8.7.0: Destructuring

• Fixed issue #31: Support list() reference assignment for PHP < 7.3
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• Fixed foreach statement using destructuring assignments in PHP 7.0
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• Merged PR #146: Add support for omitting expressions in destructuring
  assignments, e.g. list($a, , $b)= $expr or [, $a]= $expr.
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• Merged PR #145: Add support for specifying keys in list(), which has
  been in PHP since 7.1.0, see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_keys
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• Merged PR #144: Rewrite list(&$a)= $expr for PHP 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2
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8.6.0: AST type refactoring

• Bumped dependency on xp-framework/ast to version 9.1.0 - @thekid
• Merged PR #143: Adapt to AST type refactoring (xp-framework/ast#39)
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8.5.1: Nullable union types fix

• Fixed issue #142: Nullable type unions don't work as expected - @thekid

8.5.0: PHP 8.2 type system

• Merged PR #140: Add support for null, true and false types - @thekid

8.4.0: Readonly classes

• Merged PR #138: Implement readonly modifier for classes - a PHP 8.2
  feature, see https://wiki.php.net/rfc/readonly_classes
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• Merged PR #135: Move responsibility for creating result to emitter
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8.3.0: Ignore autoload files

• Made JIT class loader ignore autoload.php files - @thekid
• Fixed #136: Line number inconsistent after multi-line doc comments
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8.2.0: Classloader augmentation

• Support passing emitter-augmenting class names to the instanceFor()
  method of lang.ast.CompilingClassLoader.
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8.1.0: Nullable casting optimization

• Merged PR #131: Inline nullable checks when casting - @thekid

8.0.0: Standalone code, phase 1

This release is the first in a series of releases to make the XP compiler more universally useful: Compiled code now doesn't include generated XP meta information by default, and is thus less dependant on XP Core, see https://github.com/xp-framework/compiler/projects/4.

• Merged PR #129: Add augmentable emitter to create property type checks
  for PHP < 7.4
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• Fixed private and protected readonly properties being accessible from
  any scope in PHP < 8.1
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• Merged PR #127: Do not emit XP meta information by default. This is
  the first step towards generating code that runs without a dependency
  on XP core.
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7.3.0: Static closures

• Merged PR #128: Add support for static closures - @thekid
• Upgraded dependency on xp-framework/ast to version 8.0.0 - @thekid