Swarm 1.0.4 Available

[Marcus G. Daniels]

To the collectively evolving,

The Swarm team at the Santa Fe Institute is pleased to announce that
Swarm 1.0.4 is ready.

Please refer to the Swarm World-Wide Web release page for download
URLs, detailed release notes, and an overview of 1.0.3 <-> 1.0.4
portability issues. 

    http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/release.html

Swarm 1.0.4 is intended to be a stable alternative to potential
interface changes in the near future.

Although Swarm 1.0.4 is not a major release, we have implemented more
features than we originally had expected.  For this reason, Swarm
1.0.4 may also be of interest to users not pending on bug fixes.

A secondary reason for the 1.0.4 release is in preparation for the
merge of the Java GUI development, which is nearing completion.  Many
of the changes in Swarm 1.0.4 are part of a general effort to
eliminate dependence on Tcl/Tk and to improve the readability and
modularity of the Swarm libraries.  The Hive hopes that these
improvements will help developers that are interested in embedding
Swarm in useful or novel environments.

We very much appreciate your suggestions and bug reports. 
address@hidden is an optimal place to send them!