All the one-argument primitives now check that any name

supplied for their first argument is a partial match to the

argument name as documented on the help page: this also

applies to replacement functions of two arguments.

Thanks to Patrick Aboyoun for implementation suggestions.

Help conversion to text now uses the first part of

markup if it is representable in the current

output encoding.  On the other hand, conversion to LaTeX with the

represent the methods in a methods table, to replace the

This may speed up operations on long vectors.

The PCRE library has been updated to version 8.02, a bug-fix

release which also updates tables to Unicode 5.02.

on a Unix-alike that Tk can be started (and not just

The parser no longer marks strings containing octal or hex

escapes as being in UTF-8 when entered in a UTF-8 locale.

On platforms with cairo but not Pango (notably Mac OS X) the

several problems with font selection when done by cairo rather

Basic regular expressions are defunct, and

longer exported and has a different argument list.

metadata objects which had been superseded by hash tables

this class are no longer assigned or used as metadata by the

is now deprecated, with its internal use replaced

and other changes.  Creating objects from the

Parsing strings containing both octal/hex and Unicode escapes

now gives a warning and will become an error in

UTF-8 is now used for the reference manual and package

, which works better on recent systems and on Mac OS X.

source which are not translatable to the

current locale are now handled more tolerantly:  these will be

converted to hex codes with a warning.  Such characters are

only really portable if they appear in comments.

can be loaded (and backs out the installation if it cannot): this

installing/updating a package that cannot be used: common causes

of failures to load are missing/incompatible external software

Package installation on Windows for a package with a

directory now checks if a DLL is created unless there

installations where the toolchain has not reported problems in