Version 0.9.6 released

Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.

This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has the new features and exciting developments.

Changes affecting backwards compatibility

spawn now uses an elaborate self-adapting thread pool and as such has been moved into its own module. So to use it, you now have to import threadpool.
The symbol binding rules in generics changed: bar in foo.bar is now considered for implicit early binding.
c2nim moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
pas2nim moved into its own repository and is now a Babel package.
system.$ for floating point types now produces a human friendly string representation.
uri.TUrl as well as the parseurl module are now deprecated in favour of the new TUri type in the uri module.
The destructor pragma has been deprecated. Use the override pragma instead. The destructor’s name has to be destroy now.
lambda is not a keyword anymore.
system.defined has been split into system.defined and system.declared. You have to use --symbol to declare new conditional symbols that can be set via --define.
--threadanalysis:on is now the default. To make your program compile you can disable it but this is only a temporary solution as this option will disappear soon!

Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for pathological cases.

This version introduces the deprecated pragma statement that is used to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames.
spawn can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data flow variable of the wrapped return type.

Added module cpuinfo.
Added module threadpool.
sequtils.distnct has been renamed to sequtils.deduplicate.
Added algorithm.reversed
Added uri.combine and uri.parseUri.
Some sockets procedures now support a SafeDisconn flag which causes them to handle disconnection errors and not raise them.