Chisel v3.4.1

Highlights

• Repo moved to https://github.com/chipsalliance
• Naming improvements
  • More naming enhancements and performance improvements when using features with large designs (#1606) (#1617) (#1628)
  • When prefixing with a data, eagerly get local name (#1614)
  • Use Data refs for name prefixing with aggregate elements (#1616)
  • Added Force Name API (#1634)
  • Refine autonaming to have more intuitive behavior, Last name in an Expression wins, while the first Statement to name wins(#1660)

Fixes

• Provide user source locators in Builder.error errors (#1618)
• Enable Cat of Zero Element Vec (#1623) (#1627)
• Fixed package chisel3 to improve the pointing of reported errors (#1621)
• Make "(one file per module)" -e option work properly (#1630) (#1631)
• Bugfix - module name collision for injecting aspect (#1635)
• Fix bug where refs may not get set for Records (#1645)
• Bugfix - adding external modules was broken (#1649)
• Fixed ExtModule's lack of support built in support for providing verilog source (#1154)
• Change to use .transform as the correct API for ChiselStage (#1651)
• SeqUtils asUInt endian-ness: hi/lo instead of right/left (#1647)
• For HasId.setRef, have first set win (with force override) (#1655)

Miscellany

• Fixes to mdoc (#1600)
• Move Chisel3 to SPDX license conventions (#1604)
• Move more docs as part of CI process (#1601)
• Add MiMa binary compatibility checking to 3.4.x (#1608)
• Waive MiMa failures on package private methods (#1615)
• Add additional function for backwards compatibility. (#1639)
• Ignore tests using System.setSecurityManager, caused problems in test suite (#1661)

Documentation

• Fix website building issues, delete index.md (#1613)
• Fixed broken link to type hierarchy diagram (#1611)
• Fix crosslinks in mdoc. Can't use md suffix (#1640)
• Fix broken links in docs (#1643) (#1644)
• Update some README links to chipsalliance (#1673) (#1681)
• Updated readme: simplify sbt snippet and update to the latest stable release (#1686) (#1687)