changelog: finish the 0.4.3 changelog

Author: medvednikov

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,61 +1,109 @@
 ## V 0.4.3
 *11 November 2023*
-*not complete yet*
 
 #### Improvements in the language
-- Align ternary expressions in const blocks (#19721)
-- Respect raw strings in `$embed_file(r'/some/path')` expressions (#19753)
-- Remove additional line breaks after call_expr before params struct args (#19795)
+- A new `encoding.xml` module with parser, validation, entity encoding, unit tests (#19708)
+- Better couroutines support (IO, networking)
+- Allocations in vweb apps reduced by 80%
+- Implement `@VCURRENTHASH` to replace `C.V_CURRENT_COMMIT_HASH` (#19514)
+- int => i64 on 64 bit, i32 on 32 bit (start of the transition)
+- Fix new int type promotion rules and cleanup native gen() (#19535)
 
 #### Breaking changes
+- `Request.cookies` map has been deprecated. Replaced with `Request.cookie()` and `Request.add_cookie()`. 
+- Stricter rules for C types (they always have to be declared now)
 
 #### Checker improvements/fixes
+- Turn the option/result split warning into an error
+- Turn propagation warning into an error (finishes the option/result split)
+- Fix fn call with option call argument in autofree mode (#19515)
+- Bring back pascal case check for aliases
+- C.xx = C.yy aliases
+- Allow casted integeral types in match ranges (#19572)
+- Warn about byte deprecation, when used as a fn parameter (#19629)
+- Allow size of fixed array to be integral casts (#19663)
+- Fix generic array append (#19658)
 - Check error of implementing other module private interface (fix #19620) (#19688)
 - Extend byte deprecation warning to array init types (#19671)
 - Extend byte deprecation warnings to return types (#19668)
 - Fix negative cap, len checks in array init (#19694)
 - Turn warning for var and param module name duplicates into error (#19645)
-- Fix closure in if guard (#19750)
-- Fix closure in if guard, with multi_return (#19765)
+- Fix closure in if guard, including with multi_return (#19765)
 - Fix comptime enumdata value property access (#19768)
 - Fix `field ?&Type` without default value (#19786)
 - Avoid nil assign to option var (#19746)
 - Allow for a shared variable to be whole reassigned (keeping the same mutex state) (fix #15649) (#19751)
 
 #### Parser improvements
-- parser: add `set_all` + `clear_all` methods to `[flag]` enum bitfields (#19717)
+- Fix assigning static method to anon fn (#19499)
+- ast: fix formatting a struct declaration with a nested struct (#19592)
+- Add `set_all` + `clear_all` methods to `[flag]` enum bitfields (#19717)
 - ast: reduce cost of frequently called functions by using constants (#19733)
-- parser: warn on unused imports, even when they are declared via `import math { sin, cos }`   (#19738)
+- Warn on unused imports, even when they are declared via `import math { sin, cos }`   (#19738)
 - ast: add missing docstrings for the public fns in vlib/v/ast/types.v (#19752)
-- parser: give a friendly error when misusing if over $if (#19810)
+- Give a friendly error when misusing if over $if (#19810)
 - Add multiple struct attributes error for new attribute syntax
 
 #### Compiler internals
+- checker, builder, pref: support `-dump-defines -` to help explore all the available user and system defines for a given program (#19576)
+- pref,builder: add support for `-macosx-version-min 10.2` and `-macosx-version-min 0` (with default of 10.7) (#19626)
 - pref: fix unintended file extensions in default output names, allow for `v run file.c.v` (#19745)
 - transformer: fix using a constant, instead of a fn parameter with the same name (fix #19766) (#19773)
+- maps: add maps.merge() and maps.merge_in_place() generic utility functions (#19776)
+- coroutines: only attempt to add/remove roots when GC is on.
+- markused: cleanup in mark_used(), use robust index names, instead of the much more brittle integer values (#19543)
 
 #### Standard library
+- builtin: add an `unsafe { a.reset() }` method, for quickly setting all bytes in an array to 0
+- math.fractions: use operator overloading and deprecate old functions (#19547)
+- gg: fix the alignment of the bottom border of draw_rounded_rect_empty on macos and linux
+- crypto.bcrypt: fix bcrypt failure for valid pass and hash (fix #19558) (#19569)
+- sokol: update sokol to the latest version
+- builtin: fix sizeof(C.BOOL) (windows specific) (#19589)
+- math.big: fix incorrect division with negative numbers (fix #19585) (#19587)
+- os: add a convenient way to ignore certain system signals (#19632)
+- os: fix os.ls(folder) on windows, when a protected folder can not be opened (#19647)
+- os: add a convenient way to ignore certain system signals (#19639)
 - crypto.sha: fix calculating the same hash values when .sum() is called several times for sha1/256/512 (fix #19696) (#19697)
 - crypto.md5: fix calculating the same hash values, when .sum() is called several times (#19703)
 - os: add a new function `execute_opt` (#19723)
 - os: add os.page_size() (#19770)
-- vlib: add an `encoding.xml` module with parser, validation, entity encoding, unit tests (#19708)
 - os: implement os.fd_is_pending/1, os.Process.pipe_read/1, os.Process.is_pending/1 (#19787)
 - builtin: copy min/max integer values consts from `math` to builtin so that the entire math module doesn't have to be imported(#19809)
+- json2: add support for nested structs (#19579)
 
 #### Web
+- vweb: add mime type support for static .md files
+- net.conv: add varinttou64 and u64tovarint functions, for the variable unsigned integer encoding, described in rfc9000 (for QUIC) (#19568)
+- net.http: support passing on_running, on_stopped, on_closed callback functions to http.Server{}, as well as show_startup_message: false. (#19591)
+- net: fix handling of spurious wake-up signals, lost when calling select() in mbedtls and openssl (continue on C.EINTR) (#19600)
+- net: use conv.hton* consistently, instead of `$if tinyc { conv.hton16(port) } $else { u16(C.htons(port)) }`
+- net.http: support passing an HTTP proxy server in http.fetch (#19606)
+- net.http: add a retry mechanism to http.fetch(), when the socket inevitably errors (#19660)
+- wasm: implement inline assembly (#19686)
 - net.http: increase max_redirects to 16 (#19743)
 - picoev: implement raw mode (#19771)
 - flag,json,net: handle C calls in .v files (part of enabling `-W impure-v` as default) (#19779)
 - net.http: add socks5|http(s) proxy support [Linux] (#19676)
 
 #### ORM
+- orm: add null handling and option fields (#19379)
+- orm: make is_null/is_not_null unary ops; don't bind null in where (#19635)
 
 #### Database drivers
+- pg: hande C calls, move to .c.v files (#19739)
 
 #### Native backend
+- native: support `-no-builtin` (generate executables < 1KB Linux with `v -no-builtin -b native examples/hello_world.v`)
+- native: use i32 instead of int
 
 #### C backend
+- Fix printing fixed array of options (#19479)
+- Fix struct field of fixed array init (fix #19483) (#19487)
+- Fix struct init with multi option fn type (#19491)
+- Ast, native, cgen: add support for `$if native {}` (#19500)
+- Fix maps with i32 keys
+- Fix for c stmt with option or result calls (#19641)
 - Fix infix op when handling comptime selector (#19691)
 - Fix array contains method with interface(fix #19670) (#19675)
 - Reduce expense in repetitively called functions by using consts (#19732)
@@ -64,7 +112,20 @@
 - Fix g.obf_table data missing(fix #19695) (#19778)
 - Fix closure variable in smartcast (#19796)
 
+#### vfmt
+- Remove additional line breaks after call_expr before params struct args (#19795)
+- Fix map value aligment when using keys with uft8 symbols (#19689)
+- Align ternary expressions in const blocks (#19721)
+- Respect range index expressions in match branches (#19684)
+- Respect raw strings in `$embed_file(r'/some/path')` expressions (#19753)
+- Fix formatting of struct field with default value and new attr syntax (#19683)
+- Recognize or blocks in call args (#19690)
+
 #### Tools
+- all: add support for `@LOCATION`, for more convenient logging/tracing, without needing to combine `@FILE`, `@LINE` at runtime (#19488)
+- benchmark: add new methods b.record_measure/1 and b.all_recorded_measures/0 (#19561)
+- ci: update c2v workflow, translate doom on macOS (#19562)
+- strings: add Bulder.write_decimal/1 method (write a decimal number, without additional allocations) (#19625)
 - testing: add temporary file hash to prevent accidental collisions with test file binaries (#19710)
 - ci: compile VTL and VSL in their own CI job, with `VFLAGS=-no-parallel`
 - tools: fix windows install of an already existing module with vpm (#19761)
@@ -77,6 +138,7 @@
 - tools: add parse_query to vpm (#19814)
 - ci: add macos arm64 binary release (#19823)
 - Require the presence of a `v.mod` file, to install external urls via vpm (#19825)
+- vcreate: fix `v init` with project names containing dashes (#19619)
 
 #### Operating System support
 

cmd/tools/changelog_helper.v

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ enum Category {
 	tools
 	compiler_internals
 	examples
+	vfmt
 }
 
 /*
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ enum Category {
 #### Database drivers
 #### Native backend
 #### C backend
+#### vfmt
 #### Tools
 #### Operating System support
 #### Examples
@@ -117,6 +119,8 @@ fn (mut app App) process_line(text string) ! {
 		category = .improvements
 	} else if is_native(text) {
 		category = .native
+	} else if is_vfmt(text) {
+		category = .vfmt
 	} else if is_examples(text) {
 		// TODO maybe always skip these as well?
 		category = .examples
@@ -214,6 +218,7 @@ const category_map = {
 	.tools:              '#### Tools'
 	.compiler_internals: '#### Compiler internals'
 	.examples:           '#### Examples'
+	.vfmt:               '#### vfmt'
 }
 
 fn (l Line) write_at_category(txt string) ?string {
@@ -265,11 +270,10 @@ const db_strings = [
 	'db.sqlite',
 	'db.mysql',
 	'db.pg',
+	'pg:',
 ]
 
 const improvements_strings = [
-	'vfmt:',
-	'fmt:',
 	'all:',
 	'v:',
 ]
@@ -282,6 +286,7 @@ const parser_strings = [
 const stdlib_strings = [
 	'gg:',
 	'json:',
+	'json2:',
 	'time:',
 	'sync:',
 	'datatypes:',
@@ -390,6 +395,15 @@ fn is_native(text string) bool {
 	return is_xxx(text, native_strings)
 }
 
+const vfmt_strings = [
+	'vfmt:',
+	'fmt:',
+]
+
+fn is_vfmt(text string) bool {
+	return is_xxx(text, vfmt_strings)
+}
+
 fn is_xxx(text string, words []string) bool {
 	for s in words {
 		if text.contains(s) {