The release of GnuCOBOL 3.2 is finally available.You can find the source downloads as always on gnu.org and on the SourceForge mirror:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.lz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.xz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2.tar.bz2 https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnucobol-3.2-rc2_win.7z https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol/files/gnucobol/3.2/ The changes from GnuCOBOL 3.1 to 3.2 are _huge_ but the highlights are: * improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match the selected dialect (see NEWS if you compile with any -std to know more about the implications), a complete new dialect GCOS and support for more COBOL statements, intrinsic functions and syntax from both "old" and new dialects * highly improved run-times for several statements, along with less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled * fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and runtime options to change the way files are handled, see NEWS and runtime.cfg * improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support * improvements for reproducible builds Happy COBOL hacking, Simon Sobisch
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