Scala 2.8.2 RC3

A new release candidate is available for the next maintenance
release in our old 2.8.x series: Scala 2.8.2 RC3 is available from
our Download Page at: http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads

This release candidate includes a few additional fixes and
improvements to the presentation compiler with respect to RC2. We
expect a final release to be available shortly. This maintenance
release is intended to be fully binary compatible with the existing
version 2.8.1.

Please help us with the testing of this release candidate, and
let us know of any binary incompatibility issues, or other
problems. The list of improvements in Scala 2.8.2 RC3 is
available below.

The Scala 2.8.2 distribution
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This Release Candidate is made available for testing purposes
only and is not intended for production environments. We will
wait at least one week before issuing a final release, in order
to allow developers and testers to send us their feedback.

What is new?
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The 2.8.2 release of Scala includes many bug fixes and
improvements, in particular:

* Added compatibility with the new presentation compiler,
required by the new Scala IDE for Eclipse

* Fixes for:

https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-1591
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3616
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3687
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3719
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3838
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3946
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3950
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4067
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4759

* Improvements and fixes related to signatures, nested
objects, and actors

* Other fixes and improvements (see the complete list below)

The following changes have been included:

23893, 24385, 24466, 24689, 24691, 24916, 24918, 24955, 25173,
25174, 25175, 25176, 25177, 25178, 25179, 25180, 25181, 25182,
25183, 25184, 25185, 25186, 25187, 25188, 25189, 25190, 25191,
25192, 25193, 25194, 25195, 25196, 25197, 25198, 25199, 25200,
25201, 25211, 25252, 25291, 25378, 25596, 25625, 25661, 25664.

(see https://codereview.scala-lang.org/fisheye/changelog/scala-svn?cs=XXXXX)

Note: at this time we are phasing out our old sbaz package
manager in order to move to newer tools like Maven, sbt, etc.
Sbaz is currently deprecated, and it will no longer be available
as part of the Scala distribution in the future.