[racket-dev] release notes

I mean that I think these comments should go into a HISTORY.txt file
somewhere. Shall I put them in one, or do you mind doing it?

Robby


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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