Version 3.27 Available

Approximatrix is happy to announce the release of Simply Fortran 3.27 for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux. The latest release adds a number of user-requested features, addresses debugger issues, and incorporates bug fixes in the development environment.

Builds may now be interrupted from the toolbar or Build menu if the user wishes to interrupt the process. This feature can be helpful with longer builds if a problem is visually identified early on during this procedure. The Compiler and Support Options window now includes an option to stop compiling and reporting errors after a specified number of errors have been reported.

Appearance and Behavior settings, which includes editor color themes, can now be exported and imported from within the Appearance and Behavior Options window. This feature allows users to maintain consistent theming across separate computers and platforms. Additionally, on Windows, the font sizes used for editor tab titles and auxiliary panels is now configurable in the Appearance and Behavior Options window. These additions should provide more flexibility for users with high resolution displays.

Minor bugs on the Windows platform have been addressed. The Compiler and Support Options window now properly lists the location of the C compiler. The Aplot library on Windows should no longer perform a double-draw operation on first display of plots. Minor documentation corrections were added for the AppGraphics library.

Significant improvements were added to the macOS debugging engine on Intel platforms. Specifically, the debugger interface, transparent to the user, should now detect that the debugger has reached a deadlock condition during startup and interrupt the debugger engine correctly. The resulting fix should eliminate intermittent unresponsive behavior of the debugger in certain situations. Additionally, patches have been applied to the GNU Debugger to handle issues with modern macOS changes that had caused some lockup conditions. The debugger is still unavailable on ARM-powered macOS systems.

The latest version is available for all platforms on the Download page.