Hey everyone,

I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Cody Tapscott 
(screenname: topolarity).

Cody excels at troubleshooting and debugging. He fearlessly deep dives 
into unfamiliar areas of code, relentlessly attacking the problem until 
a solution presents itself.

In addition, Cody has proven to be a steadfast community leader,
setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect.

I look forward to working with Cody as we continue to push Zig
toward 1.0.0 and beyond.

Hey everyone,

I am pleased to announce our newest two Zig team members, Luuk de Gram 
and Joachim Schmidt.

Luuk has taken upon himself to be the resident WebAssembly expert. He 
wrote our self-hosted wasm linker from scratch, as well as pushing 
forward on our self-hosted wasm backend, which is already passing 46% of 
the behavior tests.

Joachim has been working on our self-hosted codegen backends, 
particularly ARM - diligently rewriting the register allocator in order 
to satisfy our design constraints of fast compilation with decent 
runtime performance.

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Hello everyone!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Zig 0.8.1.

https://ziglang.org/download/#release-0.8.1
https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.1/release-notes.html

These release notes debut some new mascot art :)

Regards,
Andrew

Hey everyone,

I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, kprotty. If you've 
interacted with him, you know that he has an insatiable appetite for 
concurrency-related performance, based on a deep understanding that only 
comes from dedication and experimentation.

Check out his related Showtime talks:

  [1] Build Build-A-Barging Lock
  [2] Schedulers and Stuff

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMqKaKg_gvw
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsXxtHGv90

Hey everyone,

I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Frank. He has 
completely organized, modernized, fixed, and fleshed out std.crypto, as 
well as other parts of the standard library. He also delivered a [Zig 
Showtime talk on 25519](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-4_cNAq1uQ).

Frank has shown continued dedication and discipline in contributions
to the Zig programming language project. The quality of his work
speaks for itself.

In addition, Frank has proven to be a steadfast community leader,
setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect.

Hello everyone!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Zig 0.7.1.

https://ziglang.org/download/#release-0.7.1
https://ziglang.org/download/0.7.1/release-notes.html

Regards,
Andrew

Greetings, friends.

Here we are, facing one last postponing of the 0.7.0 release.
Technically, things are progressing as planned. However, last Thursday
my landlord unexpectedly threatened my safety and so I found myself in
an emergency where I had to move myself and all my belongings to a
temporary residence. I'm still figuring out where to go from here while
I get this release out the door, and so I need a little bit extra time.
I'm sorry to postpone the release yet again, but I know a lot of you
would like to try to stick to 0.7.0 rather than track master branch, and
so I want to make sure this one comes out stable enough for that to be a
possibility.

In more uplifting news, Loris is hosting a release party on Zig

Hello everyone,

Previously, I postponed the release date of Zig 0.7.0 to October 26 of
this month due to the delayed release of LLVM 11. Since then, LLVM 11
released and the llvm11 branch of Zig was merged into master. On that
front we have a green light.

However, I personally am behind on some of the chores associated with
the release, such as typing up release notes, as well as a few issues
that are critical to solve before the release. To be honest I burnt
myself out a little bit last month working on #6250 [1] and I've been
trying to have a bit more work-life balance this month to recover.

So I am taking more week before cutting the tag. This will give enough

Why hello frens,

I am pleased to announce our newest Zig team member, Jakub. He has been
doing excellent work on Windows file system abstractions in the standard
library, and recently has been working on [MachO
linking](https://twitter.com/kubkon/status/1311206551835697152).

Jakub has shown continued dedication and discipline in contributions
to the Zig programming language project. The quality of his work
speaks for itself.

In addition, Jakub has proven to be a steadfast community leader,
setting an example for how to treat others with kindness and respect.