GAP.jl 0.8.0 released

21 Apr 2022

Today GAP.jl 0.8.0 has been released.

Closed issues:

If GAP is the host, and Julia embedded, we should perhaps catch Julia’s screen output (at least for errors) (#237)
Provide replacement for GAP kernel function SyExecuteProcess (#240)
Change gaproot’s to differentiate both on the GAP and Julia versions (#681)
link separate binaries for JuliaInterface for separate Julia versions (#691)
Crash using GAP in IJulia with Julia 1.6.3 (#760)
doc: table of contents unsorted (#787)
New error on julia master? (#789)
Fix code to work without C/C++ compiler again, and add a CI test for this situation (#794)
Tab completion in GAP for Julia.XXX does not work (#795)
lib/debug.g cannot be loaded (#796)
Allow assigning to Julia module variables, at least in Julia’s Main module? (#798)
naming convention (#799)
Update GAP_pkg_juliainterface for latest Julia 1.9 (#801)
Update sysinfo.gap, gac replacements to match latest GAP_jll (#807)

Merged pull requests:

Replace GAP’s ExecuteProcess by Julia code (#726) (@fingolfin)
Remove Base.big(obj::GapObj) (#763) (@fingolfin)
explain why SameMutability variants are chosen (#785) (@ThomasBreuer)
fix section ordering in t.o.c. (#788) (@ThomasBreuer)
Stop relying on JULIA* keys in sysinfo.gap (#790) (@fingolfin)
Give helpful error if GAP_jll is not available (#791) (@fingolfin)
Update to latest JLLs (#792) (@fingolfin)
@gapattribute: use has_ / set_ instead of has / set (#800) (@fingolfin)
replace the GAP kernel function JuliaSetVal … (#802) (@ThomasBreuer)
Allow Julia.MODULE.x := 1 in GAP code, remove JuliaSetVal (#803) (@fingolfin)
Remove OverrideTypeNameAndModule hack (#805) (@fingolfin)
Update to latest GAP_jll / GAP_lib_jll (#806) (@fingolfin)
Update GAP_lib_jll (#808) (@fingolfin)
Update etc/gac to latest (#809) (@fingolfin)
Better handling of C/C++ compiler detection (#810) (@fingolfin)
Update to latest GAP_pkg_juliainterface_jll (#811) (@fingolfin)