The next Crystal release, 1.14 is scheduled for October 9.
As usual, this is precluded by a two-week feature freeze period, starting September 25. We’ll be using this time until the release to consolidate the changes and fix bugs.
A preview of the release notes is available: Crystal 1.14.0 is released! - The Crystal Programming Language (PR: #843)
Some of the highlights:
- Lots of improvements to Windows support in the standard library
- Interperter works on Windows
URI::Params::Serializable- Removal of
XML::Error.errors - Initial support for Windows on aarch64
- Updated support for LibreSSL 3.5+, Unicode 16.0, LLVM 19.1
Behind the scenes:
- Improvements to the event loop in preparation of multi-theading execution contexts (RFC 2)
- The compiler can now call external commands, which allows us to split the compiler binary into multiple pieces
You can find all changes in the (provisional) changelog (PR: #14969).
There will be further additions to these resources as we merge additional changes.
The current HEAD of the master branch serves as a preview of the release. We appreciate any report of regressions caused by our latest nightly builds.
Instructions for installing nightly builds are available at Nightlies - The Crystal Programming Language
