Version 5.1.2, July 2011
Replaced syntax certificates with syntax taints:
 Added syntax-tainted?, syntax-arm, syntax-disarm, syntax-rearm,
  syntax-taint, and syntax-protect
 Changed syntax-recertify and syntax-local-certifier to
  have no effect on the target syntax object
 Changed syntax-rules and syntax-id-rules to use
  syntax-protect implicitly
 Changed the way inspectors are associated to syntax objects
  and variable references in compiled code
Changed "sequence" to include exact nonnegative integers
mzlib/contract: removed (undocumented) exports:
  chaperone-contract-struct?
  contract-struct-first-order
  contract-struct-name
  contract-struct-projection
  contract-struct-stronger?
  contract-struct?
  flat-contract-struct?
  make-opt-contract/info
  opt-contract/info-contract
  opt-contract/info-enforcer
  opt-contract/info-id
  synthesized-value
  unknown?
racket/function: added identity, thunk, compose1
slideshow/pict: added rotate function, and added sxy anf syx
 fields to a child structure
compiler/zo-struct: removed certificate structures; changed
 wrapper to have a tamper-status field instead of certs;
 added toplevel-map field to lam

Version 5.1.1, May 2011
Enabled single-precision floats by default
Added single-flonum?
Changed eqv? so that inexacts are equivalent only when they
 have the same precision
Changed file-or-directory-permission to add 'bits mode
 and permission-setting mode
Added special treatment of void as an 'inferred-name property
Removed the "MrEd" compatability executable under Windows
 and Mac OS X, but the "mred" compatibility script remains
racket/gui: added multi-column support to list-box%
racket/gui: added scrollbar support to panel%, vertical-panel%,
 and horizontal-panel%
racket/gui: added 'wheel-left and 'wheel-right events
racket/file: add user-read-bit, etc.
racket/contract: removed the following (undocumented) exports:
  build-flat-contract
  chaperone-contract-struct?
  contract-struct-first-order
  contract-struct-name
  contract-struct-projection
  contract-struct-stronger?
  contract-struct?
  contracted-function
  contracted-function-ctc
  contracted-function-proc
  contracted-function?
  first-order-get
  first-order-pred?
  first-order-prop
  flat-contract-struct?
  flat-get
  flat-pred?
  flat-prop
  make-opt-contract/info
  name-get
  name-pred?
  name-prop
  opt-contract/info-contract
  opt-contract/info-enforcer
  opt-contract/info-id
  proj-get
  proj-pred?
  proj-prop
  stronger-get
  stronger-pred?
  stronger-prop
  struct:contracted-function
  synthesized-value
  unknown?

Version 5.1, February 2011
Renamed "proxy" to "impersonator"
Added current-get-interaction-input-port, which enables
 racket/gui events to be dispatched while a REPL is blocked
Changed equal? to equate C pointers when they refer to the 
 same address
Internal: weak boxes are cleared before non-will-like
 finalizers; use late-weak boxes to get the old behavior

Version 5.0.2, October 2010
Changed body of `when', `unless', `cond' clauses, `case'
 clauses, and `match' clauses to be internal-definition contexts
Swapped unsafe-vector*-ref with unsafe-vector-ref, etc.
Added ->i to the contract library, improved ->*, adding #:pre and
 #:post, as well as making the optional arguments clause optional.
Added #true and #false, and changed #t/#T and #f/#F to
 require a delimiter afterward
Added print-boolean-long-form
Added read-accept-lang, which is set to #t when 
 reading a module
Added flonum?
Changed continuation-marks to accept a #f argument
 to produce an empty set of marks
Added fxvectors
Added unsafe-{s,u}16-{ref,set!}
Added prop:proxy-of
Added proxies to go with chaperones, and renamed chaperone property
 as proxy property; beware that the word "proxy" will change in
 a future version, perhaps to "impersonator"
Added collection-file-path and collection splicing at the file
 level

Version 5.0.1, July 2010
Continuation barriers now block only downward continuation jumps
 and allow escapes through full continuations
Changed internal-definition handling to allow expressions mixed
 with definitions
Added support for subprocesses as new process groups
Added support for best-effort termination of subprocess by a
 custodian
Added flreal-part, flimag-part, make-flrectangular, and unsafe
 variants
Added fl->eact-integer, fl->fx, and unsafe-fl->fx
Added #:async-apply option to _fun
Added chaperone-evt
Added identifier-prune-to-source-module
Changed apply binding to enable lower-level optimizations
Upgraded to libffi 3.0.9+

Version 5.0, May 2010
Changed the core executable from mzscheme to racket
Changed paths like the preferences file to use "racket" instead
 of "mzscheme" or "plt-scheme"
Changed default value printer to use quasiquote style
The language of a program's main module can specify run-time
 configuration actions, such as setting the default printer's
 style
Changed regexp-match* et al. to make ^ matching relative to the
 original string (not substrings for matches after the for) and to
 allow empty matches in all positions except immediately after an
 empty match
Changed regexp-match and other functions to allow a path as
 an input
Added chaperones

Version 4.2.5, March 2010
Added scheme/future, enabled by default on main platforms
Changed module to wrap each body expression in a prompt
Changed define-cstruct to bind type name for struct-out, etc.

Version 4.2.4, January 2010
Added scheme/flonum and scheme/fixnum
Extended scheme/unsafe/ops
Changed JIT to support unboxed local binding of known-flonum
 arguments to unsafe-fl functions
Changed JIT to inline numeric ops with more than 2 arguments
Added #:save-errno option for foreign-function types
Added module->imports and module->exports

Version 4.2.3, November 2009
Changed _pointer (in scheme/foreign) to mean a pointer that does not
 refer to GCable memory; added _gcpointer
Added scheme/vector

Version 4.2.2, September 2009
Added scheme/unsafe/ops
Added print-syntax-width
Added file-or-directory-identity
Inside: embedding applications should call scheme_seal_parameters
 after initializing parameter values (currently used by Planet)

Version 4.2.1, July 2009
Added string->unreadable-symbol and symbol-interned?
Added syntax-local-lift-provide
Added syntax-local-lift-values-expression
Added identifier-prune-lexical-context and quote-syntax/prune

Version 4.2, May 2009
Changed visiting of modules at phase N to happen only when compilation
 at phase N starts
Changed expander to detect a reaname transformer and install a
 free-identifier=? syntax-object equivalence
Changed provide to convert an exported rename transformer to its
 free-identifier=? target
Added 'not-free-identifier=? syntax property to disable free-identifier=? 
 propagation through a rename transformer
Added prop:rename-transformer and prop:set!-transformer
Fixed scheme/local so that local syntax bindings are visible to later
 local definitions
Changed current-process-milliseconds to accept a thread argument
Added hash-hash-key?, hash-ref!
Added in-sequences, in-cycle

Version 4.1.5, March 2009
Allow infix notation for prefab structure literals
Change quasiquote so that unquote works in value positions of #hash
Change read-syntax to represent #hash value forms as syntax
Added bitwise-bit-field

Version 4.1.4, January 2009
Changed memory accounting to bias charges to parent instead of children
Changed function contracts to preserve tail recursion in many cases
Added scheme/package, scheme/splicing, ffi/objc
Added exception-backtrace support for x86_84+JIT
Added equal?/recur
Added equal<%> and interface* to scheme/class
Added procedure-rename
Added extra arguments to call-with-continuation-prompt
Added extra argument to raise-syntax-error
Added compile-context-preservation-enabled
Added syntax-local-lift-require
Added internal-definition-context-seal, which must be used on an
 internal-definition context before it's part of a fully expanded form
Added syntax-local-make-delta-introducer
Changed make-rename-transformer to accept an introducer argument that
 cooperates with syntax-local-make-delta-introducer
Added internal-defininition-context?
Added identifier-remove-from-defininition-context

Version 4.1.3, November 2008
Changed scheme to re-export scheme/port
In scheme/port: added 
Added call-with-immediate-continuation-mark
In scheme/port: added port->string, port->bytes, port->lines
 port->bytes-lines, display-lines, [call-]with-input-from-{string,bytes},
 and [call-]with-output-to-{string,bytes}
In scheme/file: added file->string, file->bytes, file->lines,
 file->value, file->bytes-lines, write-to-file, display-to-file,
 and display-lines-to-file
Added variable-reference? and empty #%variable-reference form
Extended continuation-marks to work on a thread argument

Version 4.1.2, October 2008
Changed binding of identifiers introduced by unit signatures
 to take into account the signature use's context
Added make-syntax-delta-introducer
Changed continuation-marks to accept a thread argument
Added eqv-based hash tables
Added hash-update and hash-update!
Changed -X and -S to complete directory relative to pwd, and
 changed -S to add after main collects

Version 4.1.1, October 2008
Added read-language
Added module-compiled-language-info, module->language-info,
 and 'module-language property support

Version 4.1, August 2008
Changed namespaces to have a base phase; for example, calling
 eval at compile-time uses a phase-1 namespace
Added logging facilities: make-logger, etc.
Added "inheritance" to structure type properties, and change
 prop:procedure from scheme/base to better support keywords
Added bitwise-bit-set?
Added in-value

Version 4.0, June 2008
>> See MzScheme_4.txt

Version 372, December 2007
Added syntax-local-lift-context
Added #lang
Added require-for-label, provide-for-syntax, provide-for-label,
 identifier-label-binding, module-label-identifier=?

Version 371, August 2007
Added hash-table-iterate-{first,next,key,value}
Added keyword<?
Added make-derived-parameter
Added make-sibling-inspector
Added graph? argument to read[-syntax]/recursive
Added read-accept-infix-dot
Changed #!<space> and #!/ to general comment forms
Added continuation?
Added continuation-prompt-tag?
Inside MzScheme: GC_{malloc,free}_immobile_box
foreign.ss: added {malloc,free}-immobile-box

Version 370, May 2007
Memory management:
 Default build uses 3m instead of CGC
 Added custodian boxes and custodian-memory-accounting-available?
 Added initial custodian argument to custodian-require-memory
Exceptions:
 Removed current-exception-handler and initial-exception-handler
 Added uncaught-exception-handler
 Default error escape handler aborts to default continuation
  tag with the void procedure
 Added call-with-exception-handler
 Changed read-eval-print-loop and the default load handler to wrap
  each evaluation with a prompt and with #%top-interaction
 Changed top-level begin to insert a prompt around each sub-expression
  except the last
 Added #%top-interaction and #%expression
 Changed make-exn to automatically convert a mutable message string
  to an immutable string
Units:
 New unit system provided by MzLib's "unit.ss"
Ports and pathnames:
 Added prop:input-port and prop:output-port
 Added support for manipulating filesystem paths that work on 
  other platforms
 Added string->path-element and path-element->string
 Changed path->directory-path, simplify-path, and split-path to include
  a trailing path separator even when the result would be a directory
  path without it
 Changed simplify-path for Windows paths to replace / with \
 Changed current-directory to apply path->directory-path to given paths
 Added reset?, start-, and end-index arguments to get-output-bytes
 Added port-closed?
 Added optional argument to tcp-addresses to get port numbers
Syntax and loading:
 Default load handler enables #reader (even when not reading a module)
 Added module-path-index-resolve
 Added syntax-local-expand-expression
 Changed dyanmic-require to expand requests for exported syntax
  bindings
 Added an argument to syntax-local-certifier indicating whether the
  generated procedure attaches active or inactive certificates
 Changed macro expansion of bound identifiers so that `local-expand'
  works with an empty stop list
 Module top-level enforces initial categorization of expressions
  versus other forms
 Changed H-expression parsing to represent angle brackets specially
Misc:
 Changed print-struct default to #t instead of #f
 Added parameterize*
 Added 'gc and 'so-suffix flags for system-type
 Added vector->values
 Changed char-whitespace? to produce #t for #\u0085
 Added -p, -P, and -Q command-line options
 Added procedure-struct-type?
 Added system-idle-evt
 Fixed mzc --exe to work with C-implemented extension modules
MzLib:
 serialize.ss: Path includes the path's convention
 foreign.ss: Added ptr-add, memmove, memcpy, and memset
 runtime-paths.ss: Cooperates with mzc --exe
Inside MzScheme:
 Use SCHEME_INPUT_PORTP() instead of SCHEME_INPORTP()
     SCHEME_OUTPUT_PORTP() instead of SCHEME_OUTPORTP()
     scheme_input_port_record() instead of cast to Scheme_Input_Port*
     scheme_output_port_record() instead of cast to Scheme_Output_Port*
 Added scheme_set_type_equality() with help from Dimitris Vyzovitis
 Added XFORM_START_SKIP, etc.

Version 360, November 2006
Continuations:
 Added delimited continuations: call-with-continuation-prompt,
  call-with-composable-continuation, etc.
 Changed call-with-escape-continuation so that its argument is
  no longer applied in tail position (reverses a change in v350)
Regexps:
 Added case-insensitive mode, multi-line mode, lookahead, lookbehind, 
  non-backtracking, and conditionals to regexp language
 Added pregexp, byte-pregexp, and #px..., which includes numeric
  quantifiers, backreferences char classes, and Unicode predicates
 Added regexp-match?, pregexp?, and byte-pregexp?
 Improved [p]regexp performance
Filesystem:
 Unix and Mac OS X: Changed path operations to use "./~..." as an
  encoding for a relative path "~..."
 Changed simplify-path to always normalize path separators,
  preserve syntactic directoryness, and remove \\?\ from
  Windows paths when possible
 Added path-element->bytes and bytes->path-element
 Changed make-file-or-directory-link to not expand the link
  content, and changed make-security-guard to have a separate
  link guard procedure
Misc:
 Removed write-image-to-file and read-image-from-file
 ormap and andmap now tail-apply a given function for the 
  last list element(s)
 eval evaluates its argument in tail position
 Improved compilation of call-with-values and an immediate
  lambda argument to avoid closure creation
 Added raise-arity-error
 Changed bytecode compiler to perform more closure conversion
  and lifting
 Changed local-expand; #f stop list means expand only immediate
MzLib:
 class.ss: added inherit/inner and inherit/super, to eventually
  replace rename-super and rename-inner;
  added member-name-key=?

Version 352, July 2006
Minor bug fixes

Version 351, July 2006
Changed hash-table-get to accept a non-prcedure third argument as
 a default value (instead of requiring a thunk)
Changed the module name resolver protocol so that the resolver is
 required to accept 1, 3, and 4 arguments; the new 4-argument mode
 supports resolving a module path without loading the module
Changed syntax/loc to not adjust location information for a
 template that contains only a pattern variable
MzLib: Added define-member-name, member-name-key, and 
 generate-member-key to class.ss
Added syntax-local-lift-moule-end-declaration
Changed namespace-attach-module and namespace-unprotect-module
 to accept quoted module paths, instead of only symbolic names
Fixed avoidable overflow and undeflow in magnitude and / for
 inexact complex numbers
Fixed bug in continuation sharing
Improved 3m performance
Upgraded to gc 6.7

Version 350, June 2006
JIT compiler:
 Added just-in-time native-code compiler with a new eval-jit-enabled
  parameter
 Added compile-enforce-module-constants parameter; the default is #t,
  which effectively prohibits redeclaraing modules or changing
  variable bindings through module->namespace
 Added function inlining, and fixed constant propagation and folding 
  in bytecode compiler
Stack trace:
 Added a "stack trace" to the default error display
 Added exn:fail:user and raise-user-error
Installation and executables:
 Changed installation process to support more configurable directory
  structure
 Dropped PLTHOME, and instead added support to embed a path to the
  main "collects" directory within the executable
 Changed style of executables generated by mzc --[gui-]exe under
  Unix; for old-style executables, use --orig-exe, or use --exe-dir 
  to package the executable
 Added 'run-file, 'collects-dir, and 'orig-dir modes to find-system-path
 Changed initial program binding to the result of find-system path
  with 'run-file instead of 'exec-file
 Added use-user-specific-search-paths parameter, -U flag
Continuations:
 For nested captured continuations, the shared continuation tail is
  represented by shared data
 The body of let/cc and the procedure passed to call/ec are
  evaluated/called as a tail expression/call
 Made parameter/mark lookup amortized constant time,
  instead of potentially O(stack depth)
Misc:
 Added char-general-category
 Added string-normalize-nf[k]{d,c}
 Changed bitwise-{and,ior,xor} to accept 0 arguments
 Changed file-position: eof moves to the end of a file/string
 Changed readtable to support "default" parser used for symbols/numbers
 Changed system-type's optional argument to 'os, 'link, or 'machine
 Added current-thread-initial-stack-size
 Added procedure-closure-contents-eq?
 Added struct-type-make-constructor and struct-type-make-predicate
 Inside MzScheme: added scheme_make_prim_closure_w_arity(), etc.

Version 301, December 2005
Fixed a custom-input-port bug in the case that a read or peek procedure
 returns an event created by handle-evt

Version 300, December 2005
Generalized network-address handling, includes IPv6
Added ephemerons
0.0 and -0.0 are different by eqv?
Added keyword values (#: prefix) and keyword? predicate
Added system-language+country
Added current-preserved-thread-cell-values
Added #%variable-reference
MzLib: added object-method-arity-includes? to class.ss
Added --xform mode to mzc

Version 299.400, Setember 2005
Improved Windows path support (e.g., \\?\ paths)
Added optional argument to simplify-path
Added 'pair-shape property to reader
Inside MzScheme: added scheme_get_port_file_descriptor()
 and scheme_get_port_socket()

Version 299.200, August 2005
Ports:
 TCP output ports are now block-buffered by default
 Changed file-stream-buffer-mode to work on more port types,
  including TCP ports and custom ports
 Added extra argument to make-input-port and make-output-port
  to get/set buffer mode
 Changed port-count-lines! and port-next-location to work
  on output-ports
 Changed make-output-port to take three new arguments:
  get-location procedure, count-lines! procedure,
  and initial position
 Changed make-input-port to take two new arguments: count-lines!
  procedure (defaults to void) and initial position
 Added relocate-input-port, relocate-output-port, transplant-input-port,
  and transplant-output-port to MzLib's "port.ss"
Strings and Unicode:
 \U allows up to 8 digits instead of 6
 Changed char-lower-case? and char-upper-case?
 Added string-upcase, string-downcase, string-titlecase,
  string-foldcase, and char-foldcase
 In case-insenstive mode, symbols are case-folded instead
  of downcased (which is usually the same thing)
Reader:
 Added #reader and readtables
 When { or [ is disabled, it is treated as an illegal character
  instead of a symbol character by the reader
 Changed read-syntax[/recursive] to remove the delta-list
  argument
 Changed read handler to remove the delta-list argument
 Changed read[-syntax]/recursive to produce a special-comment
  value when a comment is parsed (instead of reading the
  next datum)
Printer:
 Added custom struct writers through prop:custom-write,
  custom-write?, custom-write-accessor
Syntax and Macros:
 Changed expansion of internal definitions so that local
  macros that expand to definition forms can be used
  within the local definition set
 Added syntax-local-make-definition-context
 Added syntax-local-bind-syntaxes
 Added optional definition-context argument to
  local-expand and syntax-local-value
 Changed certification so that a reference cannot have more
  certificates than its binding, and lexical context gives
  syntax-quoted values inactive instead of active certificates
 Added sub-form for require: only
 Added module-provide-protected?
 Fixed all-from provides to include redundant imports from the
  indicated require
 Added prefix-all-defined and prefix-all-defined-except
  provide forms
Structure Types:
 Struct custodian can be #f to make it fully transparent
Libraries:
 Added define-serializable-class[*], externalizble<%>,
  class/derived, and inspect clause form to MzLib's "class.ss"
 Changed run-server in thread.ss to use the same parameterization
  for all connection threads
 Added define-struct/properties to MzLib's "struct.ss"
 Removed pretty-print-display-string-handler from MzLib's
  "pretty.ss", and adapted protocol for hook procedures
  slightly (i.e., they usually must write to a given port)
 Changed collects/web-server request-bindings/raw
  to return an alist of bytes, not strings
Misc:
 Cygwin build produces a Unix-style installation instead of
  a Windows-style installation (e.g., system-type is 'unix)

Version 299.100, March 2005
Unicode and Strings:
 Removed char-locale... operations
 Removed char->latin-1-integer and latin-1-integer->char
 Added string-copy!, read-string!, peek-string!, and write-string
 Added convert-stream, reencode-input-port, etc. to port.ss
 Added \u and \U syntax in strings and chars
 Fixed log for large exact integers
 Added path-string?, path-replace-suffix
 Renamed all of the number "byte-string" functions to "bytes"
 Added \' escape for strings (for compatibility with C & Java)
 Added locale-string-encoding
 Changed regexp-replace* to raise an exception if it matches an
  empty string
 Added binding of greek-lambda character (code point #x03BB) to
  expand to lambda
Paths:
 Changed pref dir (all platforms) and pref file name (except Windows);
  changed home dir under Windows to use the registry-specified profile
  directory
 Added 'doc-dir and 'desk-dir to find-system-path
 Unix and Mac OS X: path expansion removes redundant slashes
 Removed exists check for current-directory
Ports:
 Change default buffering of file-stream output ports
 Changed file-stream-buffer-mode to work on input ports
 Changed make-custom-input-port to make-input-port
 Changed make-custom-output-port to make-output-port
 Added terminal-port?
 Added pipe-content-length
 Changed {read,peek}-bytes-avail!{,*,/enable-break} to produce
  a special-reading procedure when a stream contains specials
 Added make-pipe-with-specials to MzLib's "port.ss"; procedures
  like copy-port now also handle specials
 Moved most of (lib "thread.ss") to (lib "port.ss"), and many
  remaining useless procedures (such as dynamic-enable-break)
  were removed
 Added port-progress-evt, port-commit-peeked, and
  port-provides-progress-evts?
 Added an optional progress-event argument to peek-bytes-avail!,
  etc., before the port argument
 Added an optional progress-event argument to regexp-match-peek
  and regexp-match-peek-positions
 Peeking from a limited pipe effectively increases its capacity,
  temporarily
 Added optional port name arguments to make-pipe
  and open-{input,output}-{string,bytes}
 Changed object-name for input ports and output ports
 Added write-special and write-special-avail*
 A location-offset lists for a port read handler can contain #f
 Changed read-syntax to make the source name optional (defaults
  to the port's name)
Syntax and Macros: 
 Eliminated "identifier for a definition has a module context"
  errors
 In a syntax template, when an identifier has more ellipses
  then in the pattern, inner ellipses bind more
  tightly than the outer ellipses
 New forms: require-for-template (core), define-values-for-syntax
  (core), define-for-syntax, begin-for-syntax
 New procedures: local-transformer-expand, syntax-transforming?,
  syntax-local-lift-expression, local-expand/capture-lifts,
  local-transformer-expand/capture-lift, syntax-recertify, 
  module-template-identifier=?, identifier-template-binding,
  rename-transformer-target
 Removed fluid-let-syntax, syntax-local-certifier
 Added (lib "stxparam.ss"), partly as a replacement for
  fluid-let-syntax
 Removed use of #%top from references to a module's own bindings
 Added protect sub-form of provide
 module-compiled-imports now returns 3 values
 indentifier-[transformer-]binding returns a list of five items
  instead of four for a module-bound identifier
 Added 'module-begin to the set of possible results from
  syntax-local-context
 Added begin-with-definitions to (lib "etc.ss")
 Added syntax-property-symbol-keys
 Added namespace-unprotect-module
 Changed eval, expand, etc. so that only the leading
  identifier in a module form is given context
 Changed module expansion/compilation so that it's deterministic,
  as long as macros do not use gensym or external side-effects;
  using generate-temporaries preserves determinism
 Changed module->namespace and module re-definition so that they're
  controlled by the code inspector, not the modules attach state
 Added current-compile parameter, which is used by compile
  and by the default evaluation handler
 Changed expansion-time structure type info to allow #f in place
  of a mutator id
 Added construct-time field guards to structure types
 Changed raise-syntax-error so that it no longer accepts a list
  as its first argument
Reader Syntax:
 Added #<< here strings
 Added H-expression mode to reader, triggered by #hx or #honu,
  and escaped by #sx
 Added read-honu, read-honu-syntax, and print-honu
 Changed #; for top-level read; graph assignments are forgotten
  before reading the next expression
Control Flow and Paramaters:
 While an exception handler is called, the current exception
  handler is reset to the default handler; similarly,
  the error display and escape handlers are called by the
  default exception handler in a context that resets the
  corresponding parameters to the default handlers
 An exception handler can handle exceptions that are raised
  during the handler (by using with-handlers or setting the
  current-exception-handler parameter)
 During the evaluation of dynamic-wind pre and post thunks,
  the current continuation marks and parameterization are reset
  to those active at the time of the dynamic-wind call
  (except that the parameterization is extended to disable
  breaks)
 Added current-parameterization and call-with-parameterization
 Added continuation-mark-set-first
 Removed optional argument of continuation-mark-set->list
 Added continuation-mark-set->list*
 Added call-with-continuation-barrier
 Renamed "continuation boundary" to "continuation barrier"
 Added call-with-semaphore and call-with-semaphore/enable-break
Events:
 Renamed udp-send-evt and udp-receive-evt to udp-send-ready-evt
  and udp-receive-ready-evt
 Added udp-send-evt, udp-send-to-evt, and udp-receive!-evt
 Added tcp-accept-evt
 Added make-alarm
Misc:
 Regexp grammar changed to match docs with respect to "-"
 Struct property types are now overridable in subtypes
 Added module-compiled-exports
 Added hash-table-copy and hash-table-count
 Changed the random-number generator to use L'Ecuyer's MRG32k3a
  algorithm, as encouraged by SRFI-37
 Changed random to accept 0 arguments to generate a random real
  number, and added pseudo-random-generator->vector and
  vector->pseudo-random-generator; these are compatible
  with the SRFI-27 reference implementation
 Added print-unreadable parameter
 Changed use-compiled-file-kinds to use-compiled-file-paths
 Mac OS X: extension suffix changed from ".so" to ".dylib"
Libraries:
 "class.ss" MzLib module: changed the interface to 
  make-primitive-class; see plt/collects/mzscheme/examples/tree.cxx 
  for details
 "serialize.ss" MzLib module: new
 "contract.ss" MzLib module: names are more uniform; if the name of a
  contract a suffix, the suffix is now "/c" (instead of one of "/p",
  "/c", or "/f")
 "url.ss" in the "net" collection: new url data definition; url/user is
   gone, and no extra encoding/decoding required once a url has been
   parsed anymore
Inside MzScheme: 
 Added scheme_set_type_printer, scheme_print_bytes,
  and scheme_print_string

Version 209, December 2004
Fixed (abs -1073741824)
Avoided gcc 3.4 bug(?) related to inline checking for -0.0

Version 208, August 2004
Added string-copy! and hash-table-count
Upgraded to gc 6.3

Version 207, May 2004
Fixed comparison of infinities and 0.0 in eqv?
Fixed incorrect handling of -0.0 versus 0.0 for various
 platforms, including x86 with gcc 3.2
Fixed inefficient (/ x 1) for an exact rational x

Version 206, January 2004
A shut-down custodian is no longer allowed to manage new
 objects
Changed thread-resume so that it adds custodians to a thread,
 instead of changing the thread's custodian
Added make-thread-group, etc.
Changed define to support MIT-style curried-procedure forms
Added an optional argument to peek-char and 
 peek-char-or-special to indicate the number of characters
 to skip in the input stream
Added optional argument to file-or-directory-modify-seconds
 for setting the modification date of a file or directory
Added integer-sqrt, quotient/remainder, integer-sqrt/remainder
Fixed transitivity of numerical comparison for mixed
 inexact--exact comparisons when the inexact versions
 of the numbers are = but the exact versions are not
Macro templates can include consecutive ... for splicing
 sequences
Macro patterns can include sub-patterns after ...
Improved error reporting for with-syntax
Non-constant syntax pairs generated from templates
 (in syntax-case, with-syntax, quasisyntax, etc.)
 keep source-location and context information,
 instead of acquiring the context and location of
 the generator expression as a whole
generate-temporaries produces identifiers that are
 suitable for use as defined names in the module
 being expanded (if any)
Added syntax-local-module-introduce, which is used
 by generate-temporaries
Added syntax-track-origin
Changed syntax-local-get-shadower to add the current
 module expansion context, if any
Added 'disappeared-binding and 'disappeared-use properties
 and refined 'origin tracking for internal definitions
 and spliced sequences
Added optional namespace argument to most of the
 namespace- primitives
Added vector-immutable
Fixed a bug in the bytecode verifier that caused it to skip
 significant parts of typical bytecode
Added a hook for (planet ...) module paths to the standard
 module name resolver
MzLib's contract.ss: changed and/f to and/c, or/f is deprected
 (use union), added object contracts, flat-contracts (without
 names) are a separate type; use flat-contract-predicate rather
 than flat-named-contract, added flat-rec-contract, improved
 performance
MzLib's class.ss: added get-field and field-bound?


Version 205, August 2003
Extended regexp language with "(?:...)"
Added 'addon-dir for find-system-path
Changed default library collections path list to include
  (build-path (find-system-path 'addon-dir) (version) "collects")
Added #; reader comment syntax
Added namespace-module-registry
Added module->namespace
Changed eval handler so that when it is given a syntax object, it
 does not extend the object's lexical context with top-level
 bindings from the current namespace
Added namespace-syntax-introduce
Added eval-syntax, compile-syntax, expand-syntax, expand-syntax-once,
 and expand-syntax-to-top-form
Added set!-transformer-procedure
Added namespace-undefine-variable!
syntax-local-context can return a list for internal-define
 expansion, and local-expand accepts a list to mean 
 internal-define expansion; for built-in expansion, each
 list item uniquely indicates a distinct, active
 internal-define expansion context
Added syntax-local-get-shadower
Changed top-level `define-syntaxes' to treat zero results
 from the right-hand side as an abort, so that
   (define-syntax (id ...) (values))
 declares the ids. This is useful for macros that
 expand to mutuaully recursive definitions of private
 variables
Changed the expansion-time information associated with a
 struct type to include an identifier for the super-type
Handling of --main/-C command-line flag changed
Changed "scheme-<dialect>" script handling to add the script
 path as an argument, which matches SRFI-22
Changed Windows extension-linking convention; extensions
 link directly to the MzScheme/GC DLLs
Added an optional argument to system-library-subath
Added custodian-managed-list
Changed vector-set-performance-stats! to accept an optional
 thread argument for thread-specific stats
Mac OS Classic: file-size result no longer includes
 the resource-fork size
Added a `super-new' local form to (lib "class.ss")
Added a `new' form to (lib "class.ss")
3m: changed to the calling convention for managing
 GC_variable_stack

Version 204, May 2003
Added UDP operations
Added synchronous channels
Added thread-suspend and thread-resume
Added thread/suspend-to-kill
Added thread-dead?
Added thread-suspend-waitable, thread-resume-waitable, 
 and thread-dead-waitable
Added make-wrapped-waitable, make-guard-waitable, and
 make-nack-guard-waitable a la CML
Added waitables->waitable-set, which is like CML's choose
Renamed make-nack-waitable to make-nack-guard-waitable
 to claify its relation to make-guard-waitable
Added make-poll-guard-waitable
Added make-semaphore-peek
Added current-wait-pseudo-random-generator
Changed unreachable threads to be garbage-collected when
 blocked on any combination of otherwise unreachable
 waitables by object-wait-multiple, semaphore-wait, 
 channel-put, channge-get, or thread-wait; in addition,
 unreachable suspended threads are garbage-collected
Added "async-channel.ss" to MzLib
Changed make-custom-input-port to drop the initial
 waitable argument; instead, the read and peek
 functions should return a waitable instead of 0
Changed make-custom-output-port so that the first
 argument is #f or a procedure to return a waitable
 (instead of #f or a waitable)
Added tcp-port?
Added port-file-identity
Deprecated normal-case-path
Changed the symbolic name for a file-based module to be
 determined without using normal-case-path
Fixed MzLib's regexp-split, etc., to work on input ports
Changed make-struct-type-property to accept a guard
 procedure for the property
Changed make-struct-type to accept a list of immutable
 field positions
Changed struct-type-info to return 8 values instead of 6
 to include information on immutable fields
Changed proc-spec handling in make-struct-type; an integer
 value must be < init-field-k, and overriding is disallowed
 (for consistency with user-defined properties)
Added prop:waitable
Changed handling of top-level and module top-level definitions
 of identifiers that originate from a macro expansion; such
 definitions now bind only the uses of the identifier with the
 same expansion origin
Added make-syntax-introducer, for creating new macro origins
Changed generate-temporaries so that it does not use gensym,
 but instead uses make-syntax-introducer to distinguish names
Added make-rename-transformer and rename-transformer?
Changed syntax-local-value to cooperate specially with
 rename transformers
Fixed parse problems with # in numbers, as in `1#/2' and
 `#e#x+e#s+e@-e#l-e'
Added literal hashtable syntax #hash..., added support
 for immutable hash tables, and added print-hash-table
 parameter
Added literal regexp syntax #rx... and changed the printer
 to use this notation for printing regexps
Changed hash-table? to accept 'weak and/or 'equal and return
 #t only if the first argument is a hash table created with
 the corresponding flag(s)
Changed equal? to compare hash tables by determining whether
 they map the same keys to equal? values
Added vector->immutable-vector
Added immutable-box
Added vector-set-performance-stats!
Changed columns to count from 0 instead of 1 

Version 203, December 2002
Added support for structure types whose instances act as
 procedures
Added open-input-output-file
Added port-count-lines-enabled parameter

Version 202, August 2002
Changed expansion of () to '()
Unix: Fixed open on fifos to not block
Windows 9x: Added workaround for resolution of "127.0.0.1"

Version 201, July 2002
Fixed bug in port reading (especially variants of read-string)
 and file-position that follow peeks on the port
Added exn:special-comment, expected to be used by custom input ports
 that contain non-character-based comments (e.g., the comment boxes
 soon to appear in DrScheme)
Windows: added special handling of "special files" (COM1, etc.);
 internally MzScheme opens the file only once to satisfy multiple
 open-input-file and open-output-file calls that have the
 port open at the same time

Version 200, June 2002
>> See MzScheme_200.txt for information on major changes in
   MzScheme 200. Minor changes are listed below.
(cond) alays returns void; the cond-allow-fallthough parameter and
 exn:cond exception have been removed
Changed all comparison precedures to require at least two
 operands, including =, <, ..., char=?, char<?, ...,
 string=?, string<?, ...
Added locale support with string-locale<?, etc.
Added integer-byte-string->integer, floating-point-byte-string->real,
 integer->integer-byte-string, real->floating-point-byte-string,
Renamed exn:misc:user-break to exn:break
Removed the port field of exn:read
Renamed arity to procedure-arity
Replaced primitive-name and inferred-name with object-name
Added security guards for controlling file and network access
Added an "infix" conversion in the reader, triggered by a pair of dots
 between a pair of parens
Added #cs and #ci prefixes for controlling case sentivity during read
Added current-command-line-arguments parameter
Added error-print-source-location parameter
Added current-load/use-compiled parameter
Changed string constants to support ANSI C escapes (e.g., \n)
Fixed leaks (file descriptors, etc.) that could happen with
 thread kills
Fixed memory bug in the run-time support for mzc-compiled code
Fixed an old and serious set of tail-call+thread-or-exception+GC bugs 
 in the core interpreter
Changed the error display handler to take a raised value (usually
 an exception record) as a second argument
Removed make-hash-table-weak and changed make-hash-table to
 accept up to two flag arguments: 'weak and/or 'equal
Added eq-hash-code and equal-hash-code
Extended regexp-match, etc. to work on port inputs
Added read-strng-avail!* and write-string-avail*, which never block
Added peek-string, peek-string-avail!, peek-string-avail!*,
 and peek-string-avail!/enable-break
Added port-count-lines!, which enables line-couting for a port,
 and port-next-location
Extended custom ports to support non-char input, added
 read-char-or-special and peek-char-or-special
Added immutable?
Quoted portions of a symbol (using | or \) preserve their case,
Added read-dot-as-symbol and read-accept-quasiquote parameters
Added an optional third argument to tcp-listen to reuse addresses
Added tcp-connect/enable-break and tcp-accept/enable-break
Added object-wait-multiple and object-wait-multiple/enable-break
Added cons-immutable, list-immutable, and list*-immutable, 
 and removed pair->immutable-pair
Replaced read-dot-as-symbol with read-accept-dot
Fixed quotient, remainder, and modulo when the first argument
 is exact 0 and the second argument is inexact
Default for pconvert.ss's whole/fractional-exact-numbers parameter
 changed to #f
Load handler or load extension handler now takes two arguments
 instead of one: the filename and the expected module name
Added shell-execute for Windows
Moved send-event to MrEd; added a "sendevent.ss" MzLib library
Changed assf in MzLib
Added special handling when MzScheme is invoked with the name
 "scheme-<dialect>", useful to support SRFI-22
New implementation of Windows I/O
Renamed "2k" to "3m" (for "moving memory manager")
Upgraded to gc 6.1alpha2
Inside MzScheme: changed type of third argument for
 scheme_block_until() from void* to Scheme_Object*
Inside MzScheme: added scheme_add_waitable() and
 scheme_add_waitable_through_sema() for extending the set of objects
 supported by object-wait-multiple

Version 103, August 28, 2000
Changed define-values and set!-values to require distinct variables
 for binding
Windows: Fixed bug in close-output-port for TCP ports
Closing a TCP output port always sends an EOF to the other
 end of the connection, even if the associated input port
 remains open
Changed order of first two arguments to process[*]/ports and
 fixed bugs
Added an optional limit argument to make-pipe
Added deflate.ss library to MzLib, providing gzip, etc.
Added not-break-exn?, useful mainly as a predicate in a
 with-handlers expressions
Fixed load/use-compiled, require-library, and many MzLib functions to
 propagate break exceptions correctly
Added check-parameter-procedure and changed parameterize
Changed order of first two arguments to process[*]/ports, and
 fixed bugs
Fixed bugs in (eval (compile e))
Changed handling of pre- and post-queued breaks by
 call-in-nested-thread
Unix: fixed interaction among signals, I/O, and process sleeping
Unix: fixed bug in writing/closing file-stream output ports
 when a write error occurs
MacOS: changed `split-path' to preserve the colon suffix on a root
 name

Version 102, June 26, 2000
Switched to configure-based makefiles (autoconf)
with-input-from-file and with-output-to-file close the port when
 control leaves the dynamic extent of the call (normally, through an
 exception, or through a general continuation jump).
Added detail field to exn:i/o:filesystem
Added immutable strings and pairs, string->immutable-string,
 cons-immutable, list-immutable, and list*-immutable
Added read-decimal-as-inexact parameter
Fixed number reader to allow +inf.0, -inf.0, and +nan.0 in
 complex constants
Fixed bugs in number reader for hexadecimal numbers containing `.'
 and/or `s'/`l'-based exponents; note that `#e#x+e.s+e@-e.l-e'
 is a legal number(!)
Fixed reading from special devices, such as /dev/null and /dev/zero,
 in Solaris and HP/UX
Fixed blocking output (to stdout, stderr, or a process port) so that
 only the writing thread is blocked
Changed read-string! to read-string-avail!, added
 read-string-avail!/enable-break
Added write-string-avail and write-string-avail/enable-break
Added process/ports and process*/ports
Added file-stream-port?
Added 'update to the set of flags for open-output-file et al.
Changed default exit handler to return only results in 0 to 255
 as results to the OS, and everything else means 1
Changed time-apply to return four values, and to take an argument
 list to provide to the timed procedure
Change find-executable-path to accept #f as its second argument
Change normal-case-path to remove spaces at the end of a path
Changed angle on inexact zero (0 for 0.0, pi for -0.0)
Fixed arithmetic-shift for a -32 shift
Fixed angle on +nan.0
Fixed expt on 0 and a negative number
Added 'exec-file flag to find-system-path
Added provide-library
Added square and mergesort to MzLib's function.ss
Added tcp-addresses
Added -k command-line flag
Inside MzScheme: provided a way to fix the GC--thread problems
 under Windows, via GC_use_registered_statics
Inside MzScheme: scheme_basic_env() initializes break-enabled
 to #f instead of #t
Inside MzScheme: changed scheme_get_chars to consume an
 offset into the string
Inside MzScheme: added embedding-settable function
 scheme_console_output, used to report low-level errors
Inside MzScheme: restricted the format strings accepted by
 scheme_signal_error, scheme_raise_exn, and scheme_warning
Inside MzScheme: added scheme_count_lines; scheme_tell_line
 can return -1 if lines are not counted for a port
Inside MzScheme: added offset argument to scheme_write_string
 and scheme_read_bignum

Version 101, October 25, 1999
Added 'sys-dir to find-system-path
Added latin-1-integer->char and char->latin-1-integer
Added time-zone-offset field to the date structure
Added continuation field to exn:misc:user-break
Windows: all network sockets are closed on exit
Fixed (acos 0)
Fixed (expt x y) where x is negative and y is non-integral
Inside MzScheme: scheme_param_config's 2nd argument is
 now a Scheme_Object*

Version 100, August 9, 1999
 + indicates a change since 100alpha4
 * indicates a change since 100alpha3
Changed class syntax, splitting public clause use into:
 public : defines ivars not in superclass
 override : defines ivars already in superclass
Changed empty superclass from the empty list to object%;
 every class initialization must call super-init
Added ivar-in-interface?
+ Added class-initialization-arity
* Added class->interface
* Added object-interface
+ Removed object-class
+ Removed ivar-in-class?; replace (ivar-in-class? x c)
 with (ivar-in-interface? (class->interface x c))
Changed interface: raises an exception if a superinterface
 declares a variable that is also declared in the interface
 expression
Removed letrec*; letrec has the same semantics
* Fixed scope of function name in a named let
Internal definitions are allowed only at the beginning of lambda,
 case-lambda, let, let-values, let*, let*-values,
 letrec, letrec-values, fluid-let, let-macro, let-id-macro,
 let-expansion-time, parameterize, and with-handlers
begin expressions are flattened in an internal-definition context
(begin) allowed in a top-level, unit, or internal-definition
 context
Removed invoke-open-unit; see the new invoke.ss library, which
 includes define-values/invoke-unit
Self-import is now allowed for unit linking
Removed constant-name and constant-name-all-globals
Removed secure-primitive-exception-types
Removed readable type symbols (e.g., #<procedure>)
Removed semaphore-callback (MrEd now has queue-callback)
Removed parameterizations (but not parameters!)
parameterize sets parameter values in parallel (like let)
 instead of in series (like let*)
* Changed the initialization of the exception handler in a new
 thread to use the value of the initial-exception-handler
 parameter
Fixed unfairness in threads (perpetually creating threads
 would starve certain threads, particularly the main thread)
Unreachable thread blocked on an unreachable semaphore is
 garbage-collectable
Added current-memory-use
Fixed weak hash table bug (could drop keys too soon)
Added optional peek-proc argument to make-input-port
Changed TCP writes to block when the underlying implementation
 blocks, and removed tcp-port-send-waiting?
Asynchronous breaks are now disabled during dynamic-wind
 pre and post thunks
Removed user-break-poll-handler; spawn a thread that sleeps and
 calls break-thread, instead
Removed dynamic-enable-break (no long needed since dynamic-wind
 post thunks can't be broken), but moved it to MzLib's thread.ss
Removed execption-break-enabled (now always disabled)
Added call-in-nested-thread
Removed thread-weight
Renamed the call-with-escaping-continution procedure to
 call-with-escape-continution (call/ec is unchanged)
Finished with-continuation-mark and current-continuation-marks
 and documented them; the errortrace poor man's debugger relies
 on continuation marks; see plt/collects/errortrace/doc.txt
Removed debug-info-handler and replaced the debug-info field
 with a continuation-marks field
Added raise-mismatch-error
MacOS: getenv and putenv work within MzScheme; if a file named
 "Environment" resides in MzScheme's folder, it provides the
 initial environment; see the documentation for details
MacOS: fixed TCP problems
Fixed read-write invariance for inexact (floating-point) numbers
Changed handling of inexact can complex numbers towards compliance
 with Brad Lucier's proposal:
  (* 0 x) = 0 for all x
  (log 1) = 0, etc.
  -0.0 and 0.0 are properly distinguished; (- 0.0) = -0.0, and
   (/ (expt 2 400) -inf.0) = -0.0; (eqv? 0.0 -0.0) = #f even
   though (= 0.0 -0.0) = #t
  Complex numbers can have an inexact real/imaginary part with
   an exact zero imaginary/real part; thus, 4.0 is different
   from 4.0+0.0i, and 0+4.0i is different from 0.0+4.0i; note
   that (sqrt -4.0) is 0+2.0i
  Complex numbers can have a +nan.0 real/imaginary part with
   an imaginary/real part that is not +nan.0
All zero-length vectors are eq
Vectors are written (but not displayed) using the Chez-style
 #n(...) shorthand by default; added print-vector-length
 parameter
* The value of a built-in procedure is eq across namespaces
Replaced require-library-use-compiled with use-compiled-file-kinds
Changed interface for wills: no current executor, register-will
 -> will-register, will-executor-try -> will-try-execute, added
 will-execute
MzLib cleanup:
 Removed `@' suffix for embedded units in mzlib:core@ and mzlib@
 Removed all c.ss libraries, plus constan[t].ss
 Removed catch-errors and let-enumerate from macro.ss
 Removed make-class and make-class* from compat.ss
 Removed zsin, zcos, ztan, zasin, zacos, zatan, zlog, zexp,
  and zsqrt from zmath.ss (MzScheme's built-ins do complex)
 Moved from functio.ss to thread.ss: dynamic-disable-break,
  make-single-threader
 Removed from functio.ss: dynamic-wind/protect-break
 Added to thread.ss: dynamic-enable-break
 Moved MzLib's compat.ss out of the core
 Removes all but the first two arguments to pretty-print (the
  rest have parameters, which are more convenient anyway)
 Changed require to reference-file in refer.ss
file.ss library: added make-directory*
pretty-print: default display string handler is now the default
 port display handler instead of the display procedure
Ported to BeOS
Ported to OSKit
Ported to LinuxThreads, sortof; semaphore-waiting threads cannot
 be broken or killed
Inside MzScheme: new built-in type: scheme_complex_izi_type
Inside MzScheme: changed scheme_eval_string to raise an exception
 if the expression returns multiple values, and added
 scheme_eval_string_multi

Version 53, July 25, 1998
Changed file-modify-seconds to file-or-directory-modify-seconds
Changed rename-file to rename-file-or-directory
Changed file procedures to return void on success and raise
 and exception on failure: delete-file, rename-file-or-directory,
 file-size, copy-file, make-directory, delete-directory
Changed the procedures file-or-directory-modify-seconds and 
 file-or-directory-permissions to raise an exception if the
 file/directory does not exist
Changed current-drive to raise exn:misc:unsupported on platforms
 other than Windows
Added find-system-path
Fixed expand-defmacro for initialization argument expressions
 in a class*/names form
Fixed call/ec bug related to dynamic-wind (see !!! in 
 tests/basic.ss)
Fixed dynamic-wind bug: multiple levels of pre-thunks for a
 jump into a continuation were evaluated in reverse order
Fixed atan: second argument is allowed to be an exact non-integer
Fixed equal?: comparisons on equivalent vectors or structs
 with cycles no longer crash (until MzScheme runs out of memory)
Added make-temporary-file to MzLib's file.ss
Changed random and random-seed to use a parameter-specified
 random number generator; the generator is initially
 seeded with a number based on (current-milliseconds)
Removed the obsolete MzLib trigger library
Added with-continuation-mark and current-continuation-marks,
 but these have not yet been documented because their
 semanticses are not yet finalized

Version 52, May 25, 1998
R5RS non-compliance reduced to macros
Added scheme-report-environment, null-environment, and
 interaction-environment
Changed reference-library, etc. to require-library
 and changed require-library, etc. to require-library/proc
Changed uq-ivar and uq-make-gerenric to ivar/proc and 
 make-generic/proc
current-directory is now a parameter
Added simplify-path
Changed execute and execute* to exit via the exit handler
Top-level definitions are no longer allowed in the branches 
 of an if expression; consider replacing an expression like
 (if ... (define x ...)) with 
 (if ... (global-defined-value 'x ...))
expand-defmacro now signals the same set of syntax errors
 as compile and eval
local-expand-defmacro no longer expands define expressions
 in a non-top-level context; to implement a macro that
 detects define forms, use local-expand-body-expression
Fixed bug in (let/ec a (let/ec b (let/cc k ...))); calling
 b then k then a would fail, jumping to b instead of a
Fixed read-eval-print loop when jumping to the continuation
 of a previous eval and raising an exception there before
 the evaluation finishes
regexp-replace and regexp-replace*: \$ ("\\$" in Scheme)
 is now replaced by the empty string; this allows forms
 like "\\0\\$3", which inserts the 1st submatch and "3"
Fixed a potential bug with continuations (although I never
 saw it happen); they need to be marked by the GC with
 interior pointer marking
Changed read-line to break lines only on #\newline by default;
 new optional argument roughly parameterizes over the 
 line-breaking character(s)
Add read-string and read-string! for reading a block
 of characters from a port
Changed MzLib's read-string and read-string-all to
 read-from-string and read-from-string-all
Changed MzLib's with-semaphore to return the value returned
 by the thunk.
Added the command-line macro to MzLib's cmdline.ss
Linux and FreeBSD: turned on support for using more
 than 256 file descriptors
Inside MzScheme: current-directory, now a parameter, no
 longer sets the current directory as managed by the OS
Inside MzScheme: scheme_split_pathname changed
Inside MzScheme: scheme_setcwd and scheme_getcwd renamed to
 scheme_os_setcwd and scheme_os_getcwd; these set and get the
 OS-managed cwd, but they have no effect on the current 
 directory seen by Scheme code

Version 51, March 25, 1998
Changed load/use-compiled: searches for .zo files in
 a "compiled/" subdirectory, and searches for .so/.dll
 files in (build-path "compiled" (system-library-subpath))
Changed load and current-load/default-load-handler: `load'
 now sets the current-load-relative-directory, so a load
 handler does not need to set this parameter
Added current-load-extension (load-extension handler)
Unix: fixed file-or-directory-permissions for group-based 
 permissions when the group is not the current group (but
 still includes the user)
Windows: fixed directory-exists? et al. for UNC paths
Added local-expand-body-expression
Removed input-port-post-semaphore; this procedure can be
 implemented using thread, peek-char, and semaphore-post
Fixed thread: thunk can return any number of values
Fixed custodian-shutdown-all: if it has to shutdown the
 current thread, it does so immediately instead of
 waiting for the next thread context switch
Fixed will executors: will can return multiple values
Added link-exists?
Added copy-file
Added path-list-string->path-list
Added collection-path
The delete-file and rename-file functions now reliably work
 on links rather than the destination of the link (now fixed
 for MacOS and documented this way)
Fixed rename-file: works for directories too, but the
 destination file/directory cannot exist already.
Added a new mode flag for open-output-file et al.:
 'truncate/replace tries 'truncate then 'replace
Changed initial setting of current-library-collection-paths
Unit definitions and embedded definitions are not allowed
 to shadow syntax or macro names; this restriction resolves
 all potential ambiguity resulting from shadowing syntax
Changed display for symbols containg special characters:
 the special characters are not escaped (or bar-quoted)
Changed write to use the value of (read-accept-bar-quote)
 for printing symbols containing special charaters; if
 bar qute reading is off, it is turned off for printing, too
Fixed unit/sig: correctly handles syntax where defintions in 
 the unit shadow syntactic forms
Fixed round of exact rational n/d in the case when (odd? d)
 and (= (remainder n d) (quotient d 2))
Extended exp, sin, cos, tan, log, asin, acons, atan to
 complex numbers; changed sqrt to choose the root with a
 positive real part
Removed rectangular <, >, <=, >= for complex numbers
Changed storage of loaded-library table from built into the
 `require-library' procedure to built into the current
 namespace
Added require-relative-library
Fixed error messages for +, -, etc. to show all arguments
Fixed format, fprintf, and printf: "~~" allowed at the end
 of the format string
Fixed with-handlers: predicate procedures are evaluated
 with the same exception handler as a handler procedure
Added send-event, currently only supported for MacOS
Changed MzLib's pconver.ss libraries; the print-convert-hook@
 unit was removed (along with the pchookr.ss library) and
 replaced with parameters defined in pconverr.ss for similar
 (more powerful) hooks.
Fixed interfaces for compiled-file (.zo) loading across
 MzScheme startups
Fixed bug in ports returned by make-pipe that caused
 spurious eofs
Unused interned symbols are now garbage-collected
Added support for single-precision floating points (turned
 off in default compilation)
Changed read-eval-print-loop, removing its cooperation with
 the default error escape handler; instead, it installs its
 own error escape handler
Improved the support for dynamic extensions that gives an 
 error if an extension is already loaded, or calls a
 reloading function provided by the extension (scheme_reload)
Unix images: removed constraint against using stdio before
 dumps, but images are disabled by default. Also added
 read-image-from-file procedure
MzLib functio.ss: added remv*, remq*, remove*, filter,
 assf, memf, empty, and empty?
MzLib file.ss: added remove-directory/files
MzLib constan.ss: added constant-signature-content macro
MzLib pconver.ss: added whole/fractional-exact-numbers and
 empty-list-name
MzLib pretty.ss: added pretty-print-show-inexactness
MzLib compile.ss: changed the set of compilation flags
Removed begin-expansion-time
Moved begin-elaboration-time from MzLib into MzScheme
Added MzLib library traceld.ss
MacOS: MzScheme always prompts for extra arguments, even if
  a file is dragged onto the application or a launcher program
  starts it
MacOS: Fixed problems with inexact arithmetic: inexact->exact
  for certain negative numbers and miscellaenous inf.0 and
  nan.0 problems
Windows: CYGWIN32 gcc compiler now supported
Inside MzScheme: scheme_setjmp and scheme_longjmp now
 work on values of type mz_jmp_buf instead of jmp_buf
Inside MzScheme: scheme_apply_multi and scheme_apply were
 reversed! (The _ forms where ok.)
Upgraded to gc 4.13alpha1

Version 50, August 26, 1997
Added compile-time inferrence of names for closures, classes,
  and units to improve error messages
Added inferred-name
Added file-size
Added write-image-to-file for creating heap images of a
  MzScheme program
Fixed reader to disallow . in vectors: #(1 . 2) or #(1 . (3))
Removed global-defined-signature
Fixed string->number: explicit radix in string can override
  radix argument
Bug fixed in call/cc related to dynamic-wind (see !!! in 
  tests/basic.ss)
Fixed weak hash table's accumulation of hashing buckets
Added 'empty flag for make-namespace
Added two-argument form for global-defined-value
Added system-library-subpath
Changed standalone mzscheme to return -1 if a loaded file
  or evaluated expression returns an error without the rep
Refined error messages

Version 49, May 31, 1997 
Multiple superclass inheritance is no longer supported
Added (Java-ish) interfaces to object system
class* syntax changed to accommodate interfaces and removed
  multiple superclasses
uq-ivar always takes two arguments; class is not a legal argument
uq-make-generic accepts a class or an interface
Object system exceptions changed
Added custodian system
Embedded define conventions changed: "regular" defines are only
  allowed in begin expressions and the branches of an if;
  embedded defines can appear in a begin0 expression, but not
  in the first position; defines must all appear at the beginning
  of the block
Contents of a begin expression as an immediate unit or unit/sig 
  expression are promoted to immediate expressions
case supports only R4RS syntax; a single non-list "datum" is
  no longer allowed
Removed catch; use let/ec instead
Removed vector-append
Removed load-with-cd (use load/cd)
Added load/use-compiled
Added current-load-directory parameter (set by the default load
 handler while loading a file) and load-relative (uses the
 parameter for loading a relative filename)
unit/sig's include form is like load-relative instead of load/cd
require-library uses load or load/use-compiled instead of load/cd
Windows: expand-path does not put a drive on a driveless path
  anymore; use path->complete-path instead
compile-file moved out of MzScheme into MzLib "compile.ss"; now 
  takes a single flag list argument instead of two final Booleans
current-base-parameterization parameter replaced with 
  parameterization-branch-handler parameter
Parameterizations support sharing (in addition to defaulting);
  see docs for make-parameterization-with-sharing
Added print, port print handlers, and a global port print handler
Changed the default print handler to use print instead of write
Fixed bug in ports returned by make-pipe
Fixed bug in dynamic-wind; continuation jumps into the pre-thunk
  had a non-intuitive semantics; the correct semantics is now 
  implemented and documented (also for jumps with the post-thunk)
Changed time-apply to always return a list as its first return
  value; time form can return multiple values for its expressions
format, fprintf, and printf are case-insensitive for ~ directives;
  added ~v, ~e, ~<whitespace>
Added semaphore-wait/enable-break
Added thread-running? and thread-wait
Fixed bug in threads and timed sleeping
Fixed bug in breaking a blocked thread
Fixed bug in continuations returning multiple values through a
  dynamic-wind (multiple return values could be corrupted)
Fixed arity reporting for continuations
Fixed Windows system* and read from console stdin and process*
  ports: MzScheme threads no longer blocked; ctl-c breaking works
  in stand-alone console MzScheme
process and process* now return a list of 5 values (instead of 4)
map, for-each, andmap, and ormap raise exn:application:map-arity
 when the procedure's arity does not match the number of supplied
 lists; note that (map (lambda () 10) null) now signals an error
list-ref and list-tail accept arbitrarily large indices
Type for indices changed: must be an exact integer (matches R4RS better)
  affects make-vector, vector-ref, vector-set!, make-string, string-ref, 
  string-set!, substring, and struct-ref
make-namespace's '[no-]set!-undefined and '[no-]auto-else flags
  removed; replaced with two new parameters: 
  compile-allow-set!-undefined and compile-allow-cond-fallthrough
Fixed in units: (define x y) (define y 0) x => #<undefined> instead of 
  #<void>
exn:struct's super-type field renamed struct-type for consistency
exn:i/o:filesystem:filename split into exn:i/o:filesystem:path
  and exn:i/o:filesystem:file; username exception moved under path
Unix: system no longer blocks other MzScheme threads
Unix: processes created by process and process* are not zombies forever, 
  anymore. (The SIGCHLD signal is handled appropriately.)
MacOS: dynamic extension suopport via CFM (PPC only in the distributed
  applications from PLT)
Windows: removed attempted fix for thread-blocking problem 
  when reading stdin from console
Fixed auto-flush of stdout for read of stdin
Fixed <, >, <=, >= for certain exact rational number comparisons
Fixed inexact->exact for negative inexact numbers (fractional part
  was added to the resulting number with the wrong sign)
Fixed rational? to answer #t for inexact numbers
Fixed odd?, even?, and trig functions for +inf.0 and -inf.0
Fixed handling of +nan.0 by many math routines; fixed +nan.0 for
  everything under Windows
Added R4RS rationalize
compound-unit/sig export var clause syntax now matches documentation
Added require-library-use-zo
Moved cons? and last-pair into functio.ss instead of compat.ss
Library system generalized to supoprt multiple collections;
  current-library-path replaced with current-library-collection-path
require-library now returns the result of the loaded library
Removed load-recent from MzLib's file.ss; use load/use-compiled
  instead
Added reference-library, "refer.ss" [core], "XXXr.ss" MzLib libraries
Added build-string, build-vector, build-list, loop-until to MzLib's 
  functio.ss
Added thread.ss MzLib library [core]
Added inflate.ss MzLib library
Moved synrule.ss out of core
Fixed MzLib's stringu.ss to not use macro.ss
Updated MzLib's spidey.ss, added it to core
Removed define-some, define-virtual-struct, define-struct-tree from
  MzLib's macro.ss
begin-expansion-time returns the value of the last expression
set-thread-weight! replaced with 2-argument thread-weight
Inside MzScheme: changed class/object toolbox, added custodian
  toolbox
Upgraded to gc 4.11

Version 48: Skipped to avoid confusion with Scheme48

Version 47, January 11, 1997
WARNING: multiple inhertance is going away in the next version or so
Added will executors
pretty-print-print-hook and pretty-print-size-hook now take
 three arguments: value display? port
file-position can return the current position for any port
Fixed errors reading floating-point constants due to system
 library bugs:
   Linux: strtod("0e...", ...) quits looking after "0"
   SunOS/Solaris: strtod(".3e2666666666") returned 0.0
   HP/UX: strtod(".3e2666666666") fails
Windows: fixed thread-blocking problem for reading stdin from console
Insize MzScheme: when working with "fd_set" values, use
  MZ_FD_ZERO, MZ_FD_SET, MZ_FD_CLR, MZ_FD_ISSET; use 
  scheme_get_fdset() to get the second or third fd_set in an array;
  routines for thread-blocking are now documented in "Inside MzScheme"

Version 46, December 5, 1996
unit/sig macros moved out of MzLib and into core MzScheme; 
  (require-library "unitsig.ss") is obsolete, but still supported
  as a no-op
Unit signature matching is now position-independent, and the error
  messages are better
Removed obsolete install-unit-with-signature
(begin) or (begin0) is now a syntax error
Changed class* syntax so that an explicit name for `this' is provided
MzLib's class-asi* changed to class*-asi, while adding new `this' id
Prettier(?) printing for prims like >: #<|primitive:>|>
invoke-open-unit w/o path/prefix is now the same as #f instead of ();
  the path form will probably be phased out in a future release
quasiquote syntax changed slightly
stdout/stderr are not auto-flushed for read-char or peek-char on stdin
 (still flushed by read and read-line)
Added port-display-handler and port-write-handler

Version 45, November 12, 1996
Multiple return values are aggressively supported
IMPORTANT: let-values is now analogous to let; the old 
  let-values is now let*-values
let-values, letrec-values, define-values, and begin0 are primitive
define-struct and let-struct expand to new struct form
Added thread-savy parameterization system; namespace system changed
pipe changed to make-pipe, returns 2 values
Case-sensitivity for the reader is a settable parameter
Reading [] and {} as parens is a settable parameter
class* syntax extended to allow local renaming of public ivars
delay/force support multiple values
else and => in cond and else are now "scoped"
normalize-path from MzLib signals an error for bad paths
Windows: build-path can join a drive to a (driveless) absolute path
  and //machine/disk drive names are supported; also fixed 
  file-system-root-list
Added complete-path? and current-drive (for Windows)
Fixed (begin (values ...) ...) and (begin0 (values ...) ...)
Fixed comparisons between inexact and exact when the
  exact to inexact conversion results in overflow or underflow,
  and fixed (exact->inexact (/ X Y)) and (/ +inf.0 X), etc. when 
  X & Y are larger than the largest floating-point, fixed modulo,
  remainder, quotient for infinities
Fixed TCP problems (Unix, Windows) and implemented for MacOS
Fixed dynamic-loading to always search from current directory
Fixed real process idling for a timed sleep
Fixed file read/write exceptions (write exceptions now raised)
Fixed quasiquote bug with ,@ and unquoting depth
Fixed filesystem-root-list for Windows
Fixed dynamic-wind when a continuation is invoked from the post-thunk
Fixed continuations for re-entry of a continuation that is mulitply-invoked
Fixed string->number with leading spaces; e.g., (string->number " 1") 
invoke-unit import variable restriction removed (locals are allowed)
(case-lambda) is now legal
\ escapes & and \ in regexp-replace replacement string
Added regexp-replace*
Added port-read-handler
Inside MzScheme: Changed use of scheme_sleep
Inside MzScheme: Changed primitive unit init func arguments
Inside MzScheme: Changed primitive accessing of unit boxes and environment boxes
Inside MzScheme: Revoked syntax extensibility
Reimplemented the core interpreter (chained closures -> flattened)

Version 44, September 9, 1996
load, load/cd return value of last loaded expression
scheme_load returns Scheme_Object* or NULL
Built-in TCP support (Not MacOS, yet)
unit clauses macro-expanded before checking `define' keywords
Better dynamic extension handling and compilation support
Fixed read blocking threads in FreeBSD
Extensions' scheme_initialize must return Scheme_Object*
scheme_sleep has internal default for basic sleeping, installed by
 scheme_basic_env if scheme_sleep is still NULL
Unix/Winsock: fds arg for needs_wakeup and scheme_sleep expanded 
 for writes and exceptions
Fixed quotient for inexact numbers
Fixed bug comparing a bignum rational with a fixnum rational
Fixed startup crash when PATH env variable is slightly bad
Sped up thread switching for Mac
Sped up thread switching for most Unix for a small number of threads
Upgraded to gc 11alpha3

Version 43 re-released August 12, 1996 with libguile

Version 43, August 9, 1996
"functor" -> "unit"
signed units added to and used by mzlib (sigfunctors gone)
Made .zo files smaller and faster to load
Use 64-bit fixnums for Alpha
system, system*, process*, and execute* supported for Windows
Fixed memory bug in printing hexadecimal
Fix bug in modulo
Better floating-point control for infinity, nan results
 on many platforms

Version 42: June 8, 1996
Functor system added
Fixed (cond (1)), etc.
Fixed type-checking for numerical comparisons; e.g., (< 2 1 'a)
Fixed dynamic-wind and call/ec for values
Fixed read for strings containing #\nul
Non-matching cond/case raises an error
Made string=?, char=?, etc. multi-arity like numerical =, etc.
Changed definition of time-apply (returns values, now)
MzScheme threads can almost be real OS threads under Solaris, but more work
  is needed to guarantee safety for the symbol table and globals. More thread 
  systems to follow.
spawn-eval replaced by make-eval
thread-input-port, thread-output-port, and thread-error-port removed
binary-and, etc. replaced with 2's complement bitwise-and, etc.
Fixed writing compiled quoted graph expressions
Fixed return value of system
test.scm expanded and broken into multiple files: (load/cd "tests/all.ss")

Version 0.41: April 15, 1996
Revised class syntax; see the manual
Exception system added; primitive errors raise exceptions
defmacro replaced by define-macro
Added define-id-macro
Fixed let-macro shadowing local vars
Improved error messages; error-print-width
Fixed stack checking for Win32
'. no longer allowed
unquote and unquote-splicing now defined at top level
equal? supports boxes

Version 0.40: March 24, 1996
structure:X => struct:x
mzlib path uses MZLIB or PLTHOME environment variables

Version 0.39: March 6, 1996
Fixed expand-defmacro for (lambda () (and)) et al.
Fixed sqrt on complex numbers; coefficients were reversed
Cleaned up read and display/write to handle C stack overflow
Arity checking bug fixed for arity 0
Pretty-print is parameterized by depth

Version 0.38: February 22, 1996
Fixed bug in compiling frame-sharing; e.g.,
  (let ([d 0]) ((car (cons (let ([a 4]) (lambda () a)) 
			   (let ([b 7]) b)))))
 returned 7 instead of 4
Fixed bug in closing port by call-with-input-file
Fixed magnitude on negative reals
Fixed angle on negative reals
Fixed cos, sin, etc. on rationals
Fixed min and max on rationals with non-rationals
Fixed (random 0)
Fixed equal? on really long lists
Fixed list procedures with arbitrary duration: checking for break
Fixed char-X? and characters past ASCII 127
Fixed hash table bug that causes infinite internal loop
Fixed bug in reading #| |# comments at the end of a list
Filesystem utilities added
"processes" are now called "threads"; procedure names changed accordingly
eval can return multiple values; r-e-p-l handles correctly
Some changes to compilation interface:
  must set new flag is_proc_closure in compile_info rec
  scheme_static_distance changed; use flags
scheme_sleep() must now take a float
current-prompt-read added
Console version reads ~/.mzschemerc init file (or mzscheme.rc)
NO_STAT compilation flag -> NO_STAT_PROC

Version 0.37: unreleased

Version 0.36: January 18, 1996
Fixed bug in bignum multiplication

Version 0.35: January 17, 1996
current-print added
x@y notation supported
~ expanded in pathnames (Unix)
Fixed bug parsing #T, etc.
Fixed bug parsing hex numbers and others
Fixed fp-initialization bug for Win32
Better printing for special symbols

Version 0.34: December 30, 1995
Various bignum operations sped up
Chez-style symbol parsing supported (escaping \ and quoting |)

Version 0.33: December 21, 1995
rationals and complex numbers supported
make-class and make-class* syntax changed (one set of parens
  added). The old syntax is still supported for now, but you
  should convert. The old syntax will eventually go away (and
  Zodiac will never be compatible with it).
class variables and cvar no longer allowed
ivar always takes an object; if class included, must be first
threads/processes changed w.r.t. environment used during execution
error handler split into erro displayer and error escaper
stack limitation of expander/compiler removed
expand => expand-defmacro
expand-once => expand-defmacro-once
user-break-poll => user-break-poll-handler
enable-break => break-enabled
#% now legal for starting non-keyword symbols
full floating-point input format supported

Version 0.32: December 4, 1995
Added weak boxes
+inf.0, -inf.0, -nan.0, +nan.0 constants added
Better checking when using floats as indices (vector-ref, etc.)
Better (correct!) hashing procedure
Fixed threads in Win32s/WinNT by creating a new stack
Fixed bug in spawning new (MzScheme) processes
Fixed incorrect process progress (~deadlock) analysis
Fixed bug in resizing hash table
Fixed bug in read (reading "+", "-", or "." at EOF)
Fixed bug in read-number (fractions and forcing; e.g. "../")
Fixed bug in open-output-string (> 100 chars gave empty result)
Fixed regexp-replace (memory bug)

Version 0.31: November 14, 1995
Bignum bigs: subtracting from 0, comparing negative
(current-eval) initially returned the wrong procedure
tan procedure added
putenv
S-expression graph reading and printing

Version 0.30: October 25, 1995
Added call-with-values and regexp
Unix stack-checking setup code fixed

Version 0.29: October 18, 1995
Added `arity' procedure
Bug fix related to forms such as (let ([x (let ...)]) ...)

Verion 0.28: October 3, 1995
Fixed general stack overflow-checking for Unix

Verion 0.27: September 26, 1995
Moved compilation flags from the Makefile into "sconfig.h"
More general stack overflow-checking (when needed)
Computations can overflow the stack and continue
Changed command line flags; added -r (or --script) flag
Added multiple inheritance and `rename', `share', and `local' declarations
Merged Patrick Barta's Windows DLL implementation for `load-extention'
Re-implemented `quasiquote', `and', and `or' as a macros
Re-implemented let-forms to make small `let's efficient
`let*' expands to `let'
Made core syntactic form names keywords
Added #% keywords
Added `hash-table-map' and `hash-table-for-each'
Fixed bignum bugs: `eqv?'/`equal?' and `modulo'
Fixed inexact bugs: `floor', `ceiling', and `round'
Created this "HISTORY" file
