[freem-users] FreeM 0.62.1 released

[Serena Willis]

We are pleased to announce the release of FreeM 0.62.1

New features in this release include:

* Add object-oriented programming features
* Add multi-environment support
* Add support for shedding privileges and -g and -u flags to support this
* Add the ability to create Solaris packages
* Add the ability to create Debian packages
* Begin MWAPI support using the Motif widget set
* Add memory-backed globals for use with formally global-backed SSVNs 
that do not need to persist beyond sessions

Binary packages are available (see 
https://freem.coherent-logic.com/downloads.cfm) for the following platforms:

* Debian GNU/Linux Bookworm, Bullseye, and Trixie on amd64, i386, armhf, 
and arm64 (this includes Mobian Phosh on the Pine Phone)
* Ubuntu Noble and Oracular on amd64, armhf, and arm64
* Solaris 8 on sparcv9
* OpenIndiana Hipster

Source is of course available, and is known to build and run on:

* FreeBSD
* OpenBSD
* NetBSD
* GNU/Linux
* Solaris on SPARC and Intel

Ports we have yet to verify for this release:

* macOS
* Cygwin
* WSL/WSL2
* IBM AIX 5L 5.1
* Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1B
* SCO OpenServer 5.0.7

Ports known to be broken:

* GNU HURD (due to lack of shared memory support)

Please see https://freem.coherent-logic.com for more information