Merge branch 'devel' into feature/3691

web/community.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Nim's Community
   Forum
   -----
 
-  The `Nim forum <http://forum.nim-lang.org/>`_ is the place where most
+  The `Nim forum <https://forum.nim-lang.org/>`_ is the place where most
   discussions related to the language happen. It not only includes discussions
   relating to the design of Nim but also allows for beginners to ask questions
   relating to Nim.
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Nim's Community
   welcome any questions that you may have!
 
   You may also be interested in reading the
-  `IRC logs <http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/>`_ which are an archive of all
+  `IRC logs <https://irclogs.nim-lang.org/>`_ which are an archive of all
   of the previous discussions that took place in the IRC channel.
 
 

web/download.rst

@@ -16,8 +16,14 @@ We now encourage you to install via the provided zipfiles:
 * | 64 bit: `nim-0.16.0_x64.zip <download/nim-0.16.0_x64.zip>`_
   | SHA-256  e667cdad1ae8e9429147aea5031fa8a80c4ccef6d274cec0e9480252d9c3168c
 
-Unzip these where you want and optionally run ``finish.exe`` to
-detect your MingW environment.
+Unzip these where you want and **optionally** run ``finish.exe`` to
+detect your MingW environment. (Though that's not reliable yet.)
+
+You can find the required DLLs here, if you lack them for some reason:
+
+* | 32 and 64 bit: `DLLs.zip <download/dlls.zip>`_
+  | SHA-256  198112d3d6dc74d7964ba452158d44bfa57adef4dc47be8c39903f2a24e4a555
+
 
 Exes
 %%%%

web/news/e031_version_0_16_2.rst

@@ -41,3 +41,69 @@ these procedures.
 
 In the near future we will be converting all exception types to refs to
 remove the need for the ``newException`` template.
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+The list below has been generated based on the commits in Nim's git
+repository. As such it lists only the issues which have been closed
+via a commit, for a full list see
+`this link on Github <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+closed%3A%222017-01-07+..+2017-02-06%22+>`_.
+
+- Fixed "Weird compilation bug"
+  (`#4884 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4884>`_)
+- Fixed "Return by arg optimization does not set result to default value"
+  (`#5098 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5098>`_)
+- Fixed "upcoming asyncdispatch doesn't remove recv callback if remote side closed socket"
+  (`#5128 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5128>`_)
+- Fixed "compiler bug, executable writes into wrong memory"
+  (`#5218 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5218>`_)
+- Fixed "Module aliasing fails when multiple modules have the same original name"
+  (`#5112 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5112>`_)
+- Fixed "JS: var argument + case expr with arg = bad codegen"
+  (`#5244 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5244>`_)
+- Fixed "compiler reject proc's param shadowing inside template"
+  (`#5225 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5225>`_)
+- Fixed "const value not accessible in proc"
+  (`#3434 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/3434>`_)
+- Fixed "Compilation regression 0.13.0 vs 0.16.0 in compile-time evaluation"
+  (`#5237 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5237>`_)
+- Fixed "Regression: JS: wrong field-access codegen"
+  (`#5234 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5234>`_)
+- Fixed "fixes #5234"
+  (`#5240 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5240>`_)
+- Fixed "JS Codegen: duplicated fields in object constructor"
+  (`#5271 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5271>`_)
+- Fixed "RFC: improving JavaScript FFI"
+  (`#4873 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4873>`_)
+- Fixed "Wrong result type when using bitwise and"
+  (`#5216 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5216>`_)
+- Fixed "upcoming.asyncdispatch is prone to memory leaks"
+  (`#5290 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5290>`_)
+- Fixed "Using threadvars leads to crash on Windows when threads are created/destroyed"
+  (`#5301 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5301>`_)
+- Fixed "Type inferring templates do not work with non-ref types."
+  (`#4973 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4973>`_)
+- Fixed "Nimble package list no longer works on lib.html"
+  (`#5318 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5318>`_)
+- Fixed "Missing file name and line number in error message"
+  (`#4992 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4992>`_)
+- Fixed "ref type can't be converted to var parameter in VM"
+  (`#5327 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5327>`_)
+- Fixed "nimweb ignores the value of --parallelBuild"
+  (`#5328 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5328>`_)
+- Fixed "Cannot unregister/close AsyncEvent from within its handler"
+  (`#5331 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5331>`_)
+- Fixed "name collision with template instanciated generic inline function with inlined iterator specialization used from different modules"
+  (`#5285 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5285>`_)
+- Fixed "object in VM does not have value semantic"
+  (`#5269 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5269>`_)
+- Fixed "Unstable tuple destructuring behavior in Nim VM"
+  (`#5221 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5221>`_)
+- Fixed "nre module breaks os templates"
+  (`#4996 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4996>`_)
+- Fixed "Cannot implement distinct seq with setLen"
+  (`#5090 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5090>`_)
+- Fixed "await inside array/dict literal produces invalid code"
+  (`#5314 <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/5314>`_)
+