Lots of pending modifications since 0.44draft1 have been merged into
the repository (too many to enumerate all of them!), paving the way
for the forthcoming 0.44 release.  A second draft version (0.44draft2)
is expected within a week.  Several important changes are already
active in the repository:

Core eC:
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* Class: ’size’ member of the main class Class has been separated into
typeSize and structSize which should result in simpler code
(especially in templates) in addition to being a lot easier to deal
with.
* Map: the Map container is being the focus of a stress test, both in
terms of performance evaluation and consistency.

Drivers:
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* X11: a major CPU bottleneck that occured during the initialization
of the IDE, making bitmaps to be loaded as if they contained
transparency information, is now fixed.

Tools:
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* Builds: everything has been rebuilt and tested, with positive
reports on recently supported architectures like PowerPC.
* Documentor: API documentation has seen a lot of recent updates which
are tightly integrated in the IDE/Documentor for easy access.

* COM: some changes related to the class finder introduced
regressions, and have been backed off for the time being.
* IDE: improvements enabled the builder process to run slighthly
faster while using less CPU.

Ecere Corp. would like to thank all contributors and supporters of
Ecere SDK, (alphabetically) Charlie, Jérôme, Joey, and Redj.