- Objective-C/Swift interop:
- Added native-specific frontend checkers (implemented in the main Kotlin repository: GH-3293, GH-3091, GH-3172)
- .dSYMs for release binaries on Apple platforms (GH-4085)
- Improved compilation time of builds with interop libraries by reworking cinterop under the hood.
- Experimental mimalloc allocator support (-Xallocator=mimalloc) to improve execution time performance. (GH-3704)
- Tune GC to improve execution time performance
- Various fixes to compiler caches and Gradle daemon usage
Download the binary distribution from https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.4.0