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2021-02-09 4.2.0:

New features:

• all : implemented "classic" abstract classes and functions (see haxe-evolution#69) (#9716)
• all : module-level static declarations (#8460)
• all : implemented rest arguments (variadic functions) for all targets with haxe.Rest type (#9961)
• all : per-thread event loops sys.thread.Thread.events (#9868)
• all : added @:inheritDoc meta to inherit documentation for a type or field from another type or field (#9817)
• all : support method overloading for extern methods on all targets (#9793)
• all : constructors forwarding for abstracts with @:forward.new (#9735)
• all : added EIs constructor to haxe.macro.Expr (#9689)
• all : added variance forwarding with @:forward.variance (#9741)
• all : treat Any as Dynamic in variance unification (#6649)
• all : added some common exception types to haxe.exceptions package
• all : support metadata in var declaration syntax (#9618)
• all : added StringTools.unsafeCharAt (#9467)
• eval : added libuv bindings under eval.luv package (#9903)
• eval : added bindings to native Int64 and UInt64 implementations under eval.integers package (#9903)
• cs : UDP socket implementation (#8498)
• cs : added cs.Syntax module (#10051)
• jvm : added -D jvm.dynamic-level to control the amount of dynamic support code being generated. 0 = none, 1 = field read/write optimization (default), 2 = compile-time method closures
• java,jvm : support --java-lib <directory> (#9551)
• python : threading API implementation (#9754)

General improvements:

• all : expr is SomeType doesn't require parentheses anymore (#9672)
• all : increased priority of @:using extensions (#9681)
• all : allowed usage of static extensions with super (#10062)
• all : allow @:noDoc on fields too (#9893)
• all : made Map abstract transitive (#9877)
• all : support @:native on enum constructors (#9806)
• all : support @:using on typedefs (#9749)
• all : changed multiline errors format to use "..." as a prefix for subsequent lines (#9651)
• all : improved type inference with constrained monomorphs (#9549)
• all : print no-argument function types as ()->... instead of Void->... (#8148)
• all : allow function as package name
• all : improved object inlining (#9599)
• display : narrow range for hover on parametrized types (#8073)
• cs : added .NET 5.0 support (#10043)
• cpp : support native constructors on extern classes (#9516) php: php.Syntax.customArrayDecl (#9113)
• php : added externs for various php functions and classes
• php : optimized anonymous objects instantiation (#7916)
• hl : skip compilation if no module has been changed (#9922)
• lua : use hx-lua-simdjson for Lua json parsing (#9885)
• jvm : less CPU consuming sys.thread.Lock implementation

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed Template.resolve when current context is not an object (#9372)
• all : get and set functions of haxe.io.Float64Array actually use 64-bit floats now (#9972)
• all : treat empty blocks {} as object declarations in array comprehension (fixes #9971)
• all : haxe.format.JsonParser: preserve Float-typed values when they are written as such in JSON (ie. "5.0" or "0.0") (#9844)
• all : fixed priority of forwarded static extensions (#9680)
• all : fixed some inconsistency in variance unification for abstracts (#9743)
• display : fixed completion with platform-specific files (#9423)
• cpp : fixed conversion of cpp.Int64 to/from haxe.Int64 (#10101)
• cpp : fixed extending extern classes with @:nativeGen classes (#9431)
• php : fixed generation with subdirectories in -D php-front=subdir/index.php (#10037)
• php : fixed local vars with the same names as super global vars (#9924)
• eval : allow full range of 32bit integers in Std.random (#9974)
• js : fixed haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack (#9968)
• js : fixed compatibility issue with closure compiler upon unused catch vars (#9617)
• lua : fixed anonymous object printing issue with null fields on tables
• hl : drop data of terminated threads (#9875)
• macro : fixed haxe.macro.Context.storeTypedExpr for enum constructs (#9828)
• macro : emit a deprecation warning upon a macro call instead of upon a macro function declaration (#9425)
• macro : fixed uncatchable error from haxe.macro.Context.getType (#9449)
• jvm : fixed Type.resolveEnum for enums in the root package (#9809)
• jvm : fixed Type.resolveEnumName for enums in the root package (#9759)
• cs : fixed cs.Lib.rethrow (#9738)
• nullsafety : respect @:nullSafety(Off) on var declarations: var @:nullSafety(Off) v
• nullsafety : respect @:nullSafety(Off) in closures in constructors (#9643)
• nullsafety : fixed error "Type not found : haxe.macro.Compiler.NullSafetyMode_Impl" (#9483)

2020-12-31 4.1.5

General improvements:

• all : added an argument to haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack to return full stack up to the topmost call (#9947)
• php : compatibility with PHP 8

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed empty object declarations in array comprehension (#9971)
• jvm : fixed equality checks for Null<Float> and Null<Int> (#9897)
• hl : fixed crash if a thread finishes without invoking sendMessage/readMessage (#9920)
• php : fixed local vars with certain names (_SERVER, _GET etc) overriding super global values (#9924)
• php : fixed generation with directories in -D php-front. For example -D php-front=sub/index.php (#10037)issues/
• macro : added return type hint to haxe.macro.MacroStringTools.formatString (#9928)
• cs : fixed catching exceptions from static closures (#9957)
• eval : fixed Std.random(arg) for arg values of more than 30 bits (#9974)
• js : fixed haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack (#9968)

2020-09-11 4.1.4

General improvements:

• all : allowed Any as type parameter in catch(e:SomeType<Any>) (#9641)
• all : improved compilation speed for try..catch expressions (#9848)

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed switch typing error for arrow functions with Void return type (#9813)
• all : fixed typing of arrow functions with empty blocks as bodies (#9843)
• macro : fixed haxe.macro.Context.getResources() (#9838)
• php : fixed false detection of catch vars in anonymous functions as captured from outer scope
• php : fixed return type of extern definition for fseek function
• cs,java : fixed generation of @:generic classes with anonymous functions (#9799)
• jvm : fixed sending/reading messages with sys.thread.Threads for threads created outside of Haxe (#9863)
• jvm : fixed multiplication of Null<Float> and Int (#9870)
• flash : fixed loading swc libraries containing Vector without a type parameter (#9805)
• hl : fixed messages being send to wrong threads with sendMessage/readMessage in sys.thread.Thread (#9875)
• cpp : fixed cpp.Lib.stringReference() (#8457)

2020-06-19 4.1.2

Bugfixes:

• all : added contains and keyValueIterator methods to haxe.ds.ReadOnlyArray
• all : fixed super constructor call when extending externs (#7837, #9501)
• all : fixed compiler crash for "--run" argument without a value (#9513)
• all : fixed local variable name collision in try..catch (#9533)
• all : fixed memory leak in completion server related to haxe.Exception (#9537)
• display : fixed completion for out-of-bounds argument in a call (#9435)
• display : fixed "find references" through interfaces (#9470)
• display : optimized "find references" (#9504)
• display : optimized "server/invalidate" requests (#9509)
• analyzer : fixed compiler crash upon handling code branches with enums with optional arguments (#9591)
• jvm : added "--java-lib-extern" to use jar files as externs without adding them to the compiled project (#9515)
• macro : fixed type intersection syntax in macro reification (#9404)
• eval : fixed exception message when catching compiler-generated haxe.macro.Error as Dynamic (#9600)
• lua : fixed lua code generation without --main compilation argument (#9489)
• php : added an overload signature for session_set_cookie_params function (#9507)
• js : fixed name collisions for catch variables to avoid closure compiler errors (#9617)
• nullsafety : fixed various scenarios of if..else branching (#9474)

2020-22-05 4.1.1

New features:

• jvm : added --jvm path/to.jar CLI argument

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed arguments ordering for @:structInit constructors (#9418)
• all : fixed display/references completion server request for static fields (#9440)
• all : fixed "Module not found" error reporting during macro execution in display requests (#9449)
• all : fixed module name completion for target-specific modules like Mod.js.hx (#9423)
• all : fixed completion for packages named "function" (#7697)
• all : fixed recursive typedefs with optional arguments in @:overload functions (#9455)
• cpp : fixed StringTools.endsWith() for unicode characters (#8980)
• cpp : fixed broken externs in cpp package (#9452)
• js/cpp : fixed catch var naming collision (#9413)
• interp : fixed throwing haxe.macro.Error outside of a macro context (#9390)
• lua : fixed lua.PairTools.ipairsMap method
• php : fixed an edge case in String methods generation (#9464)

2020-05-13: 4.1.0

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

General improvements:

• all : implemented different display support approach (#8962)
• all : improved display services related to reference finding
• all : added go-to-implementation support (#9043)
• all : made various improvements to diagnostics
• all : support completion for map keys (#9133)
• 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 : optimize .bind on constructors (#9227)
• 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 : 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 : 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)
• jvm : fixed Void being generated with the wrong casing (#8717)
• jvm : fixed debugging-related data being generated in the wrong place
• jvm : fixed switches on string values being too optimistic
• 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

Bugfixes:

• java : fix boolean arguments for Type.createInstance(cls, args) (#9025)
• jvm : fix static overloads (#9034)
• java/cs : fixed Reflect.makeVarArgs(fn) for calls of fn without arguments (#9037)
• js : fix multiple appearances of the first object added to ObjectMap is passed to ObjectMap.set(obj, v) multiple times (#9026)
• js : automatically wrap compound expressions with parentheses when passed to js.Syntax.code() (#9024)
• windows : fix adding neko to PATH env var when running windows installer (#9021)

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