New Dart Dev channel build 1.1.0-dev.5.6

[Eric Clayberg]

A new Dart Dev channel build is available at: 

http://gsdview.appspot.com/dart-archive/channels/dev/release/latest/

Friendly reminder: Dart has adopted a channel-based release strategy. This notice is for the Dev channel. To check what channel you are on, open Dart Editor and choose About from the menu.

SDK changes include:

• dart:io (these are all the changes since 1.0)

• Features:

• Large file support

• Added file copy API

• Added process signal watching API

• Added access stdout terminal information

• Added UDP support

• Performance:

• New optimized timer-queue

• Optimized HTTP stack

• Decreased latency for many IO operations.

• Faster microtask queue (improved async performance)
  

Editor changes include:

• Fix for hitting breakpoints when debugging an application served from a 3rd party server.

• Fix for showing source code when debugging through dart: library source.

Documentation changes:

• New command-line and server-side programmer's guide

• New examples for I/O

• New walkthrough of a Dart client and server app

• New tutorial for command-line app development
  

And as always, view the project commit log for the full list of changes.

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Eric Clayberg
Dart Editor Team
Google, Inc.

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