The Automake 1.18 release has been published, a utility for automatically generating makefiles that conform to GNU project's coding standards. In this new version:
- Support for the programming language Algol 68 has been added using the GNU Algol 68 compiler.
- The default transition to the ustar tar archive format has been made, supporting longer file names.
- The mdate-sh script, used when building Texinfo, has been enhanced to obtain the date through the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable instead of using the file's modification time.
- A 'dist-bzip3' option has been added for creating a tar archive for distributions using bzip3 compression.
- For tap-driver.sh, a '--stderr-prefix' option has been introduced to add a custom prefix to the beginning of each line output to stderr.
- Improved support for the Perl language.
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