5.8.0RC5: Feature completion

at 2010-11-22 in Releases, Announcements, 5.8-SERIES by friebe (0 comments)

The XP group is proud to announce the immediate availabality of 5.8.0, release candidate #5. Since RC4, the following items have been added:

Checks for correct configuration of timezone have been added to the bootstrap mechanism
Compiler profiles - xcc -p {rad,default,strict,optimized,inlining}
The new lang.Closeable interface to work with ARM statements
Enhancements to the regex API: Replacing and lazy compilation
BOM detection in TextReader
...and various more bugfixes and features

You can grab a release as always by using our setup routine:

  $ cd ~/xp
  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.0RC5 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

...to give it a test run. Enjoy

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