4.3.4

2024-03-04 4.3.4

General improvements:

• all : allow @:using with Class and Enum (#11553)
• display : expose list of metadata/defines (#11399)

Bugfixes:

• all : typedef vs. GADT (#11446)
• all : don't double-throw exceptions (#11175)
• all : fix some abstract inlining failures (#11526)
• all : fix JsonPrinter empty parent class (#11560)
• all : dce: clean up operator handling (#11427)
• all : analyzer: deal with unreachable block in binops (#11402)
• all : analyzer: don't recursively check enum values when const propagating (#11429)
• all : analyzer: fix check for inlined purity meta
• display : fix errors from parser missing in diagnostics (#8687)
• display : fix display services with static extension (#11285)
• display : fix display services with safe navigation (#11205)
• hl : hlopt rework try-catch control flow (#11581)
• hl/c : fix reserved keywords (#11408)

Deprecation / future version handling:

• all : don't infer string on concat, when using -D haxe-next (#11318)
• all : handle optional arguments with bind, when using -D haxe-next (#11533)
• macro : build order vs inheritance, when using -D haxe-next (#11582)
• macro : deprecate some API from haxe.macro.Compiler (see #11540)
• java/jvm : warn about --java ... -D jvm vs --jvm ...

4.3.3

2023-09-17 4.3.3

General improvements:

• all : improve extra field error range (#11335)
• all : better error messages for --connect
• hl : improve error message when hl_version is missing (#11086)
• hl/c : compiler now adds hlc define when targeting hl/c (#11382)
• macro : update macro API restriction warnings when using -D haxe-next (#11377)

Bugfixes:

• all : handle non existing files for positions in pretty errors (#11364)
• all : metadata support for local static vars
• all : catch trailing invalid syntax in string interpolation (#10287)
• eval : fix Array.resize retaining values (#11317)
• eval/hl : fix catching haxe.ValueException (#11321)
• hl : make genhl respect Meta.NoExpr (#11257)
• hl : don't add bindings for non existing methods
• hl/c : add missing I64 mod support
• hl/c : rework reserved keywords (#11293, #11378)
• hl/c : fix Int64 unsigned right shift overflow (#11382)
• java/cs: fix stack overflow from closures constraints (#11350)
• js : DOMElement insertAdjacentElement should not be pure (#11333)
• macro : catch trailing invalid syntax in Context.parseInlineString (#11368)
• macro : fix TDAbstract without flags in haxe.macro.Printer

4.3.2

2023-09-01 4.3.2

General improvements:

• all : do not raise error on no-op reification outside macro

Bugfixes:

• all : don't infer Null if it already is Null (#11286)
• all : fix ?? inference and precedence (#11252)
• all : bring back forced inline (#11217)
• all : allow non constant "inline" var init with -D no-inline (#11192)
• all : improve @:enum abstract deprecation warning handling (#11302)
• all : fix some stack overflow with pretty errors
• display : fix go to definition with final (#11173)
• display : fix completion requests with @:forwardStatics (#11294)
• eval : fix MainLoop.add not repeating (#11202)
• hl/eval/neko : fix exception stack when wrapping native exceptions (#11249)
• macro : map this when restoring typed expressions (#11212)
• macro : safe navigation fix for ExprTools.map (#11204)
• macro : safe navigation fix for haxe.macro.Printer (#11206)
• macro : macro generated EVars position fixes (#11163)
• macro : fix abstract casts for local statics (#11301)
• macro : add flags to TDAbstract to be able to construct enum abstracts (#11230)
• nullsafety : make break/continue expressions not-nullable (#11269)
• nullsafety : handle return in assignment (#11114)

4.3.1

2023-04-28 4.3.1

Breaking changes:

• all : namespace message reporting defines (#11142)

General improvements:

• all : support deprecation for defines

Bugfixes:

• all : fix --times with compilation server (#11091)
• all : fix default type parameters not respecting imports (#11161)
• all : fix bytecode bindings issues (#11098)
• macro : allow local statics in macro functions (#11096)
• cpp : fix AtomicInt warnings on cppia (#11105)
• cpp : fix deprecated implicit casts of cpp.Int64 (#10998)
• cpp : add white space around template type syntax (#11107)
• java : don't check native signatures on extern functions (#11131)
• lua : remove non existent luautf8 charCodeAt extern (#11097)

4.3.0

2023-04-06 4.3.0:

New features:

• all : support defaults for type parameters (#10518)
• all : support @:op(a()) on abstracts (#10119)
• all : support abstract keyword to reference the abstract (#10513)
• all : support static var at expression-level (#10555)
• all : support ?. safe navigation operator (#10561)
• all : added ?? null coalescing operator (#10428)
• all : add -w compiler option to configure warnings (#10612)
• all : added new error reporting modes (#10863)
• all : support custom metadata and defines (#10858)

General improvements:

• all : made various optimizations in the analyzer
• all : made various improvements to diagnostics
• all : made various improvements to null-safety
• all : optimize .bind for instance methods (#10737)
• all : improved various parser error messages
• all : improved compilation server performance
• all : improved code generation for try/catch (#10519)
• all : infer property accessor type from the property (#10569)
• all : improved inference of local functions typed against abstracts (#10336)
• all : improved completion on module-level fields
• all : improved handling of native libraries on the compilation server
• all : improved performance when generating locals (#10648)
• all : made Std.parseInt more consistent across targets (#10664)
• all : infer null literals as Null<?> (#7736)
• all : made field access errors more consistent (#10896)
• all : consistently allow trailing commas (#11009)
• all : migrated all relevant targets to PCRE2 (#10491)
• all : made analyzer reconstruct do-while loops (#7979)
• all : improved restrictions on init macros (#11043)
• all : improved positions of @:structInit fields (#9318)
• macro : support map literals in Context.makeExpr (#10259)
• macro : added haxe.macro.Compiler.getConfiguration() (#10871)
• macro : added withImports and withOption to haxe.macro.Context
• macro : added getMacroStack and onAfterInitMacros to haxe.macro.Context (#11043)
• macro : added haxe.macro.Context.makeMonomorph (#10728)
• eval : added dictionary mode to objects, increasing performance in some cases (#10284)
• eval : fixed Sys.exit handling messing up the compilation server (#10642)
• eval : added -D eval-print-depth and -D eval-pretty-print (#10952, #10963)
• cpp : supported type parameters on extern classes (#10415)
• cpp : haxe.Int64 improvements (#9935)
• cpp : non-blocking process exit code reading (#10321)
• js : improved type names for debugger (#10894)
• lua : added SSL implementation (#10593)
• lua : fixed String API when -D no-inline was in place (#11057)
• lua : non-zero exit code in case of uncaught exception (#11082)
• java : deal with default implementations when loading extern libraries (#10466)
• jvm : improved closure naming (#10571)
• jvm : supported --jvm dir (#10614)
• jvm : added some missing TShort and TFloat handling (#10722)
• jvm : added experimental support for functional interfaces (#11019)
• php : added and fixed several extern functions

Standard Library:

• all : added atomic operations to several targets (#10610)
• all : added Vector.fill (#10687)
• sys : added sys.thread.Condition and Semaphore (#10503)
• sys : added Http.getResponseHeaderValues to deal with multiple values of same key (#10812)
• sys : make Sys.environment consistent between targets (#10460)
• sys : consistent way to unset environment variables with Sys.putEnv (#10402)

Bugfixes:

• all : properly disallowed macro reification in invalid places (#10883)
• all : fixed behavior when extending abstract classes with final fields (#10139)
• all : addressed some issues with constructor inlining (#10304)
• all : fixed pattern matcher bug related to null-guards (#10291)
• all : fixed weird parser behavior on first offset in files (#10322)
• all : fixed various issues related to the final modifier
• all : fixed various issues related to overload handling
• all : fixed precedence of => vs. ?: (#10455)
• all : made error positions in structure declarations more accurate (#9584)
• all : brought back proper check when accessing super fields (#10521)
• all : fixed @:publicFields on abstracts (#10541)
• all : inherited some metadata to @:generic implementation classes (#10557)
• all : fixed various problems in EventLoop and MainLoop
• all : fixed infinite recursion from invalid inheritance (#10245)
• all : fixed strange interaction between static extensions and macro functions (#10587)
• all : fixed problems with @:generic on the compilation server (#10635)
• all : fixed Context.onTypeNotFound being called multiple times for the same thing (#10678)
• all : fixed type parameter problem involving abstract classes and interfaces (#10748)
• all : fixed #if (a != b) yielding true for nonexistent values (#10868)
• all : fixed interaction between @:generic and abstract class (#10735)
• all : fixed @:using loading types too eagerly (#10107)
• all : fixed parser ignoring subsequent documentation comments (#10171)
• all : fixed parser function messing up unrelated file state in some cases (#10763)
• all : unified Map printing to always use [] (#9260)
• cpp : fixed problem with cpp.Pointer being used in enum arguments (#10831)
• macro : improved handling of macro this expressions (#10793)
• eval : fixed bit shift operations > 31 (#10752)
• eval : fixed Bytes.toString causing an internal exception (#10623)
• jvm : fixed @:native processing (#10280)
• jvm : fixed Type.getEnumConstructs on native enums (#10508)
• jvm : fixed @:volatile being ignored (#10594)
• jvm : fixed some hashing issue when pattern matching on emojis (#10720)
• jvm : fixed stack handling on return return (#10743)
• hl : fixed various code generation problems
• python : fixed SslSocket for newer python versions (#8401)
• python : fixed syntax issue related to Vector (#11060)

4.2.5

2022-03-06 4.2.5:

New features:

• php : support PHP attributes generation #9964

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed compiler crash in complex constraints chains #10445
• all : fixed timers execution order for timers with small time delta #10567
• js : fixed constructors with rest arguments when compiling for ES3, ES5 #10490
• php : excluded E_DEPRECATED notices from error reporting #10502
• php : fixed safe casts to native arrays #10576
• nullsafety : fixed false error on extern var fields without initialization #10448

4.2.4

2021-10-22 4.2.4:

New features:

• hl : add clipboard support in hl 1.12 (#10320)

General improvements:

• all : improved error messages upon directory creation failures (#10361)
• eval : added % operator to eval.numbers.Int64 and eval.numbers.UInt64 (#10411)

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed errors on final vars modification with +=, *= etc operations (#10325)
• all : fixed hanging of MainLoop.add on threaded targets (#10308,(#10329)
• all : fixed compiler crash when resolving overloads with not enough arguments (#10434)
• all : fixed non-static @:to methods on @:multiType abstracts (#10145)
• analyzer : fixed analyzer on overloads (#10405)
• analyzer : fixed issues with fields initialization expressions (#10405)
• display : improved code completion in anonymous objects declarations (#10414)
• js : fixed IntMap for keys greater than 2^31 (#10316)
• js : workaround to fix sourcemaps on Firefox in Windows (#10217)
• js : delayed truncation of the output file on Compiler.setCustomJSGenerator (#10387)
• cs/java : fixed rest arguments for cases when only one argument is provided (#10315)
• php : fixed type of php.db.PDO.ATTR_DRIVER_NAME (#10319)
• eval : fixed signature of `eval.luv.Tcp.noDelay( metho)
• lua : fixed string.length when string has type of a type parameter constrained to String (#10343)
• jvm : fixed Reflect.compare() for different number types (#10350)
• python : fixed exceptions on tracing some native values (#10440)

4.2.3

General improvements:

• all : analyzer optimizations
• macro : support maps in haxe.macro.Context.makeExpr (#10259)
• js : added -D js-global=globalThis to customize global object name (#10282)
• php : added externs for quoted_printable_decode, quoted_printable_encode, Attribute, NumberFormat, IntlCalendar and other Intl* classes

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed compiler crash on some unreachable code blocks (#10261)
• jvm : fixed @:native (#10280)
• jvm : fixed --xml generation (#10279)

4.2.2

2021-05-14 4.2.2:

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed piping stdin/stdout in --cmd (#4669, #6726)
• all : fixed rest args typing for overloaded functions (#10143)
• all : fixed using var fields as static extensions (#10144)
• all : fixed completion for a type in expr is Type (#10167)
• all : fixed subtypes in expr is Module.SubType expressions (#10174)
• all : fixed typing chains of calls with constrained type params (#10198)
• all : fixed mixed constraints of anonymous structures and other types (#10162)
• all : fixed operator overloading for enum abstracts (#10173)
• hl : fixed debugging of catch blocks (#10109)
• jvm : fixed manifest generation for cases with a lot of jar libraries (#10157)
• js : fixed extending extern classes for es5 (#10192)
• js : fixed checking this before super for es6 (#10193)
• eval : fixed null pointer exception in eval.NativeString.fromString(null)
• eval : fixed multiple locks of sys.thread.Mutex from the same thread (#10249)

4.2.1

release 4.2.1