Release 4.0.0-preview.4 · HaxeFoundation/haxe

2018-06-12: 4.0.0-preview.4

New features:

all : added JSON-RPC-based display protocol
all : allow enum abstract syntax instead of @:enum abstract (#4282)
all : allow extern on fields instead of @:extern
all : support signature completion on incomplete structures (#5767)
all : support auto-numbering and auto-stringification in enum abstracts (#7139)
all : support Type1 & Type2 intersection syntax for type parameter constraints and structures (#7127)

General improvements and optimizations:

all : reworked CLI usage/help output (#6862)
all : implemented for loop unrolling (#3784)
all : metadata can now use ., e.g. @:a.b. This is represented as a string (#3959)
all : [breaking] disallow static extensions on implicit this (#6036)
all : allow true and false expressions as type parameters (#6958)
all : improved display support in many areas
all : support override | completion
all : make display/references and display/toplevel actually work sometimes
all : allow var ?x and final ?x parsing in structures (#6947)
all : improved overall robustness of the parser in display mode
all : allow @:commutative on non-static abstract functions (#5599)
js : added externs for js.Date (#6855)
js : respect -D source-map flag to generate source maps in release builds
js : enums are now generated as objects instead of arrays (#6350)
eval : improved debugger, support conditional breakpoints

Removals:

Bugfixes:

all : fixed various issues with diagnostics
all : fixed fields with default values for @:structInit classes (#5449)
all : fixed Null<T> inconsistency in if/ternary expressions (#6955)
all : fixed visibility check related to private constructors of sibling classes (#6957)
all : fixed @:generic naming (#6968)
all : fixed handling of type parameters in local functions (#6560)
all : fixed resolution order between untyped and type parameters (#7113)
all : fixed unification behavior in try/catch expressions (#7120)
all : fixed field type being lost for Int expressions on Float fields (#7132)
all : cleaned up inline handling (#7155)
display : fixed completion in packages starting with underscore (#5417)
php : fixed Reflect.callMethod with classes as first argument (#7106)
eval : fixed internal exception surfacing in some context calls (#7007)
eval : fixed Type.enumEq (#6710)
flash : fixed silently swallowing exceptions in getters/setters when invoked with Reflect methods (#5460, #6871)

Standard Library: