We are releasing the second patch release of the 1.8 series.
Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions.
This release includes 7 changes since 1.8.1 by 3 contributors. We thank all the contributors for all the effort put into improving the language! ❤️
It fixes a couple minor bugs in the standard library and one in the compiler codegen.
Most relevant is a regression in 1.8.1 regarding JSON::Serializable on certain recursively defined types (#13430).
For more details, visit the changelog.
If you find any further issues, please report it.
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