0.98

This release is brought to you with almost 4,300 commits by the following individuals:

Alexander Iljin, Arkady Rost, Benjamin Pollack, Björn Lindqvist, Cat Stevens, Chris Double, Dimage Sapelkin, Doug Coleman, Friedrich von Never, John Benediktsson, Jon Harper, Mark Green, Mark Sweeney, Nicolas Pénet, Philip Dexter, Robert Vollmert, Samuel Tardieu, Sankaranarayanan Viswanathan, Shane Pelletier, @catb0t, @hyphz, @thron7, @xzenf

Besides several years of bug fixes and library improvements, I want to highlight the following changes:

• Improved user interface with light and dark themes and new icons
• Fix GTK library issue affecting some Linux installations
• Support Cocoa TouchBar on MacOS
• Factor REPL version banner includes build information.
• Bindings for ForestDB
• New graphical demos including Minesweeper, Game of Life, Bubble Chamber, etc.
• Better handling of "out of memory" errors
• Improved VM and compiler documentation, test fixtures, and bug fixes
• Much faster Heaps and Heapsort
• Support for Adobe Brackets, CotEditor, and Microsoft Visual Studio Code editors
• On Mac OS X, allow use of symlinks to factor binary
• Lots of improvements to FUEL (Factor's emacs mode)

For more details, please see the full announcement at:

https://re-factor.blogspot.com/2018/07/factor-098-now-available.html