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We are pleased to announce the release of FTN95 version 5.20. This is available for download now to supported users.

Changes:

• Support for Visual Studio 2008
  
• Additional project support in Visual Studio 2005/2008. User folders can now be created in the solution explorer
  
• Plato Version 4 now supports Unicode. Note that version 4 is not compatible with Windows 9x
  
• Further support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
  

Outline summary of bugs that have been fixed:

• 'Compile' file in Visual Studio solution explorer behaviour fixed.
  
• Further fixes and support for debugging under Vista.
  
• False type warning when using REAL(COUNT(i)) as an argument.
  
• Error not reported for array assignment with mismatched shapes.
  
• ALLOCATE does not fail when size of block overflows.
  
• /OLD_ARRAYS gives a false error report when A(1) is not an argument.
  
• Missing "TYPE" in "END TYPE" causes a module to terminate prematurely.
  
• Error not reported when named DO statement does not have matching ENDDO name.
  
• OPENF@ not working under .NET.
  
• NINT(AR,1) fails for two-dimensional array AR.
  
• PRIVATE not implemented when member is used in module.
  
• Initialisation of TYPE members within a MODULE fails for large arrays.
  
• "Operand incompatible with opcode" failure on integer*1 = integer*4 assignment.
  
• USE ONLY f=>g does not link when the function g is declared in another module.
  
• Compiler crashes when writing linker data for a certain module.
  
• Warning about unreachable code not provided in /DEBUG mode.
  
• SUM intrinsic used as argument for DOT_PRODUCT does not compile.
  
• IBITS not working for INTEGER*8.
  
• /CONVERT not working.
  
• IACHAR not available in array initialisation implied DO loop.
  
• Explicit declaration needed for a function used on RHS of a statement function.
  
• False warning when compiler-defined constant is not used.
  
• Use of ALLOCATABLE in TYPE declaration is now tollerated though not standard conforming