Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 5.4.0 release candidate available

Hi all,

here are the results of installing the release candidate:
Hardware platform: x86-64
C-compiler: gcc-13.2.0_2
OS: GNU/Linux void 6.3.12_1
Installation works: yes (with some warnings)
Tests work: yes
Installation of eggs works: yes

Thanks for the efforts of the Chicken Team

Cheers
Juergen

Installation works: yes
Am Fri, May 31, 2024 at 10:08:42AM +0200 schrieb Peter Bex:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming
> CHICKEN 5.4.0.
> 
> CHICKEN 5.4.0rc1 is now available at this location:
> https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/05/31/chicken-5.4.0rc1.tar.gz
> 
> The SHA256 sum of that tarball is
> 61d59cb4f3ca226995d7dca3510c7a646c2cf1e28ebc771bf6c5177e28d14c81
> 
> This is mostly a bugfix and maintenance release, preparing for the
> upcoming CHICKEN 6 release (hopefully later this year).
> 
> It contains some security hardening regarding option parsing and a
> fix for CVE-2022-45145 handling of escape characters in egg metadata.
> 
> Notable new features are new thread-safe APIs for POSIX signals and
> finalizers, support for weak pairs and having line numbers available
> on error traces in the interpreter.
> 
> The complete list of changes since version 5.3.0 is available here:
> https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/05/31/NEWS
> 
> Please give it a test and report your findings to the mailing list.
> 
> Here's a suggested test procedure:
> 
>   $ make PREFIX=<some dir> install check
>   $ <some dir>/bin/chicken-install pastiche
> 
> If you want to build CHICKEN with a compiler other than the default one,
> just use C_COMPILER=<the compiler> (e.g., C_COMPILER=clang) on the make
> invocation.
> 
> Of course, feel free to explore other supported build options (see the
> README file for more information) and actually use CHICKEN 5.3.0rc1 for
> your software.
> 
> If you can, please let us know the following information about the
> environment you tested the RC tarball on:
> 
> Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 14.0, Debian 12, Windows 11 mingw-msys under 
> mingw32)
> Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
> C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 11.3.0, clang 16.0.6)
> Installation works?: yes or no
> Tests work?: yes or no
> Installation of eggs works?: yes or no
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> The CHICKEN Team
> 

-- 

Dr. Juergen Lorenz
Gruener Weg 27
29471 Gartow

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