tame/RELEASES.md

TAME Release Notes

This file contains notes for each release of TAME since v17.4.0.

TAME uses [semantic versioning]. Any major version number change represents backwards-incompatible changes. Each such version will be accompanied by notes that provide a migration path to resolve incompatibilities.

TAME developers: Add new changes under a "NEXT" heading as part of the commits that introduce the changes. To make a new release, run =tools/mkrelease=, which will handle updating the heading for you.

NEXT

This release refactors the linker, adds additional tests, and improves errors slightly. There are otherwise no functional changes.

Compiler

• Refactor proof-of-concept dependency graph construction code.
• Improvements to error abstraction which will later aid in reporting.

Miscellaneous

• RELEASES.md added.
• tools/mkrelease added to help automate updating RELEASES.md.
• build-aux/release-check added to check releases.
  • This is invoked both by tools/mkrelease and by CI via .gitlab-ci.yml on tags.

v17.4.0 (2020-04-17)

This release focuses on moving some code out of the existing XSLT-based compiler so that the functionality does not need to be re-implemented in TAMER. There are no user-facing changes aside form the introduction of two new templates, which are not yet expected to be used directly.

=tame-core=

• New rate-each template to replace XSLT template in compiler.
• New yields template to replace XSLT template in compiler.
• Users should continue to use rate-each and yields as before rather than invoking the new templates directly.
  • The intent is to remove the t namespace prefix in the future so that templates will be applied automatically.

Compiler

• XSLT-based compiler now emits t:rate-each in place of the previous XSLT template.
• XSLT-based compiler now emits t:yields in place of the previous XSLT template.