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- A new SCons release, 2.2.0, is now available
+ A new SCons release, 2.3.0, is now available
on the SCons download page:
http://www.scons.org/download.php
This release adds several new features and fixes many issues.
- Here is a summary of the changes since 2.1:
+ Here is a summary of the changes since 2.2:
NEW FUNCTIONALITY
- - New gettext toolset for internationalization
- - Support for Visual Studio 11 (both using it and generating solution files)
- - Support for Intel C/C++ compiler v12 on Linux and Mac
- - LaTeX support for multibib, biblatex and biber
+ - Versioned shared library support for Linux and Mac:
+ Add SHLIBVERSION as an option that tells SharedLibrary to build
+ a versioned shared library and create the required symlinks.
+ Add builder InstallVersionedLib to create the required symlinks
+ installing a versioned shared library.
DEPRECATED FUNCTIONALITY
- - None
+ - Removed a lot of Python 2.3 and older support code
+ - Hide deprecated --debug={dtree,stree,tree} from --help output
CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
- - 32-bit Visual Express C++ on 64-bit Windows now generates 32-bit code instead of giving errors
+ - No changes
FIXES
- - Fixed FindSourceFiles to find final sources (leaf nodes).
- - Make Windows not redefine builtin file as un-inheritable (#2857)
- - Fix WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF on MinGW (Windows) (#2856)
- - Fix LINKCOMSTR, SHLINKCOMSTR, and LDMODULECOMSTR on Windows (#2833).
- - Make -s (silent mode) be silent about entering subdirs (#2976).
- - Fix cloning of builders when cloning environment (#2821).
- - Fixed the Taskmaster, curing spurious build failures in
- multi-threaded runs (#2720).
- - Fixed scons-doc.py to properly convert main XML files (#2812).
-
+ - Fix subprocess spawning on Windows. Work around a Windows
+ bug that can crash python occasionally when using -jN. (#2449)
+ - Fix nested LIBPATH expansion by flattening sequences in subst_path.
+ - Fix WiX Tool to use .wixobj rather than .wxiobj for compiler output
+ - Add MSVC10 and MSVC11 support to get_output low-level bat script runner.
+ - Fix MSVS solution generation for VS11, and fixed tests.
IMPROVEMENTS
- - Improved documentation of command-line variables (#2809).
- - Show valid Visual Studio architectures in error message
- when user passes invalid arch.
- - Allow Node objects in Java path (#2825)
+ - Error messages from option parser now include hints about valid choices
+ - Support building with WiX releases after 2.0
+ - Print target name with command execution time with --debug=time
+ - Updated the TeX builder to support the \newglossary command
+ in LaTeX's glossaries package and the files it creates.
+ - Improve support for new versions of biblatex in the TeX builder
+ so biber is called automatically if biblatex requires it.
PACKAGING
@@ -48,11 +49,19 @@
DEVELOPMENT
- - No changes
+ - Updated test framework to support dir and file fixtures and
+ added ability to test external (out-of-tree) tools.
+ See doc in QMTest/test-framework.rst.
+ - Added ability to run scripts/scons.py directly from source checkout
+ - Several fixes for runtest.py
+ - Fixed several errors in the test suite.
+ - Add -jN support to runtest.py to run tests in parallel
+
Thanks to:
Dirk Baechle,
Vincent Beffar,
+ Thomas Berg,
Jean-François Colson,
Bauke Conijn,
Bill Deegan,
@@ -66,6 +75,7 @@ Thanks to:
Steven Knight,
Arve Knudsen,
Jean-Baptiste Lab,
+ Juan Lang,
Rob Managan,
Mortoray,
Gary Oberbrunner,
@@ -81,5 +91,5 @@ Thanks to:
Joe Zuntz
for their contributions to this release.
-Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 The SCons Foundation
-src/RELEASE.txt issue-2856:2676:d23b7a2f45e8 2012/08/05 15:38:28 garyo
+Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The SCons Foundation
+src/RELEASE.txt 2013/03/03 09:48:35 garyo