v0.46.0

What's Changed

• Fix forc-fmt panic when lexing fails by @sdankel in #5011
• LSP: Don't recompile workspace when moving between files by @JoshuaBatty in #5032
• Add module AST cache. by @tritao in #4733
• ci: change rust version used by CI to v1.72.0 by @kayagokalp in #5043
• Ensure generic values used with a StorageMap are hashable by @bitzoic in #5045
• Fix panic in forc-fmt with special chars by @sdankel in #5014
• Add CI check to ensure forc-fmt doesn't panic by @sdankel in #5051
• Add Appendix A: Keywords to Sway book by @andrewvious in #4992
• [1645] Enhanced PackageManifest parsing by @cr-fuel in #5038
• Add Eq implementation for String by @bitzoic in #5055
• Fixes assert_eq always passing for U256 by @esdrubal in #5054
• u256 bitwise and comparison operators by @xunilrj in #4947
• feat: sway-test-rs load store config & beta-4 bump by @cold-briu in #5062
• Split compilation and traversal stages by @JoshuaBatty in #5074
• Parallelize traversing AST's in the language server by @JoshuaBatty in #5001
• Accumulate typechecking methods in impl TypeCheckContext, part 1 by @anton-trunov in #5087
• Implement Hash trait for Bytes and String types by @bitzoic in #5089
• Fix clippy warnings by @cr-fuel in #5093
• Emit compile error if a match arm variable is declared more than once by @ironcev in #5085
• Introduce the AssetId type by @SwayStar123 in #4955
• Accumulate typechecking methods in impl TypeCheckContext, part 2 by @anton-trunov in #5088
• Catch compiler panics in Sway unit tests by @anton-trunov in #5098
• Ignore patches from workspace members by @cr-fuel in #5092
• Add a "this" method to ContractId by @SwayStar123 in #5099
• Fixed formatting of Module doc comments by @andrewvious in #5101
• Add new() function to StorageKey by @bitzoic in #5096
• Adjust existing Diagnostic API according to the Expressive Diagnostics RFC by @ironcev in #5100
• String slices by @xunilrj in #4996
• Fix Check Links tests by @bitzoic in #5112
• SwayFmt: remove {} around single imports by @brandonsurh in #5109
• Fix catch-all OR match arms by @ironcev in #5117
• Fixes generic types unification of empty structs. by @esdrubal in #5115
• Type checking refactorings and optimizations by @tritao in #5113
• Fix rename for alias and function prefixes by @sdankel in #5118
• Optimize Storage read/write api by @bitzoic in #4795
• Bump to v0.46.0 by @IGI-111 in #5120

New Contributors

• @cr-fuel made their first contribution in #5038
• @brandonsurh made their first contribution in #5109

Breaking Changes

• String literals will now return the string slice type str instead of a string array type, conversion to and from string arrays and slices can be done using the newly introduced intrinsics.

Full Changelog: v0.45.0...v0.46.0