# newLISP® v.10.7.1 Maintenance Release 2017-01-31

This stable release adds new functionality to existing functions, adds one new function and fixes bugs.

### Additions and changes

- The `now` function on MS Windows, reports the type of daylight savings used in the GMT offset field.
- The new `history` functions reports the call history of a function.
- The maximum length of a symbol has been extended to 1022 characters from 255.
- When creating symbols with a hash functor an error message will be thrown on symbol strings longer 1022 characters.

### Bug fixes

- The GMT offset field in the `now` function would report the wrong value when not in daylight savings time. This bug was introduced in 10.7.0 and did not exist before.
- On some platforms file positions went out of sync when using `search`, `seek` and `read-line`.
- `mat` with a scalar second argument was broken on 64-bit versions when the scalar parameter was not a float.
- fixed a problem in `--`, `++` when passing a `nil` argument which was not content of a symbol.

### Compatibility with previous versions

This version is compatible with the previous version 10.7.0.

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