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+Release Notes
+=============
+
+A summary of recent releases is described below. A more detailed description
+is available in the CHANGES.current and CHANGES files.
+
+SWIG-1.3.40 summary:
+- SWIG now supports directors for PHP.
+- PHP support improved in general.
+- Octave 3.2 support added.
+- Various bug fixes/enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, Java, Octave, Perl,
+  Python, Ruby and Tcl.
+- Other generic fixes and minor new features.
+
+SWIG-1.3.39 summary:
+- Some new small feature enhancements.
+- Improved C# std::vector wrappers.
+- Bug fixes: mainly Python, but also Perl, MzScheme, CFFI, Allegrocl 
+  and Ruby
+
+SWIG-1.3.38 summary:
+- Output directory regression fix and other minor bug fixes
+
+SWIG-1.3.37 summary:
+- Python 3 support added
+- SWIG now ships with a version of ccache that can be used with SWIG.
+  This enables the files generated by SWIG to be cached so that repeated
+  use of SWIG on unchanged input files speeds up builds quite considerably.
+- PHP 4 support removed and PHP support improved in general
+- Improved C# array support
+- Numerous Allegro CL improvements
+- Bug fixes/enhancements for Python, PHP, Java, C#, Chicken, Allegro CL,
+  CFFI, Ruby, Tcl, Perl, R, Lua.
+- Other minor generic bug fixes and enhancements
+
+SWIG-1.3.36 summary:
+- Enhancement to directors to wrap all protected members
+- Optimisation feature for objects returned by value
+- A few bugs fixes in the PHP, Java, Ruby, R, C#, Python, Lua and 
+  Perl modules
+- Other minor generic bug fixes
+
+SWIG-1.3.35 summary:
+- Octave language module added
+- Bug fixes in Python, Lua, Java, C#, Perl modules
+- A few other generic bugs and runtime assertions fixed
+
+SWIG-1.3.34 summary:
+- shared_ptr support for Python
+- Support for latest R - version 2.6
+- Various minor improvements/bug fixes for R, Lua, Python, Java, C#
+- A few other generic bug fixes, mainly for templates and using statements
+
+SWIG-1.3.33 summary:
+- Fix regression for Perl where C++ wrappers would not compile
+- Fix regression parsing macros
+
+SWIG-1.3.32 summary:
+- shared_ptr support for Java and C#
+- Enhanced STL support for Ruby
+- Windows support for R
+- Fixed long-standing memory leak in PHP Module
+- Numerous fixes and minor enhancements for Allegrocl, C#, cffi, Chicken, Guile,
+  Java, Lua, Ocaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl.
+- Improved warning support
+
+SWIG-1.3.31 summary:
+- Python modern classes regression fix
+
+SWIG-1.3.30 summary:
+- Python-2.5 support
+- New language module: R
+- Director support added for C#
+- Numerous director fixes and improvements
+- Improved mingw/msys support
+- Better constants support in Guile and chicken modules
+- Support for generating PHP5 class wrappers
+- Important Java premature garbage collection fix
+- Minor improvements/fixes in cffi, php, allegrocl, perl, chicken, lua, ruby,
+  ocaml, python, java, c# and guile language modules
+- Many many other bug fixes
+
+SWIG-1.3.29 summary:
+- Numerous important bug fixes
+- Few minor new features
+- Some performance improvements in generated code for Python
+
+SWIG-1.3.28 summary:
+- More powerful renaming (%rename) capability.
+- More user friendly warning handling.
+- Add finer control for default constructors and destructors. We discourage
+  the use of the 'nodefault' option, which disables both constructors and
+  destructors, leading to possible memory leaks. Use instead 'nodefaultctor'
+  and/or 'nodefaultdtor'.
+- Automatic copy constructor wrapper generation via the 'copyctor' option/feature.
+- Better handling of Windows extensions and types.
+- Better runtime error reporting.
+- Add the %catches directive to catch and dispatch exceptions.
+- Add the %naturalvar directive for more 'natural' variable wrapping.
+- Better default handling of std::string variables using the %naturalvar directive.
+- Add the %allowexcept and %exceptionvar directives to handle exceptions when
+  accessing a variable.
+- Add the %delobject directive to mark methods that act like destructors.
+- Add the -fastdispatch option to enable smaller and faster overload dispatch
+  mechanism.
+- Template support for %rename, %feature and %typemap improved.
+- Add/doc more debug options, such as -dump_module, -debug_typemaps, etc.
+- Unified typemap library (UTL) potentially providing core typemaps for all
+  scripting languages based on the recently evolving Python typemaps.
+- New language module: Common Lisp with CFFI.
+- Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl use the new UTL, many old reported and hidden 
+  errors with typemaps are now fixed.
+- Initial Java support for languages using the UTL via GCJ, you can now use 
+  Java libraries in your favorite script language using gcj + swig.
+- Tcl support for std::wstring.
+- PHP4 module update, many error fixes and actively maintained again.
+- Allegrocl support for C++, also enhanced C support.
+- Ruby support for bang methods.
+- Ruby support for user classes as native exceptions.
+- Perl improved dispatching in overloaded functions via the new cast and rank
+  mechanism.
+- Perl improved backward compatibility, 5.004 and later tested and working.
+- Python improved backward compatibility, 1.5.2 and later tested and working.
+- Python can use the same cast/rank mechanism via the -castmode option.
+- Python implicit conversion mechanism similar to C++, via the %implicitconv
+  directive (replaces and improves the implicit.i library). 
+- Python threading support added.
+- Python STL support improved, iterators are supported and STL containers can
+  use now the native PyObject type.
+- Python many performance options and improvements, try the -O option to test
+  all of them. Python runtime benchmarks show up to 20 times better performance
+  compared to 1.3.27 and older versions.
+- Python support for 'multi-inheritance' on the python side.
+- Python simplified proxy classes, now swig doesn't need to generate the
+  additional 'ClassPtr' classes.
+- Python extended support for smart pointers.
+- Python better support for static member variables.
+- Python backward compatibility improved, many projects that used to work
+  only with  swig-1.3.21 to swig-1.3.24 are working again with swig-1.3.28
+- Python test-suite is now 'valgrinded' before release, and swig also
+  reports memory leaks due to missing destructors.
+- Minor bug fixes and improvements to the Lua, Ruby, Java, C#, Python, Guile,
+  Chicken, Tcl and Perl modules.
+
+SWIG-1.3.27 summary:
+- Fix bug in anonymous typedef structures which was leading to strange behaviour
+
+SWIG-1.3.26 summary:
+- New language modules: Lua, CLISP and Common Lisp with UFFI.
+- Big overhaul to the PHP module.
+- Change to the way 'extern' is handled.
+- Minor bug fixes specific to  C#, Java, Modula3, Ocaml, Allegro CL,
+  XML, Lisp s-expressions, Tcl, Ruby and Python modules.
+- Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
+
+SWIG-1.3.25 summary:
+- Improved runtime type system.  Speed of module loading improved in
+  modules with lots of types.  SWIG_RUNTIME_VERSION has been increased
+  from 1 to 2, but the API is exactly the same; only internal changes
+  were made.
+- The languages that use the runtime type system now support external
+  access to the runtime type system.
+- Various improvements with typemaps and template handling.
+- Fewer warnings in generated code.
+- Improved colour documentation.
+- Many C# module improvements (exception handling, prevention of early
+  garbage collection, C# attributes support added, more flexible type
+  marshalling/asymmetric types.)
+- Minor improvements and bug fixes specific to the C#, Java, TCL, Guile,
+  Chicken, MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and Ocaml modules).
+- Various other bug fixes and memory leak fixes.
+
+SWIG-1.3.24 summary:
+- Improved enum handling
+- More runtime library options
+- More bugs fixes for templates and template default arguments, directors
+  and other areas.
+- Better smart pointer support, including data members, static members
+  and %extend.
+
+SWIG-1.3.23 summary:
+- Improved support for callbacks
+- Python docstring support and better error handling
+- C++ default argument support for Java and C# added.
+- Improved c++ default argument support for the scripting languages plus
+  option to use original (compact) default arguments.
+- %feature and %ignore/%rename bug fixes and mods - they might need default
+  arguments specified to maintain compatible behaviour when using the new
+  default arguments wrapping.
+- Runtime library changes: Runtime code can now exist in more than one module
+  and so need not be compiled into just one module
+- Further improved support for templates and namespaces
+- Overloaded templated function support added
+- More powerful default typemaps (mixed default typemaps)
+- Some important %extend and director code bug fixes
+- Guile now defaults to using SCM API.  The old interface can be obtained by
+  the -gh option.
+- Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, 
+  MzScheme, Perl, Python and Ruby
+- Improved dependencies generation for constructing Makefiles.
+
+SWIG-1.3.22 summary:
+- Improved exception handling and translation of C errors or C++
+  exceptions into target language exceptions.
+- Improved enum support, mapping to built-in Java 1.5 enums and C#
+  enums or the typesafe enum pattern for these two languages.
+- Python - much better STL suppport and support for std::wstring,
+  wchar_t and FILE *.
+- Initial support for Modula3 and Allegro CL.
+- 64 bit TCL support.
+- Java and C#'s proxy classes are now nearly 100% generated from
+  typemaps and/or features for finer control on the generated code.
+- SWIG runtime library support deprecation.
+- Improved documentation. SWIG now additionally provides documentation
+  in the form of a single HTML page as well as a pdf document.
+- Enhanced C++ friend declaration support.
+- Better support for reference counted classes.
+- Various %fragment improvements.
+- RPM fixes.
+- Various minor improvements and bug fixes for C#, Chicken, Guile, Java, 
+  MzScheme, Perl, Php, Python, Ruby and XML.
+
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