[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint.TextHeight is a new property that returns the height of one line of text. This is not the same as Paint.Font.Height, as the device resolution is taken into account.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint.FontScale is now "transparent". Paint.Font.Size is not changed anymore when assigning the Paint.Font property.
* BUG: Utility windows now kept being in front of their parent window correctly.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Don't emit debugging information for generated functions, but emit void sections for backward compatibility.
* NEW: Don't emit source file path in the debugging information.
* NEW: Add a driver API that handles debugging messages.
* NEW: Print the current date/time before any debugging message.
[GB.DB.MYSQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.ODBC]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.POSTGRESQL]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE2]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DB.SQLITE3]
* NEW: Use the new driver API to print debugging messages.
[GB.DRAW]
* NEW: Paint: FontScale is a new property that defines a scale applied to the size of the fonts assigned to the Paint.Font property.
* NEW: Paint: Scale() second argument is now optional, and takes the same value as the first argument if omitted.
[GB.GTK]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
[GB.GTK3]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
* BUG: Printer: All printer events are raised between a single Paint.Begin() / Paint.End().
* BUG: Printer: Print() does now crash anymore.
* BUG: Printer: Font sizes now are the same as with QT components.
[GB.QT4]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.QT5]
* NEW: Paint: Implementation of Paint.FontScale.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Highlight.Alternate is a new constant that represents the background style used for coloring code embedded into webpages.
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
[GB.FORM.EDITOR]
* NEW: Support for new Highlight.Alternate style.
* NEW: Matching braces now blink with the cursor.
* BUG: When the cursor moves, the blinking timer is reset so that the cursor blinks only when it is not moving.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Ignore errors when loading a class for the JIT compiler.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Loading a class during JIT compilation can fail. Take that into account.
[COMPILER]
* OPT: Some optimizations in symbol table routines.
* NEW: Emit column position in almost all error messages. It makes the compiler 2.5% slower, even with the optimizations.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: JIT compiler does not run static initializers anymore when loading a class. Otherwise bytecode can be modified before being compiled, leading to a JIT compiler crash.
[COMPILER]
* BUG: Fix LOCK subroutine meta-information.
[GB.JIT]
* NEW: Don't display abortion debugging message if there is no compilation to abort.
* BUG: Object variables are correctly managed now.
* BUG: DO...LOOP and REPEAT...UNTIL at the beginning of the function now is correctly compiled in all cases.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Active file descriptor watches and active timers are now automatically transferred to the component declaring a custom event loop. Consequently, a process started before the declaration of the event loop will have its termination signal correctly catched.
* NEW: Use waitpid() instead of wait4().
[GB.GTK]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.GTK3]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT4]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[GB.QT5]
* BUG: Declare the event loop hook last so that active file descriptor watches and active transfer are automatically transferred.
[INTERPRETER]
* OPT: JIT compilation is run in two steps.
[GB.JIT]
* OPT: Run JIT compilation in the background.
* NEW: JIT.Debug is a new property that allows to enable JIT debugging messages at runtime.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a API to know if a native component exists on the disk.
[GB.GUI]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[GB.GUI.QT]
* BUG: Take the other requested GUI components into account to choose the toolkit.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE. The associated bytecode is not emitted if the '-x' option is specified.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Assert is an new instruction that raises an error as soon as its boolean argument is FALSE.
[GB.DEBUG]
* BUG: Fix a potential array overflow.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Forgot to call JIT function when the call is dynamic, i.e. if the object owning the method has an anonymous datatype (Object or Variant).
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Save the initial stack pointer of a function in the function stack instead of using the interpreter stack.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Set the SP stack pointer before calling the conversion function to workaround the compiler optimizations and prevent a memory leak at function end if the conversion fails and an exception is raised.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Overriding public variables was useless, and is now forbidden to help JIT compiler optimizations.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly compile dynamic accesses to public constants.
* NEW: Update highlighting themes by defining the new color constants.
* NEW: Update French translation.
* BUG: Option dialog: The highlighting color panel now takes the editor font size into account.
[GB.EVAL]
* BUG: Fix string highlighting.
[COMPILER]
* NEW: Rename a macro constant to avoid a symbol clash when compiling the interpreter.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Get rid of a macro trick in 'gbx_eval.h' header.
[GB.EVAL]
* NEW: Highlight: Add three new color constants for syntax highlighting: Escape, Label and Constant.
* NEW: Rename some source files.
* NEW: Rename some constants.
* NEW: Gambas syntax highlighter now use the three new contants for escape characters in strings, for labels, and for language contants (True, False, Null, +Inf and -Inf).
[GB.EVAL.HIGHLIGHT]
* NEW: Support for the new syntax highlighting color constants.
[GB.FORM.EDITOR]
* NEW: Support for the new syntax highlighting color constants.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Creating a NULL value now clears the object address field so that it can be freely interpreted as a Object value with a null address by the JIT compiled code.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly restore stack after calling a method through the interpreter.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: When creating a new class, set its component immediately if we know the archive it comes from.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly load classes from archives other than the main project one.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: Add a JIT API for loading classes without running the _init method.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Load classes without running the _init method, so that the JIT behaviour is closer to the interpreter behaviour.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Don't leak memory when converting an object to a boolean.
* BUG: Correctly pop the arguments from the stack when propagating an exception.
[INTERPRETER]
* NEW: JIT: Add an API for throwing type mismatch errors.
* BUG: Raise a type mismatch error when converting a function to a variant. Don't panic anymore.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Handle function datatype by raising a type mismatch error.
* NEW: Fix panic error message.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Load project classes before try to resolve a unknown symbol.
* BUG: Correctly restore the stack pointer in all cases at function exit.
[INTERPRETER]
* BUG: Do not clear the 'super' field of the object value returned by NEW, as it does not fix actually anything.
[GB.JIT]
* BUG: Correctly reset the stack pointer when releasing the stack in error handlers.
