Changelog

This Changelog file is deprecated.

Look at the [newsletter](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nitlanguage)
for redacted informations or the commits log for fine-grained details.

version 0.6.1-git
 * Devel version

version 0.6
 * New metamodel
 * New tools (nit, nitg, nitmetrics)
 * Improved nitdoc featuring wikidoc
 * Multi-line litteral strings (triple-quoted strings)
 * New foreign function interface
 * New libraries (especially using FFI)
 * Lot of fixes and improvements

 -- Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:44:33 -0400

version 0.5
 * General 'for' that works with more that one automatic variable (eg. Map)
 * Better error messages with colored location on the original line
 * Better compatibility with cc on various unixes (from SunOS to Ubuntu)
 * New class_name method to ease debugging (for those who debug with print)
 * Hardened Virtual Type checks (but generics are still unsafe...)
 * New nitdoc, more fancy and more readable
 * New native interface to bind Nit and C code
 * New tool, nits, the native interface stub generator
 * Many improvements in the standard library (especially Map)

 -- Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:46:45 -0400

version 0.4
 * New style attributes
 * Documentation
 * 'package' -> 'module'; 'special' -> 'super'; 'universal' -> 'enum'
 * New 'or else' syntax
 * Speed improvements
 * Use of ccache
 * Global nullable optimizations
 * Better adaptive typing
 * Unreachable statements are errors
 * Rewriting of the CG

 -- Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:15:17 -0500

version 0.3
 * Local variable moving static type
 * Nullable types
 * New 'assert...else', 'isset', 'loop', 'label' syntax constructions
 * (Re)Rename 'meth' to 'fun' and 'attr' to 'var'
 * New closure syntax
 * Syntax coloration for vim, gtksourceview and GNU source-highlight
 * nitc/nitdoc --verbose option
 * Intermediate code representation
 * Native Nit GC
 * 'for x in coll' is a closure call

 -- Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:04:25 -0400

version 0.2.1
 * Readonly Strings and new class 'Buffer'

 -- Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:04:55 -0400

version 0.2
 * Automatic constructors
 * Closures
 * Last Mercurial changeset, now we uses Git

 -- Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:12 -0500

version 0.1
 * First release under the Nit name.

 -- Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:24:55 -0400