Hi there, racket-dev! I’m writing to you today on behalf of the racket release team, to ask for your help and your advice.
Specifically, the release candidates for racket 8.0 for Windows are currently available at these URLs https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/8.0/racket-8.0-x86_64-win32.exe https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/8.0/racket-8.0-x86_64-win32-bc.exe https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/8.0/racket-8.0-i386-win32.exe https://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/8.0/racket-8.0-i386-win32-bc.exe Unfortunately, Microsoft’s SmartScreen currently flags these binaries as “blocked because it could harm your device” when downloading using Edge, and possibly malicious at installation time when downloaded using another browser. Our research suggests that the solution to this is … just to download it a lot. Also, to download it using Edge, and use the three-dots menu to report it as a safe website. We’ve submitted the file to Microsoft, and they cheerfully reported that the file would no longer be flagged. Unfortunately, this is clearly not the case. So, we’re asking for help of two different kinds. 1) If you use Windows, please take a minute to download and install the binary from one of these URLs. Plus, you get a special *PREVIEW* copy of 8.0, you lucky duck! If you get the chance to do this, we’d also be grateful if you would fill out this five-multiple-choice google form, so we have some idea of how many people are actually doing this *and* whether people are still seeing the smartscreen warnings. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0pT1B0Xho5ZsyEg5i8LiSMoZk3hXkugD7GflpkcZVj6VOfg/viewform?usp=sf_link 2) If you use Windows and you have experience that would suggest that we’re somehow misunderstanding this situation, we’d love to hear about it. Many thanks! John Clements -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/7a210f5f-2149-4b92-8b87-60c3b864d407%40mtasv.net.
