1.0.0 released
Written by Mooneer Salem on Thursday 1st of January, 2009 in Releases
Happy New Year! We've just released Kite 1.0.0, our first release out of beta.
New in this release:
- Fixed libgc linkage problems in OSX. (ticket #71)
- 85% reduction in minimum memory use per object.
- Can now specify ranges as part of native Kite syntax (using from:to[:step] notation).
- microregex: fixed capturing parenthesis issues.
- microregex: fixed character class parsing issue.
- microregex: added most of the remaining escapes from Perl regular expressions.
- Added whitespace trimming methods to System.string.
- "version" keyword added to Kite syntax to support module versioning (to prevent module from being used in incompatible Kite versions). (ticket #76)
- Default equality and non-equality operator behavior is now to compare addresses. (ticket #77)
- Fixed Kite syntax to allow constructs such as x[0].prop.
- Most compile warnings removed in Windows.
- Kite API documented and tutorial for module builders added to documentation.
Download:
- Source: http://www.kite-language.org/files/kite-1.0.0.tar.gz
- Windows installer: http://www.kite-language.org/files/kite-windows-1.0.0.msi
- kdoc documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/kdoc-1.0.0/ (as tarball)
- General Kite documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/kite-1.0.0/ (as tarball)
- Kite API documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/kite-api-1.0.0/ (as tarball)
Issue tracker URL (for bug reports): http://trac.kite-language.org/report/1
Getting help: http://trac.kite-language.org/wiki/GettingHelp
microregex 1.0b7 released
Written by Mooneer Salem on Sunday 28th of December, 2008 in Releases
We've just released version 1.0b7 of the microregex regular expression engine!
New in this release:
- Now supports \c, \l, \u, \L, \U, \E, \Q, \B, \A, \Z and \z escapes.
- Memory allocation modified so that less memory is used during matching.
Download:
- Source: http://www.kite-language.org/files/microregex-1.0b7.tar.gz
- Documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/microregex-1.0b3/ (no changes to API in this release)
Issue tracker URL (for bug reports): http://trac.kite-language.org/report/1
Getting help: http://trac.kite-language.org/wiki/GettingHelp
microregex 1.0b6 released
Written by Mooneer Salem on Saturday 20th of December, 2008 in Releases
We've just released version 1.0b6 of the microregex regular expression engine!
New in this release:
- Fixed compile errors when compiled on the Windows platform.
Download:
- Source: http://www.kite-language.org/files/microregex-1.0b6.tar.gz
- Documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/microregex-1.0b3/ (no changes to API in this release)
Issue tracker URL (for bug reports): http://trac.kite-language.org/report/1
Getting help: http://trac.kite-language.org/wiki/GettingHelp
1.0b8 released
Written by Mooneer Salem on Saturday 20th of December, 2008 in Releases
We've just released version 1.0b8 of the Kite programming language!
New in this release:
- Actual Windows support (including installer).
- Garbage collection support using Boehm GC.
- New application: Interactive Kite (ikt) (ticket #52)
- New methods: System.math|random, srandom. (ticket #70)
- Bugfix: improper memory allocation/deallocation in microregex. (ticket #66, #68)
- Bugfix: unfriendly error message when calling an object as a method. (ticket #69)
Download:
- Source: http://www.kite-language.org/files/kite-1.0b8.tar.gz
- Windows installer: http://www.kite-language.org/files/kite-windows-1.0b8.msi
- kdoc documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/kdoc-1.0b8/ (as tarball)
- General Kite documentation: http://www.kite-language.org/docs/kite-1.0b8/ (as tarball)
Issue tracker URL (for bug reports): http://trac.kite-language.org/report/1
Getting help: http://trac.kite-language.org/wiki/GettingHelp