Release Announcement for v6.11

[Vincent St-Amour]

The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
mail me new items and/or edits.

Please phrase announcements using complete sentences and avoid the
word "now".
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Ryan Culpepper
- syntax/parse template changes (5fba2ee9c760dbff0a55fc6e8e33b0b4e31bb9c4 @ racket, and others)
- cassandra support (d3869b8005af41b1a0949cc8f0da0fee720ee517 @ db)

Robby Findler
- efficient definitions outline? (fd38e526953ff29d59a4a5d104735d9764922955 @ gui)

Jack Firth
- add dynamic-info? (4d9f32110d415275f40dded372e6db437373abe1 @ rackunit)

Matthew Flatt:
- local links within scribble-generated pdfs (732d631951682f9e411dbc3334a2b1b6567b5992 @ scribble)
- raco setup --clean improvements (808bd1b89770802f50c9acd67b36d47485d1f1b6 @ racket)
- add unquoted-printing strings (cbfcc904ab621a338627e77d8f5a34f930ead0ab @ racket)
- reduced hashing collisions (1f02cf226efa6749d10e44b2467bd9f4a8590946 @ racket)
- removed support for sslv2 (fb312df90e20c704e24dbe31802f41eb6e4a5345 @ racket)

Andrew Kent:
- dependent function types (8aa05bebff09f6a947ee5b9e4f9ca709ff82630c @ typed-racket)
- better case-lambda inference (2ef852ae91bffe0a8d9e70db08ba6df157013e4e @ typed-racket)

Philip McGrath:
- improved cooperation between formlets and #lang web-server (cf2b5efe5352f417303f0169f5efa376289f6762 @ web-server)

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[Robby Findler]

(regexp-replace*
#rx" now"
"DrRacket's Program Countour is now significantly more efficient;
using it now no longer hurts DrRacket's interactivity now"
"")

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[Philip McGrath]

> Philip McGrath:
> - improved cooperation between formlets and #lang web-server (cf2b5efe5352f417303f0169f5efa376289f6762 @ web-server)

The web-server/formlets library produces formlets that are serializable, facilitating dynamic uses of formlets in stateless #lang web-server servlets. The new web-server/formlets/stateless and web-server/formlets/unsafe libraries provide additional support with the same API.

[Matthew Flatt]

At Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:21:22 -0500, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> Matthew Flatt:
> - local links within scribble-generated pdfs
> (732d631951682f9e411dbc3334a2b1b6567b5992 @ scribble)
> - raco setup --clean improvements (808bd1b89770802f50c9acd67b36d47485d1f1b6 @
> racket)
> - add unquoted-printing strings (cbfcc904ab621a338627e77d8f5a34f930ead0ab @
> racket)
> - reduced hashing collisions (1f02cf226efa6749d10e44b2467bd9f4a8590946 @
> racket)
> - removed support for sslv2 (fb312df90e20c704e24dbe31802f41eb6e4a5345 @ racket)

None of these seem to me worth mentioning.