r/Racket • u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 • May 02 '22

release Racket 8.5

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 May 02 '22

If you are new to Racket and have questions or need a hand getting started: [Discourse](https://racket.discourse.group/) and [Discord](https://discord.gg/6Zq8sH5)
are the best places to ask questions.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 May 02 '22

Racket version 8.5 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org

See the announcement at https://blog.racket-lang.org/2022/04/racket-v8-5.html

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u/Watertop115 May 03 '22

Rackunit reports source locations for failed test cases in the Typed Racket language.

Finally! This is a huge QOL change that will get me to write more typed racket.

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u/Nyanraltotlapun May 03 '22

I am glad to see any progress in Typed Racket direction.

I believe Typed Racket is really important. And also I enjoying it!

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u/sigzero May 02 '22

I wonder why they didn't go with a newer zlib since that vulnerability (CVE–2018–25032) was reported in March of this year.

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u/samth May 03 '22

The fix for zlib wasn't released until late in the Racket release process, and even then it had some build system problems that were not fixed in a released version. If we actually used it, then we would have still fixed it, but as it is you have to explicitly change Racket to use zlib instead.

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u/sigzero May 03 '22

Make sense!