[Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 2.16

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Benoît Minisini schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> This new release includes the main following changes:
> 
> - Gambas now compiles with libtool 2.x on recent Ubuntu versions. 
> - CTRL+PageUp and CTRL+PageDown now switch between tabs in the IDE. 
> - Shortcuts are correctly saved in all cases in the IDE menu editor. 
> - The READ instruction has been fixed on 64 bits systems. 
> - gb.pdf now compiles with recent poppler versions.
> 
> The full ChangeLog is:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [CONFIGURATION]
> * BUG: Try to fix building with Autoconf 2.64
> * NEW: Put custom autoconf macros in the "m4" directory.
> * NEW: Drop libltdl.
> * NEW: Use a recent libtool.
> * NEW: Make the ./reconf script verbose.
> 
> [DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT]
> * BUG: Clear the breakpoint list when opening a new project.
> * BUG: In the menu editor, shortcuts are now correctly saved in all cases.
> * BUG: Do not fail to load a project when a component is not installed.
> * BUG: In the "Requires" tab of the project property dialog, requirements
>   are not incorrectly converted to lower case anymore.
> * BUG: Keep case of "Exclude" and "Requires" component properties.
> 
> [INTERPRETER]
> * BUG: Fix many compilation warnings with gcc 4.4.
> * BUG: Setting a breakpoint in the startup class works again.
> * BUG: The READ instruction could lead to a crash when reading a string
>   with a maximum length. Fix backported from Gambas 3.
> * BUG: 64-bits fixes in the interpreter API. Watching file descriptors 
>   won't crash anymore on 64 bits system when adresses outside of 32 bits 
>   address space are used.
> * BUG: Fix an uninitialized value in the date formatting routine.
> 
> [COMPILER]
> * BUG: "Ambiguous braces" error message was incorrect, and has been
>   replaced by "Ambigous brackets".
> * BUG: Fix symbol tables that sometimes didn't work correctly when storing
>   symbols having non-ASCII characters.
> 
> [GB.FORM.MDI]
> * NEW: Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown are two new shortcuts to move to the
>   previous or next tab in the Workspace control.
> 
> [GB.NET]
> * BUG: Fix an uninitialized value in SerialPort class, when retrieving the
>   port signal status.
> 
> [GB.OPENGL]
> * BUG: Fix bad code factorization with Gl.Vertex, Gl.Color, Gl.TexCoord
>   and Gl.RasterPos
> 
> [GB.PDF]
> * BUG: Make gb.pdf compile with poppler >= 0.11.3.
> 
> [GB.SDL]
> * NEW: Remove the old m4 directory before starting backporting the updated
>   configuration process from Gambas 3.
> 
> [GB.SETTINGS]
> * BUG: Fix the internal string quoting routine of the Settings class, so
>   that storing strings with newline inside works correctly.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Enjoy it!
> 

Thanks for it, Benoit. Just tried it, compiled fine and seems to work here.

Regards

Rolf