:orphan: :Author: Carl Gay :Date: 2020-10-10 00:00:00 Open Dylan 2020.1 Released ========================== Posted on 10 October 2020 Dear Dylan Hacker, It is a pleasure for us to announce a new release of Open Dylan. Some highlights in this release: * This is our first release with "batteries included". The binary distributions contain all necessary dependent libraries, including clang, libunwind, and libgc, making installation much easier. * The LLVM back-end is now the default back-end. Its performance is 30% to 40% better than the C or HARP back-ends. * The LLVM back-end now tracks function inlining in generated debug information, allowing breakpoints to be set in inlined code. * Platforms: The AArch64 (64-bit ARM) platform is now supported on Linux. * The compiler now displays a text mode progress bar during the compilation and link phases. (The new progress-stream library also is available for users.) * Network: A deadlock that occurred when shutting down listening socket threads has been fixed. * IO: A number of bugs in the locators library were fixed, ``resolve-locator`` was added, and various definitions in the print module were documented. * Testworks now generates reports in JSON format, along with other Testworks improvements. For full details on changes in this release see the :doc:`release notes `, or go directly to the :doc:`download page `. For more information on Open Dylan, see our https://opendylan.org/. Good luck and happy Dylan hacking!