Re: Release of Gambas 3.21

[Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Beautiful update 🙂... And many useful new things.

Fabien Bodard

Le lun. 20 oct. 2025, 10:22, Benoît Minisini <
benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Gambas 3.21.0 is now officially released.
>
> Among the hundreds of fixes and enhancements, the main features of this
> release are the following:
>
> In the development environment:
>
> - A new GUI theme with configurable roundness, flatness and contrast.
> - A better debugging of web applications.
> - The image editor has better selection and grid drawing, and faster
> vector shapes loading.
> - A new process manager that displays all Gambas interpreter currently
> running on the system.
> - The debugger panel can be undocked, and put on another screen if needed.
> - The project tree filter has been fixed.
> - Version control now allows to commit files individually.
> - Version control allows to cherry-pick commits.
> - The IDE is now colorized according to the current branch.
>
> In the core language:
>
> - The '[/lang/clamp]' function, that clamps a value between a minimum
> and a maximum.
> - A new '[AFTER DO](/lang/after)' syntax that executes a statement later.
> - A new '[EVERY DO](/lang/after)' syntax that executes a statement
> repeatedly.
> - The '[/lang/fromhtml]' function, that removes all markups and entities
> of an HTML string.
> - The '[/lang/tokenize]' function, that splits a string into tokens and
> returns them.
> - The '[/lang/ninstr]' function and the
> '[String.NInStr](/comp/gb/string/ninstr)' method, that return the number
> of occurrences of a substring inside a string.
> - The '[Process.Exist](/comp/gb/process/exist])' method, that checks
> whether a process having a specific identifier is running.
> -  Subroutines optional arguments can be skipped, like other function
> calls.
>
> Otherwise:
>
> - Support for recent versions of 'gcc'.
> - Many fixes in the 'gb.db2' components.
> - The '[Paint.Shear](/comp/gb.qt4/paint/shear)' method, that allows to
> shear the paint transformation matrix.
> - The '[Font.Spacing](/comp/gb.qt4/font/spacing)' property, that allows
> to define the horizontal space between characters.
> - The 'gb.httpd' component is now a true embedded HTTP server.
> - The 'gb.web.gui' component has now [painting
> capabilities](/comp/gb.web.gui/paint) similar to the GUI components.
>
> See the Release Notes (https://gambaswiki.org/doc/release/3.21.0) for
> all the details.
>
> Binary packages are available on OpenSUSE build servers at
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:gambas:3.21 for
> **ArchLinux**, **Debian** 11, 12 & 13, **openSUSE** Leap 15.6 &
> Tumbleweed, and **Ubuntu** 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 & 24.10.
>
> Note that the fix for the GTK+3 bug with overlapping hidden widgets will
> be put in the 3.21.1 release as soon as possible.
>
> Enjoy it, and report any problem as usual.
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini.
>
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