Aether 0.472.0

What's new in 0.472.0

Fixed

• FreeBSD build break in fs.mounts. MNT_NODEV was used unguarded in
  the BSD getmntinfo backend. FreeBSD deprecated that flag and removed the
  macro in FreeBSD 10, while macOS and OpenBSD still define it, so the
  fallback path had never been compiled anywhere and the break only appeared
  on FreeBSD. The flag is now probed with #ifdef rather than keyed on the
  platform, so a future removal elsewhere degrades to omitting the option
  instead of failing the build.
• NetBSD was claimed but never buildable. It sat in the same
  getmntinfo branch, but there the call fills a struct statvfs and the
  flag field is f_flag, not f_flags, so that body could not have
  compiled. NetBSD now falls through to the unsupported branch and reports
  the error, matching the module's convention of degrading rather than
  fabricating, instead of shipping a shape nobody has built.

Added

• make ci-optional-macros, a portability probe, now step 10 of make ci. It recompiles the affected sources with each guarded platform macro
  forced absent, so both sides of every #ifdef are built on every run.
  This reproduces the FreeBSD failure above on any host: verified by
  reintroducing the bug and watching the probe fail, then restoring the fix
  and watching it pass. Registering a new guarded macro is one line.

Downloads

Platform	Architecture	File	Notes
Linux	x86_64	aether-0.472.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
macOS	x86_64	aether-0.472.0-macos-x86_64.tar.gz
macOS	arm64	aether-0.472.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz
Windows	x86_64	aether-0.472.0-windows-x86_64.zip
FreeBSD	x86_64	aether-0.472.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz	cross-built, not tested on FreeBSD

Quick install

Linux / macOS

# Download the archive for your platform, then:
tar -xzf aether-0.472.0-<platform>.tar.gz
export PATH="$PWD/bin:$PATH"
ae version

Windows

Extract the .zip archive, then run bin\ae.exe version from the extracted folder.

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Documentation: https://github.com/aether-lang-dev/aether#readme