[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.1.1

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 27 13:08:24 EDT 2014

At Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:25:22 -0400, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> mflatt:
>   - optimizations (most from Gustavo Massaccesi) (82ffd405, 25c05d66,
>     a7a912ee, 1f2f7a1d, d14b4a80, 769c5b6e, 35eb6562, 15423988)
>   - add replace-evt (as suggested by Jan Dvořák) (bc69a9b0)
>   - fixing letrec updates? (eg 926e64f5?)
>   - Mac OS X Yosemite Pango repair (76f1ebde)
>   - DPI-aware racket/gui on Windows (a64a1cb1)
>   - raco pkg add '--binary-lib' (05523a0b, b2b00010)

Plus the 32-bit Windows repair:

 * Mac OS X Yosemite: fixed compatibility problems, mainly by patching
   the Pango text-drawing library that is bundled with Racket.

 * Windows, 32-bit version: fixed window-update crashes by patching the
   Cairo drawing library that is bundled with Racket.

 * Windows: made the GUI library DPI-aware.

 * Added a "binary library" installation mode to install packages
   without source or documentation. Use the `--binary-lib` option with
   `raco pkg install`.

 * Repaired the compiler's use-before-defined analysis for certain
   forms of nested `letrec`, some `let` forms, and some uses of `set!`
   or `with-continuation-mark`.

 * Added bytecode optimizations (thanks to Gustavo Massaccesi).

 * Added a `replace-evt` event constructor (as suggested by Jan Dvořák).


>   - performance tuning (c570a862, 1809df45)
>   - windows: use native api for dates (135ccf09)
>   - allow mixing exceptions with ffi/unsafe/alloc (from Jan Dvořák)
>    (8bd5aa38)
>   - senora gc (2916fc34, a312f499, 881990ed)
>   - throw out latex back-end for picts ? (77ddf71b)
>   - chaperones w/o redirections (1f1a10db, a8d0534e)
>   - Windows: fix handling of junctions as links (cf7c0134)
>   - behavior of numpad Enter (7d388a07, a41cc0c3)
>   - UDP improvements (2a387ace)
>   - natipkg (40f5ec07)

These seem too minor for the announcement.



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