Below is a rough list of additions and changes for v5.3. If you are responsible for a change, please either elaborate it into an announcement item or tell me if it shouldn't be included in the announcement. Let me know if I've missed something.
mflatt: - ffi/com, ffi/unsafe/com (ff41a896) - scribble xref change (a1fd742e) - "raco exe" can make launchers (2c479683) - prop:cpointer (6cd2e3c7) - handle-evt change to match doc (084278fa) - MysterX changes: ffi/com, removed ActiveX support (11de33d4) - openssl improvements (efcb6078, 1032ce8a) - submodules (3d69dfab) - racket/draw easier access to cairo (4f197f4b) - use AVL trees for immutable hashes (df0651c2) - (turon) add box-cas!, etc (868dcb6d) - libpng15/libpng12 (c5d3750d) - sgl/gl: NURBS (a55a20f9) - new error message convention - date/time stuff (ff8a062b, 4323096a) - changed module-name-resolver interface (c8f4ac6a) robby: - grammar cycle check (93c21e34) - hole equality? (2afda360) - side-condition, define-judgment-form (b3c450ff) - -> contract optimizations (3f6a8355) - define-union-language (e4e4d70b) - plai changes (c42675f8) - add make-platform-bitmap (1945ff27) - define-extended-judgment-form (b7caf411) - drracket run 'main' submodule (72ec4070) - drracket easter egg tests (617df05e) - drracket run 'test' submodule (5c7a299c) - added context/path to contract errors (81252541) - added struct/dc, etc (5e03c7cf) - deprecate define-contract-struct (52fa588f) eli: - regexp improvements (0eb5f09e) - json library (b35d1b01, 54021323) - xrepl improvements (89dee6f6) - add completions for zsh (904d2666) - doc search improvement (ecc43ff1) james: - added would-be-future (a5676e9a) - added futures visualizer (b6f71ec4) ryanc: - added db cursors - added statement cache - syntax/parse template (exp) - syntax/parse roles asumu: - class/c changes (3eb963f6) - class contracts for racket/draw, racket/snip (30311058, 2e1d59f7) - add contracts to interfaces (6f4ad1de) - abstract methods (06091079) - generics (518bf0fd) - contracts for generics (552d6de9) - prompt/c, continuation-mark-key/c (de5c756d, 095d47fc) - mzlib deprecation notices (e4141077) neil: - image, flomaps changes? - resizable plot snips (3ed1a787) stamourv: - enable performance report for typed/racket/base (b73421f8) tewk: - distributed places (09bed0d6) samth: - keyword functions in TR (865a2cdc) - TR load time optimizations (794bfa50, 6bf14151) matthias: - teaching lang doc reorg (5fbb660a) _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev