From 36e04fdbcd70be83c1b5473762439e82bb315ccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Flatt Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:53:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Racket HISTORY.txt notes for v8.0 --- racket/collects/racket/HISTORY.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/racket/collects/racket/HISTORY.txt b/racket/collects/racket/HISTORY.txt index f2598b29f7..acb7797e62 100644 --- a/racket/collects/racket/HISTORY.txt +++ b/racket/collects/racket/HISTORY.txt @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +Version 8.0, January 2021 +Racket CS is now the default variant of Racket +Add support for Apple Silicon Mac OS (AArch64) +Improve Racket CS parallel GC, improve various optimizations, + improve weak `equal?`-based hash tables, improve hash-code + calculations, add direct support for flvectors, and reduce + the size of generated code by 10-30% +Add `#:unsafe` for `#%declare` in a module +Add 'os* and 'arch modes to `system-type` +Add `fx{+,-,*,lshift}/wraparound` +Fix `normal-case-path` on bad encodings, which previously could + cause a corrupted preferences file to disable DrRacket +Other bug repairs and other changes noted in the documentation + Version 7.9, October 2020 Improve Racket CS place-local allocation, add parallel GC, and merge Chez Scheme GC support for incremental promotion