ELENA 6.7.0 is out!

[arakov]

Description

ELENA 6.7.0 is out for all supported platforms : Windows x86 / x86-64, Linux x86 / x86-64 / AARCH64 / PPC64le / FreeBSD x86-64 !!

The release includes a number of critical bug fixes, new functionality and ported samples.

Fixes # (issue)

ELENA 6.7.0

• [ADDED] user defined type alias
• [ADDED] supporting auto field
• [ADDED] async action / async program entry
• [ADDED] "use" statement to declare a short cut
• [ADDED] "#import" statement to register the external library name
• [ADDED] project variables
• [ADDED] Conditional compilation
• [ADDED] new option "-xj" to turn on jump alignment
• [ADDED] if:nil / if:not:nil / if:not template statements
• [ADDED] :break / :continue / :yield / :await template operators
• [FIXED] nillable output type - returning nil may lead to a nil operation exception
• [FIXED] an expression: s ?? String.MinValue
• [FIXED] template generation - internal operation is not correctly recognized
• [FIXED] generating unnecessary wrapper classes while validating byref handlers
• [FIXED] generating async methods - operation with class fields
• [FIXED] constant symbols can be used to define the array field size
• [FIXED] calling extension method if internal one exists
• [REDUX] CORE_TLS_INDEX is no longer user for x86 / x86-64
• [FIXED] Elena 6.5.0 crashes in Ubuntu 24.04 docker image #702 : Elena 6.5.0 crashes in Ubuntu 24.04 docker image
• [FIXED] an invalid operation with a structure field
• [FIXED] linux x86-64 : debug module structure
• [FIXED] Linux x86-64 : FPU operations
• [FIXED] ppc64le extopen / extclose opcode
• [FIXED] Porting to FreeBSD PowerPC64 #704 : Porting to FreeBSD/PowerPC64
• [FIXED] aarch64 extopen / extclose opcode
• [FIXED] unboxing duplicate object #283 : unboxing duplicate object
• [ADDED] CORE_MATH_TABLE core table
• [ADDED] ppc64le : fexp
• [ADDED] aarch64 : fexp
• [ADDED] ppc64le : fln
• [ADDED] aarch64 : fln
• [FIXED] unboxing duplicate object #283 : unboxing duplicate object
• [FIXED] default built-in variable inside the constructor
• [FIXED] GC routine in MTA
• [FIXED] using inside using in async / yield method
• [FIXED] string interpolation with character codes
• [FIXED] ppc64le : fiadd, fisub, fimul, fidiv opcodes
• [ADDED] project collection : support sub folders
• [FIXED] AARXH64 : fiadd, fisub, fimul, fidiv
• [ADDED] supporting base_path attribute in a project collection
• [ADDED] supporting profile attribute in a project collection
• [ADDED] Declaring external callback #742 : Declaring external callback
• [ADDED] Supporting FreeBSD #748 : Supporting FreeBSD
• [ADDED] [Windows] Please support the MinGW-w64 compiler #756 : supporting mingw toolset
• [ADDED] net'http'HttpClient, net'http'Uri
• [ADDED] system'text'parsing'RegEx
• [ADDED] system'net'NetworkStream
• [ADDED] system'net'Socket : poll<Timespan,SelectMode>[3]
• [ADDED] net'TcpListener : prop:Pending
• [ADDED] forms'Combobox
• [ADDED] net'HttpClient
• [FIXED] system'threading'Task - raise an exception if the task was completed before
• [FIXED] BlockingQueue implementation
• [ADDED] new library : mbedtls
• [FIXED] VariadicExtensionDispatcher : dispatcher
• [ADDED] system'routines'CountDownEnumerator
• [ADDED] extension countDown
• [ADDED] BaseEdit.onChange event
• [ADDED] algorithms'InsertSortAlgorithm, algorithms'InsertSortAlgorithm
• [ADDED] algorithms'BinarySearchAlgorithm
• [ADDED] system'UnsafePointer
• [FIXED] system'io'MemoryStream - reading operation
• [FIXED] ByteArrayExConvertor.toByteArray extension method
• [ADDED] new library : textgen
• [ADDED] system'dynamic'expressions : ForLoopExpression
• [ADDED] net'http'HttpClient : post, postAsync
• [ADDED] system'text : Base64Encoding, Base64Encoder
• [ADDED] supporting $regex rules
• [ADDED] xforms : supporting RadioButton, Panel, Edit, Combobox
• [ADDED] LScript : for loop
• [ADDED] console regex sample
• [ADDED] net : httpget sample
• [FIXED] ppc64le : pi sample
• [FIXED] aarch64 : pi sample
• [FIXED]debugger : step over multi-select statement
• [ADDED] Linux - open a file
• [FIXED] [IDE] Needs to close and relaunch to apply the settings #716 : applying highlight setting changes immediately
• [FIXED] [IDE] Needs to close and relaunch to apply the settings #716 : highlight setting os on by default
• [FIXED] fix syntax highlighting with character constants
• [FIXED] [IDE] The setting to change code editor font size doesn't work #717 : The setting to change code editor font size doesn't work
• [FIXED] [IDE] There is no options available to change the code editor font #715 : There is no options available to change the code editor font
• [FIXED] displaying short struct field
• [ADDED] Dragging files into the IDE to open doesn't work #721 : Dragging files into the IDE to open doesn't work
• [ADDED] Run the program from IDE #723 : include path to approot temporally inside IDE
• [ADDED] [IDE] Scrolling experience #722 : [IDE] Scrolling experience
• [ADDED] [IDE] Can you add the option to have the toolbar larger? #725 : [IDE] large toolbar buttons
• [FIXED] highlighting a string containing character codes
• [FIXED] saving IDE config file in the correct folder
• [FIXED] supporting clipboard operation without selection
• [FIXED] IDE64 : fixing undo / redo operations
• [ADDED] auto indent
• [FIXED] an outage is not being calculated correctly
• [ADDED] brackets highlighting
• [ADDED][LDOC] static methods are in the separate category

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Link

Please visit a release page to download the binaries: https://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/releases/tag/v6.7.0