[changed]- add a "special exception" to gfxlib2 license to allow linking into executables under more relaxed terms (the same as the rtlib)
- -target option now accepts system triplets (known from gcc/binutils)
- By default even the non-standalone fbc is now relocatable and relies on exepath()
- fbc no longer includes full ldscripts, a supplemental snippet (fbextra.x) is passed to the linker instead (except for the DOS/DJGPP version which still relies on a modified ldscript)
- __FB_UNIX__ and __FB_PCOS__ now work like the other target defines (check via #ifdef)
- All cross-compilation targets are now always enabled in the compiler
- -o now also affects .rc and .xpm input files (useful to change the file names of the temporary objects)
- -o must now clearly be specified in front or behind of the corresponding input file, for example: "fbc 1.bas 2.bas -o 1.o -o 2.o" no longer works, but "fbc -o 1.o 1.bas" is possible now
- -x used with -lib now sets the library file name
- "No newline at end of file" warning removed
- 'PALETTE index, r, g, b' now uses 8-bit precision on each color value
- The __FB_MIN_VERSION__() macro is no longer changed to ____FB_MIN_VERSION__() for -lang qb
- SWAP no longer accepts function calls
- ImageCreate() and Reset(streamno) now set the runtime error code, which can be retrieved with Err()
- Allow CONST STRING parameters in string.bi/datetime.bi functions
- wstring Input is now subject to the same 4096 characters length limit like the normal [z]string Input
- #3492598: FB-only overloaded operators now use Itanium C++ ABI-compatible name mangling
- The bitwise NOT operator is now mangled as bitwise not ('~' in C++) instead of logical negation ('!' in C++)
- The '= ANY' intializer on variables or fields will now prevent the default constructor call (if any), instead of generating a warning message, requiring the variable or field to be initialized with an explicit constructor call. It still won't affect destructor calls though.
- #3051592: crt/errno.bi now uses __errno_location() to access errno on Linux
- The NAKED keyword is now disallowed under -gen gcc because gcc doesn't support naked functions on x86
- DELETE on something that's not a pointer now always triggers an error, not just a warning
- The -target option is no longer case-sensitive
- Linux standalone fbc won't try to use tools from PATH anymore
- PRINT USING now prints Inf/Nan/Ind values in the same style as QB, e.g. "1.#INF"
- PRINT USING now disallows commas between expressions (they had the same effect as semi-colons)

[added]- Single inheritance for classes: TYPE Child EXTENDS Parent
- BASE keyword for explicit base class access inside methods: BASE.member (as opposed to THIS.member)
- Runtime type information (RTTI) for classes extending other classes or the new builtin OBJECT class: IF variable IS SomeClass THEN ...
- THREADCALL keyword for starting functions in a new thread with parameters passed to them (requires libFFI)
- EVENT_MOUSE_HWHEEL for X11
- __DATE_ISO__ for returning the compile date in "yyyy-mm-dd" format
- fbc can now be built for installation into MinGW/DJGPP
- Support for windres instead of GoRC when installing into MinGW or cross-compiling from a non-win32 system
- The .def file generated when building a DLL is now preserved if -R was given
- 'fbc -static' option to tell the linker to link against static libraries if installed
- CONST may now be specified in front of the bodies of CONST methods, not just in the declaration, same as for STATIC
- "Real" Rnd() algorithm (activate via 'Randomize(, 5)') using Win32 Crypto APIs or Linux /dev/urandom
- New headers for many audio-related libraries (some experimental): libsndfile 1.0.X, libVLC 1.1.x, mpg123 library, MediaInfo, PortAudio, Flite 1.4, libmodplug 0.8.8.4
- New experimental X11 headers
- Updated headers for GNU gettext/libintl 0.17
- New algif and alpng headers for Allegro
- New header for the UUID library from e2fsprogs
- New headers for json-c
- New headers for the GNU dbm library
- acmStreamOpen() declaration to win/msacm.bi
- New header file: win/ddk/mmddk.bi
- New headers for compression and archive handling libraries: libzip 0.10, libbzip2 1.0.6, liblzma 5.0.2, zlib 1.2.6
- Updated headers for wx-c 0.9.2
- New headers for libjit 1.0.0 and libffi 3.0.10
- New headers for the Chipmunk 4.1.0 physics library
- Updated headers for CGUI 2.0.1
- New headers for IUP 3.5
- Updated header for SQLite3 3.7.8
- Updated headers for OpenAL 1.13 and ALUT 1.1.0
- Updated header for FreeImage 3.15.1
- Updated header for QuickLZ 1.50
- Updated header for PDcurses 3.4
- Updated header for libcaca 0.99 beta17
- Updated headers for OpenGL, including new freeglut headers
- Updated header for BASS 2.4
- Updated header for ODE 0.11.1
- Updated header for libcurl 7.24.0
- New header for SQLiteExtensions 3.6.23.1
- Updated headers for GTK+ 2.24 and 3.2.2, including gdk-pixbuf 2.25.0, gtkglext 1.2.0, ATK 1.33.6, Cairo 1.10.2, Pango 1.29.5, glib 2.31.4
- Updated header for Mini-XML 2.7 header update
- New header for ZeroMQ 2.1.10
- Updated header for cryptlib 3.4.1
- Wstrings are now allowed in Print Using
- Len(), Sizeof() and Typeof() can now be used on function calls and array accesses even if they have the same identifier as a type
- Same type/expression disambiguation for Peek/Poke as for Len/Sizeof/Typeof
- FIELD = N can now be used on nested anonymous TYPEs/UNIONs
- IIF()'s with constant conditions are now evaluated at compile-time
- Updated headers for PCRE library 8.31

[fixed]- Subtracting pointers from numbers, e.g. (i-p) was being allowed, rearranging to (p-i)
- FBC should give an error if EOF reached while parsing code inside an #IF block
- Possible crashes in Date(), Now(), FileDateTime() if the system time couldn't be interpreted
- #3398498: VA_NEXT() intrinsic macro now works with types that aren't a multiple of 4 bytes
- #3404250: *.a input files being wrongly passed to ld as -l*.a
- Compiler crash on 'cast(T ptr, 0)->x'
- #2828675: UDT fields not having tail padding (ABI now changed to match GCC)
- #3422768: pp under -gen gcc complaining about va_arg/va_next tokens even if not used as the actual macros
- #2188864: Compiler crash on out of memory
- #3453953: GOTO/GOSUB allowed keywords as labels
- The #LANG metacommand was not allowed in disabled preprocessor blocks
- -gen gcc crash on 'if funcptr then ...'
- #3441855: SWAP allowed incompatible data types
- #3465650: Compiler crash after showing error for using array element as FOR loop iterator
- #3434928: Incomplete null op optimization breaking assumptions made for conditional jumps
- #3320650: gfx functions didn't accept CONST source images (DRAW STRING font, PUT/GET/POINT() source)
- False positive syntax errors after '#ifdef namespaceid' (and also #ifndef, #undef and #if defined())
- #3446210: SELECT CASE leaking its temporary (w)string if not reaching END SELECT (e.g. EXIT FUNCTION from inside a CASE block)
- Temporarily reset console during Unix dylibload() and dylibfree(), to properly restore terminal state at exit
- VAR initialized from a STRING * N variable created a STRING * 0 instead of a dynamic STRING
- -gen gcc: abs(longint) was just abs(integer)
- 'PALETTE index, r, g, b' wasn't behaving as expected on some obscure SCREEN modes
- Built-in macros are now working in -lang qb (__RGB(), __BIT(), __ASSERT(), ...)
- ERASE crashed on arrays of UDTs with constructor but no destructor
- Internal compiler error in cases like: '*(@cast(ubyte, byte_var_or_array_element) + 1)'
- SWAP allowed [z|w]strings marked as CONST
- #3215431: SWAP on byte/short array elements could generate bad code
- SWAP on bitfields now works with -gen gcc (caused internal compiler error), and won't use extra temp vars anymore
- 'SWAP a, b' could produce different results than 'SWAP b, a'
- SWAP on operands with different sizes could generate bad code
- #2824381: UDTs with methods inside module-level scope blocks caused compiler crash instead of error message
- EDI/ESI registers could be used without being preserved, when clearing local UDTs/strings/arrays > 16 bytes or copying UDTs > 16 bytes. The bug showed up when other parts of the function used EDI/ESI too (for example "plongint [indexvar]= longintvar").
- Procedure pointers could be dereferenced using the '*' operator
- #3476028: SWAP/LET() assignments allowed modification of string literals/constants
- SWAP on strings failed/produced bad results when strings had different lengths
- #3476021: SWAP didn't clear fixed-length string remainders
- GFX_SHAPED_WINDOW didn't work properly on some modern Linux systems (thanks Sisophon2001 for the fix)
- Wrong error message when calling non-const method on const UDT
- Shell() on Unix didn't return the proper shell exit code
- Memory leak and possible race condition in console Line Input function
- Infinite loop in Line Input on files opened with Encoding when reaching EOF without newline
- Bsave()'s length parameter wasn't unsigned like in the gfxlib
- Win32 ScreenControl GET_WINDOW_POS with minimized window could cause it to be locked up that way
- "array too big for stack" warning was shown for static arrays
- ScreenRes was truncating the screen's text width/height (columns/rows) to 0..255, causing incorrect Print'ing or even a division-by-zero crash during Print
- C backend: gcc warnings about pointer assignments from BOPs
- C backend: compiler crash on circular dependency between UDT and function pointer typedef
- Buffer overflow in wstring Input
- Input to dereferenced wstring ptr wasn't reading in anything
- #3510684: Array descriptors for arrays declared inside Extern blocks weren't always given an alias name, causing the mangled name for emitting to be wrong (under C++ mangling) or empty (under all other non-default manglings)
- #3496522: crt/sys/linux/types.bi contained wrong typedefs (int64_t being just integer etc.)
- Missing GET/PUT "UDT with var-len fields" warning when nested UDT fields had var-len fields
- GLUT/Windows headers compatibility issues
- win/commctrl.bi: TabCtrl_AdjustRect() and TabCtrl_SetImageList()
- win/winsock[2].bi: FD_CLR() macros were broken
- C backend: procedures using Pascal were treated as Cdecl
- C backend: Missing padding elements in multi-dimensional global array initializers
- C backend: didn't allow float-to-Long/Ulong casts
- C backend: float to uinteger conversions truncated to integer
- C backend: The 'as any ptr' overloads of bin/oct/hex didn't work unless the 'as integer' versions were used in the same module
- Wrong declarations of some the built-in wbin(), bin(), woct() overloads
- Buffer overflow in wbin()
- C backend: Pointer fields pointing to the parent UDT itself were always emitted as having a single PTR only, even if it was a PTR PTR etc.
- C backend: Taking address of module-level labels was broken (used by module-level error handling code)
- C backend: Wstring literals outside variable initializers were emitted assuming sizeof(wstring) = 2, causing buffer overflows on Linux (where sizeof(wstring) = 4)
- C backend: wchar type didn't match gcc's, breaking global fixed-length wstring initializers
- Unused bits (padding) in UDTs with bitfields could be left uninitialized by type initializers
- C backend #3421351: Wrong code for bitfield assignment when the target bitfield expression had nested field accesses
- #3509495: Delete[] on derived UDTs with destructors caused a compiler crash
- Overload resolution treated pointer arguments as uintegers, allowing them to match integer parameters
- Any Ptr arguments were seen as ambiguous even if there was a fully matching overload
- #3479361: Derived UDTs were allowed to access their base UDT's private fields
- Local arrays in methods didn't have access to private/protected destructors
- 'LET(fields...) = UDT' in methods didn't have access to private/protected fields
- Access to member constants wasn't always checking visibility
- ERASE and field declarations didn't check c/dtor visibility
- #3490779: -exx and -profile broke Naked procedures due to implicit RTL calls; now no more implicit code will be added (this change affects error handling/profiling calls for naked procedures, and member constructor/destructor calls in naked constructors/destructors)
- Compiler crash on naked constructors/destructors
- Early return from an UDT destructor prevented destruction of the UDT's fields
- #3489950: BASE() disabled implicit field construction and vtbl pointer setup in constructors
- #3479349: No error was shown when a constructor couldn't initialize the base UDT (i.e. when the base UDT didn't have a default constructor and there was no BASE() used either)
- #3479355: POD base UDTs weren't cleared by constructors
- #3474348: Multiple REDIMs on COMMON array were disallowed
- #3344224: Copy constructor, Let operator and destructor were added to UDTs having field initializers but no complex fields
- Implicit default and copy constructors (and also a Let overload and a destructor, if needed) will now be generated for derived UDTs which don't have either of them yet, if their base has a default constructor. If it has only non-default constructors, an error will be shown.
- Derived UDT constructors could implicitly use their base UDT's private default constructor
- #3372520, C backend: Buggy type initialization through pointers (i.e. NEW)
- #2855461: REDIM/ERASE on an array of UDT objects with non-parameterless default constructor was allowed, causing junk to be passed to the constructor parameters as the rtlib's REDIM implementation doesn't expect having to pass arguments
- ERASE could be used on an array of UDT objects with only non-default constructor
- EXTERN declarations of UDT variables with only non-default constructor caused an error
- Possible compiler crash when invoking variadic macro without specifying any argument text for the vararg ("...") parameter
- Macro arguments can now be completely empty (no space required anymore to get it to work)
- C backend: global constructor/destructor priorities were not emitted
- Win32: incorrect Inkey() values for Alt-7/Alt-8 (Thanks to DodgeRules for find/fix)
- Mismatched parentheses in various translated headers
- Concatenations could fail on some combinations of const/non-const and string/wstring operands
- Concatenations involving const strings could return const results, which could prevent them being passed to functions
- Some incorrect definitions/constants in commctrl.bi (thanks to VANYA for fix)
- The Unix rtlib initialization code could start waiting for a response from the terminal without ensuring to have sent the escape sequence first (missing fflush(stdout)), thus blocking on the stdin read until some other input arrived (e.g. pressing ENTER)