SparForte is a scripting language, template language and shell based on Ada and Bourne shell. It has been in development for over 20 years and has about 135,000 lines of code.
This release contains bug fixes prior to undertaking value meta labels (Phase 2) which provides units of measure and security policies. Support for Ubuntu 26.04 and PCRE2. 48 changes.
An overview can be found at:
The release notes are at
SparForte can be downloaded from the home page at