Small question, what’s important new feature in v1.13?
As the freezing period has passed, I have try to give a look at the NEWS file, but I couldn’t get the feeling of what - if any - “big” new feature is landing in the next upcoming release..
Of course, not all new releases need to bring new “big”, “cool” features… I am just asking in case I didn’t grasp the importance of stuff in the NEWS file..
My understanding is that there’s very little “big” stuff in 1.13, basically because the release cycle for 1.12 was so long that everything big either ended up going into 1.12, or was pushed back into into 1.14.
quite a long backlog of bugs and edge cases in integer arithmetic functions, as well around indexing behaviors of some array types has been cleaned up!
few to none of those are individually worthy of a NEWS entry but I find it to be a pretty satisfying aggregate.
What’s important differs for everyone I guess, but if you work in the REPL a lot you might like the fancy new history search which @tecosaur put together.