Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Dear D community 

A new version of Tango is now available for download. The release is named 
after Sean Kelly for his past work on the Tango runtime and now druntime. 
The release have several new features, and fairly major changes to tie the 
IO even closer together. To make the transition easier, the previous 
incarnation is still available for this release.
 
This has been a much delayed release compared to the earlier Tango releases, 
but time has been spent fairly well, covering 301 closed tickets and more 
than 600 commits. 

 * Final refinement of the IO 
 * JSON parser/builder 
 * FTP adapter for the VFS by Lester L. Martin II 
 * Serial port support by Robin Kreis 
 * Inter-thread communication by Steven Schveighoffer 
 * /dev/null support by Fawzi Mohamed 
 * Random framework by same Fawzi 
 * BigInt by Don Clugston 
 * Updated for DMD 1.041, including Mac support 
 * Support for LDC 
 * OpenSolaris support by BlueZeniX 
 * New API docs courtesy of Aziz and Moritz 
 * More containers such as HashFile 
 
For a complete list of changes please see the changelog. We welcome all 
feedback and testing. 

We're in the process of updating to new API docs as mentioned above, now 
generated by dil. You can see the docs for 0.99.8 at 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/0.99.8 or later download them 
from via the download pages.

We are always looking for new participants, so feel free to contact us via 
the page linked below. In particular, we are looking for someone to help 
drive the online presence via our Trac pages. 

The Tango homepage can be found at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango 

Downloads: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Download 

See http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TopicInstallTango for more 
detailed installation instructions for your system. 

Contact information at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contact 
 
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Signed, 

The Tango Team