gnucobol @ Savannah: Release of GnuCOBOL 3.2

GnuCOBOL 3.2 includes many new features compared to the previous release, while maintaining full source compatibility.

The amount of changes from GnuCOBOL 3.1 to 3.2 is huge, here are some of the highlights:

• improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match the selected dialect (see NEWS if you compile with any `-std` to know more about the implications), a complete new dialect GCOS and support for more COBOL statements, intrinsic functions and syntax from both "old" and new dialects
• highly improved run-times for several statements, along with less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled
• fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and runtime options to change the way files are handled, see NEWS and runtime.cfg
• improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support
• output of context for diagnostics
• improvements for reproducible builds

For a much more complete list, have a look at the NEWS file.

Source: Planet GNU