new 8.18 bullets, a bit of refactoring

Author: jbclements

release-notes/release-notes.rkt

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
 ;; the markdown used for the blog post.
 
 (require "render-release-notes.rkt"
-         "check-links.rkt")
+         "check-links.rkt"
+         )
 
 (define major-v 8)
-(define minor-v 17)
+(define minor-v 18)
 
 (define version (~a "v"major-v"."minor-v))
 
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@
 (define blog-post-url
   (match* (major-v minor-v) 
     [(8 16) "https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/01/racket-v8-16.html"]
-    [(8 17) "https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/05/racket-v8-17.html"]))
+    [(8 17) "https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/05/racket-v8-17.html"]
+    [(8 18) "https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/08/racket-v8-18.html"]))
 
 
 
@@ -33,75 +35,47 @@
 (define dr-core-url
   "https://github.com/racket/drracket/commit/ae16d6bc6e00a9498313cff035537ac98ef71194")
 
-(define bfs-url
-  (rur "generic-numbers.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._bitwise-first-bit-set%29%29"))
-
 
 (define bullets
   (list
 
-@bullet{The new @link[dr-core-url]{`drracket-core`} package provides a version of drracket with
-   a smaller set of dependencies.}
-
-@bullet{Typed Racket has support for @link[(rur "treelist.html")]{treelists}.}
-
-@bullet{The package manager computes @link[(dur "pkg/Package_Concepts.html")]{checksums} for packages when required,
-   allowing the use and automatic upgrade of packages without them.}
-
-@bullet{The @link[bfs-url]{`bitwise-first-bit-set`} function returns the smallest bit that is
-   set in the twos-complement representation of the given number.}
-
-@bullet{The updated @link[(rur "Module_Names_and_Loading.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._dynamic-require%29%29")]{`dynamic-require`} function makes it easier to use
-   syntax bindings by allowing a syntax-thunk (or 'eval) to be used for them.}
-
-@bullet{The @link[(rur "exns.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._error-module-path-~3estring-handler%29%29")]{`error-module-path->string-handler`} parameter allows the customization
-   of the display of module-paths in error messages.}
+   @bullet{The racket-lang.org website no longer distributes Racket BC bundles, but
+it includes pre-built bundles for two flavors of ARM linux, AArch64 and 32-bit ARMv6 VFP.}
+   
+   @bullet{XML structures are serializable.}
 
-@bullet{Precision of certain @link[(rur "generic-numbers.html")]{numeric functions} (`sin`, `cos`, and others) is
-   improved on Windows platforms by using the MSVCRT/UCRT libraries.}
-  
-@bullet{The @link[(rur "strings.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._string-append%29%29")]{`string-append`} function has improved performance and reduced memory
-   use for long lists of strings in the Racket CS implementation.
-   Differences are clearly noticeable for lists of length 1 million.}
-
-@bullet{@link[(rur "tcp.html")]{TCP ports} use `SO_KEEPALIVE`, instructing the kernel to send periodic
-   messages while waiting for data to check whether the connection
-   is still responsive.}
-
-@bullet{Racket code using a terminal in Windows can receive mouse events as
- virtual terminal characters after using SetConsoleMode. (This is also
- already possible on macOS and Linux.) See the
- @link["https://docs.racket-lang.org/tui-term/index.html"]{tui-term} package
- for related example code.}
+   @bullet{Scribble's HTML generation conforms better to modern standards.}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "json/index.html#%28part._.Parsing_.J.S.O.N_.Text_into_.J.S-.Expressions%29")]{`#:replace-malformed-surrogate?`} keyword can be used to specify
-   a replacement for malformed unicode surrogates in JSON input}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "http-client/index.html")]{http-client} module no longer sends "Content-Length: 0" for
-   requests without a body.}
+   @bullet{Racket uses Unicode 16.0 for character and string operations.}
+   
+  @bullet{The `redex-check` default generation strategy
+    always uses random generation to supplement the enumerator.}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "raco/demod.html")]{demodularizer} (`compiler/demod`) can prune more unused assignments.}
+  @bullet{DrRacket supports the use of shift-tab to go backward to previous
+          indentation positions.}
 
-@bullet{Several judgment rendering forms in @link[(dur "redex/index.html")]{Redex} are replaced by functions, allowing
-   more convenient abstraction.}
+  @bullet{The macro stepper supports the string-constants library,
+ allowing internationalization of the stepper itself.}
 
-@bullet{When a distribution includes no teaching languages, DrRacket’s language-dialog
- configuration moves into the preferences dialog and the “Language” menu disappears.}
+  @bullet{The `struct` form supports `#:properties prop-alist-expr`, making it more convenient
+to attach multiple property values to a structure type.}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "math/index.html")]{math library} has better support for block-diagonal matrices, including
- both Racket and Typed Racket.}
+   @bullet{The distro-build package has new infrastructure for build farms
+ using docker images.}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "math/index.html")]{math library} contains improved implementations of acos and
-   matrix-(cos-)angle.}
+   @bullet{The `expt` function produces a more accurate result when its
+ first argument is a flonum and its second argument is an exact integer
+ that has no equivalent flonum representation than it did in prior versions.}
 
-@bullet{The @link[(dur "stepper/index.html")]{stepper} again works for @link[(dur "teachpack/2htdpuniverse.html#(part._world._interactive)")]{`big-bang`} programs.}
+   @bullet{TCP ports use `SO_KEEPALIVE` correctly.}
 
-@bullet{There are many other repairs and documentation imprevements!
-}
+   @bullet{Unsafe code can use “uninterruptible mode” instead of “atomic mode” to allow futures to run concurrently while preventing interruptions from other threads.}
+   
 
+   @bullet{The `net/imap` library supports IMAP's `move` operation.}
 
-
-@;{   @sub-bullet{@link[(rur "treelist.html#%28part._.Mutable_.Treelists%29")]{Mutable treelists} are @link[(rur "serialization.html")]{serializable}.}}
+@bullet{There are many other repairs and documentation improvements!}
 
 
 
@@ -110,13 +84,14 @@
   ))
 
 (define contributors
-  (list "Alexander Shopov" "Andrei Dorian Duma" "Bert De Ketelaere" "Bob Burger" "Bogdan Popa"
-        "Bogdana Vereha" "Cameron Moy" "Chung-chieh Shan" "Cutie Deng" "D. Ben Knoble" "Dario Hamidi"
-        "Dominik Pantůček" "Gustavo Massaccesi" "halfminami" "Jacqueline Firth" "Jason Hemann"
-        "Jens Axel Søgaard" "Joel Dueck" "John Clements" "Jordan Harman" "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen"
-        "Matthew Flatt" "Matthias Felleisen" "Mike Sperber" "Noah Ma" "owaddell-ib" "Philippe Meunier"
-        "Robby Findler" "Ryan Culpepper" "Ryan Ficklin" "Sam Phillips" "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" "Shu-Hung You"
-        "sogaiu" "Sorawee Porncharoenwase" "Stephen De Gabrielle" "Vincent Lee" "Wing Hei Chan"))
+  '("Bob Burger"
+    "Bogdan Popa" "Brad Lucier" "Carl Gay" "Chloé Vulquin" "D. Ben Knoble" "Gustavo Massaccesi"
+    "Jacqueline Firth" "Jade Sailor" "Jarhmander" "Jason Hemann" "Jens Axel Søgaard" "Joel Dueck"
+    "John Clements" "jyn" "Jörgen Brandt" "Mao Yifu" "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen" "Matthew Flatt"
+    "Matthias Felleisen" "Mike Sperber" "Noah Ma" "paralogismos" "Pavel Panchekha" "Philip McGrath"
+    "Robby Findler" "Ryan Culpepper" "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt" "Shalok Shalom" "Steve Byan"
+    "Vincent Lee" "Wing Hei Chan" "ZC Findler"))
+
 
 (define (go)
   ;; abstraction between these two OBVIOUSLY possible, waiting on this until the first time
@@ -148,7 +123,7 @@
       (newline)
       (displayln "The following people contributed to this release:")
       (newline)
-      (for-each displayln (render-contributors contributors))
+      (displayln (render-contributors-md contributors))
       (newline)
       (displayln markdown-closing-block)
       (map displayln share-block))))

release-notes/render-release-notes.rkt

@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
          txt-render-bullet
          md-render-bullet
          bullet-links
-         display-lines horizontal-bar render-contributors)
+         display-lines horizontal-bar
+         render-contributors
+         render-contributors-md)
 
 ;; yeah, I probably had better things to do than write a little string-reflowing
 ;; function, sigh.
@@ -29,17 +31,22 @@
 (struct linkS (text url) #:transparent)
 
 ;; given a list of contributors, return a list of strings suitable for inclusion
-;; in the release notes
+;; in the txt release notes
 (define (render-contributors contributors)
   (string-reflow
-   (apply
-    string-append
-    (append
-     (add-between (all-but-last contributors) ", ")
-     (list
-      ", and "
-      (last contributors)
-      ".")))))
+   (render-contributors-md contributors)))
+
+;; given a list of contributors, return a list of strings suitable for inclusion
+;; in the markdown release notes
+(define (render-contributors-md contributors)
+  (apply
+   string-append
+   (append
+    (add-between (all-but-last contributors) ", ")
+    (list
+     ", and "
+     (last contributors)
+     "."))))
 
 (define (all-but-last l)
   (reverse (rest (reverse l))))