History of Inform releases

The history of releases of the Inform programming language for interactive fiction dates back to 1993. The Inform 6 compiler and Library have always been separately maintained and released.

Original
Inform
Compiler
Version



Library
Release

Inform 7
System
Version



Date



Reference



Notes

1

May 9, 1993

Simultaneous release of Curses.

2

June 9, 1993

3

November, 1993

4

January, 1994

5

June, 1994

5.5

June, 1995

Last of the pre-Inform 6 releases.

6

6/1

April 29, 1996

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6.02

May 5, 1996

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6.03

May 13, 1996

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6.04

6/2

September, 1996

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6.05

September, 1996

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6.10

6/3

December 18, 1996

6.11

6/4

January 28, 1997

6.12

March 26, 1997

6.13

6/5

April 5, 1997

6/6

August 18, 1997

6/6

August 19, 1997

Rerelease with tracing code removed

6/7

September, 1997

6.14

September 8, 1997

6.15

March 23, 1998

6.20

December, 1996

6/8

December 13, 1998

6.21

6/9

April 29, 1999

April 29, 1999

Announcement of upcoming Glulx support

6/10

November 6, 1999

Original release

6/10

November 13, 1999

Bugfix release

6.21.1

November 24, 2000

6.21.2

August 15, 2000

6.21.3

November 6, 2002

Included support for Glulx

6.21.4

June 17, 2003

6.30

6/11

February 4, 2004

6.30.1

February 27, 2004

6.30.2

June 6, 2004

6.31

February 10, 2006

6/10N

3K27

April 30, 2006

Public beta

3K56

May 4, 2006

3L95

May 14, 2006

3M43

May 21, 2006

3P53

June 9, 2006

3R85

June 26, 2006

3T38

July 10, 2006

6/11N

3V01

August 2, 2006

Preliminary Glulx support for Inform 7

3Z95

September 14, 2006

4B91

November 10, 2006

4F59

December 21, 2006

4K40

January 23, 2007

4K41

January 23, 2007

Bugfix for Mac OS X on G4 and G5 processors

4S08

March 25, 2007

Fixed many bugs, incorporates IDeaS from external consultation, and adds preliminary Linux support

4U65

April 27, 2007

4U67

May 7, 2007

Mac OS X only release

The "N" series libraries are modified versions of the regular Inform 6 libraries with special support for Inform 7. The first modified version, 6/10N, was actually based on parts of 6/9 as well as 6/10. The goal is to eventually merge the "N" series into the main series, producing one library that can be used with both Inform 6 and Inform 7, compiling to both Z-code and Glulx.