[racket-dev] release notes

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I understand that one can reasonably view these as bug fixes. Nevertheless,
> they affect observable behavior of the functions in a way that could
> possibly break others code (as opposed to more "obvious" bug fixes that are
> likely to only affect others' code by fixing problems with it).
>
> So these should be explicitly mentioned in a HISTORY file somewhere so that
> someone who upgrades from, say, 5.3.2 to 6.2 can figure out which version
> made this change that's causing them problems.

In that case...

>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> > Jay, Jan Dvořák: formlet improvements
>>
>> * web-server/formlets supports generic input formlets and strings on
>> all formlet default values.
>>
>> > Jay: Host and Content-Length headers in http-client.rkt:
>> > (dc8f52dbb1e3ca48622629a76000b5fea021697d)
>>
>> I think this is an error fix.

* net/url will add Host: and Content-Length: headers to HTTP requests
iff those headers are not already included. This increases
compatibility with many servers.

>> > Jay: get/set-pixel in bitmap-dc% now respects alpha
>> > (551e536f3e7841b6ee7911da560f11b70a227292)
>>
>> I believe this is an error fix.

* bitmap-dc% pixel operations now respect alpha bits, rather than
silently ignoring them.

>> > Jay: plai gc2 improvements
>>
>> I think this was just an error. We could say "* plai/gc2 supports
>> moving collectors", but it was supposed to before.
>>
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>
>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>
>



-- 
Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93