[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3.2

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 17 14:43:46 EST 2013

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below.  Please
> mail me new items and/or edits.
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>
> mflatt:
>  - generalized local-type tracking for unboxing (bdf1c3e1)
>  - removed sirmail (3e505af4)
>  - added file/untar (3a76581a), file/untgz (0f47069f), file/unzip
> (8a77d87a)
>  - raco setup: use db for doc tags (8c1b5db8)
>  - serialize: simplify quotable values (20bdbb6d)
>  - f[xl]vectors: read/write (492167c2 with tewk, 9cf821b3) and serialize
> (9e8477dd)
>  - faster FFI calls (42a03421)
>  - support MinGW build (5b016b4c)
>  - ffi/com: added com-get-property* (0f909af7)
>  - added phantom byte strings (aa08a684)
>  - added exn:fail:{filesystem,network}:**errno (cdfc4912)
>
> jay:
>  - planet2 (fae660b0), versions for dependencies (0e140a81)
>
> robby:
>  - improvements to online check syntax (c6caf113)
>  - added show-derivations to redex (9377b634)
>  - improved language dialog (c02797b1)
>  - deprecated mrlib/cache-image-snip (0b332a17)
>  - sped up tab switching (4e95220d)
>
>
For DrRacket & Redex:

  - More support for define-judgment-form, including random generation for
well-formed judgments and visualization

  - Improved DrRacket's responsiveness

  - Improved the automatic-parenthesis-insertion mode

Robby



> ntoronto:
>  - math library (f2dc2027, 0936d8c2, 3670916a)
>  - plot/typed (5a2aa226)
>
> stamourv:
>  - serialize srclocs (cc8bd4f2)
>  - define-inline (b715a6fe)
>
> ryanc:
>  - ssl additions (d6cb2ece, f446adad, ba62b1dd)
>  - ssl default CA certs (4b4113d5, 7b0a13bf, 10a34881)
>  - db: start-transaction (05e7e61d), exn (30397acc), sql-bits (a2ae8137)
>  - racket/lazy-require (fd7d8a41)
>
> matthias:
>  - batch-io updates (69800aa5)
>
> eli:
>  - DMG improvements (baa0e126, 48380b48)
>
> bfetscher:
>  - define-relation improvements (cf9b0f77)
>
> jensaxel:
>  - bit-vectors (028d14a8)
>
> Joe Gibbs Politz:
>  - added check-match to rackunit (e264e414)
>
> Nadeem Abdul Hamid:
>  - automatic paren mode improvements (8f3343cd)
>
> J. Ian Johnson:
>  - optimize singleton sequences (889f1591)
>
> Greg Hendershott:
>  - markdown rendering mode for Scribble (6aa6dc04)
>
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