GF Version 3.4 Release Notes

January 2013

Installation

See the download page.

What's new

GF compiler and run-time library

• A new partial evaluator that should provide more efficient grammar complilation, and solve problems with stack overflows and overly long compilaton times for certain grammars.
• New options for visualization of parse trees with the shell command visualize_parse.
• alltenses is now part of the default search path, eliminating the need for -path=… flags in many cases.
• Various other small improvements and bug fixes.

Resource Grammar Library

• New languages in the Resource Grammar Library: Japanese, Chinese (complete); Maltese, Hebrew (partial). (see the updated synopsis).
• Improvements for other languages, e.g. Latvian.
• Large morphological dictionaries for German, Urdu.
• Updated web-based RGL browser (/lib/doc/browse/).

GF Cloud services

• A Simple Translation Tool (a bilingual document editor) has been added.
• A syntax tree editor has been added.
• Some new functionality in the web-based grammar editor, e.g. preliminary support for public grammars.
• Various other small improvements and bug fixes.