Crystal 1.16.1 is released!

NewsBot · 17 April 2025 04:22

A new Crystal blog post/announcement has been posted!

We are announcing a new patch release of the Crystal 1.16 series.

Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions.

Stats

This release includes 10 changes since 1.16.0 by 2 contributors. We thank all the contributors for all the effort put into improving the language! ❤️

Changes

Below we list the most remarkable changes in the language, compiler and stdlib. For more details, visit the full changelog.

This change brings a couple of bugfixes for regressions introduced in 1.16.0.

Reading from stdin in crystal eval works again (#15655)

Linking libxml2 on Windows now implicitly links bcrypt, as necessary since version 2.13 (#15651)

Other bug fixes:

Transfering file descriptors between execution contexts now works correctly and raises correctly in case of error (#15650, #15663)

Version discovery for libgc via pkg-config uses the system-specific package name (https://crystal-lang.org/2025/04/16/1.16.1-released/