recognized as installation dependencies, and included in package

are now available for package management computations.

parsed to a UTF-8 encoded string even in non-UTF-8 locales (this

have been changed slightly: a string containing such escapes is

always stored in UTF-8 (and hence is suitable for portably

now makes a better job of setting email addresses,

to determine how input strings with marked encodings will be

It notes if the package is not available, as in many cases this

allow for even more differentiation, notably

filled boxes, thanks to a patch from Frederic Schutz.

Pairlists may now be assigned as elements of lists.  (Lists

could always be created with pairlist elements, but

The parser now supports C-preprocessor-like

directives, so error messages and source references may refer to

the original file rather than an intermediate one.

the location of source lines and set breakpoints (using

Namespace importing is more careful about warning on masked

generics, thanks to a patch by Yohan Chalabi.

argument for specifying the filtering operations performed on the

packages found in the repositories.  A new built-in

installation can proceed solely based on packages which can be

verified as Free or Open Source Software (FOSS) employing the

required for the class can be included as one of the superclasses

expression evaluating to a generic function, allowing methods to

be shown for non-exported generics and other nonstandard cases.

links, including if a file is a symbolic link.

re-save them in a different compressed format, including choosing

Logic operations with complex numbers now work, as they were always

to be omitted to simplify the specification of

vertical or horizontal lines (suggestion of Tim Hesterberg).

checks (diagnosis and patch by Karline Soetaert & Thomas

There are the beginnings of a Nynorsk translation by Karl Ove

now open a not-yet-open connection in the

appropriate mode (as other functions using connections directly

A different regular expression engine is used for basic and

extended regexps and is also for approximate matching.  This is