Crystal 1.8.2 is released!

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A new Crystal blog post/announcement has been posted!

We are releasing the second patch release of the 1.8 series.

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

This release includes 7 changes since 1.8.1 by 3 contributors. We thank all the contributors for all the effort put into improving the language! ❤️

It fixes a couple minor bugs in the standard library and one in the compiler codegen. Most relevant is a regression in 1.8.1 regarding JSON::Serializable on certain recursively defined types (https://crystal-lang.org/2023/05/09/crystal-1.8.2-released/