Factor Changelog

What's new in Factor 0.97

• HIGHLIGHTS:
• Support for more color spaces including RYB and YUV
• Support for SSL on windows
• Some new checksum implementations and performance improvements
• Cross-platform C library finder
• Client for IMAP protocol
• Support for MessagePack encoding and decoding
• Support for uuencoding and uudecoding
• Support for terminfo database files
• Support for tzinfo files
• Support for in-place sorting (using quicksort)
• Bindings for ZeroMQ and Python
• Runner for Applescript (including definition support)
• Performance improvement to printf and support for vprintf
• Support saving images in GTK, Cocoa, and Windows backends
• Generative Modeling Language
• Lots of documentation added to the compiler
• Many, many improvements to the FUEL emacs mode
• Some possible backwards compatibility issues:
• Fixed mask? in math.bitwise to be more correct
• Fixed bias in Mersenne Twister random number generator
• Better support for shebang (no longer need a space after #!)
• io-error now lives in the libc vocabulary
• sender stubs in cocoa.messages now named by method signature
• filter now allocates length of seq, not exemplar.
• Removed make-assoc in favor of explicit get's.
• Some of the improvements to FUEL, Factor's emacs mode:
• Modernize for emacs 24.3
• Prepare FUEL to be uploaded to MELPA
• Change font locking and syntax highlighting
• Make fuel-help work for vocabularies also
• New minor mode: fuel-autohelp-mode
• Fix word help to use correct vocabulary using list
• Variable controlling whether fuel-mode is loaded automatically
• Fixes to table rendering
• New libraries:
• alien.libraries.finder: cross-platform C library finder
• checksums.fletcher: Fletcher in 16/32/64-bit
• checksums.murmur: MurmurHash3 in 32-bit
• checksums.superfast: SuperFastHash
• checksums.xxhash: xxHash in 32-bit
• cocoa.apple-script: runner for AppleScript
• colors.distances: CIE76, CIE94, CIEDE2000, and CMC l:c color differences
• colors.lab: support for CIE 1976 LAB colors
• colors.lch: support for CIELCH colors
• colors.luv: support for CIE 1976 LUV colors
• colors.ryb: support for RYB colors
• colors.xyy: support for CIE 1931 xyY colors
• colors.xyz: support for CIE 1931 XYZ colors
• colors.yuv: support for YUV colors
• compression.snappy: bindings to snappy compression library
• crypto.aes: lookup-table AES implementation
• cuesheet: parser for CUE files
• curl: bindings for libcurl
• editors.atom: support for Atom text editor
• fftw: bindings to FFTW library
• gml: support for Generative Modeling Language
• grouping.extras: helpful words
• html.entities: escape and unescape HTML5 entities
• imap: client for IMAP servers
• io.encodings.utf7: support for UTF7 encodings
• io.streams.ansi: support for ANSI color streams
• magic: bindings to libmagic
• marvel: support for Marvel.com API
• math.combinators: some convenience words
• matrices.laplace: adding Laplace expansion
• math.unicode: implement unicode math symbols
• pcre: bindings for PCRE
• python: bindings for Python
• random.rdrand: random number generator using RDRAND instruction
• rosetta-code.josephus-problem: solved
• rosetta-code.metronome: solved
• sorting.heap: implement Heapsort
• sorting.quick: implement Quicksort
• spotlight: adding Spotlight search wrapper for Mac OS X
• terminfo: parser for terminfo database files
• tzinfo: parser for timezone files
• tools.dns.public: adding well-known public DNS servers
• uu: support for uuencoding and uudecoding
• yaml: reading and writing the YAML format
• youtube: downloader for youtube.com
• wikipedia: support historical events and article printing
• windows.ntdll: process listing on Windows
• windows.winmm: to play MP3 files
• zeromq: bindings for ZeroMQ
• Improved libraries:
• arrays.shaped: iteration with indices, mapping operations
• bson.reader: support reading sequence of BSON objects from a file
• calendar.format: fix timestamp parsing without a timezone (fixes #861)
• calendar.threads: support M\ timestamp sleep-until
• circular: adding circular-loop
• color-picker: show hex value of color
• combinators.extras: more words
• concurrency.combinators: adding parallel versions of cartesian-{map,each}
• destructors: faster dispose-each
• dlists: adding push-before and push-sorted
• dns: support custom DNS server lookups
• environment: adding with-os-env for using temporary environment variables
• formatting: performance improvements, added vprintf for runtime formatting
• google.translate: adding translate-tts
• graphviz: miscellaneous improvements by @ajvondrak
• grouping.extras: more words
• hash-sets: minor cleanup
• hashtables: minor cleanup
• help.html: use tools.completions for searching
• html.parser.analyzer: make find-between* work on nested tags
• html.parser.printer: better html-text.
• http.client: versions of http-get and friends that don't check response code
• infix: adding INFIX:: word definitions
• interpolate: adding generalized numbered string interpolation
• io.binary: faster le> and signed-be> and signed>
• io.binary.fast: generic be> and le> that try to be fast
• io.directories: adding with-resource-directory
• io.encodings.string: faster decode and encode for ascii and utf8
• io.sockets.secure.openssl: fix subject name checks
• io.streams.byte-array: performance improvements
• io.streams.random: performance improvements
• io.streams.string: performance improvements
• ip-parser: adding ntoa and aton
• math.bitwise: adding bit-length
• math.combinatorics: performance improvements, k-permutations
• math.extras: more words
• math.factorials: adding factorials
• math.functions: implement ldexp
• math.matrices: performance improvements
• math.ranges: implement sum on range objects
• math.statistics: fix out-of-bounds in quantiles, more words
• math.text.english: support ratio, float, complex
• mirrors: strings can be inspected-sequence (fixes #857)
• openal.examples: adding play-waveform and play-sine
• pack: support numbered format strings (e.g., "4ci")
• random: performance improvements
• random.mersenne-twister: bug fixes
• redis: adding hash commands, upgraded to modern protocol
• semantic-versioning: support for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
• sequences: implement sum on iota-tuple objects
• sequences.extras: more words
• sequences.product: performance improvements
• sequences.windowed: performance improvements
• sets.extras: more words
• sorting.insertion: performance improvements
• spelling: minor fixes and performance improvements
• spider: ignore non-html files
• system-info: implement system-report. on Linux.
• tools.deploy.config: specific deploy-directory
• tools.dns: adding dns-host to lookup from a specific host
• tools.test: allow testing from command-line
• twitter: updates
• units.imperial: more units
• unix.users: add utility word to find a user's home directory
• unix.utmpx: support on Linux and fixes on Mac OS X
• webbrowser: support open-file on pathname objects