Merge pull request #114 from retronym/release/2.11.0-activator-feature

retronym · retronym · commit 8329dad44e6f · 2014-04-21T15:04:39.000+02:00
Brushing up the release notes
diff --git a/hand-written.md b/hand-written.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Things to update:
 
 We are very pleased to announce the final release of Scala 2.11.0!
 
-  - Try it out right now with [Typesafe Activator](http://typesafe.com/activator/template/hello-scala-2_11)
+  - Get started with the [Hello Scala 2.11 template](https://typesafe.com/activator/template/hello-scala-2_11) in [Typesafe Activator](https://typesafe.com/platform/getstarted)
   - Download a distribution from [scala-lang.org](http://scala-lang.org/download/2.11.0.html)
   - Obtain it via [Maven Central](http://search.maven.org/?search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.scala-lang%22%20AND%20v%3A%222.11.0%22#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.scala-lang%22%20AND%20v%3A%222.11.0%22)
 
@@ -22,6 +22,43 @@ Code that compiled on 2.10.x without deprecation warnings should compile on 2.11
 
 The Scala 2.11.x series targets Java 6, with (evolving) experimental support for Java 8. In 2.11.0, Java 8 support is mostly limited to reading Java 8 bytecode and parsing Java 8 source. Stay tuned for more complete (experimental) Java 8 support.
 
+### New features in the 2.11 series
+This release contains all of the bug fixes and improvements made in the 2.10 series, as well as:
+
+* Collections
+  * Immutable `HashMap`s and `HashSet`s perform faster filters, unions, and the like, with improved structural sharing (lower memory usage or churn).
+  * Mutable `LongMap` and `AnyRefMap` have been added to provide improved performance when keys are `Long` or `AnyRef` (performance enhancement of up to 4x or 2x respectively).
+  * `BigDecimal` is more explicit about rounding and numeric representations, and better handles very large values without exhausting memory (by avoiding unnecessary conversions to `BigInt`).
+  * `List` has improved performance on `map`, `flatMap`, and `collect`.
+  * See also Deprecation above: we have slated many classes and methods to become final, to clarify which classes are not meant to be subclassed and to facilitate future maintenance and performance improvements.
+* Modularization
+  * The core Scala standard library jar has shed 20% of its bytecode. The modules for xml, parsing, swing as well as the (unsupported) continuations plugin and library are available individually or via [scala-library-all](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.scala-lang%7Cscala-library-all%7C2.11.0%7Cpom). Note that this artifact has weaker binary compatibility guarantees than `scala-library` -- as explained above.
+  * The compiler has been modularized internally, to separate the presentation compiler, scaladoc and the REPL. We hope this will make it easier to contribute. In this release, all of these modules are still packaged in scala-compiler.jar. We plan to ship them in separate JARs in 2.12.x.
+* Reflection, macros and quasiquotes
+  * Please see [this detailed changelog](http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/changelog211.html) that lists all significant changes and provides advice on forward and backward compatibility.
+  * See also this [summary](http://scalamacros.org/news/index.html) of the experimental side of the 2.11 development cycle.
+  * [#3321](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/3321) introduced [Sprinter](http://vladimirnik.github.io/sprinter/), a new AST pretty-printing library! Very useful for tools that deal with source code.
+* Back-end
+  * The [GenBCode back-end](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2620) (experimental in 2.11). See [@magarciaepfl's extensive documentation](http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/).
+  * A new experimental way of compiling closures, implemented by [@JamesIry](https://github.com/JamesIry). With `-Ydelambdafy:method` anonymous functions are compiled faster, with a smaller bytecode footprint. This works by keeping the function body as a private (static, if no `this` reference is needed) method of the enclosing class, and at the last moment during compilation emitting a small anonymous class that `extends FunctionN` and delegates to it. This sets the scene for a smooth migration to Java 8-style lambdas (not yet implemented).
+  * Branch elimination through constant analysis [#2214](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2214)
+* Compiler Performance
+  * Incremental compilation has been improved significantly. To try it out, upgrade to sbt 0.13.2 and add `incOptions := incOptions.value.withNameHashing(true)` to your build! Other build tools are also supported. More info at [this sbt issue](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1010) -- that's where most of the work happened. More features are planned, e.g. [class-based tracking](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1104).
+  * We've been optimizing the batch compiler's performance as well, and will continue to work on this during the 2.11.x cycle.
+  * Improve performance of reflection [SI-6638](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6638)
+* IDE
+  * [Numerous bug fixes and improvements!](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-8085?jql=component%20%3D%20%22Presentation%20Compiler%22%20AND%20project%20%3D%20SI%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20fixed%20and%20fixVersion%20%3E%3D%20%22Scala%202.11.0-M1%22%20and%20fixVersion%20%3C%3D%20%20%22Scala%202.11.0%22%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC)
+* REPL
+  * The bytecode decompiler command, :javap, now works with Java 7 [SI-4936](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4936) and has sprouted new options [SI-6894](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6894) (Thanks, [@som-snytt](https://github.com/som-snytt)!)
+  * Added command :kind to help to tell ground types from type constructors. [#2340](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2340) (Thanks, [George Leontiev](https://github.com/folone) and [Eugene Yokota](https://github.com/eed3si9n)!)
+  * The interpreter can now be embedded as a JSR-223 Scripting Engine [SI-874](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-874). (Thanks, [Raphael Jolly](https://github.com/rjolly)!)
+* Warnings
+  * Warn about unused private / local terms and types, and unused imports, under `-Xlint`. This will even tell you when a local `var` could be a `val`.
+* Slimming down the compiler
+  * The experimental .NET backend has been removed from the compiler.
+  * Scala 2.10 shipped with new implementations of the Pattern Matcher and the Bytecode Emitter. We have removed the old implementations.
+  * Search and destroy mission for ~5000 chunks of dead code. [#1648](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/1648/files)
+
 The Scala team and contributors [fixed 613 bugs](https://issues.scala-lang.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SI%20and%20fixVersion%20>%3D%20"Scala%202.11.0-M1"%20and%20fixVersion%20<%3D%20"Scala%202.11.0"%20and%20resolution%20%3D%20fixed) that are exclusive to Scala 2.11.0! We also backported as many as possible. With the release of 2.11, 2.10 backports will be dialed back.
 
 A big thank you to everyone who's helped improve Scala by reporting bugs, improving our documentation, participating in mailing lists and other public fora, and -- of course -- submitting and reviewing pull requests! You are all awesome.
@@ -189,44 +226,5 @@ Note that we will only enforce *backwards* binary compatibility for the new modu
 
 Finally, Scala 2.11.0 introduces `scala-library-all` to aggregate the modules that constitute a Scala release. Note that this means it does not provide forward binary compatibility, whereas the core `scala-library` artifact does. We consider the versions of the modules that `"scala-library-all" % "2.11.x"` depends on to be the canonical ones, that are part of the official Scala distribution. (The distribution itself is defined by the new `scala-dist` maven artifact.)
 
-
-### New features in the 2.11 series
-This release contains all of the bug fixes and improvements made in the 2.10 series, as well as:
-
-* Collections
-  * Immutable `HashMap`s and `HashSet`s perform faster filters, unions, and the like, with improved structural sharing (lower memory usage or churn).
-  * Mutable `LongMap` and `AnyRefMap` have been added to provide improved performance when keys are `Long` or `AnyRef` (performance enhancement of up to 4x or 2x respectively).
-  * `BigDecimal` is more explicit about rounding and numeric representations, and better handles very large values without exhausting memory (by avoiding unnecessary conversions to `BigInt`).
-  * `List` has improved performance on `map`, `flatMap`, and `collect`.
-  * See also Deprecation above: we have slated many classes and methods to become final, to clarify which classes are not meant to be subclassed and to facilitate future maintenance and performance improvements.
-* Modularization
-  * The core Scala standard library jar has shed 20% of its bytecode. The modules for xml, parsing, swing as well as the (unsupported) continuations plugin and library are available individually or via [scala-library-all](http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.scala-lang%7Cscala-library-all%7C2.11.0%7Cpom). Note that this artifact has weaker binary compatibility guarantees than `scala-library` -- as explained above.
-  * The compiler has been modularized internally, to separate the presentation compiler, scaladoc and the REPL. We hope this will make it easier to contribute. In this release, all of these modules are still packaged in scala-compiler.jar. We plan to ship them in separate JARs in 2.12.x.
-* Reflection, macros and quasiquotes
-  * Please see [this detailed changelog](http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/changelog211.html) that lists all significant changes and provides advice on forward and backward compatibility.
-  * See also this [summary](http://scalamacros.org/news/index.html) of the experimental side of the 2.11 development cycle.
-  * [#3321](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/3321) introduced [Sprinter](http://vladimirnik.github.io/sprinter/), a new AST pretty-printing library! Very useful for tools that deal with source code.
-* Back-end
-  * The [GenBCode back-end](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2620) (experimental in 2.11). See [@magarciaepfl's extensive documentation](http://magarciaepfl.github.io/scala/).
-  * A new experimental way of compiling closures, implemented by [@JamesIry](https://github.com/JamesIry). With `-Ydelambdafy:method` anonymous functions are compiled faster, with a smaller bytecode footprint. This works by keeping the function body as a private (static, if no `this` reference is needed) method of the enclosing class, and at the last moment during compilation emitting a small anonymous class that `extends FunctionN` and delegates to it. This sets the scene for a smooth migration to Java 8-style lambdas (not yet implemented).
-  * Branch elimination through constant analysis [#2214](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2214)
-* Compiler Performance
-  * Incremental compilation has been improved significantly. To try it out, upgrade to sbt 0.13.2 and add `incOptions := incOptions.value.withNameHashing(true)` to your build! Other build tools are also supported. More info at [this sbt issue](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1010) -- that's where most of the work happened. More features are planned, e.g. [class-based tracking](https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/1104).
-  * We've been optimizing the batch compiler's performance as well, and will continue to work on this during the 2.11.x cycle.
-  * Improve performance of reflection [SI-6638](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6638)    
-* IDE
-  * [Numerous bug fixes and improvements!](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-8085?jql=component%20%3D%20%22Presentation%20Compiler%22%20AND%20project%20%3D%20SI%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20fixed%20and%20fixVersion%20%3E%3D%20%22Scala%202.11.0-M1%22%20and%20fixVersion%20%3C%3D%20%20%22Scala%202.11.0%22%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20DESC)
-* REPL
-  * The bytecode decompiler command, :javap, now works with Java 7 [SI-4936](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4936) and has sprouted new options [SI-6894](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6894) (Thanks, [@som-snytt](https://github.com/som-snytt)!)
-  * Added command :kind to help to tell ground types from type constructors. [#2340](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/2340) (Thanks, [George Leontiev](https://github.com/folone) and [Eugene Yokota](https://github.com/eed3si9n)!)
-  * The interpreter can now be embedded as a JSR-223 Scripting Engine [SI-874](https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-874). (Thanks, [Raphael Jolly](https://github.com/rjolly)!)
-* Warnings
-  * Warn about unused private / local terms and types, and unused imports, under `-Xlint`. This will even tell you when a local `var` could be a `val`.
-* Slimming down the compiler
-  * The experimental .NET backend has been removed from the compiler.
-  * Scala 2.10 shipped with new implementations of the Pattern Matcher and the Bytecode Emitter. We have removed the old implementations.
-  * Search and destroy mission for ~5000 chunks of dead code. [#1648](https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/1648/files)
-
-
 ### License clarification
 Scala is now distributed under the standard 3-clause BSD license. Originally, the same 3-clause BSD license was adopted, but slightly reworded over the years, and the "Scala License" was born. We're now back to the standard formulation to avoid confusion.
