[Chicken-announce] Chicken 4.8.0.6 released

[Jim Ursetto]

Hi all,

Chicken 4.8.0.6 is now available for download:

http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/chicken-4.8.0.6.tar.gz

This release fixes several bugs, including one which could result in
a runtime panic.

=== What's new ===

4.8.0.6

- Runtime system
  - The scheduler won't poll() on non-FD objects upon which threads are blocked.

- Core libraries
  - Export file-type from the posix unit (thanks to Alan Post).
  - unsetenv has been fixed on Windows
  - Make meta-evaluation actually take place in the meta environment.
    Fixes a bug noticed by Sandra Snan.

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The 4.8.0.x releases reside on the stability/4.8.0 branch in git,
which you can retrieve with:

git clone --branch stability/4.8.0 git://code.call-cc.org/chicken-core

Or browse my unofficial github mirror:
https://github.com/ursetto/chicken-core-stability/tree/stability/4.8.0

Jim