GF 3.11 Release Notes

25 July 2021

Installation

See the download page.

What's new

From this release, the binary GF core packages do not contain the RGL. The RGL's release cycle is now completely separate from GF's. See RGL releases.

Over 500 changes have been pushed to GF core since the release of GF 3.10 in December 2018.

General

• Make the test suite work again.
• Compatibility with new versions of GHC, including multiple Stack files for the different versions.
• Support for newer version of Ubuntu 20.04 in the precompiled binaries.
• Updates to build scripts and CI workflows.
• Bug fixes and code cleanup.

GF compiler and run-time library

• Add CoNLL output to visualize_tree shell command.
• Add canonical GF as output format in the compiler.
• Add PGF JSON as output format in the compiler.
• Deprecate JavaScript runtime in favour of updated TypeScript runtime.
• Improvements in time & space requirements when compiling certain grammars.
• Improvements to Haskell export.
• Improvements to the GF shell.
• Improvements to canonical GF compilation.
• Improvements to the C runtime.
• Improvements to gf -server mode.
• Clearer compiler error messages.

Other

• Web page and documentation improvements.
• Add WordNet module to GFSE.