newLISP® v.10.7.1 Maintenance Release 2017-01-31

This stable release adds new functionality to existing functions, adds one new function and fixes bugs.

Additions and changes

• The now function on MS Windows, reports the type of daylight savings used in the GMT offset field.
• The new history functions reports the call history of a function.
• The maximum length of a symbol has been extended to 1022 characters from 255.
• When creating symbols with a hash functor an error message will be thrown on symbol strings longer 1022 characters.

Bug fixes

• The GMT offset field in the now function would report the wrong value when not in daylight savings time. This bug was introduced in 10.7.0 and did not exist before.
• On some platforms file positions went out of sync when using search, seek and read-line.
• mat with a scalar second argument was broken on 64-bit versions when the scalar parameter was not a float.
• fixed a problem in --, ++ when passing a nil argument which was not content of a symbol.

Compatibility with previous versions

This version is compatible with the previous version 10.7.0.