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work on release notes #5360

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17 changes: 11 additions & 6 deletions RELEASES.txt
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Expand Up @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Version 0.6 (March 2013)
* Remove `static` keyword
* Static method syntax
* `as Trait`
* `copy` removed?
* `copy` removed, replaced with `Clone`?
* `std::map` removed, replaced with `core::hashmap`

* Syntax changes
* The self type parameter in traits is now spelled `Self`
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* Trait implementations no longer support visibility modifiers

* Semantic changes
* Linear types move by default, eliminating the `move` keyword
* Types with owned pointers or custom destructors move by default,
eliminating the `move` keyword
* All foreign functions are considered unsafe
* &mut is now unaliasable
* Writes to borrowed @mut pointers are prevented dynamically
Expand All @@ -57,16 +59,19 @@ Version 0.6 (March 2013)
improve inference and eliminate unsoundness

* Libraries
* Lots of effort to organize the container API's around `core::container`
* `core::send_map` renamed to `core::hashmap`
* Added big integers to `std::bigint`
* Removed `core::oldcomm` module
* Added pipe-based `core::comm` module
* Reimplemented `std::treemap`
* Numeric traits have been reorganized under `core::num`
* `core::dvec` removed. Use `@mut ~[T]` or other language types
* `vec::slice` finally returns a slice
* `debug!` and friends don't require a format string, e.g. `debug!(Foo)`
* Containers reorganized around traits in `core::container`
* `core::dvec` removed, `~[T]` is a drop-in replacement
* `core::send_map` renamed to `core::hashmap`
* `std::treemap` reimplemented as an owned balanced tree
* `std::deque` and `std::smallintmap` reimplemented as owned containers
* `core::trie` added as a fast ordered map for integer keys
* Set types added to `core::hashmap`, `core::trie` and `std::treemap`

* Tools
* Replaced the 'cargo' package manager with 'rustpkg'
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