New features:
- all : added --display mode for toplevel completion
- all : added --display mode for position and usage information
- all : allowed @:callable on abstracts to forward calls to their underlying type
- all : allowed pattern matching on getters
- all : allowed @:native on class fields
- all : added static analyzer with constant propagation
- all : added Haxe-based XML implementation
- python : added python target
- flash : flash player 12-14 support
- js : added @:jsRequire and js.Lib.require
- js : support haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack
- cs : added @:bridgeProperties
- cs : added -D erase_generics
- cs : added -D dll_import to import haxe-generated dlls
- java/cs : added
sys.dbpackage - java/cs : clean unused files in output folder, unless
-D keep_old_outputis defined - java/cs : added
-c-argto add C#/Java compiler arguments - cpp : inititial implementation of cppia scripting
Bugfixes:
- all : fixed nullability of abstracts over functions
- all : fixed some equality checks between UInt and Int
- all : fixed rare issue with abstract casts
- all : fixed some internal code which relied on unspecified evaluation order
- all : fixed exhaustiveness checks involving guards
- all : fixed issue involving recursively constrained type parameters and @:generic
- all : fixed type inference issue in map literals
- all : fixed type inference issue when calling abstract method from within the abstract
- all : fixed several abstract variance issues
- all : fixed DCE issues with interface properties
- all : fixed variance issue with function variables and dynamic methods on interfaces
- all : fixed pattern matching on empty arrays that are typed as Dynamic
- all : fixed various @:generic issues
- all : fixed default cases on @:enum abstract being omitted
- all : fixed various expression positions
- all : disallowed break/continue in closures in loops
- all : disallowed inline functions in value places
- all : fixed parsing of cast followed by parentheses
- all : fixed resource naming in case of invalid file system characters
- all : fixed issue with inlined array declarations with field access
- cpp : fixed issue with the side-effect handler
- cpp : fixed issue with NativeArray in --no-inline mode
- php : fixed issue with invalid references for closures in for-loops
- php : fixed Reflect.compare and string comparison for numeric strings
- cs/java : fixed various issues with -java-lib and -net-lib.
- cs/java : added @:libType to skip checking on -java-lib / -net-lib types
- cs/java : compilation server now works with C#/Java [experimental support]
- cs : fixed Type.enumIndex / switch on C# native enums
- cs : fixed reflection on COM types
- java : fixed sys.net.Socket server implementation
- spod : various fixes - working now on cpp, java, neko, php and c#
- cpp : improved boot order, with enums constants first
General improvements and optimizations:
- all : disallowed using
superin value positions - all : check exhaustiveness of explicit Null types
- all : resolve unqualified identifiers to @:enum abstract constructors
- all : determine @:generic type parameters from constructor call if possible
- all : properly disallowed field redefinition in extending interface
- all : properly disallowed leading zeroes for Int and Float literals
- all : allowed variance on interface variables
- all : allowed pattern matching on arrays if they are typed as Dynamic
- all : allowed pattern matching on fields of parent classes
- all : -D doc-gen no longer implies -dce no
- all : allowed matching against null on any enum instance
- flash/js: optimized haxe.ds.StringMap
- neko : create output directory if it does not exist
- js : inline Math methods and fields
- cs/java : optimized Reflect.fields on dynamic structures
- cs/java : haxe will now clear output directory of old files (use -D keep-old-output to keep them)
- cs : optimized field lookup structure
- cs : optimized casting of parametrized types
- cs : beautify c# code output
- cs : added
cs.Flagsto manipulate C# enums that can be also flags - xml : improved documentation generation and fixed missing entity escaping
- cpp : property access via Dynamic variables now requires property to be declared with @:nativeProperty
- cpp : allow injection of code from relative paths using @:sourceFile and @:cppInclude
- cpp : stronger typing of native functions via cpp.Function + cpp.Callable
- cpp : moved 'Class' implementation to hx namespace to improve objective C interaction
- cpp : added file_extension define to change the output filename extension (eg, ".mm")
- cpp : added pre-calculated hashes to string constants to allow faster lookups
- cpp : map implementation allows strongly typed interactions in some cases (avoids boxing)
- cpp : added native WeakMap implementation
- cpp : put each resource into own cpp file to allow more data/smaller files
Standard Library:
- all : added typed arrays to haxe.io package
- all : added haxe.ds.Either
- all : added haxe.extern.Rest type for representing "rest" arguments in extern method signatures
- all : added haxe.extern.EitherType abstract type for dealing with externs for dynamic targets
- all : added haxe.DynamicAccess type for working with dynamic anonymous structures using a Map-like interface
- all : [breaking] changed haxe.ds.Vector.get to return T instead of Null
- all : added haxe.macro.Compiler.addGlobalMetadata
- all : changed haxe.Int64 to be an abstract type instead of a class
- js : updated HTML externs
Macro features and changes:
- macro : added Context.getLocalTVars
- macro : added TypedExprTools.iter
- macro : added Context.getCallArguments
- macro : changed @:genericBuild macros to prefer ComplexType returns
- macro : [breaking] extended TAnonymous structures now have AExtend status instead of AClosed
- macro : added Context.getDefines
- macro : fixed file_seek from end (position was inversed)
- macro : added Context.storeTypedExpr
- macro : allowed type name reification
Deprecations:
- all : deprecated structurally extending classes and interfaces
- sys : Sys.command shell special chars (&|<>#;*?(){}$) are now properly escaped
- java/cs : Lib.nativeType is now renamed to Lib.getNativeType
- The Flash 8 target has been removed