The Scala programming language has been updated to version 2.1.7. Scala is "a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way," and its compiler produces Java classes or .NET assemblies that can use other Java or .NET frameworks without glue code. The new release " fixes many compiler bugs, and provides a new fsc command for the fast Scala compiler. It has library additions like the actors library and support for multi-line strings"