[ANN] Scala 2.7.1.RC1

[Lukas Rytz]

We are pleased do announce version 2.7.1.RC1 of the Scala
distribution. 2.7.1 will be mainly a bug fix release.

The reason this new release comes out only few weeks after
2.7.0 is a bug in XML parsing that was introduced between
2.7.0-RC3 and 2.7.0-final. This bug caused a high demand
for a rapid resolution.


The Scala download page is located at:

    http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html

The list of changes can be found here:

     http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.7.1.RC1

The updated Scala plugin for Eclipse should be available
in 1-2 days.

     http://www.scala-lang.org/tools/eclipse/index.html

The Scala team at EPFL

[Martin Odersky]

Just a quick hold the line on this... we dicovered (too late) that the
RC had issues with long paths in classfiles. We'll upload a fix later
this afternoon. For the moment the RC is offline.

Cheers

 -- Martin

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Lukas Rytz <lukas.rytz@...> wrote:

> We are pleased do announce version 2.7.1.RC1 of the Scala
>  distribution. 2.7.1 will be mainly a bug fix release.
>
>  The reason this new release comes out only few weeks after
>  2.7.0 is a bug in XML parsing that was introduced between
>  2.7.0-RC3 and 2.7.0-final. This bug caused a high demand
>  for a rapid resolution.
>
>
>  The Scala download page is located at:
>
>    http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html
>
>  The list of changes can be found here:
>
>     http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.7.1.RC1
>
>  The updated Scala plugin for Eclipse should be available
>  in 1-2 days.
>
>     http://www.scala-lang.org/tools/eclipse/index.html
>
>  The Scala team at EPFL
>
>

[Martin Odersky]

The corrected RC 1 for Scala 2.7.1 is now online.

As Lukas wrote, this is in principle a bugfix release which we had to
bring forward to fix a serious bug with XML parsing that unfortunately
got introduced just before 2.7.0 final was released. This bug is now
fixed, as are several others.

The compiled language has only changed in small ways:

1. Following popular request, we have changed the scope of a wildcard
in a type to match the rules in Java.

2. We dropped the contractiveness requirement for implicits, in order
to make some advanced usage patterns in ScalaCheck and SBinary
possible.

More at:

  http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.7.1.RC1

Cheers

 -- Martin

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Lukas Rytz <lukas.rytz@...> wrote:

> We are pleased do announce version 2.7.1.RC1 of the Scala
>  distribution. 2.7.1 will be mainly a bug fix release.
>
>  The reason this new release comes out only few weeks after
>  2.7.0 is a bug in XML parsing that was introduced between
>  2.7.0-RC3 and 2.7.0-final. This bug caused a high demand
>  for a rapid resolution.
>
>
>  The Scala download page is located at:
>
>    http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html
>
>  The list of changes can be found here:
>
>     http://scala-lang.org/downloads/changes.html#v2.7.1.RC1
>
>  The updated Scala plugin for Eclipse should be available
>  in 1-2 days.
>
>     http://www.scala-lang.org/tools/eclipse/index.html
>
>  The Scala team at EPFL
>
>