[Chicken-announce] Chicken 4.8.0.2 released

[Jim Ursetto]

Hi all,

Chicken 4.8.0.2 is now available for download from the usual place:

http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/chicken-4.8.0.2.tar.gz

=== What's new ===

4.8.0.2

 - Interpreter

    - Fix regression in ,d for procedures, which resulted in an sprintf error.

 - Compiler

    - Fix rewriting of newlines (~~) in printf.

 - Runtime

    - Allow > 4GB heap on 64-bit systems (#974).

    - Added missing library (-lrt) on Solaris for nanosleep calls (#970).

 - Build system

    - Use test -f instead of test -e in identify.sh to placate Solaris.

==================

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