Release v0.30.0 · onflow/cadence

What's Changed

Improve JSON encoding test cases, add REPL command for exporting by @turbolent in #2107
Add static and native modifiers for fields and functions by @turbolent in #2119
Implement FLIP 1071: borrow contract by @bluesign in #1934
Allow embedders to reuse interpreter shared state by @turbolent in #2100

Improve interpreter config by @turbolent in #2097
Allow export of function values by @turbolent in #2052
Improve JSON decoding error messages, add utility by @turbolent in #2104
Improve common supertype calculation by @SupunS in #2103
Fix "log" crashing the REPL by @dreamsmasher in #2109
Type fixes and improvements by @turbolent in #2135
Improve error messages for values/types that cannot be imported or exported by @turbolent in #2138
Meter big int allocations in parser, improve over-estimation by @turbolent in #2110
Improve parameter AST node by @turbolent in #2143
Address some tech debt by @turbolent in #2155
Improve reference static type by @turbolent in #2156
Improve type mismatch errors by @turbolent in #2161
Improve sema by @turbolent in #2166
Optimize sema by @turbolent in #2162
Use invocation's interpreter by @turbolent in #2159
improve ConformanceError error message by @dsainati1 in #2172
Suggest lexically closest member in cases of NotDeclaredMemberError by @dsainati1 in #2173
Add support for nested pragma declarations by @turbolent in #2169
Initialize the Crypto contract lazily by @turbolent in #2183
Pretty print interpreter errors by @dsainati1 in #2185
Fix whitespace parsing between expressions by @turbolent in #2115
Improve allocations in checker by @turbolent in #2127
Add positions to numerical runtime errors by @dsainati1 in #2174
Optimize elaboration by @turbolent in #2178
Avoid unnecessary slice allocations by @turbolent in #2191

Fix self declaration by @turbolent in #2108
Report invalid identifier preceding a member or nested declaration by @turbolent in #2134
Fix parsing of array and dictionary expressions by @turbolent in #2136

rename why-cadence.md to why.md to fix broken link by @j1010001 in #2102
Add documentation for String.fromUTF8, numeric types' fromString by @dreamsmasher in #2105
Note in docs that inbox api is not yet released on mainnet by @dsainati1 in #2123
Fix documentation by @turbolent in #2122
Remove outdated callout from the testing-framework docs by @SupunS in #2132
Update flow-docs.json by @bthaile in #2133
Add meeting notes for interface inheritance meeting by @SupunS in #2144
Update design-patterns.mdx by @gregsantos in #2146
Add link to style guide by @bthaile in #2149
Fix links in documentation by @turbolent in #2142

Add JSON language annotations to expected JSON encodings in AST tests by @turbolent in #2118
Move test framework tests to Cadence by @turbolent in #2129
Update CI jobs by @turbolent in #2128
Lint JSON files by @turbolent in #2139
Clean up metering by @turbolent in #2152
Report unkeyed composite literals by @turbolent in #2184

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.30.0