changelog

extra/CHANGES.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 	New features:
 
+	all : added tail recursion elimination (#8908)
 	all : added unified exception handling (#9124)
+	all : allow `try {} catch(e) {}` as a shortcut for `try {} catch(e:haxe.Exception) {}` (#9269)
 	eval : added SSL support (#9009)
 	jvm : the JVM target is no longer considered experimental
 
@@ -16,29 +18,68 @@
 	all : improved parser robustness for incomplete syntax (#9148)
 	all : disallowed the combination of `@:overload` and inline (#3846)
 	all : improved renaming of local variables (#9304)
+	all : better inlining of for-loops with anonymous iterators (#8848)
+	all : remove redundant final `return` in `Void` functions (#6420)
+	all : remove redundant `continue` in loops (#8952)
+	all : improved various compilation errors reporting
+	all : allowed `(get,default)` property access combination (#6195, #8825)
+	all : allowed ++ and -- on member properties of abstracts (#8930)
 	js : use abstract type name for generating its implementation class (#9006)
 	js : improve haxe.ds.StringMap implementation (#8909)
 	js : improve interface checking and make it more minifier-friendly (#9178)
+	js : generate `let` instead of `var` when compiler with `-D js-es=6` (#9280)
+	js : generate less closures for immediately-bound constructors (#9277)
 	jvm : rewrote function handling to me much faster and more portable (#9208)
 	jvm : generate interfaces for typedefs for improved performance (#9195)
 	jvm : added support for haxe.MainLoop
 	jvm : support `@:jvm.synthetic` and use it to hide some generated fields (#9213)
 	jvm : respect `@:private` and `@:protected`
-	lua : improve error handling behavior when throwing objects/instances.
+	lua : improve error handling behavior when throwing objects/instances
+	lua : optimize `haxe.iterators.StringIterator`
+	php : optimize `Std.isOfType` for String, Bool and Float
+	php : make Haxe Array implement native interfaces Iterator, IteratorAggregate, Countable (#8821, 9377)
+	cs : support `@:assemblyMeta` and `@:assemblyStrict` (#8347)
+	python : added `__contains__` and `__getitem__` implementations to generated python code for `_hx_AnonObject`, so it is subscribable and behaves like a python dict (#9109)
 
 	Standard Library:
 
 	all : negative `startIndex` argument of `String.indexOf` and `String.lastIndexOf` is unspecified (#8365)
+	all : changed Array.iterator() to return instances of haxe.iterators.ArrayIterator (#8987)
 	all : added Array.contains (#9179)
+	all : added Array.keyValueIterator (#7422)
+	all : added haxe.Constraints.NotVoid (#8357)
+	all : added Lambda.findIndex() (#9071)
+	all : added Lambda.foldi() (#9054)
+	all : added array access and key-value iteration support to haxe.ds.HashMap (#9056)
 	jvm : added JVM-specific versions of sys.thread.Lock and sys.thread.Thread
 	jvm : added JVM-specific version of haxe.ds.StringMap
-	java/jvm: added native versions of SHA-1 and SHA-256 (#9298)
+	java/jvm : use native versions of MD-5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 for `haxe.crypto` modules (#9298)
+	macro : added haxe.macro.Context.containsDisplayPosition(pos) (#9077)
+	nullsafety : treat Strict as a single-threaded mode; added StrictThreaded (#8895)
+
+	Deprecations:
+
+	all : deprecated `Std.is`; use `Std.isOfType` instead (#2976)
+	all : added a warning for an uninitialized variable usage captured in a closure (#7447)
+	js : deprecated `untyped __js__(code, args)`; use `js.Syntax.code(code, args)` instead
+	php/neko : deprecated neko.Web and php.Web; will be moved to hx4compat library later (#9153)
 
 	Bugfixes:
 
 	all : fixed display support for static imports (#9012)
 	all : fixed completion in macro mode picking up the wrong type (#7703)
 	all : fixed wonky analyzer transformation related to locals captured in closures (#9305)
+	all : allow `return;` in abstract constructors (#7809)
+	all : fixed static @:op([]) functions (#9347)
+	all : fixed `@:optional` handling in the inheritance of `@:structInit` classes (#7559)
+	all : support negative numbers as constant type parameters for `@:generic` types (#9149)
+	all : fixed false positive compilation server error with empty methods in inheritance (#9029)
+	all : fixed default values for manually defined @:structInit constructors (#9177, #9258)
+	all : fixed inference of `Void` return type for arrow functions (#9181)
+	all : fixed inconsistencies in wildcard imports resolution (#9189, #9190)
+	all : fix array comprehension for a chain of `if..else if` without final `else` (#9040)
+	all : prohibit @:structInit on interfaces (#9017)
+	macro : fixed handling `TAnonymous` in `haxe.macro.TypeTools.map` (#9147)
 	eval : fixed EReg.matchSub handling with negative length (#9333)
 	eval : fixed extern classes being generated and causing errors in some cases (#9366)
 	eval : fixed StringBuf.addSub unicode handling (#9382)
@@ -48,6 +89,13 @@
 	jvm : fixed problems with Std.parseInt and Std.parseFloat
 	jvm : made sure type parameter types are boxed
 	jvm : fixed dynamic access on `null` yielding `null` (#8452)
+	cpp : fixed native compilation if there is a `hx` package in a project (#8543)
+	cs : fixed `null` to `0` conversion in parametrized functions for `Null<Int>` params (#7428)
+	cs : fixed integer division handling (#9232)
+	php : fixed closure creation out of fields with `null` value (#9316)
+	js : fixed interface generation for minification with Google Closure Compiler in advanced mode (#9172)
+	js : fixed a crash at startup in IE8 (#9062)
+	hl : fixed BLOB handling in SQLite (#9048)
 
 2019-12-17: 4.0.5