incorrectly escaped special characters in

produced malformed results when levels were

-compressed input due to incorrect documentation of

.  (Report and patch from Olaf Mersmann.)

installed architecture.  (It used to clean the

assigning (and potentially deleting) columns

were not recognized for the list of data topics and hence for

strings in a foreign encoding (e.g. UTF-8 strings on Windows) and

so was slower than it could have been on very long input strings.

files consistently with other renderers.

It computed widths of strings that would be

escapes incorrectly, for example in the computation of column

current help system is the only one now supported.

A port to 64-bit Windows is now available as well as binary

Argument matching for primitive functions is now done in the

same way as for interpreted functions except for the deliberate

all of which use positional matching for their first argument,

and also some internal-use-only primitives.

modes for connections are now interpreted

tarballs.  In case this causes problems (as it has on some

Windows file systems when run from Cygwin tools) it can be

setting this to a modern external tar program will speed up

unpacking of large (tens of Mb or more) tarballs.

(although the time taken by the OS to find all the packages the

first time it is used can dominate the time).

The TRE library has been updated to version 0.8.0 (minor bugfixes).

in bytes in an 8-bit locales if there is no marked UTF-8 input

string: this will be somewhat faster, and for

give the result in the native encoding rather than in UTF-8

(which returns to the behaviour prior to

so that it can report the original context when

More validity checking of UTF-8 and MBCS strings is done by

and the regular-expression matching functions.

means that strings with a marked UTF-8 encoding are supported in

The graphics engine now supports rendering of raster (bitmap)

images, though not all graphics devices can provide (full)

support.  Packages providing graphics devices (e.g.,

There is also support in the graphics engine for capturing