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* NEWS: Fold 1.9.13 text into the main text.

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@@ -16,142 +16,6 @@ The guile binary now supports a new switch "-x", which can be used to
 extend the list of filename extensions tried when loading files
 (%load-extensions).
 
-Changes in 1.9.13 (since the 1.9.12 prerelease):
-
-** SRFI support
-
-The following SRFIs have been added:
-
-- SRFI-27 "Sources of Random Bits"
-- SRFI-42 "Eager Comprehensions"
-- SRFI-45 "Primitives for Expressing Iterative Lazy Algorithms"
-- SRFI-67 "Compare Procedures"
-
-Thanks to Andreas Rottmann.
-
-** (system foreign) API changes
-
-The `make-foreign-function' procedure was renamed to
-`pointer->procedure'.
-    
-** (system xref) source database
-
-The `(system xref)' module can now map from source locations to
-procedures. See the `source-procedures' and `source-closures' functions.
-
-** New procedures: `scm_to_latin1_stringn', `scm_from_latin1_stringn'
-
-Use these procedures when you know you have latin1-encoded or
-ASCII-encoded strings.
-
-** New procedures: `scm_to_stringn', `scm_from_stringn'
-
-Use these procedures if you want to encode or decode from a particular
-locale.
-
-** Removed support shlibs for SRFIs 1, 4, 13, 14, and 60
-
-Though these SRFI support libraries did expose API, they encoded a
-strange version string into their library names.  That version was never
-programmatically exported, so there was no way people could use the
-libs.
-
-This was a fortunate oversight, as it allows us to remove the need for
-extra, needless shared libraries --- the C support code for SRFIs 4, 13,
-and 14 was already in core --- and allow us to incrementally return the
-SRFI implementation to Scheme.
-
-** Simplifications to the set of low-level hooks exported by the VM
-
-See "VM Hooks" in the manual, for more information.
-
-** New traps system
-
-See "Traps" in the manual, for more information.
-
-** Breakpoints, tracepoints and source stepping now available at the REPL
-    
-See "Interactive Debugging" in the manual, for more information.
-
-The new REPL commands are: break, break-at-source, tracepoint, traps,
-delete, disable, enable, step, step-instruction, next, next-instruction,
-finish, and registers.
-
-** Remove obsolete debug-options
-
-Removed `breakpoints', `trace', `procnames', `indent', `frames',
-`maxdepth', and `debug' debug-options.
-
-** Remove obsolete print-options
-    
-The `source' and `closure-hook' print options are obsolete, and have
-been removed.
-
-** Remove obsolete read-options
-
-The "elisp-strings" and "elisp-vectors" read options were unused and
-obsolete, so they have been removed.
-
-** Remove eval-options and trap-options
-
-Eval-options and trap-options are obsolete with the new VM and
-evaluator.
-
-** Remove (ice-9 debugger) and (ice-9 debugging)
-
-See "Traps" and "Interactive Debugging" in the manual, for information
-on their replacements.
-
-** Remove the GDS Emacs integration
-
-See "Using Guile in Emacs" in the manual, for info on how we think you
-should use Guile with Emacs.
-
-** Remove vm-version, vm options
-    
-These procedures introduced during the 1.9 series had no effect.
-
-** Add `call-with-vm' and ability to set VM engine
-
-`call-with-vm' applies a procedure to arguments in a context in which a
-given VM is current.
-
-`set-vm-engine!' can be used to specify the engine for a VM, which will
-become current at the next `call-with-vm' invocation.
-
-** Default to "regular" VM engine for noninteractive use
-    
-The "debug" engine is used when the user specifies --debug, or when
-running interactively. A debug VM allows hooks to run; see "VM Hooks" in
-the manual.
-
-** `backtrace' debug option on by default
-
-Given that Guile 2.0 can always give you a backtrace, backtraces are now
-on by default.
-
-** `turn-on-debugging' deprecated
-
-** New compilation warning: `-Wformat'
-    
-The `-Wformat' warning can indicate a number of common format string
-errors.  See "Compilation" in the manual, for more information.
-
-** Add `(system repl server)' module and `--listen' command-line argument
-    
-The `(system repl server)' module exposes procedures to listen on
-sockets for connections, and serve REPLs to those clients.  The --listen
-command-line argument allows any Guile program to thus be remotely
-debuggable.
-
-See "Invoking Guile" for more information on `--listen'.
-
-** Big manual updates
-
-The GOOPS documentation got a lot of attention this cycle, as well as
-the sections on interactive use and debugging.  We don't know of any
-sections of the manual that are out-of-date at this point.
-
 ** And of course, the usual collection of bugfixes
  
 Interested users should see the ChangeLog for more information.
@@ -163,6 +27,10 @@ Changes in 1.9.x (since the 1.8.x series):
 * New modules (see the manual for details)
 
 ** `(srfi srfi-18)', more sophisticated multithreading support
+** `(srfi srfi-27)', sources of random bits
+** `(srfi srfi-42)', eager comprehensions
+** `(srfi srfi-45)', primitives for expressing iterative lazy algorithms
+** `(srfi srfi-67)', compare procedures
 ** `(ice-9 i18n)', internationalization support
 ** `(rnrs bytevectors)', the R6RS bytevector API
 ** `(rnrs io ports)', a subset of the R6RS I/O port API
@@ -228,6 +96,15 @@ help when running Guile inside Emacs. This option has been removed, and
 the helper functions `named-module-use!' and `load-emacs-interface' have
 been deprecated.
     
+** Add `(system repl server)' module and `--listen' command-line argument
+    
+The `(system repl server)' module exposes procedures to listen on
+sockets for connections, and serve REPLs to those clients.  The --listen
+command-line argument allows any Guile program to thus be remotely
+debuggable.
+
+See "Invoking Guile" for more information on `--listen'.
+
 ** New reader options: `square-brackets' and `r6rs-hex-escapes'
 
 The reader supports a new option (changeable via `read-options'),
@@ -1152,7 +1029,8 @@ procedure, with -Warity-mismatch, or `arity-mismatch' in the
 `#:warnings' as above.
 
 Other warnings include `-Wunused-variable' and `-Wunused-toplevel', to
-warn about unused local or global (top-level) variables.
+warn about unused local or global (top-level) variables, and `-Wformat',
+to check for various errors related to the `format' procedure.
 
 ** A new `memoize-symbol' evaluator trap has been added.
 
@@ -1380,6 +1258,43 @@ This module had some debugging helpers that are no longer applicable to
 the current debugging model. Importing this module will produce a
 deprecation warning. Users should contact bug-guile for support.
 
+** Remove obsolete debug-options
+
+Removed `breakpoints', `trace', `procnames', `indent', `frames',
+`maxdepth', and `debug' debug-options.
+
+** `backtrace' debug option on by default
+
+Given that Guile 2.0 can always give you a backtrace, backtraces are now
+on by default.
+
+** `turn-on-debugging' deprecated
+
+** Remove obsolete print-options
+    
+The `source' and `closure-hook' print options are obsolete, and have
+been removed.
+
+** Remove obsolete read-options
+
+The "elisp-strings" and "elisp-vectors" read options were unused and
+obsolete, so they have been removed.
+
+** Remove eval-options and trap-options
+
+Eval-options and trap-options are obsolete with the new VM and
+evaluator.
+
+** Remove (ice-9 debugger) and (ice-9 debugging)
+
+See "Traps" and "Interactive Debugging" in the manual, for information
+on their replacements.
+
+** Remove the GDS Emacs integration
+
+See "Using Guile in Emacs" in the manual, for info on how we think you
+should use Guile with Emacs.
+
 ** Deprecated: `lazy-catch'
 
 `lazy-catch' was a form that captured the stack at the point of a
@@ -1411,6 +1326,16 @@ backward-compatible way.  A new allocation routine,
 Libgc is a conservative GC, which we hope will make interaction with C
 code easier and less error-prone.
 
+** New procedures: `scm_to_latin1_stringn', `scm_from_latin1_stringn'
+
+Use these procedures when you know you have latin1-encoded or
+ASCII-encoded strings.
+
+** New procedures: `scm_to_stringn', `scm_from_stringn'
+
+Use these procedures if you want to encode or decode from a particular
+locale.
+
 ** New type definitions for `scm_t_intptr' and friends.
 
 `SCM_T_UINTPTR_MAX', `SCM_T_INTPTR_MIN', `SCM_T_INTPTR_MAX',
@@ -1526,6 +1451,18 @@ The upshot is that the mechanics used to apply a SMOB are different from
 `apply_3' functions, and the macros SCM_SMOB_APPLY_0 and friends are now
 deprecated. Just use the scm_call_0 family of procedures.
 
+** Removed support shlibs for SRFIs 1, 4, 13, 14, and 60
+
+Though these SRFI support libraries did expose API, they encoded a
+strange version string into their library names.  That version was never
+programmatically exported, so there was no way people could use the
+libs.
+
+This was a fortunate oversight, as it allows us to remove the need for
+extra, needless shared libraries --- the C support code for SRFIs 4, 13,
+and 14 was already in core --- and allow us to incrementally return the
+SRFI implementation to Scheme.
+
 ** New C function: scm_module_public_interface
 
 This procedure corresponds to Scheme's `module-public-interface'.