Release 5.1.0: March 21, 2016

[GerardPaligot]

Hi all,

The Spoon release 5.1.0 is planned for Monday 21th March.

You can find the temporary changelog below:

New features

• Full support of intersection types. feat(intersection): Full support of intersection types. #535
• Fluent api to test source code transformations. feat(testing): Fluent api to test source code transformations. #517
• Add field at the top of a type. feat(field): Adds field at the top of a type. #537

Minor API changes

• Annotation values are handled as CtExpression. refactor(annotation): Uses JDT visitor to build Java 8 annotations. #555 annotation values with a Map<String,CtExpression> #556
• CtVariableAccess#getType does not return null anymore, now delegates to getVariable().getType(). fix(type): Fixes the getType method of CtVariableAccess #548

Fixes

• No classpath:
  • NPE thrown with annotations on primitive type. fix(noclasspath): NPE throws with annotations on primitive type. #530
  • Anonymous class name must have an empty string. fix(noclasspath): NPE throws with annotations on primitive type. #530
  • NPE when build the type of a CtNewArray. fix(array): NPE when build the type of a CtNewArray. #561
• Generics:
  • Generics in declaring types of a constructor call. fix(constructor): Generics in declaring types of a constructor call. #538
  • A local type can have actual generic types. feat(local): A local type can have actual generic types. #542
  • Generics in declaring types of a new class. fix(newclass): Generics in declaring types of a new class. #545
• Fields:
  • The qualified name of a type declared in an anonymous class. fix(field): Qualified name of a type declared in an anonymous class. #541
• Visibility:
  • Field access declared in a default class. fix(visibility): Field access declared in a default class. #543

Refactoring

• Refactored responsabilities of equal/hashcode/signature. refactors the three responsibilities of equal/hashcode/signature #532

[tdurieux]

#554 will be probably finished before Monday.
Do you want to add #554 to this release?

[GerardPaligot]

I would like to integrate it in the release but it'll integrate the changelog when the PR will be merged.

[GerardPaligot]

Spoon 5.1.0 has been released.