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- A new SCons checkpoint release, 2.3.6, is now available
+ A new SCons release, 2.4.0, is now available
on the SCons download page:
http://www.scons.org/download.php
- XXX The primary purpose of this release ... XXX
-
- A SCons "checkpoint release" is intended to provide early access to
- new features so they can be tested in the field before being released
- for adoption by other software distributions.
-
- Note that a checkpoint release is developed using the same test-driven
- development methodology as all SCons releases. Existing SCons
- functionality should all work as it does in previous releases (except
- for any changes identified in the release notes) and early adopters
- should be able to use a checkpoint release safely for production work
- with existing SConscript files. If not, it represents not only a bug
- in SCons but also a hole in the regression test suite, and we want to
- hear about it.
-
- New features may be more lightly tested than in past releases,
- especially as concerns their interaction with all of the other
- functionality in SCons. We are especially interested in hearing bug
- reports about new functionality.
-
- We do not recommend that downstream distributions (Debian, Fedora,
- etc.) package a checkpoint release, mainly to avoid confusing the
- "public" release numbering with the long checkpoint release names.
-
- Here is a summary of the changes since 1.3.0:
+ Here is a summary of the changes since 2.3.6:
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
- - List new features (presumably why a checkpoint is being released)
+ - None
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
- - List anything that's been deprecated since the last release
+ - None
CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
- - List modifications to existing features, where the previous behavior
- wouldn't actually be considered a bug
+ - None
FIXES
- - List fixes of outright bugs
+ - None
IMPROVEMENTS
- - List improvements that wouldn't be visible to the user in the
- documentation: performance improvements (describe the circumstances
- under which they would be observed), or major code cleanups
+ - Switched several core classes to use "slots", to
+ reduce the overall memory consumption in large
+ projects (fixes #2180, #2178, #2198)
+ - Memoizer counting uses decorators now, instead of
+ the old metaclasses approach.
PACKAGING
- - List changes in the way SCons is packaged and/or released
+ - Added new amd64 windows 64 bit installer
DOCUMENTATION
- - List any significant changes to the documentation (not individual
- typo fixes, even if they're mentioned in src/CHANGES.txt to give
- the contributor credit)
+ - None
DEVELOPMENT
- - List visible changes in the way SCons is developed
+ - None
- Thanks to CURLY, LARRY, and MOE for their contributions to this release.
+ Thanks to Dirk Baechle, Andrew Featherstone for their contributions to this release.
Contributors are listed alphabetically by their last name.
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2015 The SCons Foundation
-src/RELEASE.txt rel_2.3.5:3347:d31d5a4e74b6 2015/07/31 14:36:10 bdbaddog
+src/RELEASE.txt rel_2.4.0:3365:9259ea1c13d7 2015/09/21 14:03:43 bdbaddog