A summary of what's happening in the REBOL community.

Year ending 2009

REBOL 3


Freeing of REBOL/Command



Carl has decided to free up SSL, encryption ports, ODBC etc with the release of version of Rebol/View that no longer requires a license for these features to work. A 2.7.7 build has been released for testing. I can not disclose the download site .. but if you hop onto qtask or Rebol3 altme world .. you'll see it.

Rebol 2.7.7

And redevelopment has started on Rebol2 with a 2.7.7 release by years end ... with a view to fixing a few bugs ... perhaps in the installer, a memory leak in view ( which was reported by yours truly 5 years ago ), some VID fixes and any other low hanging fruit. The idea is to start monthly releases similar to the Rebol3 release schedule.

PS: http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v277/rebview.exe
1 Jan 2010: Windows only so far.

Cheyenne and Web Sockets


Dockimbel has updated Cheyenne to include limited support for web sockets. Checkout the SVN




Week of Mid December

REBOL 3


Host Kits


Alpha release of GNU/Linux POSIX Host Kits announcement.

It's been a long, exciting, long wait. Woohoo! Alpha 96, a fine vintage.

Good initial reviews


From what I've come to understand, Kaj had a Syllable Desktop version of the host kit compiled and alpha running, not many minutes after the announcements. A decade of patient planning and I think I could see the grin beams in the chat post.

Let me in


Snag a copy of REBOL 3 alpha, chat.

Short post excuses


A short post for a big week, mainly a verbose web link republish, but it had to be said.



Cheers from The Rebol Week crew.