*** Racket 8.0 is here! ***
Racket version 8.0 is now available from
https://racket-lang.org/
Racket 8.0 marks the first release where Racket CS is the default
implementation. Creating, polishing, and adopting Racket CS has been a
4-year effort involving the entire Racket community. At this point,
Racket CS is faster, easier to maintain and develop, and compatible
with existing Racket programs. Racket CS will continue to improve, but
at this point it is ready to be the primary variant of Racket for all
Racketeers. More details about the current state of Racket CS are
available in the recent blog post (https://blog.racket-lang.org/).
Other notable changes:
* Racket CS has better parallel garbage collection, a 10%-30% reduction
in the size of generated code, and various targeted optimizations.
* A rewrite of the test-engine package allows the `#lang` versions of
teaching languages to produce linked test-failure messages.
* The release comes with a new mark-up DSL for composing text to
appear in the REPL (simple-tree-text-markup).
* Redex has an added `define-overriding-judgment` form and improved
error source location reporting.
* Windows scrolling speed reflects the system preference.
* The db package uses the utf8mb4 charset for MySQL connections.
The following people contributed to this release:
Alex Harsányi, Alex Knauth, Alexander Shopov, Alexis King, Bert De
Ketelaere, Bogdan Popa, Cameron Moy, David Van Horn, Davis Silverman,
Dominik Pantůček, Florian Weimer, Fred Fu, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jack
Firth, James Wilcox, Joel Dueck, John Clements, Jonathan Chan, Lîm
Tsú-thuàn, Mark, Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen, Michael Ballantyne,
Mike Sperber, Paulo Matos, Pavel Panchekha, Peter Zhong, Phil Nguyen,
Philip McGrath, Robby Findler, Ryan Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt,
Sergiu Ivanov, Shu-Hung You, Sorawee Porncharoenwase, Stefan Schwarzer,
Stephen Chang, Stephen De Gabrielle, Walter H. Yang, WarGrey Gyoudmon
Ju, kurinoku, xxyzz, and yjqww6
----------------------------------------------------------------------
*** Windows users should note that as of this release date (2021-02-13),
Windows SmartScreen is observed to flag the Racket download bundles
as potentially malicious, based on the low number of times this
bundle has been downloaded and installed. Clicking a label with the
text “more info” appears to be necessary to install Racket
8.0. We’re hopeful that this issue will go away … soon? ***
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Racket Users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/06d8e16d-b7d2-41c6-ae76-99e33fecd3bd%40mtasv.net.
