The next Crystal 1.4 release is scheduled for April 6.
This means the two week feature freeze period starts on March 23. We’ll be using this time to consolidate the release and only bug fixes will be merged. We appreciate any report of regressions caused by our latest nightly builds.
Along with the 1.4 release of Crystal, we’re also planning the next Shards release 0.17.
what is new in 1.4?
Will the interpreter be enabled in the published builds? I never was able to get it fully compiled on my machine 
Not yet, it’s still considered experimental. Tho there have been a good amount of updates/fixes to it: crystal/CHANGELOG.md at changelog/1.4.0 · straight-shoota/crystal · GitHub. So might be worth another try :).
I started a new topic to address problems with shipping the interpreter: Shipping the interpreter