Congratulations to all who contributed to the release ! Just to be sure, it's the first version where factor "works" on macos arm64 (since you are quoting about it) ? If so shouldn't it be the first biggest highlight of them all ? ( 101 doesn't have it https://re.factorcode.org/2025/12/factor-0-101-now-available.html ) Cheers ! Jon
On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM Harold Hausman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Love to see it, great work everyone. > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM John Benediktsson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> “You don’t want just to develop for ARM, you want to actually use ARM in >> your day-to-day work on the desktop.” - Linus Torvalds >> >> I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.102! You can find >> download links on the Factor website: >> >> https://factorcode.org >> >> This release includes 1,068 commits from the following contributors: >> >> Aleksander Sabak, Andrii Puhachenko, Chris Double, Dmitry Matveyev, Doug >> Coleman, Eric Willigers, Giftpflanze, John Benediktsson, Leo Mehraban, Rudi >> Grinberg, Sebastiaan Speck, Zoltán Kéri, @knottio, @ronnie-w >> >> Highlights of this release include: >> >> * A new GTK4 UI backend, now the default on 64-bit Linux; 32-bit Linux >> continues to use GTK3, which remains a build option on other supported Linux >> architectures. >> * New 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V Linux ports, with optimizing compiler >> backends, foreign calls and callbacks, and support in both the C++ and Zig >> VMs. >> * DirectWrite text rendering on Windows, including color glyphs, typography >> controls, and better support for large output and complex scripts. >> * More responsive rendering and selection of large text across platforms, >> with fixes for display scaling, listener scrolling, and adjacent text >> backgrounds. >> * Expanded native ARM64 SIMD support, half-precision and bfloat16 >> operations, and improved foreign calls, variadic callbacks, and native >> va_list support. >> * Experimental register allocators and optional compiler optimizations, >> alongside fixes to stack inference, generated code, and GC root tracking. >> * Updated Unicode data to 18.0.0 and timezone data to 2026c, with bindings >> for SQLite 3.53.4, Raylib 6.0, and Lua 5.5. >> * Faster process launching and native process-exit notifications on Linux, >> macOS, BSD, and Windows, with polling as a fallback. >> * Extensive fixes to HTTP parsing, TLS identity checks, cooperative waits, >> resource cleanup, signal handling, and VM memory safety. >> >> Compatibility notes >> >> * 64-bit Linux builds now select GTK4 by default; use -ui-backend=gtk3 when >> bootstrapping if GTK3 is required. 32-bit Linux uses GTK3 and does not >> support GTK4. >> * Windows UI text now uses DirectWrite by default, so text metrics and >> appearance may differ from the previous Uniscribe backend. >> callable is now a mixin that includes words; code that assumes all callables >> support the sequence protocol should use quotation-like instead. >> * Fixed-array struct fields now validate input buffer lengths, and stricter >> HTTP and multipart parsing rejects malformed or incomplete input previously >> accepted. >> * PEG repetition and list parsers now omit ignore values. Minimum counts >> refer to successful matches, so repeat1 and list-of-many can return empty >> output when all matched items are hidden. >> * The buffered HTTP client now decompresses gzip responses before character >> decoding and rejects unsupported content codings. with-http-request still >> provides bytes before content decompression. >> * Ambiguous Objective-C selectors now require a class-qualified name such as >> Class.selector when imported signatures differ. >> * Tuple literals reject duplicate slot names, and minimum and maximum now >> throw for empty iota and repetition instead of returning a value. >> * Command-line option names and aliases must now be unique, including the >> default --help option. Exact names take precedence over no- negation. >> * SQLite connections now use persistent WAL mode, which requires a local >> filesystem. with-transaction uses BEGIN IMMEDIATEand acquires the write lock >> at transaction start, including for read-only work. Write serialization is >> per process; wrap raw SQL and DDL writes in with-transaction or >> serialize-transaction to participate. >> * Building the experimental Zig VM now requires Zig 0.17.0. >> >> For more details, please see the full announcement at: >> >> https://re.factorcode.org/2026/10/factor-0-102-now-available.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
