Scala 2.7.7 final

[Antonio Cunei]

A new stable release of Scala is ready, Scala 2.7.7.final includes
fixes and refactorings for the Actors library, improvements to the
Scala IDE for Eclipse, as well as additional bug fixes. The new
release can be obtained, as usual, from our Download Page at
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads.


The Scala 2.7.7 distribution
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What is new?
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This release includes:

   - A fix for an issue in the Actors library that could
     lead to problematic growth of the underlying thread
     pool. The old FJTaskRunner was replaced with a backport
     of ThreadPoolExecutor. Intermittent termination of the
     thread pool is handled more gracefully.

   - A fix for issue #2380, which was causing problems to
     some users of the Scala IDE for Eclipse running on a 1.5 VM.

   - An AJDT compatibility fix addressing ticket #2327,
     related to the installation of the Scala IDE for Eclipse.

   - A fix for issue #2392, "Finally clauses don't work
     correctly if they throw an exception".

   - An improved fix for bugs #715, #1896, #1930 (problem
     with pickler/unpickler), addressing a problem with the Lift
     framework.

   - A fix for issue #1535 (problem with inherited lazy val).

   - A fix for the IzPack uninstaller issue #1433, which
     may cause some empty subdirectories to be erroneously
     purged from the installation directory on *nix systems
     (Windows systems are not affected).

   - Support for automatic privileges elevation on Vista and
     Windows 7 for the installer, and other minor improvements.

For additional information on the Scala 2.7 branch, and on the
Scala IDE for Eclipse, you can also read the release notes
previously issued with Scala 2.7.4, available at
http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1593

You can download Scala 2.7.7, as usual, from our Download Page
at http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads. A new version of the
Scala IDE for Eclipse is also available, and can be installed by
following the instructions at http://www.scala-lang.org/node/94.