This release announcement mistakenly omitted two important contributors: Tim Brown, and Dionna Amalie Glaze. Many thanks for their help!
John Clements > On Aug 3, 2020, at 09:35, John Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > Racket version 7.8 is now available from > > https://racket-lang.org/ > > > * Racket CS may become the default Racket implementation in the next > release. With the improvements in this release, Racket CS provides all > of the functionality of Racket BC (the current default > implementation). If, between this release and the next, no bugs are > discovered in Racket CS that are more serious than those typically > discovered in Racket BC, then Racket CS will become the default for > the next release. > > * Racket CS supports AArch32 and AArch64, including places and > futures. The implementation should be considered experimental in this > initial release. > > * Racket CS supports an "incremental" garbage-collection mode that can > eliminate long GC pauses for some applications, such as animations and > interactive games. > > * Racket CS unboxes local floating-point arithmetic (like Racket BC). > > * DrRacket's spell check features lower overhead and has fewer bugs. > > * Web Server performance under high concurrency is [better by up to an > order of magnitude](https://github.com/racket/web-server/pull/94/). > The Web Server is also more resistant to clients attempting to use > unconstrained resources. > > * The math library includes the Kronecker product. > > * Windows supports finer granularity for `sleep` when sleeping for short > periods of time, improving performance in animation. > > * The new prop:struct-field-info property provides static information > about field names. > > * Debugging context in Racket CS is limited to 64,000 frames > (approximately the same as Racket BC). This reduces the time taken to > handle out-of-memory failures. > > * In `plot`, the legend font and the plot font can be controlled > independently, and error-bars have an `#:invert?` option. > > * The plot and math libraries have new maintainers: Alex Harsányi for > plot and Pavel Pancheka and Jens Axel Søgaard for math. > > > The following people contributed to this release: > > Alex Harsányi, Alex Knauth, Alexander Shopov, Alexis King, Andrew Kent, > Andrew Mauer-Oats, Atharva Raykar, Ben Greenman, Benjamin Yeung, Bert De > Ketelaere, Bogdan Popa, David Christiansen, David Florness, Diego > Crespo, Fred Fu, Gary Baumgartner, Georges Dupéron, Gustavo Massaccesi, > J. Ian Johnson, Jack Firth, Jay McCarthy, Jens Axel Søgaard, Jesse > Alama, John Clements, Laurent Orseau, Leif Andersen, Luka Hadži-Đokić, > Marc, Matthew Butterick, Matthew Flatt, Matthew Parris, Matthew Turland, > Matthias Felleisen, Michael Ballantyne, Mike Sperber, Noah W M, Paulo > Matos, Pavel Panchekha, Philip McGrath, Raphael Das Gupta, Reuben > Thomas, Ricardo Herdt, Robby Findler, Ryan Culpepper, Sam > Tobin-Hochstadt, Sancho McCann, Sorawee Porncharoenwase, Spencer > Florence, Stephen De Gabrielle, Syntacticlosure, frogbird, kryptine, > rsiddharth, and yurkobb > > Feedback Welcome > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/67a075d1-a160-4fe1-a11f-137f06277127%40mtasv.net.
