Merge branch 'devel' into bigbreak

Conflicts:
	web/news.txt

web/news.txt

@@ -13,16 +13,6 @@ News
     prevent name conflicts with the new type ``FileHandle``.
   - Comments are now not part of the AST, as such you cannot use them in place
     of ``discard``.
-  - The ``irc`` module has been moved into its own
-    `repository <https://github.com/nimrod-code/irc>`_
-    and is now a Nimble package.
-  - Many wrappers have been moved into their own repositories and are now
-    Nimble packages including ``lua``, ``opengl``, ``x11``, ``nim-zmq``,
-    ``gtk2``, ``mongo``, ``cairo``, ``tcl``, ``python`` and 
-    `more <https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/issues/623>`_. They can be
-    found under the `nim-code <https://github.com/nimrod-code>`_ organisation.
-  - Removed the deprecated ``web`` module, the ``httpclient`` module should
-    be used instead.
   - Large parts of the stdlib got rid of the T/P type prefixes. Instead most
     types now simply start with an uppercased letter. The
     so called "partial case sensitivity" is now active allowing for code
@@ -63,7 +53,7 @@ News
 2014-10-19 Nimrod version 0.9.6 released
 ========================================
 
-**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language has been renamed to
+**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to
 Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.**
 
 This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has
@@ -95,13 +85,20 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility
   will disappear soon!
 
 
+Compiler improvements
+---------------------
+
+- Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for
+  pathological cases.
+
+
 Language Additions
 ------------------
 
-- This version introduces the new ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used
+- This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used
   to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames.
-- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a flow
-  variable of the wrapped return type.
+- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data
+  flow variable of the wrapped return type.
 
 
 Library Additions