Concert 8.8

• Remove char_to_int and replace with wchar_to_int in string library.
• Add wchar_to_int in string library.
• Add wchar_at in string library.

8.8.alpha notes:

• Add support for UTF-16 strings.
• Alpha release.

8.8.beta notes:

• Add support for UTF-16 strings.
• Fix broken constants found in 8.8.alpha.
• Improve reference counting for variables passed by reference.
• Add support for alternate pass by reference "&" syntax in detach keyword.
• Add support for alternate pass by reference "&" syntax in join keyword.
• Correct many memory leaks with ObjectStore.
• Correct many memory leaks with Var.
• Correct many memory leaks with VarStore.

8.8.rc notes:

• Add wchar_to_string in string library.
• Add open_byte_file in io library.
• Add write_wchar in io library.
• Add read_wchar in io library.

Concert 8.8.beta

• Add support for UTF-16 strings.
• Fix broken constants found in 8.8.alpha.
• Improve reference counting for variables passed by reference.
• Add support for alternate pass by reference "&" syntax in detach keyword.
• Add support for alternate pass by reference "&" syntax in join keyword.
• Correct many memory leaks with ObjectStore.
• Correct many memory leaks with Var.
• Correct many memory leaks with VarStore.
• Beta release.

Concert 8.8.alpha

• Add support for UTF-16 strings.
• Alpha release.

Concert 8.7

• Update to Concert version 8.7.
• Remove some debugging code from regex library.

Concert 8.6

• Bug fix for reassign keyword where data would be deleted multiple times.
• Add reference set implementation.

Concert 8.5

Concert 8.5 release.

• Fix a bug with parsing comments.

Concert 8.4

• Add new alias keyword for use with using keyword.
• Add new reassign keyword to allow for modification of data outside the current scope.
• Add special & character logic for as keyword in function definitions to pass arguments by reference.

Concert 8.3

• Improved flexibility with newline characters in source code.
• Ability to pass in objects using as keyword to functions.
• Ability to return objects using return keyword.

Concert 8.2

• Improve performance for long and integer computations.

Concert 8.1

• Add absolute value function to standard library.
• Add unsigned right shift operator.
• Add bitwise XOR assignment operator.
• Update binary ones complement operator and binary ones complement assignment operator.
• Fixed a bug with literal double value parsing.
• Add function to get current thread ID to standard library.
• Fix bug with executing empty file.