2019-09-04: 4.0.0-rc.4
Standard Library:
- all : added Map.clear (#8681)
- all : improved Date API (#8508)
- all : added JSON-RPC protocol types to haxe.display package (#8610)
- all : added default timeout to HTTP sockets (#8646)
- macro : added Context.info (#8478)
- macro : added Context.getMessages and Context.filterMessages (#8471)
- macro : added function kind to EFunction (#8653)
- macro : added string literal kind to CString (#8668)
- flash : added flash.AnyType (#8549)
General improvements and optimizations:
- all : allowed enum constructors without arguments as static inline var (#8187)
- all : improved handling of default values when inlining (#8397)
- all : made various improvements to the display API as usual
- all : detect invalid #tokens in inactive code (#7108)
- all : allowed function types in @:generic (#3697)
- all : improved --help-defines and --help-metas
- all : improved overall file finding (#8202)
- all : improved server reaction to added and removed files (#8451)
- all : improved memory handling of the compilation server (8727)
- all : improved handling of native libraries on the compilation server (#8629)
- all : support partial completion results (#8642)
- all : improved support of hovering over inactive conditional compilation blocks
- all : improved completion support in .platform.hx files
- all : support hovering conditional compilation identifiers
- all : improved and unified identifier checks for names, fields and types (#8708)
- all : improved --times performance (#8733)
- all : remove some redundant cast expressions (#8725)
- all : added --server-connect (#8730)
- lua : improved -D lua-vanilla
- js : improved HTML externs
Bugfixes:
- all : fixed various position and replace ranges in the display API
- all : fixed compiler hang related to @:arrayAccess (#5525)
- all : fixed bug regarding abstract
thismodification in inline methods (#8454) - all : fixed
from Dynamicon abstracts (#8425) - all : fixed overeager recursive inline check (#8489)
- all : fixed the pattern matcher allowing inexhaustive switches in value-places (#8277)
- all : fixed pattern matcher allowing invalid abstract unification (#8579)
- all : fixed local variable type information being lost on the compilation server (#8511)
- all : don't generate return expressions in Void lambda functions (#6503)
- all : fixed unification of recursive typedefs again (#8523)
- all : fixed various hangs related to abstracts (#8588)
- all : fixed various GADT-related problems (#7672)
- all : fixed macro
@:frommethods allowing any return type (#8463) - macro : fixed Sys.programPath assertion failure (#8466)
- js : fixed typed array APIs (#8422)
- java : fixed Std.is on non-reference and unrelated types (#5168)
- java/macro : fixed null-pointer exception in Reflect.getProperty (#4934)
- java/jvm : fix switch on null string (#4481)
- jvm : fixed boxed vs. unboxed comparison (#8577)
- jvm : generate toplevel types to haxe.root like genjava does (#8590)
- jvm : improved 32bit support (#8601)
- cs/python : fixed various issues with code generation
- cs : fixed NativeArray casting (#3949)