So exciting! A massive thank you to everyone making Racket even better. :)
~slg ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, February 13, 2021 9:17 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users <[email protected]> wrote: > *** 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/06d8e16d-b7d2-41c6-ae76-99e33fecd3bd%40mtasv.net. -- 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/ukoSR2kZCzf72XmNinyZdHGendc-_ugz7O1PpEbyiZEQf1vzvt6BvqMzZXpfVU0w5poNXTTU1_9pkYWHVowSxgERtbhutX9awcQW-CfXbXk%3D%40sagegerard.com.
