Scala 2.7.7.RC1 is available

[Antonio Cunei]

A new maintenance release of Scala 2.7 is now in its final stages
of preparation, and the release candidate Scala 2.7.7.RC1 is now
available for testing. This release includes fixes and
refactorings for the Actors library, a few improvements to the
Scala IDE for Eclipse, as well as additional bug fixes. You can
obtain this release candidate, and help us testing it, by
visiting 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 few fixes and refactorings to the Actors library,
     backported from trunk. In particular, the old FJTaskRunner
     was replaced with a backport of ThreadPoolExecutor, in order
     to improve memory usage.

   - 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.

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.RC1 from our Download Page at
http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads. You can also test this
release candidate of the Scala IDE for Eclipse by using the
following update site:

   http://www.scala-lang.org/scala-eclipse-plugin-rc

Please note that you must use this address as an update site
within Eclipse, as described on http://www.scala-lang.org/node/94,
the update site cannot be visited with your internet browser.