0.16.0-alpha.2 (2025-12-12)
Features:
- [Installer]
- feat(installer,v2): add version-aware manylinux support for 0.15.0+
- feat(installer,v2): support WasmEdge 0.15.0 tarball structure
- [CAPI]
- [WASI]
- feat(wasi): export wasi module to calling frame
- feat(wasi): don't handle append flag ourself
- [WASI-NN]
- feat(wasi-nn): bump llama.cpp b6097
- feat(wasi-nn): bump wasi-nn plugin to 0.1.34
- feat(wasi-nn): support gpt-oss (#4300)
- feat(wasi-nn): remove llama_context_default_params, use default common_params value
- feat(wasi-nn,bitnet): add BitNet backend support (#4253)
- feat(wasi-nn,ggml): support MiniCPM-V4.5 (#4336)
- feat(wasi-nn,MLX): support whisper for MLX backend (#4322)
- feat(wasi-nn,ggml): adjust seed type (#4407)
- feat(wasi-nn): provide WASMEDGE_FORCE_DOWNLOAD_SIMDJSON to avoid using system simdjson
- fix(WASI-NN/MLX): change loadBytesFromFile ifstream
- refactor(WASI-NN/GGML): parse metadata (#4370)
- refactor(WASI-NN/GGML): refactor function structure (#4383)
- [Plugin]
- [AOT]
- feat(aot): add support for llvm 21 (#4361)
- [Tools]
- feat(tools): tool options for wasm 3.0
Fixed issues:
- [Installer]
- fix(installer): v1: fix the incompatible issues for v0.15.0 (#4298)
- fix(installer): unified the download link of the ggml plugin
- [ComponentModel]
- fix(validator): correct core module handling (#4295)
- refactor(runtime,executor): implement the import manager to correct the isolation if import scope in nested components
- refactor(ast): move the component value type structure to common
- refactor(ast): make the component function type better use
- refactor(common): separate the wasm and component values
- refactor(validator): refine the nested component entry
- refactor(executor): simplify the component function execution
- [AOT]
- fix(llvm): ignore contents of virtual sections
- fix(llvm): fill correct null reference value
- fix(compiler): report error for implemented instructions
- fix(compiler): lost filtering out the exception handling instructions in aot (#4416)
- [Validator]
- fix(common, validator): add the missing
noexnheap type - fix(loader, validator): fix for some memory64 tests
- fix(validator): lost getting top type of exnref (#4415)
- fix(common, validator): add the missing
- [Executor]
- fix(executor): check iterator is valid before using
- [Tools]
- [WASI]
- fix: export initWithFds
- fix: handle windows end of line
- fix: added alignment checks in WASI host functions
- [WASI-NN]
Tests:
- test: fix ubsan warnings (#4341)
- test: fix code to apply wasm 3.0 and new commands in spec tests
- test(wasi): added tests for WASI host function alignment validation
- test(component): ignore component validator tests until implementation ready
Misc:
- chore: nomination of HanWen Tsao as WasmEdge Maintainer (#4402)
- docs(roadmap): update roadmap for Q4/2025
- feat: support WasmEdge on the s390x platform (#4251)
- feat: remove the legacy exception-handling proposal contents due to wasm 3.0 released
- feat(common): default turn on wasm 3.0
CI:
- [dependabot]
- ci(dependabot): bump the upload-and-download-artifact group with 2 updates
- ci(dependabot): bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.13.0 to 2.13.3
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/setup-python from 5.6.0 to 6.1.0
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/github-script from 7.0.1 to 8.0.0
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/labeler from 5.0.0 to 6.0.1
- ci(dependabot): bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.4.3 to 5.5.1
- ci(dependabot): bump docker/bake-action from 6.8.0 to 6.10.0 in the docker group
- ci(dependabot): bump docker/login-action from 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 in the docker group
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/checkout from 4.2.2 to 6.0.1
- ci(dependabot): bump github/codeql-action from 3.29.3 to 4.31.7
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/cache from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0
- ci(dependabot): bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.5.1 to 31.8.4
- ci(dependabot): bump actions/download-artifact from 4.3.0 to 5.0.0 in the upload-and-download-artifact group
- [Runner]
- ci(commitlint): set header-max-length to warning level due to Dependabot will create long commit header (#4314)
- ci(commitlint): pinned the commitlint related packages
- ci(brew): uninstall pre-installed cmake to avoid the conflict
- ci(macos): don't install cmake due to the conflict inside macos runner image (#4363)
- ci(macos): remove eval brew shellenv
- ci(linter): use cargo install lineguard
- ci(linter): pinned the codespell packages
- ci(linter): remove trailing spaces and add missing newline at end of file
- ci(installer): pinned the black==25.1.0
- ci(WASI-NN/MLX): support cmake version
- ci(runner): update macOS 13 runner to 14-large, due to deprecation
- ci(runner): update python to 3.12 for wasi-testsuite
- ci(runner): update adapter for wasi-testsuite
- ci(runner): use windows-2025 instead of 2022 due to the EOL of win10
- ci(runner): update winsdk version
- ci(runner): use clang-cl for wasi-nn
- ci(runner): update llvm-windows to 21.1.3
- ci(runner): fix spdlog warnings
Thank all the contributors who made this release possible!
Han-Wen Tsao, Karan Lokchandani, Khush Agrawal, Minimega12121, Shen-Ta Hsieh(BestSteve), Vishruth Thimmaiah, Wang-Yang, Li, Yi-Ying He, cmd05, dm4, grorge, hydai
If you want to build from source, please use WasmEdge-0.16.0-alpha.2-src.tar.gz instead of the zip or tarball provided by GitHub directly.