Kotlin Native Versions Save

Bugfixes: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/1780, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/1852, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/1811, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/1859, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/1847, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/1869, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/1876.

• Bugfixes: #1779 #1786 #1787 #1818
• APIs for easier freeze debugging (#1783)
• Friend module support in plugin and backend
• Improves synthetic field accessors and printing in lldb
• Various fixes in compiler (inliner, post-inline lowering)
• New Gradle plugin improvements:
  • Support frameworks and extra options in the new plugin (issue #1796)
  • Publish the plugin to plugin portal (fixes issue #1751)
  • Multiple bug fixes in tasks and targets

• Singleton objects are frozen after creation, and shared between threads
• String and primitives types are frozen by default
• Common stdlib with Kotlin/JVM and Kotlin/JS
• Implemented kotlin.random.* and Collection.shuffle
• Implemented atomic integers and atomic references
• Multiple bugfixes in compiler (coroutines, inliner)
• Support 32-bit iOS (target ios_arm32)
• New experimental Gradle plugin
• Support XCode 9.4.1
• Optimizations (switch by enum, memory management)

• Bugfixes in the runtime (indexOf, GC for kotlin.Array, enum equality) and the compiler
• Fix NSBlock problem, preventing upload of binaries to the AppStore
• Create primitive type boxes and kotlin.String as frozen by default
• Support Gradle 4.7, provide separate run task for each executable
• Support XCode 9.4 and CoreML and ClassKit frameworks on Apple platforms
• Improved runtime Kotlin variable examination
• Minor performance optimizations in compiled code and runtime
• Add disableDesignatedInitializerChecks definition file support

• Interop with Objective-C/Swift changes:
  • Uniform direct and reverse interops (values could be passed in both directions now)
  • Interop by exceptions
  • Type conversion and checks (as, is) for interop types
  • Seamless interop on numbers, strings, lists, maps and sets
  • Better interop on constructors and initializers
• Switched to Xcode 9.3 on Apple platforms
• Introduced object freezing API, frozen object could be used from multiple threads
• Kotlin enums are frozen by default
• Switch to Gradle 4.6
• Use Gradle native dependency model, allowing to use .klib as Maven artifacts
• Introduced typed arrays API
• Introduced weak references API
• Activated global devirtualization analysis
• Performance improvements (box caching, bridge inlining, others)
• Static library generation

• Support several expectedBy-dependencies in Gradle plugin.
• Improved interaction between Gradle plugin and IDE.
• Various bugfixes

• Various bugfixes
• Support total ordering in FP comparisons
• Interop generates string constants from string macrodefinitions
• STM32 blinky demo in pure Kotlin/Native
• Top level variables initialization redesign (proper dependency order)
• Support kotlin.math on WebAssembly targets
• Support embedded targets on Windows hosts

• Support multiplatform projects (expect/actual) in compiler and Gradle plugin
  • Support first embedded target (STM32 board)
  • Support Kotlin 1.2.20
  • Support Java 9
  • Support Gradle 4.5
  • Transparent Objective-C/Kotlin container classes interoperability
  • Produce optimized WebAssembly binaries (10x smaller than it used to be)
  • Improved APIs for object transfer between threads and workers
  • Allow exporting top level C function in reverse interop with @CName annotation
  • Supported debugging of code with inline functions
  • Multiple bugfixes and performance optimizations

• Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as framework from Objective-C/Swift programs
• Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as shared object from C/C++ programs
• Support generation of shared objects and DLLs by the compiler
• Migration to LLVM 5.0
• Support WebAssembly target on Linux and Windows hosts
• Make string conversions more robust
• Support kotlin.math package
• Refine workers and string conversion APIs

• Objective-C frameworks interop for iOS and OSX targets
• Platform API libraries for Linux, iOS, OSX and Windows
• Kotlin 1.2 supported
• val and function parameters can be inspected in debugger
• Experimental support for WebAssembly (wasm32 target)
• Linux MIPS support (little and big endian, mips and mipsel targets)
• Gradle plugin DSL fully reworked
• Support for unit testing annotations and automatic test runner generation
• Final executable size reduced
• Various interop improvements (forward declaration, better handling of unsupported types)
• Workers object subgraph transfer checks implemented
• Optimized low level memory management using more efficient cycle tracing algorithm