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@Sainan Sainan released this 10 Sep 10:36
· 354 commits to main since this release
0.12.0
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  • Added postfix ++ operator
  • Added ** as an integer exponentiation operator (this previously was a deprecated alias for ^)
  • Added protected class fields
  • Added $object syntax for table creation
  • Added $include
  • Added $haltcompiler
  • Trailing commas are now allowed for arguments, parameters, and destructuring
  • String interpolation now implicitly calls tostring on each interpolation value
  • Deprecated the optional 'global' keyword
  • Deprecated reassignment of for loop control variables in preparation for Lua 5.5
  • Removed the deprecated <constexpr> attribute

Type System:

  • Added any and nil type hints
  • Added type hinting for multiple return values
  • Added complex type hinting for tables to specify fields
  • Type hints for function type can now also specify the parameters and returns
  • Added $type syntax for named types (this replaces the constexpr call $type(x))
  • Added $declare to set the type of a global
  • Added $getproptype to query the parser's idea of a variable's type

Standard Library:

  • Global & Base
    • dumpvar's output now includes metatable __name where applicable
  • Bigint
    • Added bigint.abs, bigint.gcd, bigint.isprobableprime, bigint.export, bigint.import
    • Added __unm metamethod to bigints
    • Bigint operations now accept plain Lua ints as operands
  • Crypto
    • Added curve25519 to crypto.generatekeypair
    • Added crypto.hmac, crypto.fnv1a32, crypto.x25519, crypto.derive
    • Added RSA OAEP modes to crypto.encrypt & crypto.decrypt (rsa-sha1, rsa-sha256, rsa-sha384, rsa-sha512)
    • Added optional offset parameter to crypto.decompress
    • Removed previously-deprecated crypto.hexstream
  • FFI
    • Added ffi.callback
  • IO
    • Added io.unique, io.symlink
    • Removed previously-deprecated io.copyto
  • JSON
    • Added MessagePack support to json.encode and json.decode
  • Math
    • Added math.trunc, math.cbrt, math.hypot
    • Added math.inf as an alias for math.huge
  • OS
    • Added os.dnsresolve
  • Socket
    • Added alpn option to socket.starttls
    • Added early_data option to client-side socket.starttls
  • String
    • Added string.span
    • Removed previously-deprecated string.find_first_of, string.find_first_not_of, string.find_last_of, string.find_last_not_of, string.lfind
  • Table
    • Added table.create
    • Added table.clone
  • UTF8
    • utf8.offset now also returns the final position of the codepoint

For Integrators:

  • Pulled luaL_openselectedlibs from Lua 5.5 so you can now define which Lua and Pluto libraries to load globally + preloaded via bitflags. luaL_openlibs is now a macro using this function to the same effect as before.
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