release.2010-03-15

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Andrew Gerrand

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Mar 15, 2010, 8:37:43 PM3/15/10
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We've just tagged a new Go release, release.2010-03-15. As usual, you
can update by running:
hg pull
hg update release

This release includes a language change: support for complex numbers.
http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Imaginary_literals
http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Complex_numbers
There is no library support as yet.

This release also includes the goinstall command-line tool.
http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/
http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/t/f091704771128e32

* 5g/6g/8g: fix double function call in slice.
* arm: cleanup build warnings. (thanks Dean Prichard)
* big: fix mistakes with probablyPrime.
* bufio: add WriteRune.
* bytes: add ReadRune and WriteRune to bytes.Buffer.
* cc: stack split bug fix.
* crypto: add SHA-224 to sha256, add sha512 package. (thanks Conrad Meyer)
* crypto/ripemd160: new package. (thanks Raif S. Naffah)
* crypto/rsa: don't use safe primes.
* gc: avoid fixed length buffer cleanbuf. (thanks Dean Prichard)
better compilation of floating point +=
fix crash on complicated arg to make slice.
remove duplicate errors, give better error for I.(T)
* godoc: support for multiple packages in a directory, other fixes.
* gofmt: bug fixes.
* hash: add Sum64 interface.
* hash/crc32: add Update function.
* hash/crc64: new package implementing 64-bit CRC.
* math: add ilogb, logb, remainder. (thanks Charles L. Dorian)
* regexp: add ReplaceAllFunc, ReplaceAllStringFunc.
* runtime: clock garbage collection on bytes allocated, not pages in use.
* strings: make Split(s, "", n) faster. (thanks Spring Mc)
* syscall: minimal mingw version of syscall. (thanks Alex Brainman)
* template: add ParseFile, MustParseFile.

Apologies if we missed anyone in the above list. We appreciate all your help.

To see a full list of changes between this and the previous release,
after updating, run:
hg log -r release.2010-03-04:release.2010-03-15

Enjoy.

Andrew

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