WasmEdge/WasmEdge 0.8.2

WasmEdge 0.8.2

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0.8.2 (2021-08-25)

Features:

• WASI:
  • Supported WASI on macOS(Intel & M1).
  • Supported WASI on Windows 10.
  • Supported WASI Socket functions on Linux.
• C API:
  • Supported 32-bit environment.
  • Added the static library target libwasmedge_c.a (OFF by default).
  • Added the ErrCode to C declarations.
  • Added the API about converting WasmEdge_String to C string.
  • Added the API to get data pointer from the WasmEdge_MemoryInstanceContext.
• AOT:
  • Added --generic-binary to generate generic binaries and disable using host features.
• Multi platforms:
  • Enabled Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64 build.
  • Enabled Ubuntu 21.04 x86_64 build.
  • Enabled manylinux2014 aarch64 build.
  • Enabled Ubuntu 21.04 arm32 build.
• Rust supports:
  • Added the wasmedge-sys and wasmedge-rs crates.
  • Added the wrapper types to rust.
• Removed binfmt support.

Fixed issues:

• Ensured every platform defines is defined.
• Disabled blake3 AVX512 support on old platforms.
• Avoided vector ternary operator in AOT, which is unsupported by clang on mac.
• The preopen should be --dir guest_path:host_path.
• Fixed usused variables error in API libraries when AOT build is disabled.
• Fixed the WASI function signature error.
  • wasi_snapshot_preview1::path_read_link
    • Fixed the signature error with the lost read size output.
    • Added the Out comments for parameters with receiving outputs.
  • wasi_snapshot_preview1::path_filestat_set_times
    • Corrected the time signature to the u64.

Misc:

• Changed all CMake global properties to target specified properties.
  • Added namespace to all cmake options.
• Added the CMake option WASMEDGE_FORCE_DISABLE_LTO to forcibly disable link time optimization (OFF by default).
  • WasmEdge project enables LTO by default in Release/RelWithDeb build. If you would like to disable the LTO forcibly, please turn on the WASMEDGE_FORCE_DISABLE_LTO option.
• Installed dpkg-dev in docker images to enable dpkg-shlibdeps when creating the deb release.

Refactor:

• Refactored the WASI VFS architecture.
• Simplified the memory indexing in validator.
• Renamed the file names in interpreter.
• Replaced the instances when registering host instances with existing names.

Documentations:

• Added the Quick Start Javascript document.
• Added the Use Cases document.
• Fixed the wrong printf type in the C API document.

Tests:

• Added wasi-test for testing basic WASI interface
• Added C API unit tests.
  • Added the WasmEdge_String copy tests.
  • Added the WasmEdge_MemoryInstanceContext get data pointer tests.
• Removed unnecessary Wagon and Ethereum tests.