v0.5.3

We're happy to announce the release of Scala Native 0.5.3.

This release introduces bugfixes the runtime and toolchains.
Notably it fixes spurious segmentation faults coused by lack of null guards before calling methods, but also brings multiple fixes to IO operations on files.

Supported Scala versions

Scala Binary Version	Supported Scala Versions
2.12	2.12.14 ... 2.12.19
2.13	2.13.8 ... 2.13.14
3	3.1.2 ... 3.1.3 3.2.0 ... 3.2.2 3.3.0 ... 3.3.3 3.4.0 ... 3.4.2 3.5.0-RC1

Upon release of new Scala version (stable, or Scala 3 RC) version dependent artifacts would be published without a new release.

Commits since last release	8
Merged PRs	7
Contributors	2

Contributors

Big thanks to everybody who contributed to this release or reported an issue!

$ git shortlog -sn --no-merges v0.5.2..v0.5.3
  7	Wojciech Mazur
  1	98765abc

Merged PRs

v0.5.3 (2024-06-04)

Full Changelog

Merged pull requests:

Toolchain

• Fix generation of null guards for cases when null guard was emitted only in 1 branch of control flow #3940 (WojciechMazur)

Java standard library

• fix [javalib] Allow to move broken symlinks #3942 (WojciechMazur)
• fix [javalib] Fix access to redirected output of the file directly after finishing the subprocess execution #3941 (WojciechMazur)
• fix[javalib] Acknownledge kevent and ppol as blocking extern functions #3945 (WojciechMazur)
• improve [javalib]: handling of EINTR errno when waiting process termination #3946 (WojciechMazur)

Artifacts

• improve [build]: Publish Scala 2.13 artifacts using oldest cross compiled version of Scala 2.13 #3947 (WojciechMazur)