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From: Peter Andersen <pa-nospam@mjolner.com>
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Subject: Release 5.2.2 of the Mj=?ISO-8859-1?B?+A==?=lner System available
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:19:57 +0200
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Release 5.2.2 of the Mjølner System for programming in the object-oriented
programming language BETA is now available for free download.
The system is available for
  - Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP using either GNU SDK (included in package)
    or Microsoft SDK (MS Visual C++ 6.0)
  - Linux x86
  - Macintosh MacOS 8.5-9.x, PowerPC
  - SUN Solaris 2.7 or later, SPARC

It can be downloaded from
   http://www.mjolner.com/mjolner-system/download_en.php

Release 5.2.2 is primarily a bug fix release with numerous small bug
fixes and improvements all around the system.
A few new features is included, though:

- GUI environment demo cleanup (ongoing process)
  - "Periodic" demo showing different GUI demos in separate Tabs
     - TreeView
     - TableView (Rows and Columns)
     - Icons & cursors
     - Tooltips
     - Tabs
     - Scroller
    More of the demos are expected to be integrated into this
    structure in a later release.
    The source of each Tab is placed in a separate sub directory.

- Mjolner Tool:
  - Improved stability
  - Menu shortcut clean up - now more according to standards
  - Ability to open and browse a dump file from a crashed program
    ("post mortem debugging").

- XML support
  - Interface to "expat" XML parser added

- Oracle interface
  - Native (non-odbc) interface to Oracle databases added

- PNG support 
  - All platforms now use PNG as the native Pixmap format.

For more general information on the Mjølner System see
   http://www.mjolner.com/mjolner-system/


This release is the last release for classic Macintosh (MacOS 8.5 -
9.x). Development of a MacOSX version has been initiated, but no plans
exists for a release date.

Notice that Hewlett-Packard HP-PA and Silicon Graphics MIPS platforms
are no longer supported.

For linux, this release fixes the bug reported by several people, that
programs compiled from BETA on a linux box with binutils 2.11 installed
will crash immediately when executed. This is was due to a binary
inompatibility between the object files generated by previous BETA
compilers and binutils 2.11.

-- 

Sincerely,

Peter Andersen, Mjolner Informatics