Interpreter/Runtime
- Upgraded the underlying runtime to
GraalVM 21.1.0
(#1738). This brings a raft of
bug-fixes and improvements to how quickly Enso can reach its peak performance.
Tooling
- Added support for higher-kinded types in suggestions in the language server
(#1712). This allows the
searcher to make more accurate suggestions when working with collection types.
- Fixed an issue where symlinks were not extracted properly when installing a
runtime for Enso (#1718).
- Implemented log masking (#1732).
This feature masks personally identifiable information in the logs, such as
code literals, computed values, and user environment variables.
Libraries
- Overhauled the examples throughout the standard library
(#1707,
#1725, and
#1731). These examples all now
conform to a standard format and have been tested to work.
- Made some miscellaneous fixes to the
HTTPportion of theBaselibrary that
fix a few bugs (#1722).
- Removed reflective access when loading the OpenCV library
(#1727). Illegal reflective
access operations were deprecated and will be denied in future JVM releases.
- Overhauled the types we use for errors throughout the standard library
(#1734). They are now much more
informative, and should provide more clarity when things go wrong.
- Re-wrote the documentation generator for the Enso website from Python into
Scala (#1729). This has greatly
improved the performance, enabling us to generate the documentation structure
for the entire standard library 8-10 times faster than before.
Miscellaneous
- Adding a pipeline for automatic nightly builds
(#1689). During the night after
each workday any new changes to themainbranch are built and released as a
nightly build. The nightly builds can be useful to preview in-development
features, but they should not be relied on as they are not considered stable.
Only the 3 latest nightly builds are kept, so the nightly versions become
obsolete very quickly.