[Jython-checkins] CVS: htdocs NEWS.ht,1.7,1.8

[Finn B. <bc...@us...>]

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*** NEWS.ht	2001/01/18 09:48:23	1.7
--- NEWS.ht	2001/03/14 15:43:19	1.8
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  Jython NEWS
  
+ 14-mar-2001 Jython 2.1 alpha 1
+ 
+   New features.
+    - Improve speed when indexing a string and iterating over a string
+      in a for loop.
+    - Reworked coercing model (pep-0208)
+    - Added {}.popitem().
+    - Improved speed for python files by buffering the RandomAccessFile.
+    - Added function attributes (pep-0232)
+    - Rich comparison (pep-0207)
+    - Updated cPickle to handle CPython compatible unicode strings.
+    - Updated sre to CPython-2.1a1
+    - Added the "new" module
+    - Added a PyServlet class to the util package.
+    - Warning framework (pep-0230).
+    - Added sys.add_classdir and sys.add_extdir.
+    - Added nested scope to the interpreter (pep-0227).
+ 
+   Bug fixes.
+    - Allow self referencing adapters to be collected when using weak
+      tables.
+    - Added workaround for a reader bug in MRJ22Jitc.01.
+    - Fixes #127340 where serializable parameter received a PyObject
+      instead of the wrapped java object.
+    - Include a LineNumberTable in the compiled class files.
+    - Fixed a java version test bug in the installer.
+ 
  17-Jan-2001 Jython 2.0 final release