[Chicken-announce] [ANN] CHICKEN 5.3.0 release candidate 2 available

[Peter Bex]

Hello all,

The second release candidate for CHICKEN 5.3.0 is now available for
download:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/08/31/chicken-5.3.0rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sum of that tarball is:

  1736f68006564c5690ce8f844f1c6052046b0bf15a6436aa2ec0d59534ae608b

The list of changes since 5.2.0 and 5.3.0rc1 is available here:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/08/31/NEWS

This release candidate fixes two issues: The srfi-17 module had an
incomplete export list, and an issue was found with Windows where
the chicken-install -update-db process would hang.

Please give this new release candidate a try and report your findings
to the mailing list.  Here's a suggested test procedure:

  $ make PREFIX=<directory> install check
  $ <directory>/bin/chicken-install pastiche

If you can, please let us know the following information about the
environment on which you test the RC:

  Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 12.0, Debian 9, Windows 10 mingw-msys under 
mingw32)
  Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
  C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 6.4.0, clang 5.0.0)
  Installation works?: yes or no
  Tests work?: yes or no
  Installation of eggs works?: yes or no

Thanks in advance!

The CHICKEN Team

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