Dear Community,

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Next Scripting
Framework (NSF) 2.2.0.

This is a maintenance release. Since the release of 2.1.0, ...

Diff stats since 2.1.0:
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Major changes relative to 2.1.0 are:

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New Features

- NSF:

  * NsfHasTclSpace


- NX:

  * Improvements to incremental property methods: value=add and
    value=delete

  * Improvements to ensemble methods:
    + Fix ensemble-method dispatch via colon dispatcher
    + [current nextmethod] + [current isnextcall]

  * Documentation (API and examples):

    + Added

    ...
    
    + Updated

    ...

- XOTcl2:

  ...

- MongoDB interface upgrade:

  * Upgraded driver and utilities to mongodb-c-driver 1.9.3 and libbson 1.9.3.

  * Add regular expression queries to conditions in nx::mongo

- Documentation:

  * Added tutorials on NX properties: tutorial-properties.tcl
  * Improved spelling: next-migration.txt, ...
  
- Maintenance & bug fixes:

  * 

  * Tcl 8.7:

    Preliminary support for a future Tcl 8.7 (as of Dec 2, 2016;
    commit 71fa1f9c91). NSF compiles under 8.7a0 and its regression
    tests execute successfully.

  * Misc (esp. NSF/C):

    + Reduced memory consumption via better member aligning of
    structs, esp. on 64-bit machines.
    + Bug fix: Avoid preemptive frees on %proc subsitution for
    forwarder methods.

  * New configure option: "--enable-development=test"

  * Extended regression test suite:
    The test suite contains (for Tcl 8.6.8) now xxxx tests.

- Packaging & distribution:

  * Initial support for the new nmake system of TEA (TIP 477) and MSVC
    1914 (VS 2017; win/makefile.vc); various fixes to install target.

The detailed changelog is available at
https://next-scripting.org/xowiki/download/file/ChangeLog-2.1.0-2.2.0.log

The Next Scripting Framework 2.2.0 (containing NX 2.2.0 and XOTcl
2.2.0) can be obtained from https://next-scripting.org/. Please report
issues and wishes by opening a ticket at
https://sourceforge.net/p/next-scripting/tickets/.

Best regards
- Gustaf Neumann
- Stefan Sobernig