v1.5.0-rc1

Highlights

• Added external-type serialization across Rust, Dart, Swift, and C#, with hardened cross-language interoperability.
• Added generated class inheritance support for C# and Dart.
• Improved Java JSON serialization performance and added configurable benchmark reports and documentation.

Features

• feat(java): add configurable JSON benchmark reports by @chaokunyang in #3870
• feat(java): optimize json perf by @chaokunyang in #3871
• feat(rust): support external-type serialization by @chaokunyang in #3881
• feat(dart): add external-type serialization by @chaokunyang in #3886
• feat(swift): support external-type serialization by @chaokunyang in #3888
• feat(csharp): support external type serialization by @chaokunyang in #3889
• feat(xlang): harden external type support by @chaokunyang in #3890
• feat(csharp): support generated class inheritance by @chaokunyang in #3893
• feat(dart): add dart inheriance support by @chaokunyang in #3892

Bug Fix

• fix(cpp): validate tagged struct field reads by @chaokunyang in #3884
• fix(xlang): reject malformed meta strings by @chaokunyang in #3885
• fix(cpp): validate polymorphic smart pointer reads by @chaokunyang in #3887
• fix: fix release errors by @chaokunyang in #3891

Other Improvements

• chore: fix release script by @chaokunyang in #3867
• chore: Bump protobufjs from 7.6.2 to 7.6.3 in /javascript by @dependabot[bot] in #3868
• chore: Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind from 2.22.0 to 2.22.1 in /benchmarks/java by @dependabot[bot] in #3869
• chore(release): bump versions for 1.4.0 by @chaokunyang in #3874
• docs: add java json serialization doc by @chaokunyang in #3875
• chore: fix package metadata links by @chaokunyang in #3876
• chore: Bump protobufjs from 7.6.3 to 7.6.5 in /javascript by @dependabot[bot] in #3878
• chore: Bump tar from 7.5.16 to 7.5.20 in /javascript by @dependabot[bot] in #3879
• chore: Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core from 2.18.6 to 2.18.8 in /java/fory-testsuite by @dependabot[bot] in #3880
• chore: Bump tar from 7.5.20 to 7.5.22 in /javascript by @dependabot[bot] in #3882
• chore(deps): upgrade test deps by @chaokunyang in #3883

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0-rc1