This Changelog file is deprecated. Look at the [newsletter](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nitlanguage) for redacted informations or the commits log for fine-grained details. version 0.6.1-git * Devel version version 0.6 * New metamodel * New tools (nit, nitg, nitmetrics) * Improved nitdoc featuring wikidoc * Multi-line litteral strings (triple-quoted strings) * New foreign function interface * New libraries (especially using FFI) * Lot of fixes and improvements -- Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:44:33 -0400 version 0.5 * General 'for' that works with more that one automatic variable (eg. Map) * Better error messages with colored location on the original line * Better compatibility with cc on various unixes (from SunOS to Ubuntu) * New class_name method to ease debugging (for those who debug with print) * Hardened Virtual Type checks (but generics are still unsafe...) * New nitdoc, more fancy and more readable * New native interface to bind Nit and C code * New tool, nits, the native interface stub generator * Many improvements in the standard library (especially Map) -- Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:46:45 -0400 version 0.4 * New style attributes * Documentation * 'package' -> 'module'; 'special' -> 'super'; 'universal' -> 'enum' * New 'or else' syntax * Speed improvements * Use of ccache * Global nullable optimizations * Better adaptive typing * Unreachable statements are errors * Rewriting of the CG -- Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:15:17 -0500 version 0.3 * Local variable moving static type * Nullable types * New 'assert...else', 'isset', 'loop', 'label' syntax constructions * (Re)Rename 'meth' to 'fun' and 'attr' to 'var' * New closure syntax * Syntax coloration for vim, gtksourceview and GNU source-highlight * nitc/nitdoc --verbose option * Intermediate code representation * Native Nit GC * 'for x in coll' is a closure call -- Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:04:25 -0400 version 0.2.1 * Readonly Strings and new class 'Buffer' -- Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:04:55 -0400 version 0.2 * Automatic constructors * Closures * Last Mercurial changeset, now we uses Git -- Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:00:12 -0500 version 0.1 * First release under the Nit name. -- Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:24:55 -0400