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Lightbend Tooling team is happy to announce sbt 1.1.0. This is the first feature release of sbt 1, a binary compatible release focusing on new features.

sbt 1 is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work for sbt 1.x series.

The headline features of sbt 1.1 are unified slash syntax and sbt server. They are both features that I have been involved in for a while, but ultimately had to postpone for sbt 1.0. This makes it all the more exciting to see these finally come out.

Unified slash syntax of setting keys

As a user of sbt, I've long thought having different notations for setting/task keys, one for sbt shell and another for build.sbt made the tool harder to learn. After lots of discussions with the community, and a few prototypes, sbt 1.1.0 will support unified slash syntax (the sbt 0.13 notations will continue to work, so don't worry).

Both in build.sbt and in sbt shell, the settings can be written like this, scope axis delimited by slashes:

ref / Config / intask / key

In the above, ref typically is subproject name or ThisBuild, and Config is the Scala identifier for configurations such as Compile and Test. Each axis might be omitted and can also be substituted with a special Zero value, so it's actually:

((ref | "Zero") "/") ((Config | "Zero") "/") ((intask | "Zero") "/") key

For example, in sbt 0.13:

  • to compile just the Test configuration, in sbt 0.13 you'd write (compile in Test).value in build.sbt and test:compile in the sbt shell.
  • cancelable setting at the Global level is written as (cancelable in Global).value in build.sbt and */*:cancelable in the sbt shell.

In sbt 1.1.0:

  • compile task scoped to Test is written as (Test / compile).value in build.sbt, and Test / compile in the sbt shell.
  • cancelable setting scoped to Global is written as (Global / cancelable).value in build.sbt and Global / cancelable in the sbt shell.

For more details, see Migrating to slash syntax and Scopes docs.

Note: One caveat to the plugin authors is that if you use the new syntax in your plugin it will push the minimum required sbt version to 1.1.0-RC for your users.

#1812/#3434/#3617/#3620 by @eed3si9n and @dwijnand

sbt server

When people hear the name "sbt server", they might imagine it to be something that runs on remote servers, and does great things. But, sbt server is not that for now. Instead, sbt server adds network access to the sbt shell. The primary use case we have in mind is local coordination between IDEs and sbt. sbt 1.1 reworked this feature to use Language Server Protocol 3.0 (LSP) as the wire protocol, a protocol created by Microsoft originally for Visual Studio Code.

Not just Visual Studio Code, but there are LSP clients available for most modern editors and IDEs such as IntelliJ, Eclipse, Sublime Text 3, NeoVim, Emacs, and Atom. On the provider side, there are language servers available for Go, Python, Haskell etc. Because sbt is able to compile, test, package, and deploy your code, these various tasks can potentially be integrated with the frontend.

To discover a running server, sbt 1.1 creates a port file at ./project/target/active.json relative to a build:

{"uri":"local:///Users/foo/.sbt/1.0/server/0845deda85cb41abcdef/sock"}

local: indicates a UNIX domain socket. Here's how we can say hello to the server using nc. (^M can be sent Ctrl-V then Return):

$ nc -U /Users/foo/.sbt/1.0/server/0845deda85cb41abcdef/sock
Content-Length: 99^M
^M
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": { "initializationOptions": { } } }^M

Here's how we can call compile:

Content-Length: 93^M
^M
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 2, "method": "sbt/exec", "params": { "commandLine": "compile" } }^M

The running sbt session should now queue compile, and return back with compiler warnings and errors, if any:

Content-Length: 296
Content-Type: application/vscode-jsonrpc; charset=utf-8

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"textDocument/publishDiagnostics","params":{"uri":"file:/Users/foo/work/hellotest/Hello.scala","diagnostics":[{"range":{"start":{"line":2,"character":26},"end":{"line":2,"character":27}},"severity":1,"source":"sbt","message":"object X is not a member of package foo"}]}}

This allows multiple clients to connect to a single session of sbt. For more details, see sbt server docs.

#3524/#3556 by @eed3si9n

VS Code extension

As a proof of concept for editor integration, we created a Visual Studio Code extension called Scala (sbt). To try it out, install Visual Studio Code, search for "Scala (sbt)" in Extensions tab, run sbt 1.1.0 on some project, and open it using VS Code.

Currently this extension is able to:

  • Run compile at the root project when *.scala files are saved. #3524 by Eugene Yokota (@eed3si9n)
  • Display compiler errors.
  • Display log messages. #3740 by Alexey Alekhin (@laughedelic)
  • Jump to class definitions. #3660 by Wiesław Popielarski at VirtusLab (@wpopielarski)

Sublime Text 3 integration

Using LSP plugin, Sublime Text 3 can also be setup with the same feature. See sbt server with Sublime Text 3:

Also Neovim too. I think you get the idea here.

Other bug fixes and improvements

  • Fixes ClasspathFilter that was causing Class.forName to not work in run. zinc#473 / #3736 / #3733 / #3647 / #3608 by @ravwojdyla
  • Fixes Java compilation causing NullPointerException by making PositionImpl thread-safe. zinc#465 by @eed3si9n
  • Fixes PollingWatchService by preventing concurrent modification of keysWithEvents map. io#90 by @mechkg, which fixes ~ related issues #3687, #3695, and #3775.
  • Provides workaround for File#lastModified() losing millisecond-precision by using native code when possible. io#92/io#106 by @cunei
  • Fixes IO.relativize not working with relative path. io#108 by @dwijnand
  • Fixes warning message when multiple instances are detected. #3828 by @eed3si9n
  • Changes version setting default to 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT for compatibility with Semantic Versioning. #3577 by @laughedelic
  • Fixes over-compilation bug with Java 9. zinc#450 by @retronym
  • Fixes handling of deeply nested Java classes. zinc#423 by @romanowski
  • Fixes JavaDoc not printing all errors. zinc#415 by @raboof
  • Preserves JAR order in ScalaInstance.otherJars. zinc#411 by @dwijnand
  • Fixes used name when it contains NL. zinc#449 by @jilen
  • Fixes handling of ThisProject. #3609 by @dwijnand
  • Escapes imports from sbt files, so if user creates a backquoted definition then task evalution will not fail. #3635 by @panaeon
  • Removes reference to version 0.14.0 from a warning message. #3693 by @saniyatech
  • Fixes screpl throwing "Not a valid key: console-quick". #3762 by @xuwei-k
  • Filters scripted tests based on optional project/build.properties. #3564/#3566 by @jonas
  • Adds Project#withId to change a project's id. #3601 by @dwijnand
  • Adds reboot dev command, which deletes the current artifact from the boot directory. This is useful when working with development versions of sbt. #3659 by @eed3si9n
  • Adds a check for a change in sbt version before reload. #1055/#3673 by @RomanIakovlev
  • Adds a new setting insideCI, which indicates that sbt is likely running in an Continuous Integration environment. #3672 by @RomanIakovlev
  • Adds nameOption to Command trait. #3671 by @miklos-martin
  • Adds POSIX persmission operations in IO, such as IO.chmod(..). io#76 by @eed3si9n
  • Treat sbt 1 modules using Semantic Versioning in the eviction warning. lm#188 by @eed3si9n
  • Uses kind-projector in the code. #3650 by @dwijnand
  • Make displayOnly etc methods strict in Completions. #3763 by @xuwei-k
  • Restores Scala 2.13.0-M1 support. sbt/zinc#461 by @dwijnand

Participation

Thanks again to everyone who's helped improve sbt and Zinc 1 by using them, reporting bugs, improving our documentation, porting builds, porting plugins, and submitting and reviewing pull requests.

sbt 1.1.0 was brought to you by 33 contributors, according to git shortlog -sn --no-merges v1.0.4..v1.1.0 on sbt, zinc, librarymanagement, util, io, and website: Eugene Yokota, Dale Wijnand, Antonio Cunei, Kenji Yoshida (xuwei-k), Alexey Alekhin, Simon Schäfer, Jorge Vicente Cantero (jvican), Miklos Martin, Jeffrey Olchovy, Jonas Fonseca, Andrey Artemov, Arnout Engelen, Dominik Winter, Krzysztof Romanowski, Roman Iakovlev, Wiesław Popielarski, Age Mooij, Allan Timothy Leong, Ivan Poliakov, Jason Zaugg, Jilen Zhang, Long Jinwei, Martin Duhem, Michael Stringer, Michael Wizner, Nud Teeraworamongkol, OlegYch, PanAeon, Philippus Baalman, Pierre Dal-Pra, Rafal Wojdyla, Saniya Tech, Tom Walford, and many others who contributed ideas. Thank you!

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