v1.7.0-rc2

Highlights

• Introduced first-class Fory JSON support for Scala 2.13 and Scala 3.
• Introduced first-class Fory JSON support for Kotlin on Android/JVM/GraalVM.
• Enhanced Fory JSON on GraalVM Native Image with build-time code generation enabled by default and fine-grained generated codec caching.
• Added incremental JSON stream decoding for top-level arrays and newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON), enabling values to be processed progressively from chunked UTF-8 input.
• Add swift support for visionOS watchOS tvOS Linux, and add grpc support for Swift

Features

• feat(scala): add json support for scala by @chaokunyang in #3934
• feat(scala): add scala2 json enumeration annotation by @chaokunyang in #3935
• perf(scala): streamline exact List JSON writes by @chaokunyang in #3936
• feat(json): add Kotlin JSON support by @chaokunyang in #3937
• ci: reduce Android Kotlin setup time by @chaokunyang in #3951
• feat: harden deserialization paths by @chaokunyang in #3955
• feat(java): add incremental JSON stream decoding by @chaokunyang in #3956
• ci: isolate Scala snapshot dependencies by @chaokunyang in #3957
• refactor(java): remove unbounded metadata decompression by @chaokunyang in #3958
• feat(json): expose stream value limit errors by @chaokunyang in #3959
• perf(java): optimize GraalVM JSON interpreted access by @chaokunyang in #3960
• perf(json): add ordered field read fast path by @chaokunyang in #3962
• feat(java): refactor java generated codec cache granularity by @chaokunyang in #3963
• feat(java): parse quoted JSON scalar values by @chaokunyang in #3967
• feat(java): add sealed interface json subtypes support by @chaokunyang in #3968
• feat(compiler): Add grpc support for Swift by @yash-agarwa-l in #3776
• feat(swift): support more platforms by @chaokunyang in #3973

Bug Fix

• fix(scala): target Java 8 bytecode for fory-scala by @KarasevRob in #3941
• fix(scala): support Enumeration JSON on Scala 3 by @chaokunyang in #3952
• ci: stabilize JVM snapshot publishing by @chaokunyang in #3953
• fix: fix source release artifact by @chaokunyang in #3969

Other Improvements

• chore: Bump org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api from 2.25.4 to 2.25.5 in /java/fory-test-core by @dependabot[bot] in #3933
• chore: update release version to 1.6.1 by @chaokunyang in #3938
• ci: update sbt setup action by @chaokunyang in #3939
• chore: upgrade scala dependencies by @pjfanning in #3943
• docs: update jackson annotations license by @chaokunyang in #3944

New Contributors

• @KarasevRob made their first contribution in #3941

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.7.0-rc2