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GnuCOBOL 3.2 includes many new features compared to the previous release, while maintaining full source compatibility.

The amount of changes from GnuCOBOL 3.1 to 3.2 is huge, here are some of the highlights:

• improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match the selected dialect (see NEWS if you compile with any -std to know more about the implications), a complete new dialect GCOS and support for more COBOL statements, intrinsic functions and syntax from both "old" and new dialects
• highly improved run-times for several statements, along with less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled
• fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and runtime options to change the way files are handled, see NEWS and runtime.cfg
• improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support
• output of context for diagnostics
• improvements for reproducible builds... read more

GnuCOBOL 3.1.2 includes many new features compared to the previous release, while maintaining full source compatibility - (too much to note here but found in the NEWS file), here are some of the highlights:

Huge improvements for compatibility to different COBOL dialects, better error handling and adjustable exceptions per COBOL 2002/2014; more modern format for diagnostic messages (especially useful when used in an integrated development environment possible in Emacs, Vim, VSCodium and others) and improved source-level debugging - along with all the features seen in 3.1-rc1 (+ TYPEDEFs).... read more

GnuCOBOL 3.1 is considered to be the best and most stable version we ever had. Compared to the last release of 2.2 it features a lot more COBOL dialect support (starting with REPORT SECTION, going on with adjustments to ORGANIZATION INDEXED, over GENERATE JSON/GENERATE XML and ending in hundreds of additional COBOL syntax from the COBOL standards and different extensions from IBM, MicroFocus, ACUCOBOL and others).
The 3.1-rc1 has been formally released and is now the default download.... read more

It is with great pleasure and enthusiam to announce that GnuCOBOL 2.2 has been formally released and is now the default download.

Many thanks to Simon Sobisch, Ron Norman, Edward Hart, Dave Pitts, Sergey Kashyrin, Luke Smith, Arnold Trembley and many others that put in the efforts to make this release possible.

We get one giant leap closer to consolidating all the various branches that occurred starting back in 2009. It's been a lot of work, a lot of fun, with a few disagreements thrown in.... read more

GnuCOBOL 2 slides ever closer. Simon, Edward, and other players (especially Simon) have been hard at it getting a stable, production worthy GnuCOBOL 2.0 ready for a final unveiling.

It has been a long wait for everyone, a lot of hard work by a few, and welcomed bug reports by the community at large. The lead developers deserve a round of appreciative applause and pats on the back. Click the big green download button to get your own copy of the 2.0rc2 source kit. The more testing, the more Simon can be assured that 2.0final will be the COBOL we all expect it to be.... read more

Yayys.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnu-cobol-1.1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnucobol/gnu-cobol-1.1.tar.gz.sig

Cheers,
Brian

Ron Norman has developed a Report Writer module for GNU Cobol 2.

Testing copy is posted to SVN at

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/open-cobol/code/branches/reportwriter gnu-cobol-reportwriter

See http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/cobol/thread/1bfc0356/?limit=25#9505 for some build instructions.

Many thanks to Ron.

Cheers

On the 30th anniversary of the original GNU announcement on Usenet. GNU Cobol has been dubbed an official GNU project.

So much owed to the efforts of Roger While and Keisuke Nishida

More soon.

Yep, finally, OpenCOBOL 2.0. Roger While's OpenCOBOL 2.0pre-rel

User Defined Functions is a big part of the changes, there are hundreds of others. More documentation will follow, along with samples and help in the Discussions.

Lots and lots of thanks to Simon for managing the repositories here on SourceForge.

This is a pre-release, so be wary, while enjoying this very modern COBOL.

http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/code/HEAD/tree/branches/open-cobol-2.0/

Not much to say really. Formality was actually a while ago, but there is news coming about a new pre-release.

The pre-release source code has been checked in. The plan is a mid-term Community Edition that will include some small patches that have been found useful and proven since February 2009. Expectations are that this code base will be superseded by any 2.0 release.

svn co https://open-cobol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/open-cobol open-cobol

The source release from 06-Feb-2009 has been uploaded. Matches the version documented in the superb http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf

OpenCOBOL produces C code from COBOL source and
compiles using a native C compiler.
Most of the 85 COBOL standard is covered with
this release along with some 2002 standard, MF and ACU extensions.

OpenCOBOL version 0.32 has been released.
This is mainly a stability update and includes fixes
to be able to run on Powerpc.
New features include :
Support LINAGE clause
New variable NUMBER-OF-CALL-PARAMETERS
Support larger redefines for MF
Support ACCEPT/DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT-NAME/VALUE
SUPPORT ACCEPT/DISPLAY ARGUMENT-NUMBER/VALUE