Scala 2.8.2 final

The Scala Team is happy to announce the next maintenance release in
our old 2.8.x series: Scala 2.8.2 final is available from our
Download Page at: http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads

This version is provided as a binary-compatible update to our
previous Scala 2.8.x series; we recommend our most recent stable
version (currently Scala 2.9.1) for all new developments.

The Scala 2.8.2 distribution
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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.