4.0.3

2019-11-29: 4.0.3

General improvements and optimizations:

• hl : profiler API

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed EnumValue handling in constant propagation with analyzer enabled (#8959)
• all : fixed compiler crash upon Void items in array declarations (#8972)
• hl : fixed sys.thread.Lock implementation for Hashlink 1.11+ (#8699)
• js/eval/java/jvm/cs/python/lua : fixed Std.parseInt() for hexadecimals with leading whitespaces (#8978)
• java/cs : fixed Reflect.callMethod(o, method, args) for args not containing optional arguments (#8975)
• cs : fixed Json.stringify for @:struct-annotated classes (#8979)
• cs : fixed bitwise shifts for cs.types.Int64 (#8978)
• python : fixed invalid generation of some inlined code blocks (#8971)
• std : fixed an exception from haxe.zip.Huffman on reading a zip (#8875)
• windows : workaround windows installer being detected as a malware by some anti-virus software (#8951)
• windows : fix PATH env var modification when running windows installer without admin privileges (#8870)
• all : fixed null-safety checker for field access on a call to inlined function

4.0.2

release 4.0.2

4.0.1

2019-11-04: 4.0.1

Bugfixes:

• haxelib : fixed git dependencies in haxelib.json
• neko : updated windows & osx installer to install Neko 2.3.0 (#8906)
• jvm : fixed compilation failure caused by a specific usage of Array<Dynamic> (#8872)
• all : fixed compiler crash on loops with continue in all branches of the body (#8912)
• all : fixed erasing typedef in AST on field access to forwarded abstract fields (#8919)

4.0.0

Bugfix mainloop (#8897)

4.0.0-rc.5

2019-09-12: 4.0.0-rc.5

General improvements and optimizations:

• eval: improved performance of regular expressions (#8693)

Bugfixes:

• all: fixed regression, which caused compiler to crash on enum abstracts with explicit casting (#8765)
• all: fixed regression of macro @:from methods on abstracts (#8779)
• all: fixed switching on this (#8781)

4.0.0-rc.4

2019-09-04: 4.0.0-rc.4

Standard Library:

• all : added Map.clear (#8681)
• all : improved Date API (#8508)
• all : added JSON-RPC protocol types to haxe.display package (#8610)
• all : added default timeout to HTTP sockets (#8646)
• macro : added Context.info (#8478)
• macro : added Context.getMessages and Context.filterMessages (#8471)
• macro : added function kind to EFunction (#8653)
• macro : added string literal kind to CString (#8668)
• flash : added flash.AnyType (#8549)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : allowed enum constructors without arguments as static inline var (#8187)
• all : improved handling of default values when inlining (#8397)
• all : made various improvements to the display API as usual
• all : detect invalid #tokens in inactive code (#7108)
• all : allowed function types in @:generic (#3697)
• all : improved --help-defines and --help-metas
• all : improved overall file finding (#8202)
• all : improved server reaction to added and removed files (#8451)
• all : improved memory handling of the compilation server (8727)
• all : improved handling of native libraries on the compilation server (#8629)
• all : support partial completion results (#8642)
• all : improved support of hovering over inactive conditional compilation blocks
• all : improved completion support in .platform.hx files
• all : support hovering conditional compilation identifiers
• all : improved and unified identifier checks for names, fields and types (#8708)
• all : improved --times performance (#8733)
• all : remove some redundant cast expressions (#8725)
• all : added --server-connect (#8730)
• lua : improved -D lua-vanilla
• js : improved HTML externs

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed various position and replace ranges in the display API
• all : fixed compiler hang related to @:arrayAccess (#5525)
• all : fixed bug regarding abstract this modification in inline methods (#8454)
• all : fixed from Dynamic on abstracts (#8425)
• all : fixed overeager recursive inline check (#8489)
• all : fixed the pattern matcher allowing inexhaustive switches in value-places (#8277)
• all : fixed pattern matcher allowing invalid abstract unification (#8579)
• all : fixed local variable type information being lost on the compilation server (#8511)
• all : don't generate return expressions in Void lambda functions (#6503)
• all : fixed unification of recursive typedefs again (#8523)
• all : fixed various hangs related to abstracts (#8588)
• all : fixed various GADT-related problems (#7672)
• all : fixed macro @:from methods allowing any return type (#8463)
• macro : fixed Sys.programPath assertion failure (#8466)
• js : fixed typed array APIs (#8422)
• java : fixed Std.is on non-reference and unrelated types (#5168)
• java/macro : fixed null-pointer exception in Reflect.getProperty (#4934)
• java/jvm : fix switch on null string (#4481)
• jvm : fixed boxed vs. unboxed comparison (#8577)
• jvm : generate toplevel types to haxe.root like genjava does (#8590)
• jvm : improved 32bit support (#8601)
• cs/python : fixed various issues with code generation
• cs : fixed NativeArray casting (#3949)

4.0.0-rc.3

2019-06-13: 4.0.0-rc.3

New features:

• all : added JVM target

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : create temp vars in pattern matcher to avoid duplicate access (#8064)
• all : support parsing dots in conditional compilation, e.g. #if target.sys
• all : added @:bypassAccessor
• all : improved various aspects of the display API
• all : properly error on @:op(a = b) (#6903)
• all : made @:using actually work
• all : properly disallowed some modifier combinations related to final (#8335)
• all : support @:pure(false) on variable fields (#8338)
• flash : updated Flash externs to version 32.0 (now using final, enum abstract and haxe.extern.Rest)
• flash : rework support for native Flash properties (#8241)
• php : improved performance of various parser implementations (#8083)
• cs : support .NET core target (#8391)
• cs : generate native type parameter constraints (#8311, #7863)

Standard Library:

• all : added StringTools.contains (#7608)
• all : turned sys.thread.Thread into abstracts (#8130)
• all : introduced Std.downcast as replacement for Std.instance (#8301)
• all : introduced UnicodeString, deprecated haxe.Utf8 (#8298)
• java : added java.NativeString (#8163)
• cs : added sys.thread implementations (#8166)
• js : moved various classes to js.lib (#7390)
• Bugfixes
• all : fixed issue with @:generic type parameters not being bound to Dynamic (#8102)
• all : fixed various issues related to @:structInit
• all : fixed top-down inference on abstract setters (#7674)
• all : fixed DCE issue related to closures (#8200)
• all : fixed and restricted various Unicode-related issues in String literals
• all : fixed various priority issues regarding loops and iterators
• all : fixed cast handling in try-catch expressions (#8257)
• all : fixed inline new handling (#8240)
• all : fixed pattern matcher issue with wildcards in or-patterns (#8296)
• all : fixed @:allow(package) allowing too much (#8306)
• all : fixed various issues with startIndex handling on String.indexOf and String.lastIndexOf
• all : fixed infinite recursion related to printing of objects with circular references (#8113)
• sys : fixed various Unicode issues (#8135)
• macro : fixed Array.pop handling (#8075)
• macro : fixed assertion failure when throwing exception (#8039)
• macro : fixed various uncatchable exceptions being thrown
• php : error on case-insensitive name clashes (#8219)
• lua : fixed issue where Process output occasionally is missing some data
• hl : fixed various String Unicode issues
• java : fixed null exception in CallStack.exceptionStack (#8322)
• js : fixed code generation issue related to negative abstract values (#8318)
• flash : fix various issues, including native protected handling and method overloading

Removals:

• all : remove support for @:fakeEnum enums
• all : disallowed \x with values > 0x7F (#8141)
• all : consistently disallowed metadata in lambda function arguments (#7800)
• all : removed --gen-hx-classes (#8237)

4.0.0-rc.2

2019-03-22: 4.0.0-rc.2

New features:

• all : added strictness settings for the null-safety checker, using loose checking by default (#7811)
• js : added ES6 class generation with -D js-es=6 (#7806)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : inherit @:native for overriden methods (#7844)
• all : standardized identifiers allowed in markup literals (#7558)
• all : show typo suggestions when declaring override field (#7847)
• all : improved parser error messages (#7912)
• all : improved diagnostics of syntax errors (#7940)
• all : improved positions of switch and case expressions (#7947)
• all : allow parsing #if (a.b) (#8005)
• eval : improved performance of various string operations (#7982)
• eval : fixed many error positions
• eval : greatly improved debugger interaction (#7839)
• eval : properly support threads when debugging (#7991)
• eval : improved handling of capture variables (#8017)
• js : generate dot-access for "keyword" field names (#7645)
• js : optimized run-time type checking against interfaces (#7834)
• js : skip generation of interfaces when no run-time type checking needed (#7843)

Standard Library:

• all : unified various Thread APIs in sys.thread (#7999)
• all : moved typed arrays from js.html to js.lib (#7894)
• all : added iterator() to haxe.DynamicAccess (#7892)
• all : added keyValueIterator() to haxe.DynamicAccess (#7769)
• eval : completed Thread API

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed argument default value checking for externs (#7752)
• all : fixed optional status of overloaded arguments with default values (#7794)
• all : fixed DCE compilation server state issue (#7805)
• all : fixed compilation server module dependency issue related to macros (#7448)
• all : fixed call-site inlining on abstracts (#7886)
• all : fixed Constructible not checking constraints properly (#6714)
• all : fixed @:structInit not being compatible with final fields (#7182)
• all : fixed capture variables being allowed in .match (#7921)
• all : fixed infinite recursion on @:generic field access (#6430)
• all : fixed -D no-deprecation-warnings for typedefs and enums
• js : fixed bad stack handling on Map constraint checks (#7781)
• js : fixed DCE issues related to haxe.CallStack (#7908)
• cpp : fixed Socket flags not being preserved (#7989)
• lua : fixed broken output when compiling through the compilation server (#7851)
• lua : fixed StringTools.fastCodeAt with -D lua-vanilla (#7589)
• lua : fixed @:expose for classes inside packages (#7849)

4.0.0-rc.1

2019-02-01: 4.0.0-rc.1

New features:

• all : added experimental null-safety feature through --macro nullSafety("package") (#7717)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : improved unification error messages (#7547)
• all : added haxe4 define
• all : do not require semicolon for XML literals (#7438)
• all : made @:expose imply @:keep (#7695)
• all : unified cast, catch and Std.is behavior of null-values (#7532)
• macro : static variables are now always re-initialized when using the compilation server (#5746)
• macro : support @:persistent to keep macro static values across compilations
• js : improve js.Promise extern: now then callback argument types can be properly inferred (#7644)

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed various pattern matching problems
• all : fixed various wrong positions when encoding data to macros
• all : specified String.indexOf with out-of-bounds indices (#7601)
• all : fixed various problems related to DCE and feature-handling (#7694)
• all : fixed bad unary operator optimization (#7704)
• js : fixed syntax problem related to instanceof (#7653)
• flash : fixed var field access on interfaces being uncast (#7727)
• cpp : fixed various issues related to casts
• cpp : fixed some leftover unicode issues
• php : fixed class naming conflicts (#7716)
• eval : fixed Socket.setTimeout (#7682)
• eval : fixed int switch bug related to overflows

Removals:

• macro : deprecated Context.registerModuleReuseCall and onMacroContextReused (#5746)

4.0.0-preview.5

2018-10-13: 4.0.0-preview.5

New features:

• all : support Unicode strings properly on all targets
• all : support for (key => value in e) syntax for key-value iterators
• all : added keyValueIterator to Map and its implementations
• all : support loop-unrolling on for (i in 0...5) (#7365)
• all : added support for write-mode @:op(a.b)
• all : support inline call() and inline new expressions (#7425)
• all : support @:using on type declarations (#7462)
• all : support XML literal strings but require them to be macro-processed (#7438)
• all : allow enum values without arguments as default function argument values (#7439)
• lua : add -D lua-vanilla, which emits code with reduced functionality but no additional lib dependencies

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : [breaking] reserved operator and overload as keywords (#7413)
• all : made final on structure fields invariant (#7039)
• all : [breaking] disallowed static variables that have no type-hint and expression (#6440)
• all : added display/typeDefinition to display protocol (#7266)
• all : fixed various display-related problems
• all : made parser in display mode much more tolerant
• all : allowed assigning [] where Map is expected (#7426)
• all : unified various parts of the String API across all targets
• php : Optimized haxe.ds.Vector (VectorData is not Array anymore)
• php : Optimized Map.copy() and Array.copy()
• php : Optimized iterators of Map and native arrays.
• php : Support native PHP generators. See php.Syntax.yield() and php.Generator
• js : updated HTML externs
• eval : improved object prototype field handling (#7393)
• eval : optimized int switches (#7481)
• eval : improved IntMap and StringMap performance
• eval : improved performance of instance calls

Removals:

• all : disallowed get_x/set_x property syntax, use get/set instead (#4699)
• all : disallowed default values on interface variables (#4087)
• all : disallowed implements Dynamic on non-extern classes (#6191)
• all : warn about expressions in extern non-inline fields (#5898)
• all : removed -D use-rtti-doc, always store documentation instead (#7493)
• all : disallowed macro-in-macro calls (#7496)
• js : removed jQuery and swfobject externs (#7494)

Bugfixes:

• all : fix GC compacting too often in server mode
• all : [breaking] function () { }(e) is no longer parsed as a call (#5854)
• all : fixed various minor inlining issues
• all : disallowed return null from Void-functions (#7198)
• all : fixed various pattern matching problems
• all : fixed compiler hang in display mode (#7236)
• all : fixed the XML printer trimming CDATA content (#7454)
• all : fixed invalid visibility unification with statics (#7527)
• php : Escape $ in field names of anonymous objects (#7230)
• php : Generate switch as if...else if...else... to avoid loose comparison (#7257)
• cs : fixed bad evaluation order in structures (#7531)
• eval : fixed various problems with the debugger
• eval : fixed Vector.fromArrayCopy (#7492)
• eval : fixed bad string conversions on invalid + operations

Standard Library:

• all : [breaking] made Lambda functions return Array instead of List (#7097)
• all : added haxe.iterators package
• all : improved StringTools.lpad/rpad/htmlEscape implementation