26 May 1999, build 007

• Ported to Haskell98.
• Improved error recovery on Haskell failures.

26 Jan 1999, build 006

• Fixed exception bug that prevented COM to catch Haskell errors.

22 Jan 1999, build 005

• First release of ObjectScript. Finally it is possible to define Automation objects in Haskell itself.
• Added three demos that access Haskell from VB and Java.
• Fixed some bugs that prevented HaskellScript from displaying Haskell IO errors.

7 Jan 1999, build 004

• First release of HaskellDB, access databases from Haskell using combinators to express type-safe queries.
• Dropped HsHugs and dual Hugs/HaskellScript installation. HaskellScript now includes a complete Hugs release.

09/11/98 beta build 003

• Added weak pointer support to both HaskellScript and HsHugs. HaskellScript now supports the new Fran 2.07 release.

03/11/98 beta build 002

• Bugfix: "hshugs.exe" now reads the HaskellScript options too
• HaskellScript adds the current html page path to the search path

06/10/98  beta build 001

• Increased module limit to 200

18/09/98 build 0

• Fixed the search path mechanism of "hshugs.exe"
• Fixed a bug that sometimes crashed the windows scripting host
• Added compiled versions of the Visual Basic demos
• Fixed bug in the "options" program, that showed up when Hugs was not installed

15/09/98

• Language independent ActiveX script engine
• Haskell Script Server is implemented, use Haskell from VB, C++ or any other language.
• Language independent ActiveX event connector
• Full Word, Excel, Visio, MS Agent, and Windows Scripting Host object models supported
• Installation without Hugs possible.
• Full support for Dynamic HTML Scriptlets, create Haskell ActiveX components using DHTML as your graphics engine.

19/06/98

• Intelli-PathFinder (c)
• HTML object model completely supported.
• Complete rewrite of the COM library modules.
• HaskellScript now uses automatically generated interface files from H/Direct.
• Ported to June 98 release of Hugs.
• Improved error handling

15/05/98

• Made the scripting engine compatibale with the windows scripting host. Expect to see some demos in the near future;
• Fixed reload-twice bug;
• Updated agent demos for the latest agent release;
• Updated the 'hsupdown2' demo for the newest hugs release.

26/03/98

• Added draft of my thesis

01/03/98

• Ported to the new Hugs 1.4 release.
• Massive rewrite of the Scripting Engine to use the new HaskellServer component.
• Added real multi threading to the engine.

11/01/98

• Added support for module loading
• Searches modules in the current directory too (not yet across the web)
• Fixed another NT security bug (wish I had NT :-).

22/12/97

• Fixed NT security bug (couldn't write temporary file)
• Added AgentScript
• Fixed Type library bug (server execution error)
• Added WebHugs (read HTML as a literate file)
• Compiled with full optimisation

5/12/97

• Totally new implementation
• Added error handling
• Added separate Hugs Server as a Com object
• *Dropped* support for scriptlets and inline scripts
• Added modules as the way to specify scripts
• Main.main is the only entry point now
• Made the engine non-specific for IE (= general scripting engine)
• Added support for concurrent haskell
• Johan von Boisman told me how to fix the ActiveDesktop bug.
• Incremented number of Malloc pointers from 100 to 10000.

13/11/97

• Fixed 'Hscript.hs' not found error.
• Fixed repeated event error messages from HScript after syntax error.
• Added fran animation demo.