Release 4.0.0-preview.1 · HaxeFoundation/haxe

2017-09-12: 4.0.0-preview.1

New features:

General improvements and optimizations:

js : improved generation of break inside switch inside loops (#4964)
cs : improved generation of enum classes (#6119)
sys : the database parameter of Mysql.connect is now optional
js : updated jQuery extern (js.jquery.*) for jQuery 1.12.4 / 3.2.1 support.
Makefile : default Unix installation location $(INSTALL_DIR) changed from /usr to /usr/local.
Makefile : default Unix std location $(INSTALL_STD_DIR) changed from $(INSTALL_LIB_DIR)/std to $(INSTALL_DIR)/share/haxe/std.

Removals:

all : removed --eval command line argument
sys : SPOD (sys.db.Object, sys.db.Manager and friends) was moved into a separate library record-macros (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/record-macros)
js : js.JQuery and js.SWFObject were moved into hx3compat library (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hx3compat),
it's recommended to use more modern js.jquery.JQuery and js.swfobject.SWFObject classes.
all : moved haxe.web.Dispatch into hx3compat library (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hx3compat).

Bugfixes:

php7: fix Reflect.field() for strings (#6276)
php7: fix @:enum abstract generation without -dce full (#6175)
php7: fix using enum constructor with arguments as a call argument (#6177)
php7: fix null property access (#6281)
php7: fix setting values in a map stored in another map (#6257)
php7: fix haxe.io.Input.readAll() with disabled analyzer optimizations (#6387)
php/php7: fixed accessing enum constructors on enum type stored to a variable (#6159)
php/php7: fix "cannot implement previously implemented interface" (#6208)
php: fix invoking functions stored in dynamic static vars (#6158)
php: fix field access on new MyClass() expressions wrapped in a cast (#6294)

Standard Library: