NetRexx 3.09 GA released today

[rvjansen]

In anticipation of Jeff Hennick’s talk at the 2020 International Rexx Language Symposium later today, NetRexx 3.09 GA has been released at netrexx.org .

This is no coincidence, as Jeff did an enormous amount of work on the Pipelines component - which can now be seen as on par with the VM/CMS implementation.

Also, Colin K. delivered the ‘hostbyname’ stage which fills an important void in networking support.

From the release notes:

NetRexx 3.09 GA [October 1st, 2020]

- fix for ANSI escapes/colors in nrws on Windows operating systems

- bump version level of included JLine implementation

- fix a compiler warning when live executing a pipeline including stage UNIQUE

- enable multiline 'Portrait-mode' entering of pipeline definitions

- add the 'source' option to the 'query' stage to bring in line with CMS

  (note that this is not documented in the CMS manuals, but behaves identical)

- stage CONSOLE can now be abbreviated as in CMS

- stage XLATE can now be used as TRANSLATE and its abbreviations as in CMS

- add CASELESS to the abbrev stage to be CMS compliant (Jeff Hennick)

- BUFFER, APPEND, TAKE and COMPARE stages and tests (Jeff Hennick)

- documentation additions and improvements; added warning about Java 8 being the highest working version

- experimental native executable versions of the compiler for X86_64, versions of macOS and Linux for use with Java versions 9-14

- Added DROP FIRST number BYTES (secondary); * (secondary); negative stage (Jeff Hennick)

- BETWEEN stage hex and binary strings and tests (Jeff Hennick)

- many SPECs CMS compliancy improvements (Jeff Hennick)

- a new njp-model.el for emacs to correctly handle specs 1-*

- AGGRC stage added

- multithreading bug with multiple CONSOLE stages in a pipeline solved

- JOIN stage improved for CMS Compatibility (add COUNT and TERMINATE) (Jeff Hennick)

- DString bug solved (Jeff Hennick)

- FROMLABEL stage added (Jeff Hennick)

- FROMTARGET stage added (Jeff Hennick)

- FANINANY NOSTRICT added (Jeff Hennick)

- FANIN streams fixed (Jeff Hennick)

- DEAL fixes (Jeff Hennick)

- SPACE stage added

- LOCATE fixed for null input (Jeff Hennick)

- <, >, >> translation bug fixed, diskr, diskw and diska will now only be subsituted when first word in space specification

- HOSTBYNAME stage (Colin K.)

- PICKPARSE stage (Jeff Hennick)

- compare stage fix (Jeff Hennick)

- COMBINE stage (Jeff Hennick)

- STRTOLABEL stage (Jeff Hennick)

- DATECONVERT stage (Jeff Hennick)

- STRIP stage (Jeff Hennick)

- SNAKE stage (Jeff Hennick)

- SQL stage (Jeff Hennick)

- SQLSELECT add options: PROPERTIES, HEADERS, NOHEADERS, SELECT; documentation (Jeff Hennick

- ZONE stage (Jeff Hennick)

- VERIFY stage (Jeff Hennick)

- REGEX stage (Jeff Hennick)

- STRFRLABLE, STRFROMLABEL, STRFRLAB, STRFRLABL (Jeff Hennick)

- removed OVER stage, renamed to VAROVER

- PICK stage (Jeff Hennick)

- OVERLAY stage (Jeff Hennick)

- PAD stage add MODULO option (Jeff Hennick)

We would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to Jeff for all his work, it is much appreciated.

best regards,

René Jansen.

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