Hi Jon! Yep, that’s true! Good idea, I’ll bump the post.
Thanks, John. > On Oct 14, 2026, at 7:31 AM, Jon Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations to all who contributed to the release ! > Just to be sure, it's the first version where factor "works" on macos > arm64 (since you are quoting about it) ? If so shouldn't it be the > first biggest highlight of them all ? ( 101 doesn't have it > https://re.factorcode.org/2025/12/factor-0-101-now-available.html ) > Cheers ! > Jon > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM Harold Hausman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
