4.2.4

2021-10-22 4.2.4:

New features:

• hl : add clipboard support in hl 1.12 (#10320)

General improvements:

• all : improved error messages upon directory creation failures (#10361)
• eval : added % operator to eval.numbers.Int64 and eval.numbers.UInt64 (#10411)

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed errors on final vars modification with +=, *= etc operations (#10325)
• all : fixed hanging of MainLoop.add on threaded targets (#10308,(#10329)
• all : fixed compiler crash when resolving overloads with not enough arguments (#10434)
• all : fixed non-static @:to methods on @:multiType abstracts (#10145)
• analyzer : fixed analyzer on overloads (#10405)
• analyzer : fixed issues with fields initialization expressions (#10405)
• display : improved code completion in anonymous objects declarations (#10414)
• js : fixed IntMap for keys greater than 2^31 (#10316)
• js : workaround to fix sourcemaps on Firefox in Windows (#10217)
• js : delayed truncation of the output file on Compiler.setCustomJSGenerator (#10387)
• cs/java : fixed rest arguments for cases when only one argument is provided (#10315)
• php : fixed type of php.db.PDO.ATTR_DRIVER_NAME (#10319)
• eval : fixed signature of `eval.luv.Tcp.noDelay( metho)
• lua : fixed string.length when string has type of a type parameter constrained to String (#10343)
• jvm : fixed Reflect.compare() for different number types (#10350)
• python : fixed exceptions on tracing some native values (#10440)

4.2.3

General improvements:

• all : analyzer optimizations
• macro : support maps in haxe.macro.Context.makeExpr (#10259)
• js : added -D js-global=globalThis to customize global object name (#10282)
• php : added externs for quoted_printable_decode, quoted_printable_encode, Attribute, NumberFormat, IntlCalendar and other Intl* classes

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed compiler crash on some unreachable code blocks (#10261)
• jvm : fixed @:native (#10280)
• jvm : fixed --xml generation (#10279)

4.2.2

2021-05-14 4.2.2:

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed piping stdin/stdout in --cmd (#4669, #6726)
• all : fixed rest args typing for overloaded functions (#10143)
• all : fixed using var fields as static extensions (#10144)
• all : fixed completion for a type in expr is Type (#10167)
• all : fixed subtypes in expr is Module.SubType expressions (#10174)
• all : fixed typing chains of calls with constrained type params (#10198)
• all : fixed mixed constraints of anonymous structures and other types (#10162)
• all : fixed operator overloading for enum abstracts (#10173)
• hl : fixed debugging of catch blocks (#10109)
• jvm : fixed manifest generation for cases with a lot of jar libraries (#10157)
• js : fixed extending extern classes for es5 (#10192)
• js : fixed checking this before super for es6 (#10193)
• eval : fixed null pointer exception in eval.NativeString.fromString(null)
• eval : fixed multiple locks of sys.thread.Mutex from the same thread (#10249)

4.2.1

release 4.2.1

4.2.0

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)

4.1.5

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)

4.1.4

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)

4.1.3

release 4.1.3

4.1.2

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)

4.1.1

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)