[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.1

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 29 07:01:43 EDT 2014

At Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:33:07 -0400, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> mflatt:
> - ARM JIT: fix software floating-point (ffb0dd52)
> - add plumbers (d5b42f8c)
> - raco make: improve parallelism (9e3b9844)
> - deprecate 3-arg module name resolver calls (8aaa3fc5)
> - win32: support symbolic links (3e3cb716, 9fed5b58)
> - drawing, bounding boxes, picts, scribble
>    (970b040d, 37af1c8e, c4a58dc4, 05760a12, dac8ba28)

These seem too minor to mention in a release announcement. (FWIW, I
think the first one was included in 6.0.1.)

Possibly, it's worth noting the upgraded native libraries on Windows
and Mac OS X:

 * Upgraded and normalized versions of graphics libraries and
   dependencies (Pango, Cairo, GLib, etc.) that are bundled with Racket
   on Windows and Mac OS X. For example, FreeType support is
   consistently enabled.

Like Robby's bullets, though, feel free to leave that one out.


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