ChangeLog.org

Version 2.90.5 (November 11, 2024)

• Fixed a bug related with ‘inkey$’.
• For Windows: needed to switch to a newer version of visual studio; unfortunately, this probably breaks compatibility with xp

Version 2.90.4 (September 17, 2023)

• Fixed a bug related with ‘print using’ under windows. Thanx to Paul Shutler for reporting this !

Version 2.90.3 (February 26, 2023)

• Introductory sections about subroutines and libraries
• Updated the docu from docbook 4.5 to 5

Version 2.90.2 (January 6, 2022)

• Fixed precision error for print using under windows
• Better error-reporting for an edge case of short-if
• Allow ‘==’ to check for equality and ‘!=’ for inequality (‘=’ and ‘<>’ still work)

Version 2.90.1 (July 11, 2021)

• Repaired the docu (especially yabasic.htm)
• Removed references to the old documentation (still available on github)

Version 2.90.0 (July 10, 2021)

• Fixed an error with local variables
• Moved to a new building-environment (see github and there README.org for details)

Version 2.89.1 (January 30, 2021)

• Fixes for documentation

Version 2.89.0 (December 29, 2020)

• Fixed for Problem with system-command after clear screen on MacOS
• Added functions eval and eval$

Version 2.87.1 (November 07, 2020)

• Fixed for libffi on 32 bit systems
• Updated included header files (windows) of ffi from libffi 3.3

Version 2.87.0 (August 12, 2020)

• Fixed an edge-case in for-loops
• Allow eof(0) and peek(0) to refer to standard input

Version 2.86.9 (June 6, 2020)

• Fix formatting of larger numbers with ‘####’ et.al.

Version 2.86.8 (May 9, 2020)

• Bringing pkg.m4 with us to ease build process

Version 2.86.7 (April 4, 2020)

• Using pkg-config (if available) to locate libffi

Version 2.86.6 (March 8, 2020)

• Advancing version for technical reasons

Version 2.86.5 (March 8, 2020)

• Fix double backslash in string before quote

Version 2.86.4 (January 1, 2020)

• Fix for do-loop / continue

Version 2.86.3 (December 15, 2019)

• Fix for heap overflow found with honggfuzz

Version 2.86.2 (December 12, 2019)

• Another fix for heap-buffer-offerflow found with address sanitizer

Version 2.86.1 (December 8, 2019)

• Fix for heap-buffer-offerflow

Version 2.86.0 (November 28, 2019)

• Added new functions bitnot
• Fixes for bit-arithmetic (signes/unsigned)

Version 2.85.0 (November 16, 2019)

• Added new functions shl, shr and round
• Introduced binary literals preceeded by 0b
• Fixes for hex literals
• The error-command no longer adds a line number

Version 2.84.3 (November 3, 2019)

• Better debugging for library path
• Clean builds for Windows setup-program

Version 2.84.2 (October 6, 2019)

• Fixed some potential stackoverflows
• Removed empty dir related with nano
• Tests with tmux only within the Rakefile

Version 2.84.1 (July 20, 2019)

• Make unload_library after call the default for foreign_functions
• Fixes to docu
• Requiring libffi for build (unless specified other by configure-option)
• explicit error no longer unwinds call-stack

Version 2.84.0 (July 12, 2019)

• New command foreign_buffer_set_buffer

Version 2.83.3 (June 30, 2019)

• Documentation

Version 2.83.2 (June 30, 2019)

• Allow specifying null-pointer for foreign functions

Version 2.83.1 (June 26, 2019)

• Fix for line-numbers in errors after import
• Updating the manual

Version 2.83.0 (April 29, 2019)

• Unix: Added a syntax-file for the nano-editor; contributed by Stephan Muesse
• Made parentheses around condition in while and until optional
• Better error messages on misaligned control structures
• New family of functions and commands foreign_* to invoke functions from external c-libraries
• Fixes for line-numbers in error messages
• Revised and updated the documentation

Version 2.82.1 (March 11, 2019)

• Allowing comments after import statement
• Fixes regarding error messages

Version 2.82.0 (February 17, 2019)

• Advanced version of autoconf and other tools
• Fix in tests
• Fixed nested import of libraries
• Libraries can now be found in the directory of the main file too
• Error messages try to show and mark the offending part of the code
• Hexadecimal numerical literals are supported, e.g. print 0xff

Version 2.81.4 (January 27, 2019)

• Fixed error with inkey$ and clear screen
• Fixed fatal error with inkey$ and upper case letters

Version 2.81.3 (January 13, 2019)

• Fixed a compile-problem on macos
• Corrected a rendering problem on www.yabasic.de, which had cut off the bottom-lines of many pages

Version 2.81.2 (January 2, 2019)

• Fixed a problem under netbsd, which prevented yabasic from finding its own executable
• Fix on macos for curses-initialization e.g. during “clear screen”
• Fix that allows libraries to start with a comment introduced by a hash or a single quote
• Made the prior “Guide into the guts” available again as “Some remarks on changing Yabasic”; see www.yabasic.de
• Document options for unix and windows in the same chapter

Version 2.81.1 (November 1, 2018)

• Fix: Allow yabasic to run from within a script

Version 2.81.0 (October 27, 2018)

• New function chomp$
• Added new peek “interpreter_path”
• Fixed a sporadic issue with bound programs

Version 2.80.0 (September 8, 2018)

• Added functions floor() and ceil()
• Checking for function clock_gettime during configure

Version 2.79.2 (May 13, 2018)

• No changes over 2.79.1
• Advanced patchlevel to get in line with tagging again

Version 2.79.1 (May 1, 2018)

• Fixed error related with yydebug

Version 2.79.0 (April 21, 2018)

• Introduced new peeks “secondsrunning” and “millisrunning”
• Bugfixes regarding the switch statement

Version 2.78.5 (April 3, 2018)

• Within a bound yabasic-programs the name is correctly set (as returned by peeking “program_name”)
• Introduced new string-peeks “program_name” and “program_file_name”
• Bugfixes regarding bound programs and libraries

Version 2.78.4 (March 21, 2018)

• Fixed a problem with bound yabasic-programs, that include more than three libraries
• Introduced new peek “secondsrunning”

Version 2.78.3 (January 21, 2018)

• Fixed an up to 4-times performance penalty, that has been introduced in a previous version
• Brought back “Edit” to the windows context menu

Version 2.78.2 (August 27, 2017)

• The ran()-function is now guaranteed to return 2**30 different values

Version 2.78.1 (August 13, 2017)

• No more dump when using color without window open
• Processing of yabasic.xml finds hellip-entity

Version 2.78.0 (January 21, 2017)

• Allowed for numeric argument after break
• Fixed format of manpage
• Reworked the switch-statement, added tests

Version 2.77.3 (December 29, 2016)

• Fixed insecure usage of strcpy
• Better logging for windows installer
• Spelling corrections

Version 2.77.2 (December 17, 2016)

• Fixes for coloured text under windows
• msvcr140.dll is no longer required under Windows
• Several spelling corrections
• Updated and fixed man-page under linux

Version 2.77.1 (September 7, 2016)

• New poke “random_seed” to initialize random number generator
• Bugfixes and additions to documentation
• Yabasic is now covered by the MIT License
• Switched to semantic Versioning (e.g. 2.77.1 instead of 2.771)
• Adopted a development workflow based on git and github

Version 2.764 (January 22, 2014)

• Added support for later versions of ncurses and 64 bit Systems
• Avoided forks for inkey$

Version 2.763 (September 19, 2005)

• Tiny fix in the documentation: Sections now have their own toc again.

Version 2.762 (September 16, 2005)

• Swapped the precedence of unary minus and exponentiation to follow the mainstream of programming languages. Suggested by Mike Hoffman.
• Fixed a bug with drawing the outline of a triangle.
• Lots bugs and typos fixed in the docu. Thanx to A. Costa !
• rinstr() is okay again.
• system$() may not dump any longer, if an external command returns no output.
• Some improvements for compiling on FreeBSD.
• Made the text-command working again.
• Maybe yabasic does not leak resources under Windows 95 any longer.
• Some fixes related with the console window under Windows
• Added a list of reserved words to the documentation.
• Special thanks to Derek and Mike Huffmann !

Version 2.76 (April 25, 2005)

• Some major improvements for grafics
• Full color support !
• Different fonts for the text-command
• The new command triangle

Version 2.75 (May 19, 2004)

• Yabasic finally has an Icon under Windows
• The str$()-function, may now format numbers like 123,456.56 (or 123.456,56 for german conventions)
• Changed the system()-function under Windows to use the right command-processor
• Added a list of command, grouped by topics to the documentation
• Yellow is no longer brown under windows
• Removed a security problem related with printing under Unix
• Programs, that import libraries can now be bound, including all the imported libraries

Version 2.740 (January 18, 2003)

• Implemented the bind-feature
• More verbose messages on failing open-calls

Version 2.730 (August 19, 2003)

• Complete rewrite of the documentation
• Updated my system, which introduced new versions of the toolchain (gcc, autoconf, …)
• No changes in yabasic itself

Version 2.720

• Added two argument version of log
• Changed copyright notice

Version 2.717

• Bugfix by Tom Ellestad: Better Error- checking for import-statement

Version 2.716

• Bugfix: fixed ‘open “foo” for reading as 1’

Version 2.715

• Bugfix: continue is no longer disturbed by switch statements
• The special option ‘–’ stops option processing

Version 2.714

• Bigfix: >> if (not open(“bad”,”r”)) error “!” << now works as designed

Version 2.713

• Fixed a memory leak associated with arrays-refs
• return from within a switch statement is now possible

Version 2.712

• The new Option ‘-check’ can be used to check for compatibility with previous versions of yabasic
• The instr(a$,b$)-function now returns 0, if b$ is the empty string

Version 2.710

• Improved the short if-statement to be more intuitive
• Added switch-case statement
• Better loop-control: break and continue

Version 2.70

• Allowd hex-escapes in string constants (e.g. “\xa”).
• Better warnings for forgotten endif, endsub or next.
• Allowed for dumping of stack of subroutine calls.
• Various bugfixes related with: print using,token$() and with printing to mixed streams

Version 2.690

• implemented logical shortcuts, i.e. conditions within if or while statements are only evaluated as far as needed.
• New form of the open statement: open “foo” for reading as #1
• New form of the open function: open(a,”foo”) intended for use in if-statements: if (not open(a,”foo”)) print “Shit !”
• The same time an old variant of open within if has gone: if (not open a,”foo”) print “Shit !” is no longer valid.
• You may now write: print #a “Hello”
• Finally: there is no distinction between expressions and conditions any more, i.e. wihin the condition of an if-statement you may now use arbitrary expressions; even something like this: if (cos(x)) print “Strange”
• Fixed a bug with printing under Windows: The screen now scrolls up if the cursor has reached the bottom

Version 2.681

• Finished the work started with 2.680; yabasic can now parse its own demo again correctly.

Version 2.680

• Essentially removed the distinction between expressions and conditions, i.e. you may write things like this: okay=(1<10) : if (okay) print “Hallo” Included the man page with the distribution. Thanx to Dejan Lekic !

Version 2.671

• Bugfix, yabasic will now build under hpux.

Version 2.670

• Changed the scheme of version numbers: 2.67 Release 0 is now 2.670
• Unix only: Used automake to generate Makefile.in. Therefore you now have all the standard GNU make targets: make check, make install, make uninstall.