Racket v6.7
posted by Vincent St-Amour
Racket version 6.7 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/
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Racket supports building graphical applications on Android through the
racket-android
project: https://github.com/jeapostrophe/racket-android -
The Racket REPL comes with line-editing, command and result history, and various meta-commands out of the box, via the
racket/interactive
module. See theracket/interactive
andxrepl
documentation for details. -
The package system supports authentication when installing packages from git, using the
raco pkg config git-checkout-credentials
configuration option. -
HTTP libraries, as well as
raco pkg
, support proxying via HTTP CONNECT. -
Typed Racket provides typed versions of
racket/os
andracket/db/sqlite
. -
The
PLT_COMPILED_FILE_CHECK
environment variable provides more fine-grained control over when.zo
files are consulted. -
The documentation search supports searching for
#lang
s and#reader
s via the “L:” and “R:” search prefixes. -
The
file/glob
module implements globbing for path-strings. -
Optimizations in the bytecode compiler improve performance for structure, list, string, and byte-string operations.
The following people contributed to this release:
Alex Knauth, Alex Harsanyi, Alexis King, Andrew Kent, Asumu Takikawa, Ben Greenman, Brian Lachance, Chongkai Zhu, Daniel Feltey, Georges Dupéron, Gustavo Massaccesi, Jay McCarthy, John Clements, Jonathan Schuster, Leif Andersen, Marc Burns, Matthew Butterick, Matthew Flatt, Matthias Felleisen, Mike Sperber, Robby Findler, Rohin Shah, Ryan Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Spencer Florence, Stephen Chang, Stephen De Gabrielle, Tim Brown, Tony Garnock-Jones, Vincent St-Amour, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju, and William J. Bowman.
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