Archive 1.6.1 release announcement.

Author: theraven

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+GNUstep Objective-C Runtime 1.6.1
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+
+This is a point release to the seventh official release of the GNUstep
+Objective-C runtime (a.k.a.  libobjc2).  This runtime was designed to support
+the features of Objective-C 2 for use with GNUstep and other Objective-C
+programs.  Highlights of this release include:
+
+- Improved support for ARC autorelease pools.
+
+- Some small bug fixes in blocks support.
+
+- Improvements to the Objective-C++ unified exception model support.
+
+- Updated optimisation passes to work with LLVM 3.1
+
+You may obtain the code for this release from subversion at the following
+subversion branch:
+
+svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/libobjc2/1.6.1
+
+Alternatively, a tarball is available from:
+
+http://download.gna.org/gnustep/libobjc2-1.6.1.tar.bz2
+
+The runtime library is responsible for implementing the core features of the
+object model, as well as exposing introspection features to the user.  The
+GNUstep runtime implements Apple's Objective-C Runtime APIs, and a small number
+of GCC APIs for legacy compatibility.
+
+This library is based on the Étoilé Objective-C Runtime, an earlier research
+prototype, and includes support for non-fragile instance variables,
+type-dependent dispatch, and object planes.  It is fully backwards compatible
+with the FSF's GCC 4.2.1 Objective-C ABI and also implements a new ABI that is
+supported by Clang and Étoilé's LanguageKit and is required for some of the
+newer features.
+
+Although the runtime has been tested by several people, and is being used
+extensively by the Étoilé project, it is relatively new code and may still
+contain bugs.  If you come across any problems, please report them to the
+GNUstep Developer mailing list <[email protected]>.