Buoy v0.38.0

v0.38.0

New Features

• BuoyScript — embeddable Buoy JIT (LLVM ORCv2)
• Value-returning Event/Handle/RaiseEvent + HTMLView.CancelLoad
• Add Application.Executable As FileSystemItem
• Add WindowType, Window.Close(), and Window.ShowModally
• Autosave Project Build Settings webview
• Add System.Log / LogLevels
• Add System.EnvironmentVariable (get/set)
• Add System.CPUCount
• Bare Import falls back to a same-named installed package

Bug Fixes

• Resolve each library in a multi-library package to its own file
• Bump brace-expansion to 5.0.8 (alert #27)
• Nest LogLevels inside Class System
• Include Windows installer exes in published release assets
• EmitTryUnwind reverse-iterator invalidated by nested Try in a Finally body
• Stop false-positive property/method name-collision warning on TimeZone.OffsetFromUtc
• Release Shared Property object slots at exit, stopping false-positive leak reports

Buoy v0.37.0

v0.37.0

New Features

• Windows installers for both architectures
• Exit For / Continue For loop-variable
• For...Downto descending-loop shorthand

Bug Fixes

• Return loop frame by value from resolveLoopFrame to avoid dangling pointer
• Guard Exit/Continue loop-variable rejection on recognized operand

NOTE: This is our first release with Windows installers. We are aware that they are not code signed yet, but if you notice any other issues, please file a bug report on this site.

Buoy 0.35.0

New Features

• ByRef works on arrays and every other reference type
• leak detector reports per-object detail instead of just a count

Bug Fixes

• retain by-value object/array parameters so reassigning one doesn't free the caller's object
• debugger shows array and composite values instead of empty rows
• Linux .so SONAME/f + regex packages; WindowsCRT time exports

Buoy v0.34.0

v0.34.0

New Features

• Chained array indexing over nested arrays (theArray(i)(j))
• Add Locale.ParseNumber for locale-aware string-to-number conversion
• Add Array.Shuffle in-place shuffle method

Bug Fixes

• DateTime.MillisFrom1970/SecondsFrom1970 lose all sub-second precision
• Linux native .so links leak build-machine's absolute cache path into DT_NEEDED
• Dedupe vendored license files in packaging scripts
• Claim ownership of array-typed elements in ARC retain/release loops
• Flush stdio on Linux exit by calling libc exit() from crt0
• Claim ownership of array-typed Structure/Record fields in ARC
• Claim array-typed collection ownership in For Each codegen
• Claim ownership of array-typed elements in IndexAssign/Append/Insert

Buoy v0.33.0

v0.33.0

New Features

• Add System.Microseconds() monotonic elapsed-time counter
• Add Inline function/method modifier for LLVM alwaysinline

Bug Fixes

• Claim ownership of array-typed elements in array literal codegen
• Wrap buoy --help output to 75 columns

Buoy v0.32.0

v0.32.0

New Features

• AI coding kit — buoy ai init, MCP docs search, VSCode setup command
• Add xml package (Xerces-C++-backed DOM core)
• Suggest event names after Handle in completion
• Locale-aware Number/Currency formatting via Locale.FormatNumber/FormatCurrency
• Flesh out FileSystemItem + FileSystemDrive / System drive enumeration
• Locale-aware DateTime.ToString
• Update zip package's API in ZipReader/ZipWriter
• Add System.Folders (SpecialFolder) known-folder resolver
• Add inline If(condition, trueValue, falseValue) conditional expression
• Add cross-platform DateTimePicker control
• Add UDP broadcast and multicast support to UDPSocket
• Port TLS shim (runtime/tls/TlsC.cpp) from Botan to OpenSSL
• Port crypto package native shim from Botan to OpenSSL
• Add Postgres package (PostgreSQL backend for Database abstract class)

Bug Fixes

• Ship only cleaned learning chapters (docs/learning_buoy), not docs/learning
• Deliver fluenticons as a single compressed .buipkg instead of ~6,238 loose files
• Default long-form local Array Of T to empty array (urgent segfault)
• Regression guard + close-loop for macOS window close-box crash (buoy-releases#39)
• Create Windows named pipe synchronously in ServerSocket.Listen() to close Mode.IPC race
• Harden DateTimePicker Linux backend against null-deref and floating-ref misuse
• Call ExitProcess explicitly on Windows so Winsock worker threads can't block exit
• Extend Linux libc/libpthread stubs for OpenSSL's fuller libc surface
• Disable OpenSSL async/QUIC, fix Linux atexit versioning, extend macOS libc stubs

Dependency Updates

• Bump brace-expansion to 1.1.16/2.1.2/5.0.7
• Bump js-yaml to 4.3.0
• Bump markdown-it to 14.3.0
• Bump linkify-it to 5.0.2
• Bump undici to 7.28.0
• Bump tmp to 0.2.7
• Bump form-data to 4.0.6
• Bump serialize-javascript to 7.0.7

Buoy v0.31.0

v0.31.0

New Features

• Add Call statement keyword
• Rewrite database package as SQLiteDatabase backend of stdlib base
• Backend-agnostic abstract Database base layer in stdlib
• Per-project VSCode build config for multi-target Buoy compiles

Bug Fixes

• Don't let an Abstract method's optional End consume the enclosing End Class
• Make layout editor control borders visible in dark themes
• Stop a stray .buoy/ dir from poisoning project-root detection
• Relocate and package Linux crt0.o for installed toolchains
• Defer window close callback off AppKit's synchronous teardown to stop close-button crash
• Copy Windows runtime DLLs correctly when -o has no directory component
• Alphabetize the control lists in the layout editor
• Reject Optional =/<> comparison in Sema instead of crashing codegen
• Default uninitialized Array Of T property to empty array

Buoy v0.30.0

v0.30.0

New Features

• Add hotkey legend to layout editor palette
• Disambiguate layout editor between multiple Window/View blocks in one file
• Resizable window, multi-select drag, and working snap in layout editor
• Embed Info.plist in the buoy binary and console-mode macOS executables
• Add declarative View blocks for "container controls"
• Add @DatabaseRecord attribute for compile-time database marshaling

Bug Fixes

• Index Window/View/Control/Constraints as indent-openers in the formatter
• Correctly update all governing anchors in constraint drag steady-state
• Only run the solver when resizing the window/view

Buoy v0.29.0

v0.29.0

New Features

• add @ControlSize and @ControlIcon class attributes for the layout editor palette
• add @Serializabl e attribute for compile-time JSON ToJson/FromJson synthesis
• add Clipboard class for system clipboard access
• Add declarative layout editor in VSCode. Locks only for now.
• add Internal access modifier
• add StatusItem control (macOS/Windows/Linux system tray)
• implement declarative Constraints block
• redesign JSON API, add dotted-receiver Assigns setters

Bug Fixes

• implement Object.TypeName() and Object.Hash() codegen
• reject bare Shared property reference from instance method
• reject Shared method calls through an instance receiver

Buoy v0.28.0

v0.28.0

New Features

• Add Variant tagged-union value box package (Xojo-conversion shim)
• Convert DateTime, TimeZone, and TimeInterval to real classes
• Add buoy --list-deprecations to catalog @deprecated declarations

Bug Fixes

• Close crypto package native/-source bug report, add regression guard
• Reject Array.RemoveValue/IndexOf/LastIndexOf/Contains value-type mismatches
• Statically link libucrt.a for Windows runtime DLL C99 stdio calls
• Resolve receiver.PropertyName(index) as array-property indexing, not a method call
• Reject out-of-range float literals instead of crashing the lexer
• Reject out-of-range integer literals instead of crashing the lexer
• Reject Weak on Shared Property/field instead of segfaulting at runtime
• Guard GTK4 popups/dialogs against unrealized/uninitialized toplevel
• Windows CRT fd-table functions work without special init; add missing stub exports
• Add missing loop-idiom-recognize libc symbols to Darwin libSystem.tbd stubs
• Load full certificate chain in server-side TLS
• Xor on Integer operands emitted invalid LLVM IR