[cffi-devel] CFFI 0.10.0 released!

[Luis Oliveira]

Hello,

It's been a while since CFFI's previous release, almost two
years. During this period, a lot of development work happened and lots
of cool new features were implemented. Here's a brief highlight of some
of the important changes:

    * foreign string encodings using Babel. UTF-8 becomes the default
      encoding for foreign strings.

    * improved foreign type system that takes better advantage of CLOS
      features.

    * emulated :long-long types on Lisps whose native FFI doesn't
      support these types.

    * integrated a groveller inspired by SBCL's sb-grovel.

    * support for the stdcall calling convention.

    * removed finalizer-related code in favor of trivial-garbage.

    * function and variable lookups can now be linked to a specific
      foreign library instead of assuming a global namespace.

    * the cffi-features package has been deprecated in favour of
      trivial-features. CFFI-specific features are now interned in the
      CFFI-SYS package.

    * dozens of bug fixes and minor enhancements.


The long hiatus between releases caused all sorts of problems and
confusions. Hopefully that won't happen again and you'll see more
frequent CFFI releases in the future.

-- 
Luís Oliveira
http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/