GF 3.9 Release Notes

August 2017

Installation

What's new

The GF repository on GitHub is now our master source repository, not just a read-only mirror. Bug reports and feature requests can be submitted to the issue tracker, and we also accept pull requests.

Over 200 changes have been pushed to the source repository since the release of GF 3.8 in June 2016.

GF compiler and run-time library

New features and notable changes

Support for language-specific depencency configurations (in addition to abstract syntax based ones); see help vd in the GF shell
An experimental support for sentence lookup which makes it possible to find the sentence from the grammar that matches best a set of keywords. Right now it is usable only with controlled languages since it might be very innefficient for some grammars.
A new .NET binding for the GF runtime is available.
The API in the Java binding is extended and it covers more from the full functionality of the C runtime.

Changes of interest to compiler developers

The compiler source code has been updated for compatibility with GHC 8.2.1.

Resource Grammar Library

New languages:
- Icelandic
- Norwegian Nynorsk

API now usable for incomplete languages via Missing modules: implemented for Arabic and Latin.
Punctuation with BIND and SOFT_BIND tokens for a number of languages

Various fixes for several languages.
Various fixes in the translation dictionaries.

Apps and Cloud services

PGF service: support for language-specific depencency configurations in command=deptree.