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diff --git a/RELEASE.txt b/RELEASE.txt index 4cda76d..2f231ca 100644 --- a/RELEASE.txt +++ b/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,80 +1,51 @@ - A new SCons release, 2.3.1, is now available + A new SCons release, 2.3.2, is now available on the SCons download page: http://www.scons.org/download.php - This release adds several new features and fixes many issues, - including a serious regression in linking (failure to re-link if - linker options are changed). + This is a maintenance release, focusing on bug fixes. - Here is a summary of the changes since 2.3.0: + Here is a summary of the changes since 2.3.1: NEW FUNCTIONALITY - - Add Pseudo command to mark targets which should not exist after - they are built. - - Add support for a readonly cache (--cache-readonly) - - Added cyglink linker that uses Cygwin naming conventions for - shared libraries and automatically generates import libraries. - - Added optional ZIPROOT to Zip tool. + - Support for Visual Studio 12.0Exp and 2013 (12.0). DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY - - + - RPM and m4 are no longer in the default toolset on Windows. + - BitKeeper, CVS, Perforce, RCS, SCCS are deprecated from the + default toolset and will be removed from the default toolset + in future SCons versions. + - D language, version 1, is now deprecated. Version 2 is + supported. CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY - - DocBook tool can now output EPUB format - - Allow multiple options to be specified with --debug=a,b,c - - Update bootstrap.py so it can be used from any dir, to run - SCons from a source (non-installed) dir. - - Added release_target_info() to File nodes, which helps to - reduce memory consumption in clean builds and update runs - of large projects. - - Print full stack on certain errors, for debugging. - - Improve documentation for Textfile builder. + - Revamp of D language support. + Tools for DMD, GDC and LDC are provided, and integrated + with the C and C++ linking. + - TeX builder now supports -synctex=1 + - TeX builder cleans auxiliary files correctly with biblatex. FIXES - - Stop leaking file handles to subprocesses by switching to using subprocess - always. - - Generally try harder to print out a message on build errors - - Added a switch to warn on missing targets - - Always print stats if requested - - Check for 8.3 filenames on cygwin as well as win32 to make variant_dir work properly. - - Make sure SharedLibrary depends on all dependent libs (by depending on SHLINKCOM) - - Fixed the setup of linker flags for a versioned SharedLibrary - under OpenBSD (#2916). - - Improve error if Visual Studio bat file not found. - - Allow Subst.Literal string objects to be compared with each other, - so they work better in AddUnique() and Remove(). - - Fixed the handling of long options in the command-line - parsing (#2929). - - Fixed misspelled variable in intelc.py (#2928). - - VS2012 & VS2010: Resolve initialization issues by adding path to reg.exe - in shell used to run batch files. - - MSVC Support: fixed defaulting TARGET_ARCH to HOST_ARCH. It should be - None if not explicitly set. - - MSVC: Fixed issue where if more than one Architectures compilers are - detected, it would take the last one found, and not the first. - - Fixed spelling errors in MAN pages (#2897). - - Fixed description of ignore_case for EnumVariable in the - MAN page (#2774). + - Fixed handling of nested ifs in CPP scanner PreProcessor class. + - Respect user's CC/CXX values; don't always overwrite in generate() + - Delegate linker Tool.exists() to CC/CXX Tool.exists(). + - Fixed NoClean() for multi-target builders (#2353). + - Fix SConf tests that write output + - get default RPM architecture more robustly when building RPMs + - Allow varlist to be specified as list of strings for Actions (#2754) + - Fixes to Docbook tool PACKAGING - - No changes + - Update XML doc editor configuration DEVELOPMENT - - Count statistics of instances are now collected only when - the --debug=count command-line option is used (#2922). - - Test harness: fail_test() can now print a message to help debugging. - - Require rpmbuild when building SCons package. - - Replaced old SGML-based documentation toolchain with a more modern - approach, that also requires less external dependencies (programs and - Python packages). Added a customized Docbook XSD for strict validation of - all input XML files. + - Improvements to running scons.py from the source tree Thanks to: Dirk Baechle, @@ -89,8 +60,10 @@ Thanks to: Luca Falavigna, Andrew Featherstone, Alexandre Feblot, + Shane Gannon, Alexander Goomenyuk, Justin Gullingsrud, + Michael Haubenwallner, Joshua Hughes, Alexey Klimkin, Steven Knight, @@ -109,15 +82,18 @@ Thanks to: smallbub on Bitbucket, Sohail Somani, Stefan Sperling, + Amir Szekely, Tom Tanner, Anatoly Techtonik, Bogdan Tenea, Paweł Tomulik, + Sye van der Veen, + veon on bitbucket, Greg Ward, Allen Weeks, Russel Winder, Joe Zuntz for their contributions to this and prior releases. -Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 The SCons Foundation -src/RELEASE.txt 2014/03/02 14:18:15 garyo +Copyright (c) 2001 - 2014 The SCons Foundation +src/RELEASE.txt 2014/07/05 09:42:21 garyo |