# Release Announcement for v8.18

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900>\
**Category:** Internals\
**Tags:** release-management, release\
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900 "2025-08-11T12:48:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900/21 "2025-08-21T15:01:32Z")

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@spdegabrielle , I think your pull request might have dropped the change that I made in release-notes.rkt to call `render-contributors-md` instead of `render-contributors`. Maybe there was a reason for this? Let me know if something is broken.

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**Author:** ![hendrikboom3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/hendrikboom3/32/2748_2.png) [@hendrikboom3](https://racket.discourse.group/u/hendrikboom3)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900/22 "2025-08-21T17:20:36Z")

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Does this mean the documentation does not match the implementation?

If so, they should be aligned properly.

Or are these two names for entirely different things?

-- hendrik

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**Author:** ![spdegabrielle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/spdegabrielle/32/95_2.png) [@spdegabrielle](https://racket.discourse.group/u/spdegabrielle)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900/23 "2025-08-21T19:06:20Z")

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Not intentionally😅

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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/release-announcement-for-v8-18/3900/24 "2025-08-22T12:48:02Z")

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The name `prop-list-expr` here IIUC is used in documentation to describe the optional argument that's passed in, which is not exposed by the source itself, so it shouldn't matter whether the documentation matches the implementation here.

As a similar example, the documentation for `cons` lists arguments named `a` and `d`. Does the implementation actually name the arguments `a` and `d`? I have no idea, and I don't think it matters, or is exposed in any way.

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