inform7/notes/release/pending.md

Pending

These will be added to release notes when the release is made.

Features

• This was reported as Jira bug I7-2087 "three anonymous standard rules", but is arguably a feature request: that three rules in the Standard Rules should have names. All three are simple rules, two of them occurring early and late in the turn cycle to consider whether a scene change has happened, and one as the fallback rule making an action succeed if no rules have intervened in the process.

  early scene changing stage
  late scene changing stage
  default action success rule
  

Bug fixes

• Fix for Jira bug I7-2269 "Output of I6 floating point literals strips the '+', resulting in uncompilable I6" (commit 8155d40)
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2267 "I6 inclusion for which compiler hangs (using '::' operator)" (commit 8155d40)
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2264 "Cannot compile 'Verb meta' directive inside a kit" (commit cbe7012): actually a linker issue if multiple kits do this
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2255 "Localization detail in Banner routine (uses preposition 'by' in English)" (commit ce2b7ba): the English word by had been hard-wired, but is now printed using BY__WD instead, which in English is declared as 'by' but in Spanish could be 'por', or in French 'par', for example
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2247 "Internal error 'unowned' when using 'Understand'" (commit 3ebcac0)
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2237 "Inform hangs when reading a Neptune file in a kit with no final newline" (commit 1cd75d8)
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2235 "List of action names ending with 23 bonus instances of waiting (i.e., action name 0)" (commit b5c35fb): in fact those were anonymous debugging actions from WorldModelKit, which are valid instances of action name (and need to be for type safety reasons), but which were not properly looped through or described. They now print as, e.g., performing kit action ##ShowRelations. As a fringe benefit, of sorts, such actions now appear in the logging output of the ACTIONS command (except for the actions needed to switch ACTIONS on and off, which are deliberately excluded from this since they only add confusion to the story transcript).
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2234 "Non-heading @ sections not supported in template files" (Inweb: commit f2aaa32)
• Fix for Jira bug I7-2139 "Articles become part of relation name" (commit 85110a9)
• Fix for a "very old quirk of I7 where it generates a story.gblorb.js file for the interpreter website, but the filename is a lie. It's the base64-encoding of the story.ulx file, not the story.gblorb." (Andrew Plotkin, not from Jira)
• Cosmetic fixes not worth linking to (I7-2270, I7-2268, I7-2221)