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23 Oct 2013: initial release

5 November 2013

• command line argument handling changed
• FOMENT_LIBPATH environment variable added
• 64 bit version on Windows
• cond-expand works in programs
• environment procedure added
• unicode conversion routines rewritten; convertutf.c is no longer used
• Linux version: 32 and 64 bit
• SRFI 112: Environment Inquiry is fully supported
• SRFI 111: Boxes is fully supported
• (scheme lazy) is no longer delayed

12 January 2014

• syntax-rules now treat ... and _ as identifiers rather than symbols
• FreeBSD version
• set!-values
• read datum labels and datum references
• equal? works with circular data structures
• current-second fixed to return an inexact number
• numbers fully supported
• (scheme r5rs) library added
• scheme-report-environment and null-environment added
• (aka library_name) to declare an additional name for a library

29 March 2014

• library extensions: .scm and .sld
• use command line argument -X to specify additional library extensions
• gc: wait on conditions in a loop and test predicate correctly
• exit supported
• exit-thread and emergency-exit-thread
• ctrl-c handling
• editline with history
• console-port?, set-console-input-editline!, and set-console-input-echo!
• with-notify-handler and set-ctrl-c-notify!
• char-ready? and byte-ready? work correctly; all of R7RS is now supported
• sockets are supported
• SRFI 106: Basic socket interface is fully supported
• use coding: to specify the encoding of a text file
• threads blocked on recv-socket, accept-socket, and connect-socket will no longer block garbage collection

Unreleased

• on unix, using foment for scripts works: #!/usr/local/bin/foment as the first line of a program
• empty cond-expand works
• include, include-ci, and include-library-declarations are relative to including file
• number->string returns lowercase rather than uppercase
• SRFI 60: Integers as Bits is fully supported.
• FileSystemAPI
• port-has-port-position?, port-position, port-has-set-port-position!?, and set-port-position!
• SRFI 1: List Library is fully supported.
• SRFI 124: Ephemerons is fully supported with extensions.
• SRFI 128: Comparators is fully supported.
• on 64 bit systems, fixnums are now 60 bits (they were 28 bits)
• object-counts and stack-used to track memory usage
• time, time-apply, and process-times to track processor usage
• SRFI 125: Hash Tables is fully supported.
• SRFI 133: Vector Library (R7RS-compatible) is fully supported.
• SRFI 14: Character-set Library is fully supported.
• Proccess is a subset of the Racket Processes API.
• SRFI 192: Port Positioning is fully supported.
• SRFI 181: Custom ports (including transcoded ports) is fully supported.