Crystal Weekly

Issue 61 - Oct 9, 2019

Crystal 0.31.1 released!

This release comes after a week of stabilizing the 0.31.0 with feedback from the community mainly. There were fixes, workaround, and improvements that should unlock migrating to 0.31 in some contexts. There are 9 commits since 0.31.0 by 4 contributors.

Multithreading: Faster Mutex Implementation

Crystal co-author @waj comes with a faster Mutex implementation 🚀 Some initial numbers show amazing performance gains 🎉
Mutex.synchronize +3640% faster
Mutex.lock +14689% faster

Lucky 0.18.0 released!

Lucky v0.18 introduces many improvements to building JSON APIs. Better serialization, built-in JWT auth, and improved error handling.

zipstream: Quickly share files over the network

Zipstream is a command line tool written in Crystal that allows you to easily share files and directories over the network.

Happy Crystalling <3