Nonpolynomial Software Updates for January 10, 2021

I made a rule for myself that I’d wait 2 days after any software update to announce it on the blog, just to make sure I didn’t have to go back and fix even more things and flood the blog with “fixes and performance improvement” posts. The last blog being 2 weeks ago says a lot about the release schedule lately.

Thanks to a lot of interaction with developers using the libraries after the v1 launch, I’ve been making a ton of patches and bugfixes. There’s a pretty severe lack of tests in several parts of the platform at the moment, so it’s a very “testing in production” situation. With production for our software being what it is, it means seeing bug reports like “multiple gigabyte memory leaks during hours of intimate hardware usage.”

Anyways, here’s a list of things I threw the fire extinguisher at over the past 2 weeks.

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