Re: [Factor-talk] Factor 0.101 now available

[Jon H. <jon...@gm...>]

Very nice ! Now with this version number, all the universities in the
world won't have any excuses not to offer a "Factor 101" course :)
Jon

On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 5:56 AM John Benediktsson <mr...@gm...> wrote:
>
> *"Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee." -
> William Kershner*
>
> I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.101! You can find download
> links on the Factor website:
>
>     https://factorcode.org
>
> This release is brought to you with almost 700 commits by the following
> individuals:
>
>     Aleksander Sabak, Andy Kluger, Cat Stevens, Dmitry Matveyev, Doug Coleman,
>     Giftpflanze, John Benediktsson, Jon Harper, Jonas Bernouli, Leo Mehraban,
>     Mike Stevenson, Nicholas Chandoke, Niklas Larsson, Rebecca Kelly, Samuel
>     Tardieu, Stefan Schmiedl, @Bruno-366, @bobisageek,
>     @coltsingleactionarmyocelot @inivekin, @knottio, @timor.
>
> Besides some bug fixes and library improvements, I want to highlight the
> following changes:
>
>  * Moved the UI to render buttons and scrollbars rather than using images,
>    which allows easier theming.
>  * Fixed HiDPI scaling on Linux and Windows, although it currently doesn’t
>    update the window settings when switching between screens with different
>    scaling factors.
>  * Update to Unicode 17.0.0.
>  * Plugin support for the Neovim editor.
>
> Some possible backwards compatibility issues:
>
>  * The argument order to ltake was swapped to be more consistent with words
>    like head.
>  * The environment vocabulary on Windows now supports disambiguating f and ""
>    (empty) values
>  * The misc/atom folder was removed in favor of the factor/atom-language-factor
>    repo.
>  * The misc/Factor.tmbundle folder was removed in favor of the
>    factor/factor.tmbundle repo.
>  * The misc/vim folder was removed in favor of the factor/factor.vim repo.
>  * The http vocabulary request tuple had a slot rename from post-data to data.
>  * The furnace.asides vocabulary had a slot rename from post-data to data, and
>    might require running ALTER TABLE asides RENAME COLUMN "post-data" TO data;.
>  * The html.streams vocabulary was renamed to io.streams.html
>  * The pdf.streams vocabulary was renamed to io.streams.pdf
>
> For more details, please see the full announcement at:
>
>   https://re.factorcode.org/2025/12/factor-0-101-now-available.html
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