Re: Release of Gambas 3.20

[Tim Dickson <dickson.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

the slackbuild for 3.20.0 should go live this weekend
regards, Tim


On 10/01/2025 13:40, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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 -  The 'select()' system call has been replaced by 'poll()', to deal 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!


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