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<feed xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Recent posts to news</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/" rel="alternate"/><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/feed.atom" rel="self"/><id>https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/</id><updated>2026-01-10T00:02:48.116000Z</updated><subtitle>Recent posts to news</subtitle><entry><title>Ficl 3.05</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2026/01/ficl-305/" rel="alternate"/><published>2026-01-10T00:02:48.116000Z</published><updated>2026-01-10T00:02:48.116000Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.netfe0acb15207f58a66a3a3c4a72d07980b8a66fe1</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ficl version 3.05 is available for download. It contains portability and test improvements, as well as extensive revisions to the doc and website&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Ficl304 is available for download</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2025/12/ficl304-is-available-for-download/" rel="alternate"/><published>2025-12-29T17:15:11.194000Z</published><updated>2025-12-29T17:15:11.194000Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net8c049966a1a2a71fdb65fbc2f9e28c42a1ad7f94</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ficl304 is available for download. See the &lt;a class="" href="https://ficl.sf.net" rel="nofollow"&gt;release notes&lt;/a&gt; for a list of what's new.  As usual, suggestions, but reports, and especially contributions are welcome. Ficl repo is now on &lt;a class="" href="https://github.com/jwsadler58/ficl" rel="nofollow"&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Ficl4 is retiring</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2025/07/ficl4-is-retiring/" rel="alternate"/><published>2025-07-10T15:02:20.195000Z</published><updated>2025-07-10T15:02:20.195000Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net4166e8a51282a3d5df8acdb7c66b8e8f35eb53e5</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ficl4's developer is not in a position to support it any more. So I am retiring Ficl 4 and focusing my energy on Ficl 3. I have fixed all open bugs against Ficl 3 and checked open Ficl 4 bugs against the Ficl 3 build.  You can still download the Ficl4.10 release from the OldFiles folder. New development will continue from FIcl3.04. Feel free to contact me if you want a preview. &lt;br/&gt;
JS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>...and we're back - almost</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2025/07/and-were-back---almost/" rel="alternate"/><published>2025-07-04T01:28:56.474000Z</published><updated>2025-07-04T01:28:56.474000Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net3eea08b94203691ff1f7fb1adab6a966f7f8baac</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a long absence, I am again developing Ficl and expect to post an updated release soon. Focusing on Ficl 3 for now, I've created a MacOS 64 bit console version and am now testing and adding more test automation. Stay tuned...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Announcing Ficl 4.0.31</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2003/06/announcing-ficl-4031/" rel="alternate"/><published>2003-06-18T07:37:49Z</published><updated>2003-06-18T07:37:49Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net2e1f4d99a88436953354b14ecdbce58209587621</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the usual place: &lt;a href="http://ficl.sourceforge.net"&gt;http://ficl.sourceforge.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This is a major revision - thanks to the relentless energy of Larry Hastings. We've been cooking this one up for quite a while now. The centerpiece&lt;br /&gt;
of this release is a completely rewritten inner interpreter that runs our benchmarks about 3X faster than ficl 3.x.&lt;br /&gt;
There is a revised API with support for compatibility with previous versions, and lots more.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- John&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Announcing ficlwin release 303 (finally)</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2003/06/announcing-ficlwin-release-303-finally/" rel="alternate"/><published>2003-06-09T14:12:50Z</published><updated>2003-06-09T14:12:50Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net347d9f16de1b671b268bb28a930025d8b3d83d12</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally got around to building and packaging ficlwin from ficl303. Now available at ficl.sf.net!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Announcing ficl and ficlwin release 3.02</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2001/12/announcing-ficl-and-ficlwin-release-302/" rel="alternate"/><published>2001-12-11T19:54:15Z</published><updated>2001-12-11T19:54:15Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.netb23e519b99af2c0bd2d4eda4da0367a76217bc9c</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is primarily a bug fix release. There are extensive revisions to the OO documentation on the website.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Announcing Ficl release 3.01</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2001/10/announcing-ficl-release-301/" rel="alternate"/><published>2001-10-31T04:40:18Z</published><updated>2001-10-31T04:40:18Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net0d68be54031fbbab0176f68537e5a73b8c60d899</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ficl release 3.01 is now available for download at &lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group"&gt;http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group&lt;/a&gt;_id=24441 &lt;br /&gt;
Release 3.01 includes contributions and bug fixes. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Larry Hastings, we now have most of the optional FILE wordset,&lt;br /&gt;
and Larry also did the very nasty task of moving all of those statics into FICL_SYSTEM so that you can create and &lt;br /&gt;
destroy FICL_SYSTEMs in whatever order your wicked little heart desires.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ye Xiaofeng contributed a SWIG adaptation for Ficl - this generates your wrapper code for you automatically, saving your wrists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks also to David McNab and Leonid Rosin for bug fixes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check it out at &lt;a href="http://ficl.sourceforge.net"&gt;http://ficl.sourceforge.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Ficl CVS tree updated</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2001/07/ficl-cvs-tree-updated/" rel="alternate"/><published>2001-07-29T21:37:32Z</published><updated>2001-07-29T21:37:32Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.netce2a81e7d5f5c505cf0ea38cbc71a5183dc6f1a8</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Ficl CVS tree now contains (to the best of my knowledge) the entire tree dating back to Ficl 2.0. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;View the tree here: &lt;a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ficl/"&gt;http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ficl/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in becoming a Ficl developer (it really gets you noticed at parties ;-), please send me your Sourceforge userID and your interests as far as extending the package, and I will set you up with R/W access to the CVS tree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry><entry><title>Announcing ficl release 3.00a</title><link href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ficl/news/2001/07/announcing-ficl-release-300a/" rel="alternate"/><published>2001-07-24T14:17:55Z</published><updated>2001-07-24T14:17:55Z</updated><author><name>john sadler</name><uri>https://sourceforge.net/u/jsadler/</uri></author><id>https://sourceforge.net758f7a082016c411ba3759829310435327538c69</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ficl release 3.00a is now available for download from ficl.sourceforge.net. This release fixes a problem with OO support in ficl 3.00 and 2.06, and includes tar.gz packaging tested against the sourceforge compile farm. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if you encounter problems with any of the packages.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry></feed>