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These will be added to release notes when the release is made. This page only hold bug fixes and other minor tweaks: anything larger is covered by Inform evolution proposals.

Featurettes arising from bug reports, but too small for Inform Evolution proposals

This was reported as Jira bug I7-2087 "three anonymous standard rules", but is arguably a feature request: that three rules in the Standard Rules should have names. All three are simple rules, two of them occurring early and late in the turn cycle to consider whether a scene change has happened, and one as the fallback rule making an action succeed if no rules have intervened in the process.
```
early scene changing stage
late scene changing stage
default action success rule
```
Errors occurring in I6-syntax code, either in (- ... -) inclusions into I7 source text or in kit source code, are now reported more fully, with source references and links provided. (A feature request for this was filed as Jira bug I7-2232.)
The obscure debugging verb TREE has been renamed SHOWTREE to reduce the risk of confusion when "tree" is typed in reply to a clarifying question from the command parser, in a debug build (such as in the app). See Jira bug I7-2398.

Documentation

"Writing with Inform" and "The Recipe Book" benefit from a revision throughout to remove unnecessary gender-binary language, mostly to do with pronouns attached to "the player", or similar. The example Blue or Pink has become Good or Evil, and now poses a moral rather than gender-based question.

Bug fixes

Fix for Jira bug I7-2460 "Standard 'deciding whether all include' rules don't apply to an actor." (PR#138)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2458 "The uuid.txt file should be whitespace-stripped before use" (see Inweb commit 4557cc1)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2416 "Hyperbolic sinh and cosh each have the implementation the other needs" (PR#126)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2384 "Some Standard Rule responses use 'here' instead of '[here]', producing 'here' in cases that should be 'there'" (PR#116)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2370 "A template file ending with a comment and no line break breaks the next file" (see Inweb commit 901d125)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2366 "10.1 segfaults with compound units that haven't been explicitly defined" (commit ad2c648)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2355 to do with how to handle symlinks or broken directory entries (see Inweb PR#28)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2349 "example 399, "Solitude", has a bug" (PR#115)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2344 "inform7's -silence flag should imply -no-progress" (commit 687dba6)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2341 "You can use dict_word_size of 12 and I7's ok with it, but then passes it on to I6 in lower case" (commit a011ec6)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2335 "Several previously-legal forms of the Array directive no longer work in I6 inclusions in 10.1.2" (commit 4d97b49)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2334 "imbalanced parentheses in Definition by I6 Condition causes abject failure" (commit 5d45863)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2328 "Compiler hard-codes bad/deprecated Glulx acceleration instructions" (commit a2c1274)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2329 "Colons in story title are not sanitised in release filenames" (commit f50a043)
Fix for Jira bugs I7-2310, I7-2333, I7-2364, all duplicates to do with actions defined with "it" in the name
Fix for Jira bug I7-2306 "remaining arbitary ifdefs in kit code": also fixes an unreported bug in which the use options "Use numbered rules", "Use manual pronouns", "Use fast route-finding" and "Use slow route-finding" had ceased to have any effect; all taken care of in the implementation of IE-0018 (commit 95e613c) (see also duplicate report I7-2276)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2304 "switch(): first branch can't start with negative number" (commit 1c18007)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2298 ""to" in I6 switch statement is not recognized" (commit 04e526f)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2297 "Missing semicolon after I6 routine crashed compiler without explanation" (commit 4fb6e57)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2284 "Inter error" - arising from a sentence trying to use an either-or property in a way which would make it unheld by default, when an existing sentence already makes it held by default (commit 1fc5055)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2282 "segfaults in linux with latest inform, ..., built with gcc": see also I7-2108 (hat-tip to Adrian Welcker: PR#111)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2269 "Output of I6 floating point literals strips the '+', resulting in uncompilable I6" (commit 46349cb)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2267 "I6 inclusion for which compiler hangs (using '::' operator)" (commit f46433c)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2265 "Compiler fails on creating an instance of a specified kind with multiple parts" (commit af2531f)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2264 "Cannot compile 'Verb meta' directive inside a kit" (commit cbe7012): actually a linker issue if multiple kits do this
Fix for Jira bug I7-2255 "Localization detail in Banner routine (uses preposition 'by' in English)" (commit ce2b7ba): the English word by had been hard-wired, but is now printed using BY__WD instead, which in English is declared as 'by' but in Spanish could be 'por', or in French 'par', for example
Fix for Jira bug I7-2247 "Internal error 'unowned' when using 'Understand'" (commit 3ebcac0)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2242 "Creating kinds via tables fails" (commit 0038a2e)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2237 "Inform hangs when reading a Neptune file in a kit with no final newline" (commit 1cd75d8)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2235 "List of action names ending with 23 bonus instances of waiting (i.e., action name 0)" (commit b5c35fb): in fact those were anonymous debugging actions from WorldModelKit, which are valid instances of action name (and need to be for type safety reasons), but which were not properly looped through or described. They now print as, e.g., performing kit action ##ShowRelations. As a fringe benefit, of sorts, such actions now appear in the logging output of the ACTIONS command (except for the actions needed to switch ACTIONS on and off, which are deliberately excluded from this since they only add confusion to the story transcript).
Fix for Jira bug I7-2234 "Non-heading @ sections not supported in template files" (Inweb: commit f2aaa32)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2225 "Translating kinds into I6 doesn't work" (Inweb: commit d608388)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2142 "With 'the foo rule substitutes for the bar rule when...', the bar rule is suppressed but the foo rule isn't followed." (commit 11e1f75)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2139 "Articles become part of relation name" (commit 85110a9)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2129 "Quiet supporters from The Eye of the Idol no longer work" (PR#114)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2074 "Documentation recommends scene code that causes soft lock" (about times since scene ending sometimes being negative) (PR#109)
Fix for Jira bug I7-2021 = Mantis 2058 "Multiple 'take all' in an empty room causes a 'Too many activities are going on at once.' error" (PR#139)
Fix for Jira bug I7-1973 = Mantis 2009 "Standard 'deciding whether all include' rules don't apply to an actor." (PR#113)
Cosmetic fixes not worth linking to (I7-2480, I7-2473, I7-2350, I7-2348, I7-2319, I7-2316, I7-2315, I7-2311, I7-2299, I7-2293, I7-2270, I7-2268, I7-2221, I7-2214, I7-2210, I7-2120)

Bugs fixed but not from tracked reports

Fix for a "very old quirk of I7 where it generates a story.gblorb.js file for the interpreter website, but the filename is a lie. It's the base64-encoding of the story.ulx file, not the story.gblorb." (Andrew Plotkin, not from Jira)
"X is an activity on nothing" would incorrectly create an activity on objects, resulting in an immediate contradiction. (Activities on nothing are not often useful, which is why this bug has lasted so long.)
"empty", as an adjective, was defined only on activities and rulebooks based on objects

Bugs fixed in the course of feature additions

Work done on Inform evolution proposal (IE-0015) World model enforcement fixes a number of known anomalies in the way that the standard world model handled containment, incorporation and so on. This enabled a number of bugs to be closed:

I7-2296 on things being privately-named causing their printed names not to be used in room description
I7-2220 on the definition of holding
I7-2219 on directions being held
I7-2178 on "if x is held by a supporter" resulting in false negative
I7-2158 on "all" determiner tests failing with relations
I7-2128 on holding relation tests failing for containment, support, or incorporation
I7-2046 = Mantis 2083 on when containers holding concealed items say they are "(empty)"
I7-2036 = Mantis 2073 on inconsistencies when containers or supporters holding concealed items are examined

I7-1980 = Mantis 2016 on understanding things by plural name of kind

Note about intest

On MacOS, intest is supplied inside the app for testing examples in the documentation of extension projects: a bug has been fixed which caused the test scripts in such examples to be wrongly extracted if characters appeared after the final double-quote of the test script (for example, any redundant white space). This isn't strictly speaking a core Inform bug fix, but it affects some users.

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