[Gambas-user] Release of Gambas 3.15.2

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 24/09/2020 à 18:09, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> Am 24.09.20 um 17:35 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>> Le 24/09/2020 à 16:53, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>>> Am 17.09.20 um 15:37 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have just released Gambas 3.15.2.
>>>>
>>>> It includes the backport of all bug fixed since 3.15.1.
>>>>
>>>> Download it at: 
>>>> https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/archive/3.15.2/gambas-3.15.2.tar.bz2
>>>>
>>>> And read the release notes at: 
>>>> https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/release/3.15.2
>>>>
>>>> Stable Ubuntu PPA will be updated in a few days.
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Benoit, just a question.
>>>
>>> When a new release is out, is it necessary to compile all projects 
>>> with the new version to benefit from the changes/advances, or is it 
>>> ok just to run them with the new version?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Rolf
>>>
>>
>> Hopefully not! If the bytecode version changes (the two latest being 
>> 3.15 and 3.8), the previous versions of the bytecode are always 
>> compatible, provided that the major version number does not change.
>>
>> You have to recompile only if there is an incompatible change in the 
>> syntax, which should be claimed with a big warning, and should not 
>> occur in the same major version.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 
> Ah ok, that's good to know, thank you very much
> 
> Regards
> Rolf
> 

To be more accurate: You don't *have to* recompile, but for 3.15 you may 
recompile anymore, because there is an optimization for the "&=" 
operator that can make your code faster (depending how much you use that 
operator in your project).

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini