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title: Crystal 0.7.2 released!
version: 0.7.2
summary: A small release
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author: asterite
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[Crystal 0.7.2](https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/0.7.2) has been released!

This is a small release which mainly contains bug fixes, performance improvements,
additions to the standard library and some `Channel` methods: `close`, `closed?` and `receive?`.

Happy coding! :-)
