Testing for the v8.17 release

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Testing for the v8.17 release
(using the v8.16.900 release candidate build)

Search for your name on the checklist page to find relevant items, either
reply when you finish an item (please indicate which item/s is/are done),
or check it off yourself on the checklist page. Also, if you have any
commits that should have been picked, make sure that the changes are in.

Be sure to finish your testing by the 27th. Otherwise the release
will move on without your input.

The checklist page is at:
     https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Release-Checklist-8.17

Release candidates are at:
     https://pre-release.racket-lang.org

Please use these installers (or source bundles) -- don't test from
your own git clone (don't test the `master' branch by mistake!).
To get the tests, you can do this:

  cd ...racket-root...
  ./bin/raco pkg install -i --auto main-distribution-test
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@mike When I run 'racket-tests' in 'htdp-test/tests/test-engine' in drracket, I get three test failures. Can you check these out please? Thanks.

@jbclements I don't think this is a show-stopper but we should wait for a reply from @mike

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  1. When I close all windows and use cmd-N to open a new one, I don’t get a new window. (I see this in the drracket @ HEAD too.)
    — I do get a new window via a mouse gesture and the drop-down menu.

2a. Using F1 for docs fails. It does bring up a page with a search window using a file URL.

2b. Searching the docs fails. When I enter big-bang in the search window of my browser, it seems to do something for perhsp a second or two and then switches from the “home page” to the “results page” but shows no results.

2c. Some of the links on the right menu work (e.g. the Release Notes link (local) and Report Bug link (global) ) and some don’t (e.g. Acknowledgment and License).

  1. I separately reported a problem with one test-engine file to @mike via Discourse,

(I don’t think either one of these is a show-stopper but all of them are annoying.)