[racket-dev] 5.0.2 changelog

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Here is the raw changelog for 5.0.2. If you would like to summarize your
> changes please do so, otherwise someone (me/eli/ryan) will do it for
> you. If there are any other important items to note for this release
> please make a note of them.
>
> Matthew Flatt
> commit bf4fc2574c06132fece7342219fe6ea589e42f6d
>    fix syntax colorer for #true and #false
> commit 99df8e126790077c11b4363a273ebf777bff8514
>    allow internal definitions in `when', `unless', `cond, `case', `match'
> commit 15302dc844ecf931145f895677cc8eb765b69960
>    adjust futures to decouple blocked futures from worker threads
>     which required adding a notion of "lightweight continuation" to
>     the runtime system, where a lightweight continuation involves
>     only frames from JIT0generated code (so that details of the stack
>     layout are known, for example)
>
> Mike Sperber
> commit 38cf78e213ee8f246ce322becb419aaed6ec2391
>    Allow specifying arbitary expressions in a signature declaration.
>
>    Fixes PR 11282
>
> Vincent St-Amour
> commit 8baa1682af76965400ab1071a46f8ba50f7c7165
>    Turned the optimizer on by default.
> commit 8d6230956dc8c207c097a389fa1f0c7273bb55b7
>    Documented the optimizer.
>
> Jon Rafkind
> commit d112eb4ceb8b94aebf1f699d1591386579e07a22
>    add line numbers pane to drracket
>
> Will M. Farr
> commit beb21754564fa8f20eae7e0e3109f2c1d06260c4
>    Added flvector-copy (with tests and docs).
> commit 82096abb1b6fd4a8872f528437ba95c44a4aedba
>    Added interation forms for/vector, for*/vector, for/flvector, and
> for*/flvector and for-clause in-flvector.
>
> Jay McCarthy
> commit 01a41a812e83d0fb3a31940de0b52504ac4bbdb6
>    Closing pr11216. Adding one armed check-error to teaching languages.
> commit d17deb5fef8342e2dc25b6ddd027bd71d6373a8f
>    Adding hash table functions to ASL
> commit 407dcee206678785b4b87bb513d7ba5f55ad8ab5
>    Adding match to ASL
> commit 347e946548c26bd51b682284816aa7f6f34b2d92
>    Adding WebSocket support

I don't know where this list came from but it is lacking.

There are some changes to PLAI and to the Web server.

Jay

>
> Stevie Strickland
> commit ec0711bf4996dde06ecddbc8fcb95f44987a6915
>    Add chaperone contract-related properties.
>
>      * Flat contracts are chaperone contracts, and chaperone contracts
>        are (proxy) contracts.
>      * Check in chaperone contracts that a chaperone (or chaperone-friendly
>        value) is indeed returned.
>
> Ryan Culpepper
> commit 5a8d2f010e9e7858ff8c32ffadf73adac11cd98a
>    added data/gvector, docs (need tests)
> commit d7a87c79e0211071fecb8474e6f7f66317b089d4
>    Merged changes to syntax/parse
>      Changed backtracking algorithm, runtime representations
>        - syntax classes, ~describe no longer implicitly commit
>        - ~describe no longer delimits effect of cut
>      Added keyword & optional args for stxclasses
>      Added ~do and #:do, ~post, ~commit and #:commit,
>        ~delimit-cut and #:no-delimit-cut
>      Added syntax/parse/debug, syntax/parse/experimental/*
>        - expr/c for contracting macro sub-expressions
>          moved from syntax/parse to syntax/parse/experimental/contract
>        - syntax class reflection (~reflect, ~splicing-reflect)
>        - eh-alternative-sets (~eh-var)
>        - provide-syntax-class/contract
>          (only for params, not attrs so far)
>      Changed ~fail to not include POST progress (#:fail still does)
>        old (~fail _) is now (~post (~fail _))
>      Made msg argument of ~fail optional
>      Removed generic "repetition constraint violated" msg
>      Removed atom-in-list stxclass
>      Removed unnecessary datum->syntax on cdr of pair pattern
>        massive improvements to long-list microbenchmarks
>      Optimization: integrable syntax classes (id, expr, keyword)
>        need better measurements
>      Optimization: ad hoc elimination of head/tail choice point
>        for (EH ... . ()) patterns
>      Added unstable/wrapc (proc version of expr/c)
>
> Robby Findler
> commit 5e01ac55373d2987410da7d95f26f42535cfae3b
>    added a pinhole property to images
> commit 561ac12a91e02fbc298272cc97d96e00d92f98ae
>    got started on the ->i parser
>
> Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
> commit 0635fc6d7542ea412e4586ca6ca051fdd2d91adb
>    Create data/ collection.
>
>     - Initially populated with queues, skip-lists, and interval-maps
> from unstable/
>     - Tests in tests/data, docs in data/scribblings
>
> Jens Axel Søgaard
> commit 64c3a98e45bda91b39eb811456ab409b72f0936e
>    Added triangle/sss, triangle/ass, triangle/sas, triangle/ssa,
> triangle/aas, triangle/asa, and, triangle/saa.
>
> Kevin Tew
> commit 5bb2e148de87457ebb4790287d3b83b872c91a78
>    Parallel docs build
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