0.97

This release is brought to you with over 1,400 commits by the following individuals :

Alex Vondrak, Andrew Pennebaker, Benjamin Pollack, Björn Lindqvist, CW Alston, Doug Coleman, Erik Charlebois, Fred Alger, Iskander Sitdikov, John Benediktsson, Jon Harper, Loryn Jenkins, Paul Woolcock, Roc King, Samuel Tardieu, Steven Stewart-Gallus, and @Profpatsch

Besides some bug fixes and library improvements, I want to highlight the following changes:

• Support for more color spaces including RYB and YUV
• Support for SSL on windows
• Some new checksum implementations and performance improvements
• Cross-platform C library finder
• Client for IMAP protocol
• Support for MessagePack encoding and decoding
• Support for uuencoding and uudecoding
• Support for terminfo database files
• Support for tzinfo files
• Support for in-place sorting (using quicksort)
• Bindings for ZeroMQ and Python
• Runner for Applescript (including definition support)
• Performance improvement to printf and support for vprintf
• Support saving images in GTK, Cocoa, and Windows backends
• Generative Modeling Language
• Lots of documentation added to the compiler
• Many, many improvements to the FUEL emacs mode

For more details, please see the full announcement at:

http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2014/11/factor-097-now-available.html