Love to see it, great work everyone. On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM John Benediktsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> “You don’t want just to develop for ARM, you want to actually use ARM in > your day-to-day work on the desktop.” - Linus Torvalds > > I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.102! You can find > download links on the Factor website: > > https://factorcode.org > > This release includes 1,068 commits from the following contributors: > > Aleksander Sabak, Andrii Puhachenko, Chris Double, Dmitry Matveyev, Doug > Coleman, Eric Willigers, Giftpflanze, John Benediktsson, Leo Mehraban, Rudi > Grinberg, Sebastiaan Speck, Zoltán Kéri, @knottio, @ronnie-w > > Highlights of this release include: > > * A new GTK4 UI backend, now the default on 64-bit Linux; 32-bit Linux > continues to use GTK3, which remains a build option on other supported > Linux architectures. > * New 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V Linux ports, with optimizing compiler > backends, foreign calls and callbacks, and support in both the C++ and Zig > VMs. > * DirectWrite text rendering on Windows, including color glyphs, > typography controls, and better support for large output and complex > scripts. > * More responsive rendering and selection of large text across platforms, > with fixes for display scaling, listener scrolling, and adjacent text > backgrounds. > * Expanded native ARM64 SIMD support, half-precision and bfloat16 > operations, and improved foreign calls, variadic callbacks, and native > va_list support. > * Experimental register allocators and optional compiler optimizations, > alongside fixes to stack inference, generated code, and GC root tracking. > * Updated Unicode data to 18.0.0 and timezone data to 2026c, with bindings > for SQLite 3.53.4, Raylib 6.0, and Lua 5.5. > * Faster process launching and native process-exit notifications on Linux, > macOS, BSD, and Windows, with polling as a fallback. > * Extensive fixes to HTTP parsing, TLS identity checks, cooperative waits, > resource cleanup, signal handling, and VM memory safety. > > Compatibility notes > > * 64-bit Linux builds now select GTK4 by default; use -ui-backend=gtk3 > when bootstrapping if GTK3 is required. 32-bit Linux uses GTK3 and does not > support GTK4. > * Windows UI text now uses DirectWrite by default, so text metrics and > appearance may differ from the previous Uniscribe backend. > callable is now a mixin that includes words; code that assumes all > callables support the sequence protocol should use quotation-like instead. > * Fixed-array struct fields now validate input buffer lengths, and > stricter HTTP and multipart parsing rejects malformed or incomplete input > previously accepted. > * PEG repetition and list parsers now omit ignore values. Minimum counts > refer to successful matches, so repeat1 and list-of-many can return empty > output when all matched items are hidden. > * The buffered HTTP client now decompresses gzip responses before > character decoding and rejects unsupported content codings. > with-http-request still provides bytes before content decompression. > * Ambiguous Objective-C selectors now require a class-qualified name such > as Class.selector when imported signatures differ. > * Tuple literals reject duplicate slot names, and minimum and maximum now > throw for empty iota and repetition instead of returning a value. > * Command-line option names and aliases must now be unique, including the > default --help option. Exact names take precedence over no- negation. > * SQLite connections now use persistent WAL mode, which requires a local > filesystem. with-transaction uses BEGIN IMMEDIATEand acquires the write > lock at transaction start, including for read-only work. Write > serialization is per process; wrap raw SQL and DDL writes in > with-transaction or serialize-transaction to participate. > * Building the experimental Zig VM now requires Zig 0.17.0. > > For more details, please see the full announcement at: > > https://re.factorcode.org/2026/10/factor-0-102-now-available.html > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >
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