v1.2.5.18

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Release options memory when done by @fruffy in #5797
• Release compilation contexts when their scope ends by @fruffy in #5799
• Replace boost::format with a compatibility wrapper for P4C's diagnostic library. by @fruffy in #5234

P4 Specification Implementation

• Allow parser / controls / packages as type parameters in package instantiations by @asl in #5789

Changes to the Compiler Core

• Fix compound shift type checking by @sanket-jadhav-cse in #5758
• fix(options): support comma-separated lists in diagnostic flags by @Devansh-567 in #5740
• Handle zero width slices by @aeron-gh in #5745
• Fix JSON string escaping in JsonValue serialization by @Devansh-567 in #5760
• fix for empty container formatting by @Devansh-567 in #5774
• Compare non-IR variant alternatives with == in generated equiv() by @aeron-gh in #5776
• fixing unaligned access in NetHash::csum16 by @Devansh-567 in #5772
• fix for the error count limit in ErrorReporter by @Devansh-567 in #5790
• Intern temporary string allocations in exename by @fruffy in #5796
• Release the JSON loader's node lookup table by @fruffy in #5800
• Swap the slice argument names to be the same as the definition names. by @fruffy-xsight in #5784
• frontends: preserve type when folding struct casts by @blackdragoon26 in #5756

Changes to the BMv2 Back Ends

• Compare BMv2 error test output against reference files by @aeron-gh in #5809
• Fix DPDK compile of conditional concatenation by @fruffy in #5811
• Update old p4_16_bmv_errors test programs, and their expected outputs by @jafingerhut in #5812
• bmv2: error instead of crash when the HashAlgorithm is not an enum member by @aeron-gh in #5751

Changes to the TC Back End

• Clean up TC kernel release version parsing for more recent kernels. by @fruffy in #5770

Changes to the P4Tools Back End

• [p4tools] Make sure state variables are compared the same way everywhere by @fruffy-xsight in #5786

Changes to the Tofino Back End

• Type add_command and convert the assembler paths at the call site by @aeron-gh in #5754
• tofino: keep non-scratch parser match register slices by @aeron-gh in #5753
• Fix three small problems in the tofino build by @aeron-gh in #5763
• Run the tofino P4Testgen compile step through the p4c driver by @aeron-gh in #5766
• Compute 1/x^2 for the RSQR math unit table by @aeron-gh in #5767
• Prefix the tofino-only ctest names with tofino by @aeron-gh in #5769

Other Changes

• Convert Path from find_file to str in the driver by @aeron-gh in #5750
• Updates for already-installed-in-docker uv, and aarch64 builds by @jafingerhut in #5755
• Fix the metrics gtest paths for build dirs outside the source root by @aeron-gh in #5757
• Bump thrift from 0.21.0 to 0.24.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #5748
• Automated Release v1.2.5.18 by @github-actions[bot] in #5813

New Contributors

• @blackdragoon26 made their first contribution in #5756

Full Changelog: v1.2.5.17...v1.2.5.18