
                   NEW FEATURES in version 0.9.8.

This release should be stable. It is made to make room for the next
one, which is planned to be a partial rewrite of certain major
internals aimed at furter reduction of the library size.


*   Overridable String comparisons using the usual relational operators ">",
    ">=", "<", "<=", "==", "!=" and employing the current locale.

*   User-definable explicit casts of non-primitive types.

                   BUGS

*   JEL does not run under IBM JDK 1.1.8 on Linux with JIT on if it was
    compiled by JDK 1.1 compiler with -O flag. This is either problem of
    javac or IBM's JIT. Note that distributed version is compiled with
    jdk 1.2 compiler and works with IBM JDK 1.1.8 JIT.

*   In Microsoft JVM with JIT enabled "d2i" instruction was not implemented
    correctly. To see if this BUG is fixed in Your JVM run the JEL
    testsuite, if all tests pass You are safe.
    

                       PLANNED FEATURES

1. More examples to come.

Sat Jun  9 17:21:05 CEST 2001 
           Konstantin Metlov.
