threads that have not been created by Guile.
• Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair. A recursive mutex must be requested explicitely.
• The low-level thread API has been removed.
• There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and mutation-sharing substrings.
• A new family of functions for converting between C values and Scheme values has been added that is future-proof and thread-safe.
• The INUM macros like SCM_MAKINUM have been deprecated.
• The macros SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_LENGTH, SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, and SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH have been deprecated.
• There is a new way to deal with non-local exits and re-entries in C code, which is nicer than scm_internal_dynamic_wind.
• There are new malloc-like functions that work better than scm_must_malloc, etc.
• There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from C that is efficient and thread-safe.
• The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation barriers and dynamic states.

See NEWS and the manual for more details.

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