Merge pull request #46075 from JuliaLang/backports-release-1.8

release-1.8: Backports for 1.8-rc4

Author: KristofferC

NEWS.md

@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ New library features
 * `extrema` now accepts an `init` keyword argument ([#36265], [#43604]).
 * `Iterators.countfrom` now accepts any type that defines `+` ([#37747]).
 * `@time` now separates out % time spent recompiling invalidated methods ([#45015]).
-* `@time_imports` now shows any compilation and recompilation time percentages per import ([#45064]).
 
 Standard library changes
 ------------------------
@@ -147,7 +146,8 @@ Standard library changes
 
 #### InteractiveUtils
 
-* New macro `@time_imports` for reporting any time spent importing packages and their dependencies ([#41612]).
+* New macro `@time_imports` for reporting any time spent importing packages and their dependencies, highlighting
+  compilation and recompilation time as percentages per import ([#41612],[#45064]).
 
 #### LinearAlgebra
 

base/Base.jl

@@ -292,9 +292,6 @@ include("process.jl")
 include("ttyhascolor.jl")
 include("secretbuffer.jl")
 
-# RandomDevice support
-include("randomdevice.jl")
-
 # core math functions
 include("floatfuncs.jl")
 include("math.jl")
@@ -484,8 +481,6 @@ end
 
 if is_primary_base_module
 function __init__()
-    # for the few uses of Libc.rand in Base:
-    Libc.srand()
     # Base library init
     reinit_stdio()
     Multimedia.reinit_displays() # since Multimedia.displays uses stdout as fallback