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Arnold
Red release 0.6.3 is ready. Support of macOS.
Next best in this release must be the test backend allowing automated testing of GUI!

Ashley
Minor changes:
- Simplified code now that Red 0.6.3 supports date! and delete
- All test cases (200) now work with both R3 and Red 0.6.3
- Basic documentation available at http://www.dobeash.com/files/munge3.html

GrahamC
now features ODBC in the main line and not just branch.  A sample ODBC test script for Firebird 3 on Windows 64 can be found at https://github.com/gchiu/Rebol3/blob/master/scripts/odbc-test.reb
This was written a couple of months ago for the odbc branch so may need some changes.  Discussion here https://forum.rebol.info/t/testing-odbc-branch/114/5
ODBC is on all branches except Android.

Ashley
Minor changes:
- Refactor to work with Rebol2 and Ren-C
- All test cases (200+) now work with R2, R3, Ren-C and Red
- Windows-specific features disabled on non-windows platforms
- Updated http://www.dobeash.com/files/munge3.html to cover Excel, SQLCMD, SQLite, PDF dependencies

Chris
Implements a (largely) HTML5 compliant markup parser in Red and Ren-C and LOAD-MARKUP function using said parser. This is an experimental hybrid script and uses Red macros in a way that might conflict with other Red code--use with caution.
LOAD-MARKUP returns a block akin to Rebol 2's LOAD/MARKUP except that attributes are contained in a MAP! following the associated tag and self-closing tags are indicated by a </> closing tag following the tag or attributes (if present).
To do: tree-based model and DOM (likely similar to AltXML). Some work to be done here--the HTML5 rules for tree-building are labyrinthine.
Link: http://rebol.info/announce/0897

Chris
I've added the tree constructor per the HTML5 spec and added a few more standard error codes (with source positions). There's a few kinks--while table nesting seems to be working and for the most part misnested formatting is resolved properly, there are still failures on the odd test or two*.
It's all still a bit slow for my liking--the parser is set up near exactly the way the spec suggests which in no way works to Rebol's (or Red's) parsing strength--pretty sure that's ripe for optimization**. Also still not sure about my choice of linked lists for trees either--there's a real gain in fidelity (good for editing when the time comes), but I'm not convinced there's not an insurmountable hit on navigation speed***.
Am still working in a Red/Ren-C compatible way (has it's challenges but is great for rooting out bugs!). In Red you can just DO the raw github url. In Ren-C, you can: import <markup>
LOAD-HTML will return a document node from a given string, MARKUP-AS-BLOCK will convert that into a more familiar block hierarchy. If you get an actual Rebol/Red error, let me know--shouldn't happen.
*I feel as if I've read the 'Adoption Agency' algorithm 30 times over and still don't understand how it's supposed to work
**my only reservation here is while it does slow things down, it would work well with an incremental byte stream, say from a network source, where that might not be as noticeable
***if anyone has any thoughts on the efficacy of linked lists, would be interested to hear--have two versions: one with maps (no key/value clashes) and one with blocks (does seem faster)

Chris
AltJSON v0.3.6.1 for Red
JSON decoder/encoder for Red--features copied from Rebol 2 version.
- Converts object (map) keys to words where compatible, strings otherwise
- Decodes large integers as issues (for e.g. Twitter IDs)
- Encodes dates as RFC3339
- Support for surrogate pairs (decoding/encoding characters higher than the BMP as ascii)
- 'Flat' mode for parsing, duplicate keys
- Contracts Flickr's '_content' objects
AltJSON v0.3.6.1 for Red
Link: https://github.com/rgchris/Scripts/blob/master/red/altjson.red

Chris
Rebol Forces Archive
Link: http://rebol.info/forces/
Located and rebuilt the articles from Rebol Forces. For historical and informational reasons mainly.

SWhite
Lately at work I have had to do much dissecting and assembling of spreadsheets, as well as cleaning up things accumulated over the years.  Learning from previous experience, any time I find any code that could possibly by used in the future, I try to encapsulate it into a module or function.  Then I produce a version sanitized of any employer-specific data and put it on a little web site in case it might be of use to others.  With today's batch of uploads, I have hit the small milestone of 100 little programs.  Most are extremely simple, and extremely specialized.  It is sort of like the rebol-dot-org script library but much simpler, maybe more useful to beginners.  It does show, like Nick's tutorials show, the value of being able to program one's own computer.  The scripts are in the "free stuff" area of http://cobolrebol.com/

GrahamC
There's a new download of Ren Garden as mentioned here https://forum.rebol.info/t/ren-garden-status-future/455
It's a QT app which runs a QTextEdit widget as a console and links to the Rebol evaluator, and the C++ API. You can setup watch points to see changes in values in your code for debugging purposes.  So, you could run this when debugging your r3/ren-c code.

Ashley
- Added:
    delta
    dezero
    read-binary
    load-fixed
    map-source
    second-last/penult
    order
- Fixed:
    ascii-file?
    help text for munge and load-dsv
    latin1-to-utf8 R3 to string! bug
- Enhanced
    load-dsv and munge now LIST their output
    load-dsv and munge now allow literals in /part
    load-dsv now has a /compact refinement
    load-dsv and distinct performance improved
- Updated http://www.dobeash.com/files/munge3.html

Marco
Oldes
Sorry... bad channel :(

Bo
Most people have already seen this, but since nobody else posted it here, I will:
The Red team released a first alpha of their RED Wallet, a tiny, simple, fast and secure cryptocurrency wallet for ETH and BTC.
https://www.red-lang.org/2018/06/red-wallet-tiny-simple-fast-and-secure.html

Ashley
- Removed:
    renc support
    read-pdf
    /lines from read-string (use deline/lines instead)
    /compact from load-dsv
    /preserve from load-dsv
- Added:
    enzero
    unarchive
    archive
- Fixed:
    split-line bug
    write-dsv bug
    load-dsv bug
    to-string-time now returns "HH:MM:SS"
    put returns value
    latin1-to-utf8 handles split strings correctly
    load-dsv/part/flat formats data correctly
- Enhanced
    Added /map to sqlcmd
    Added /flat to load-dsv, load-excel and load-fixed
    load-fixed now auto detects widths
    read-string with large files about 10-15x faster
    load-dsv about 3x faster
    rows? faster
    Added /flat to list
    write-excel now uses archive instead of 7z

Ashley
- Removed:
    build, platform and target moved from global context to settings
    append-column
    ascii-file?
    average-of
    call-oledb
    delta
    load-excel (replaced with oledb)
    map-source
    oledb-file?
    order
    remove-column
    split-line
    sum-of
    to-rebol-date
    to-rebol-time
- Added:
    crc32
    excel?
    load-xml (uses unarchive)
    oledb (refactored from load-excel)
    settings
    literal column support to load-dsv, load-xml and munge (e.g. load-dsv/part file [1 "No"])
    named column support to load-dsv, load-xml and munge (e.g. munge/where next [["Name" "Age"]["Sam" 50]] [&Age > 30])
- Updated:
    munge/update refinement removed (use munge/where blk [row/1: 0])
    munge/delete is now the same as munge/delete/where
    R2 support in archive and unarchive (requires /View)
    Excel support (using unarchive) added to cols?, fields?, rows? and sheets?
    replace-deep replaces multiple values in a single pass
    to-string-date and to-string-time now support Excel XML date (e.g. "41000") and time (e.g. ("0.33") formats
    list uses settings/console (default TRUE) to control new-line behaviour
    load-dsv (plus oledb, sqlcmd and sqlite) and load-xml use settings/as-is (default TRUE) to control trim/lines behaviour
    read-string optimized
    read-binary lost its /seek refinement
    added load-dsv/csv
- Fixed:
    Several parse copy words that escaped to the global context
    Unarchive bug

Chris
I will be hosting a Rebol Developers Conference in Philadelphia this summer (July 6th-7th). I've a great location lined up just around the corner from the Independence Mall (across the street from Ben Franklin's Post Office) and have some great talks lined up (more on this to follow--some epic projects: some you'll know about, one or two you won't).
I'll have registration up shortly, for now I've a wee questionnaire to get an idea of what kind of interest there is. Aside from the featured talks, I'd like to now issue a call for participation for anyone that would like to talk about their Rebol, Red or Ren-C projects. We'll have streaming and will record the talks for posterity.
If you're in the northeastern US, Philly is very accessible (great rail/bus access) about 90mins from NYC and DC. If not, it's a culturally rich city that is very much worth a visit even without a Rebol conference as an excuse, and we'll be here for July 4th at the very location where July 4th became a thing. Our hosts will provide co-working space on July 5th for any conference participant arriving from out of town.
amacleod
Sounds Great. I plan to come.

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