Crystal 1.16.3 is released!

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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 4 changes since 1.16.2 by 3 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 and 1.16.1.

The most important fix is a regression from 1.16.0 where we merged type IDs by name which revealed a semantic bug in typing pointer values (#15751). We’re also fixing a regression form 1.16.2 which made the compiler incompatible with earlier versions of the standard library (#15762).

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Thanks

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