Racket v9.2 is now available
2 days ago
- #software updates
- #programming language
- #release announcement
- Racket v9.2 release announced with updates to match form for non-linear patterns, potentially breaking existing code.
- Typed Racket improvements for asin and acos procedures to handle complex numbers, which may cause compile-time failures.
- Introduction of #%foreign-inline core syntactic form for unsafe access to linklet layer facilities, requiring updates in code handling core forms.
- Adoption of Unicode 17.0 for character and string operations.
- Various internal and functional enhancements including terminal-file-position, cross-phase persistent modules, and rewritten implementations of member, memw, when, unless, let/ec, and cond.
- Improvements in Scribble documents for initial-scale and margin notes display.
- Correction for big-bang programs in .dmg files regarding close-on-stop feature.
- Acknowledgments to contributors and invitation for community participation and feedback.