[X10-announce] X10 and X10DT versions 1.7.6 released

[David P G. <gr...@us...>]

We're happy to announce the version 1.7.6 of X10 and X10DT is now available
for download.  Details are available on the X10 1.7.6 Release page
(http://x10-lang.org/X10+1.7.6+Release).

Below is a summary of JIRA issues addressed for the X10 1.7.6 release.

** New Feature
    * [XTENLANG-514] - File.NativeFile is not implemented for C++ backend

** Improvement
    * [XTENLANG-443] - Implement all standard functions in x10.lang.Math
    * [XTENLANG-502] - indexOf(String) not currently implemented in String
API

** Bug
    * [XTENLANG-372] -  Static intialization of Distribution throws NPE
with x10c++
    * [XTENLANG-423] - static initialisers appear not to call parents
    * [XTENLANG-454] - Package names are not mangled when translating to C+
+
    * [XTENLANG-455] - Incorrect method resolution when overloading an
inherited generic instance method with a non-generic method
    * [XTENLANG-456] - Compilation errors when class name clashes with a
class in a library namespace
    * [XTENLANG-458] - Extending a generic class with a non-trivial
parameter causes a compilation error
    * [XTENLANG-459] - Using Console.OUT in places other than place 0
throws NullPointerException
    * [XTENLANG-461] - g++ 4.1 internal compiler error
    * [XTENLANG-462] - Calls to parenthesized closure literals are not
inlined
    * [XTENLANG-464] - Overriding _type() and calling className() causes
post-compilation errors.
    * [XTENLANG-468] - Apparently straight forward HashMap usage 'hangs'
x10 code
    * [XTENLANG-472] - do { ... } while(true) does not typecheck
    * [XTENLANG-473] - Invalid code generated for unboxing Box[T] in the
Java backend (where T is a generic type parameter)
    * [XTENLANG-477] - Double.parseDouble() always returns 0 with C++
backend
    * [XTENLANG-488] - isWhitespace() method creates compile error in C++
backend
    * [XTENLANG-493] - Non-integer const values are not initialized on all
active places
    * [XTENLANG-503] - x10.io.FileReader.close() and
x10.io.FileWriter.close() are unimplemented in the C++ backend.
    * [XTENLANG-506] - problem compiling classes with overloaded
constructors via c++ backend


For the details of JIRA issues fixed in this release, see
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XTENLANG/fixforversion/15422