Crystal 1.16.1 is released!
We are announcing a new patch release of the Crystal 1.16 series.
Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions.
Stats
This release includes 10 changes since 1.16.0 by 2 contributors. We thank all the contributors for all the effort put into improving the language! ❤️
Changes
Below we list the most remarkable changes in the language, compiler and stdlib. For more details, visit the full changelog.
This change brings a couple of bugfixes for regressions introduced in 1.16.0.
- Reading from stdin in
crystal evalworks again (#15655) - Linking libxml2 on Windows now implicitly links
bcrypt, as necessary since version 2.13 (#15651)
Other bug fixes:
- Transferring file descriptors between execution contexts now works correctly and raises correctly in case of error (#15650, #15663)
- Version discovery for
libgcvia pkg-config uses the system-specific package name (#15636)
We also enhanced the documentation for execution contexts (#15644, #15659, #15664, #15665).
We have been able to do all of this thanks to the continued support of 84codes and every other sponsor. To maintain and increase the development pace, donations and sponsorships are essential. OpenCollective is available for that.
Reach out to crystal@manas.tech if you’d like to become a direct sponsor or find other ways to support Crystal. We thank you in advance!
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