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SWIG-3.0.10 released

William Fulton — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 09:02:24 -0000

This release fixes a couple of important regressions in SWIG-3.0.9 for smart pointers and importing Python modules.

SWIG-3.0.9 released

William Fulton — Sun, 29 May 2016 14:29:47 -0000

Summary of changes in SWIG-3.0.9

Add support for Python's implicit namespace packages.
Fixes to support Go 1.6.
C++11 std::array support added for Java.
Improved C++ multiple inheritance support for Java/C# wrappers.
Various other minor fixes and improvements for C#, D, Go, Java, Javascript, Lua, Python, R, Ruby, Scilab.

SWIG-3.0.8 released

William Fulton — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 18:18:47 -0000

SWIG-3.0.8 summary:
- pdf documentation enhancements.
- Various Python 3.5 issues fixed.
- std::array support added for Ruby and Python.
- shared_ptr support added for Ruby.
- Minor improvements for CFFI, Go, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby.

SWIG-3.0.7 released

William Fulton — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:22:55 -0000

SWIG-3.0.7 release summary:
Add support for Octave-4.0.0.
Remove potential Android security exploit in generated Java classes.
* Minor new features and bug fixes.

SWIG-3.0.6 released

William Fulton — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 21:35:31 -0000

SWIG-3.0.6 is mostly a stability release.

Release summary:
- Stability and regression fixes.
- Fixed parsing of C++ corner cases.
- Language improvements and bug fixes for C#, Go, Java, Lua, Python, R.

Defending the GPL

William Fulton — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:35:29 -0000

SWIG is a proud member of the Software Freedom Conservancy who has recently announced that they will be supporting a lawsuit to defend an alleged violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Ensuring this software license, the same one that protects the SWIG source code, is not abused and is actively defended in a court of law is important for everyone using the license.

Conservancy is supporting Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware over GPL violations on Linux. VMware have stated that they would not comply with the GPL after many patient years of negotiations by Christoph and the Conservancy. More information is in the Conservancy's FAQ on the lawsuit.

If you have benefited or enjoyed the fruits of SWIG, it is because the SWIG developer's chose to use a software license to ensure it remains freely available. Please consider supporting Christoph and Conservancy including their fund raising appeal to defend our license.

William Fulton
SWIG lead maintainer

SWIG-3.0.5 released

William Fulton — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:31:02 -0000

We are pleased to announce SWIG-3.0.5 has been released with the addition of support for Scilab.

This version also contains:

An important Python fix for a regression in SWIG-3.0.3 when wrapping C++ default arguments.
Minor improvements for C#, Go, Octave, PHP and Python.

SWIG-3.0.4 was also released recently and contained part of the Python fix for the regression mentioned above. Python users should definitely rather use 3.0.5.

SWIG-3.0.3 released

William Fulton — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 01:10:32 -0000

SWIG-3.0.3 release summary:
- Add support for C++11 strongly typed enumerations.
- Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements for C#, D, Go, Java,
Javascript, PHP, Perl and Python wrappers.

More detailed release notes can be seen at http://swig.org/release.html

SWIG-3.0.2 released

William Fulton — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:08:56 -0000

This release has been made to fix a bug during installation, but it also includes a couple of other rather minor changes.

SWIG-3.0.1 released

William Fulton — Tue, 27 May 2014 23:14:11 -0000

SWIG-3.0.1 is another milestone release as it is the first version to contain support for Javascript.

Release summary:

Javascript module added. This supports JavascriptCore (Safari/Webkit), v8 (Chromium) and node.js currently.
A few notable regressions introduced in 3.0.0 have been fixed - in Lua, nested classes and parsing of operator <<.
The usual round of bug fixes and minor improvements for C#, GCJ, Go, Java, Lua, PHP and Python.