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* version 0.55
	* New PCRE vesion (4.3)
	* New primitive: COPY-FILE
	* Bug corrections	

* version 0.54
  	* Evaluation of parameters is now from left to right rather
  	  than the opposite. 
  	* New primitives: PORT-IDLE-REGISTER!,	PORT-IDLE-UNREGISTER!,
  	  PORT-IDLE-RESET!, GLOB, CANONICAL-PATH-NAME,
  	  EXPAND-FILE-NAME, BASENAME, DIRNAME, DECOMPOSE-FILE-NAME
	* Socket Support
	* Added support for SRFI-23 (Error)
	* Added support for SRFI-30 (Nested comments)
	* Added support for SRFI-31 (REC form)
	* Changed the Boehm GC version to 6.1
	* Code cleaning (again) to be accepted by gcc-3.x
  	* New Ports: Solaris, Win32, Mac OS X
	* Bug corrections
	* ...
  Supported SRFIs: 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 22, 23, 28,
  	  30, 31

* version 0.53
	* Added support for SRFI-7
	* Added support for SRFI-11
	* Added support for SRFI-14
	* Added support for SRFI-28
	* Better LDAP support
	* Added PRETTY-PRINTER
	* Added TRACE 
	* Added APROPOS
	* A bunch of new primitives: DIE, PAIR-MUTABLE?,
	  VECTOR-MUTABLE?, STRING-MUTABLE?, STRING-TITLECASE,
	  STRING-TITLECASE!, SYMBOL-VALUE*
	* New syntax: IN-MODULE
	* Changed the Boehm GC version to 6.1 alpha5 
	* Code cleaning to be accepted by gcc-3.x
	* Bug corrections
	* ...

  Supported SRFIs: 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 22, 28

* version 0.52
	* Compiler has been rewritten and deliver code which is more
          efficient
	* New command 'compile-file' to	compile a stklos file to byte-codes
	* Complete rewriting of GTklos (support of GTK+ in STklos)
	  - the rewriting is still incomplete and needs some work
	  - support of the Canvas widget (nearly completely finished)
	  - more general event management
	* All the demos have been rewritten
	* Better error reporting 
	* Errors can now be browsed with Emacs next-error previous-error
	* Added support for SRFI-2
	* Added support for SRFI-4
	* Added support for SRFI-8
	* Added support for SRFI-9
	* Added support for SRFI-22
	* new option: "--no-init-file"
	* Added bitwise operations on bignums
	* Virtual slots can now have an initial value
	* New primitives: KEY-DELETE!, KEY-DELETE, PROGRAM-NAME, 
	  PORT-FILE-NAME, FULL-CURRENT-TIME, SECONDS->DATE
	* Added the Bigloo MATCH-CASE and MATCH-LAMBDA 
	* New form PARSE-ARGUMENTS to simplify argument parsing
	* Better support of dynamic loading.
	* Minimal support of LDAP. 
	* Support of active-slots (as in old STk)
	* PCRE package used is now 3.7
	* GC package used is now 6.0
	* More documentation
	* There are now man pages for stklos and utilities
	* Many small improvements
	* Bug corrections
	* ...

* Version 0.51
	* Added R5RS hygienic macros
	* Added compatibility with the Aubrey Jaffer's SLIB
	* New port on Alpha/Linux
	* Added SRFI 0
	* Added SRFI 1
	* Some parts of the VM have been rewritten to integrate full CALL/CC 
	  (not yet finished)
	* New primitives: CURRENT-TIME, RUNNING-OS, FIND-PATH, CALL/EC,
	  LOAD-PATH, SET-LOAD-PATH!, LOAD-SUFFIXES and SET-LOAD-SUFFIXES!
	* Exact reals can be read now (e.g #e3.14 => 157/50)
	* New demo: edit.stk
	* Bug corrections 

* Version 0.50 (released on 2001-01-17)

	* First public release
