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| author | hallgren <hallgren@chalmers.se> | 2015-06-25 12:10:47 +0000 |
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| committer | hallgren <hallgren@chalmers.se> | 2015-06-25 12:10:47 +0000 |
| commit | 2643f3cee66964d57a6070ff74c3335379e0534a (patch) | |
| tree | 4e82faabb86aab683891fb98525f0d560c780ab4 /download/release-next.t2t | |
| parent | c7f18034105beba4a7aad0f835b792080f013559 (diff) | |
Documentation updates for the release of GF 3.7
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| -rw-r--r-- | download/release-next.t2t | 36 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/download/release-next.t2t b/download/release-next.t2t index 6590e346d..4d74cc46d 100644 --- a/download/release-next.t2t +++ b/download/release-next.t2t @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GF next Release Notes +GF 3.7 Release Notes June 2015 %!style:../css/style.css @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ See the [download page http://www.grammaticalframework.org/download/index.html]. ==What's new== -Over 788 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the -[release of GF 3.6 release-3.6.html] in June 2014. +Over 800 changes have been pushed to the source repository since +[the release of GF 3.6 release-3.6.html] in June 2014. ===GF compiler and run-time library=== @@ -33,11 +33,12 @@ Over 788 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the By also adding ``-haskell=concrete`` you get a Haskell module for each concrete syntax of the grammar. These contain translations of linearization types and linearization functions. - By adding ``-haskell=variants`` you get linerization functions that output + By adding ``-haskell=variants`` you get linearization functions that output all variants. (You don't get any functions for parsing.) -- Now there is a full support for all orthographic primitives: - BIND, SOFT_BIND, SOFT_SPACE, CAPIT, ALL_CAPIT and nonExist +- Now there is full support for all orthographic primitives: + ``BIND``, ``SOFT_BIND``, ``SOFT_SPACE``, ``CAPIT``, ``ALL_CAPIT`` and + ``nonExist``. - It is now possible to define callbacks for literals from the Haskell binding to the C runtime. This is used for instance in the Wide Coverage translator on the Web. @@ -45,13 +46,20 @@ Over 788 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the ====Other changes and bug fixes==== -- Colors are now used to highlight errors and warnings (except on Windows). +- GF now uses colors to highlight errors and warnings (except on Windows). - Even though GF works with absolute paths internally, GF now shows paths relative to the current directory in diagnostic output. - GF Shell and ``gf -server``: improved responsiveness when large grammars are loaded (by increasing the GHC RTS idle timeout before full GC from the default 0.3s to 5s). - Numerous fixes in the translation dictionaries. +- C-run-time system: Bug fixes in the Java and Python bindings. +- C-run-time system: the parser is now fully Unicode compatible. +- Because of the new orthographic primitives, the version numbers in + ``.pgf`` and ``.gfo`` files have been bumped. PGF files + produced with this version of GF can not be used with older versions of GF. + If you get an error message saying ``.gfo file version mismatch``, remove + old ``.gfo`` files. ====Changes of interest to compiler developers==== @@ -62,41 +70,39 @@ Over 788 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the - Some Haddock documentation improvements to document the compiler API. - Various refactoring for readability, modularity and efficiency. Removal of some dead code. -- [...] ===Resource Grammar Library=== - New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Mongolian (see the [updated synopsis ../lib/doc/synopsis.html]). -- [...] ===GF Cloud services=== - - Minibar and Wide Coverage Translation Demo: speech output is now available +- Minibar and Wide Coverage Translation Demo: speech output is now available (in browsers that support it). - The Wide Coverage Translation Demo can now draw syntax trees and show - inflection tables. + inflection tables. There are also lots of improvements in the + translation grammar and dictionaries. - PGF service: add commands ``c-abstrtree`` and ``c-parsetree``. These are the C runtime variants of the ``absttree`` and ``parsetree`` commands. They work in the same way, but support fewer rendering options. -- PGF Service: +- PGF service: The ``parse``/``translate``/``c-parse``/``c-translate`` commands now recognize the option ``jsontree=true`` to augment the returned JSON structure with a field called ``jsontree`` next to the field ``tree``, or ``jsontrees`` next to ``trees``, containing the the returned syntax tree in JSON format. -- PGF Service: when using ``full=yes`` with the ``complete`` command, +- PGF service: when using ``full=yes`` with the ``complete`` command, additional information about completions is included in the output, in particular there is an additional field ``seq`` containing the longest possible completion. - PGF service: add command ``c-linearizeAll`` to obtain all variants. - PGF service: PGFs now expire from the internal cache when they have been unused for 24 hours, to keep memory use down in long running servers. -- PGF Service: limit the number of parallel calls to the C run-time parse +- PGF service: limit the number of parallel calls to the C run-time parse function to 4 by default. The limit can be changed with the ``-j`` flag. -- [...] -------------------- |
