Release of Gambas 3.20

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Gambas 3.20.0 is now officially released.

Among the hundreds of fixes and enhancements, the main features of this 
release are the following:

In the development environment:

- Translation an version control dialogs were replaced by workspaces.

- Every calls of a specific function or symbol can be retrieved in one 
click.

- Debugging external running processes is far easier.

- A complete redesign of the search that is a lot faster now.

- A snowman was added in the Christmas welcome dialog.

In the core language:

- 'Array.Equals()' and 'Collection.Equals()' make a deep comparison of 
arrays and collections.

- 'Collection.Insert()' inserts a collection into another one.

- 'Dir()' and 'RDir()' function now return full paths when their third 
argument has the 'gb.FullPath' flag set.

-  The 'select()' system call has been replaced by 'poll()', to deal 
correctly with file descriptors greater than 1024.

- The compiler now generates a description of every symbol use in every 
method for the IDE.

Otherwise:

- New database components mostly written in Gambas that supersedes the 
old ones.

- A new tool that generates packages configuration files automatically 
for the openSUSE build service.

- A new GUI component [/comp/gb.qt6] for Qt6.

- A new component [/comp/gb.mongodb] for accessing MongoDB databases.

- A new component [/comp/gb.clipper2] that should replace 
[/comp/gb.clipper].

- The JIT compiler now implements a cache, so that compilation occurs 
only the first time your program runs.

The full release notes is at:

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/release/3.20.0

Binary packages are now available on openSUSE build servers for 
ArchLinux, Debian 11 & 12, openSUSE Leap 15.6 & Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 
20.04, 22.04, 24.04 & 24.10.

See https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/packages to know how to add the 
openSUSE repositories to your system.

The old Ubuntu PPA are now frozen and deprecated.

Enjoy it, report any problem, and happy new year again!

--
Benoît Minisini.