We are releasing the first patch release of the 1.5 series.
Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions.
Stats
In this patch release we included 13 PRs since the 1.5.0 release by 7 contributors. We thank all the effort put into improving the language! ❤️
Remarkable changes
A regression introduced in 1.5.0 prevented the typechecker to correctly infer the type of a union of a splat of types (something of the form Union(*T)). This is now fixed.
To illustrate, the following code typechecks in 1.4.1 but not in 1.5.0.
class Foo(*T)
@value : Union(*T)
def initialize(@value)
end
end
p Foo(Int32, String).new(3), Foo(Int32, String).new("")
For more details of this and other bug fixes included in this release, please visit the changelog.
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