Crystal 1.16.0 released!

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Crystal 1.16.0 has been released.

Features

lang

• Support Slice.literal in the interpreter (#15531, thanks @HertzDevil)
• Support Slice.literal with inferred element type (#15529, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Error on TypeNode#instance_vars, #has_inner_pointers? macros in top-level scope (#15293, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (macros) Support sizeof and alignof inside macros for stable types (#15497, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• Fix Box(Pointer).box to not allocate pointer storage on the heap ([#15562], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (collection) Add Indexable#find and #find! ([#15552], [#15589], thanks @punteek, @Sija)
• (llvm) Add LLVM.version ([#15354], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (llvm) Support LLVM 20 ([#154…

Link: Release 1.16.0 · crystal-lang/crystal · GitHub