For details, see the post on the 8.6 release thread on the discourse group. The
release is beginning!
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Release for Racket v8.6 begins soon! See the discourse posting for dates &
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Here's a draft of the 8.5 release notes, let me know about additional items
that should appear, items that are misleading or wrong, or things that are here
but shouldn't appear.
Or ordering! We can talk about that, too…
* Racket includes a new flag that automatically stores a compiled
versio
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My apologies, it looks like I sent this message on the 7th using a server that
doesn’t have the ability to post to this google group. Hopefully this one goes
through.
The release process for v8.5 has begun: release checkpoints have
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Upcoming dates:
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Racket version 8.4 is now available from
https://racket-lang.org/
* Command-line Racket provides a new expression editor by default for
its read-eval-print loop (REPL). The new REPL is based on the Chez
Scheme expression editor, but extended to use the same
language-sensitive syntax c
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Please phrase announcements using complete sentences and avoid the
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been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v8.4.0.1 (to av
The release process for v8.4 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
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- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
This is probably unreproducible (I just tried and failed to reproduce it), but
it definitely shouldn’t have happened. I’m recording it here just in case this
is helpful or part of a pattern.
I hit run (might have just changed from “no debugging or profiling” to
“debugging and profiling”), and h
credit is due
> and have Adam in the list as well.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dominik
>
> On 05. 11. 21 21:06, 'John Clements' via Racket Developers wrote:
>> Here’s the proposed release announcement. Let me know of things that are
>> missing!
>> --
Here’s the proposed release announcement. Let me know of things that are
missing!
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Racket version 8.3 is now available from
https://racket-lang.org/
* Racket removes syntax arming and disarming in favor of a simpler
sys
After a panoply of minor fixes, particularly around fixes for Monterey, we have
a set of release candidates that are looking solid.
Here’s the release checklist for version 8.3:
https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Release-Checklist-8.3
I would love to get this wrapped up in the next day or tw
Changed, thanks!
> On Oct 23, 2021, at 17:19, Robby Findler wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 12:44 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
>
> * Redex rules get optional names.
>
>
> This one should probably be: "Redex's ste
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Planning to branch for 8.3 release at 23:00 UT, let me know if that’s a bad
idea….
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have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
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Many thanks, using this wording!
John
> On Jul 16, 2021, at 16:58, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>
>> * Racket CS improved the performance of large-integer arithmetic.
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Okay, got this one.
John
> On Jul 16, 2021, at 07:38, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> At Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:50:18 +0000, "'John Clements' via Racket Developers"
> wrote:
>> * The `raco cross` tool improves support for cross-compilation.
>
> The `raco cro
Here’s what I’ve got now. Any further additions or changes?
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Racket version 8.2 is now available from
https://racket-lang.org/
* Racket CS supports faster exact-rational arithmetic.
* Racket has improved support for lay
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
mail me new items and/or edits.
Please phrase announcements using complete sentences and avoid the
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I’m going to pretend I’m not surprised that the pre-release build finished on
the first try for 8.2.
Pre-release versions of 8.2 are now available at
https://pre-release.racket-lang.org/
If you’re interested in dog-fooding the upcoming release, go ahead and give it
a try.
John
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Great! Many thanks.
John
> On Jun 27, 2021, at 15:57, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> At Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:55:29 -0700, "Paul A. Steckler" wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:16 AM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
>> wrote:
>>> So here’s my
The machines we use to build our Linux distributions are currently running
8.11, which is no longer supported by Debian. We could pay Freexian for
Extended LTS support, or upgrade (or do nothing, of course :)). My
understanding is that we generally use the oldest supported version of debian
in
The release process for v8.2 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
- 06-27 : “branch day” — the release branch is created
- 07-06 : testing b
In order to ensure that our summer release goes smoothly and is ready in plenty
of time for the fall semester, some have suggested that we start the build
process for version 8.2 two weeks early, on June 15th, with all of our
traditional month-indexed release dates (branch day, beginning of test
Well, I’m not over the moon about another release platform; is there
significant demand? I know, I know, the meaning of the word “significant” is
completely unspecified. I would certainly agree with Matthew that the Minimal
installations might be a less painful addition.
It may be unclear why a
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- New ephemeron hash table
As many of you now know, we’re well into the release cycle for version 8.1 of
Racket.
Racket, of course, isn’t just a language implementation. It’s a community of
implementors (that's you!), and all of the amazing packages that you produce.
As part of the release process, we run tests on every
Testing for the v8.1 release
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Sorry, sent this to the old address. Looks like there might be a problem
installing tests on the release candidate?
John
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: John Clements
> Subject: error while installing tests on release candidate?
> Date: April 18, 2021 at 22:57:50 PDT
> To: dev
>
> I don
The release process for v8.1 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v8.1.0.1 (to av
The release process for v8.1 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
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- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
since this was on a work
> machine were I did not have admin permissions.
> On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 1:12:06 AM UTC-8 dominik@trustica.cz
> wrote:
> On 11. 02. 21 0:14, 'John Clements' via Racket Developers wrote:
> > Wow, that’s incredibly informative an
Wow, that’s incredibly informative and helpful. Out of curiosity, do you have
any ballpark idea what the number of downloads required for something to be
listed as trusted is?
John
> On Feb 10, 2021, at 1:44 PM, Dominik Pantůček
> wrote:
>
> Hi John and others at racket-dev,
>
>>
>> 2) If
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
The tests you mention have not been checked as complete for several releases
now, so it’s truly excellent that you’re taking them over. As the package
manager for plot, you are more or less in charge of testing it, so if you say
it’s done, I would say it’s done.
Moving forward, would it be reas
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The release process for v8.0 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v8.0.0.1 (to av
The release process for v8.0 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
- 7th: Branch day, merge window starts
- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
> On Nov 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Philip McGrath wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 6:09 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
> I just spent some time on the chez web page, and it’s astonishingly opaque; I
> can’t see any mention at all of what arch
> On Nov 12, 2020, at 2:49 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> At 12 Nov 2020 17:27:01 -0500, "'John Clements' via Racket Developers" wrote:
>> Goodness… Apple is changing processors again. Am I right in thinking that
>> the
>> support that Matthew
Goodness… Apple is changing processors again. Am I right in thinking that the
support that Matthew added for Aarch64 early this year positions us
unbelievably well for the transition to Apple silicon & specifically the M1
chip? Or maybe everyone but me already knew this was coming?
John
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Goodness… Apple is changing processors again. Am I right in thinking that the
support that Matthew added for Aarch64 early this year positions us
unbelievably well for the transition to Apple silicon & specifically the M1
chip? Or maybe everyone but me already knew this was coming?
John
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Just checked out the gather space. It looks very cool. How about some easter
eggs?
John
> On Oct 9, 2020, at 7:07 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>
> To the friends and followers of Racket,
>
> You have produced thousands of commits since last Con. You have honored your
> ancestors and brought glory
The release process for v7.9 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v7.9.0.1 (to av
The release process for v7.9 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
- 7th: Branch day, merge window starts
- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
This is a really small heads-up for a problem that I just discovered with the
old 7.6 release, in case anyone cares:
Back in December, there was a change to the Makefile, commit 8ef11a9b060,
adding a “—recurse-submodules” call to the GIT_CLONE_ARGS. Unfortunately, one
of my checklist items read
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I’ve now seen this error at least once on the build machine. Not sure whether
this is something that requires adjustment of a ulimit, simple addition of
memory to the build machine, or something else. JFYI.
John
raco setup: 1 rendering: /compatibility-doc/mzlib/scribblings/mzlib.scrbl
raco setu
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Things I should know but don’t (err, sorry): I generally see messages like this
when I commit code to the racket repo. My assumption is that the failures I’m
seeing in this and related messages are related to problems with the CI
infrastructure. Let me know if that’s not the case!
Best,
John
Right, I forgot that the “d...@racket-lang.org” address is dead. Here’s an
email I tried to send yesterday.
John
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: John Clements
> Subject: pkg-build problem for many packages
> Date: July 16, 2020 at 11:57:02 EDT
> To: dev
>
> I’m checking the results of t
(See note following template text:)
The release process for v7.8 has begun: release checkpoints have
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About two minutes ago I hit “save” on an unsaved buffer in DrRacketCS on Mac
running MacOS Catalina 10.15.5, was surprised to see a spinning beach ball for
a few seconds, then went to the terminal from which I’d started DrRacket and
saw this:
given: 0; original exception raised: exception rai
I tried to create a package yesterday (portaudio-x86_64-macosx), and when I
clicked on the “save” button, I didn’t get a response.
So I tried again today, and I’m now getting a response saying simply “! Save
failed.” Any idea what’s going on here? I’m hesitant to try to debug this by
creating l
> At 25 May 2020 21:52:43 -0400, "'John Clements' via Racket Developers" wrote:
>> This is immediately after a git pull and a git clean -xdf. I was compiling
>> with RACKET=racket, using a built-in installation of racket v7.7.0.1.
>>
>> I rebuilt
Hmm… building racket cs is failing for me like this right now:
compile: /Users/clements/racket-cs/racket/src/io/port/custom-output-port.rkt
...during /Users/clements/racket-cs/racket/src/io/port/custom-output-port.rkt...
...during /Users/clements/racket-cs/racket/src/io/port/main.rkt...
...during
Thanks, changed!
John
> On Apr 29, 2020, at 22:06, Jesse Alama wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 10:07:29 PM UTC+2, clements wrote:
>
> * DrRacket now supports the use of the keyboard in the OS X Catalina
> "Open File" dialog.
>
> The preferred nomenclature is "macOS" (https://ww
Okay a bunch of changes:
1) collected Racket CS changes at the top.
2) removed “stencil-vector” — that explains why my online search for
“stencil-vector HAMTs” didn’t turn up much.
3) used rewritten bullet to include “continuation-graft” call-out.
4) Doc links are a good idea. I think the “right
D’oh! I used the word “now”.
> On Apr 29, 2020, at 1:07 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
>
>The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
>mail me new items and/or edits.
>
>Please phrase announcements usi
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
mail me new items and/or edits.
Please phrase announcements using complete sentences and avoid the
word "now".
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I’m guessing this isn’t reproducible, but here’s a seg fault I got today while
trying to save a file with a new name:
Process: DrRacket [28090]
Path: /Applications/Racket
v7.6.0.900/*/DrRacket.app/Contents/MacOS/DrRacket
Identifier:org.racket-lang.DrRac
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Apologies; I should have known that. Many thanks.
John
> On Apr 17, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>
> pkg-build has been running, but it doesn't re-run packages that haven't
> changed.
>
> At 17 Apr 2020 14:31:40 -0400, "'John Clements' via
It looks like the pkg-build server hasn’t run since April 12, as evidenced by
logs like
https://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/server/built/install/1d6.txt
and
https://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/server/built/install/2048.txt
Is this a known issue?
(Jay, I recall this as being part of your world, a
The release process for v7.7 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v7.7.0.1 (to av
The release process for v7.7 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
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- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
ible
> changes do seem like good practice.
>
> Robby
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 12:20 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it make sense to add a footnote to the release notes with a URL or
>> more detailed information?
s).
>
> I don't think anything I eliminated is essential for the release notes
> (keeping in mind that many will learn about this when their website
> doesn't work anymore -- they won't read the release notes at that
> point I expect )
>
> Robby
>
This bullet is a teensy bit bulky, but I stared at it for a few minutes and…
I’d rather switch than fight. I guess that’s why I’m not a Tareyton smoker.
John
> On Jan 27, 2020, at 11:23, Philip McGrath wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:28 AM Matthew Flatt wrote:
> I would also highlight t
The release process for v7.6 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v7.6.0.1 (to av
The release process for v7.6 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
- 7th: Branch day, merge window starts
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This makes sense to me, but it would be easy to choose the wrong path protocol.
Things are definitely interesting around source builds—what do I put for
{platform} there? … and of course CS, which is an alternative now but should
soon become the default. Also, there are things like “.tgz” bundli
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Me neither. I took a look at their “report abuse” button, and it looks like
it’s for DMCA violations and similar. More generally, it suggests a certain
attitude on the part of GitHub which I generally respect but which might make
it very hard to do much about this. It probably wouldn’t hurt to a
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You’re absolutely right. The “shortly” below has just finished, and the
pre-release builds are now available from the given web address. You might
plausibly ask why “shortly” was the right term for a period that spanned 13
days, and I’d be happy to give you a detailed answer, but the short versi
This may be unimportant, but there’s an error during the remote builds of all
of the Chez Scheme configurations, to wit:
error: unknown option `exclude=*'
usage: git describe [options] *
or: git describe [options] --dirty
--containsfind the tag that comes after the commit
I’m running into a funny problem on the source builds for the initial release
build. Specifically, they all time out after 30 minutes, like this:
raco setup: installing: /racket
raco setup: --- post-installing collections ---[5:49:58]
raco setup: --- checking package dependenc
uldn't all bugs be submitted to
> https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/new anyhow?
>
> On 09/07/2019 10:06, 'John Clements' via Racket Developers wrote:
>> (migrated to dev list)
>>
>> I’m guessing this hasn’t gotten to the top of anyone’s to-d
(migrated to dev list)
I’m guessing this hasn’t gotten to the top of anyone’s to-do list, yet… ?
John
> On May 8, 2019, at 20:53, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>
> bugs.racket-lang.org was hosted on a server at Northeastern, which
> died recently (this resulted in a number of other problems as we
The release process for v7.4 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v7.4.0.1 (to av
The release process for v7.4 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
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- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
thub.io
> Vincit qui se vincit.
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:17 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
> I have the distinct feeling that I’ve seen someone ask this question before,
> but I can’t find the answer in my e-mail, so I’m just going to ask it ag
I have the distinct feeling that I’ve seen someone ask this question before,
but I can’t find the answer in my e-mail, so I’m just going to ask it again. Is
there an easy way to see which commit of (say) the htdp/ repo went into a
particular DrDr build?
John
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I see; I’ll take it out.
Thanks!
John
> On May 6, 2019, at 06:43, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:21 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Developers
> wrote:
>
>> - This release adds GitLab support for cross-architectural and
>> na
The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
mail me new items and/or edits.
Editor’s note: This is my first time scraping the commit logs, so *please* don’t
be offended by my failure to notice your awesome and dramatic improvement,
and in return I promise not to be offende
Note the altered testing ending date (May 9th) below. And: thanks for your
patience. And please let me know if you run into any problems with the testing
process!
Testing for the v7.3 release
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The release process for v7.3 has begun: release checkpoints have
been created for all packages in the main distribution, and release
branches have been created when necessary. You can go on using
`master` branches as usual. The main Racket repo's is now bumped to
v7.3.0.1 (to av
The release process for v7.3 will begin in about a week. If you
have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to
to being done, now is a good time to do that.
Upcoming dates:
- 7th: Branch day, merge window starts
- 15th: Merge window ends, testing start
When I download either of the two OS X bundles, from
https://pre-release.racket-lang.org/installers/racket-7.1.0.900-i386-macosx.dmg
and
https://pre-release.racket-lang.org/installers/racket-7.1.0.900-x86_64-macosx.dmg
*by clicking on the respective links in Firefox*
… I wind up with a .dmg tha
There are at least two relevant packages on pkgs.racket-lang.org:
racket-langserver
and
racket-language-server
The first one has 118 commits, last one in May, some failing tests. The second
one has 50 commits, also most recently in May, and doesn’t build (according to
the CI engine). Perhap
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