enso-org/enso enso-0.2.12-SNAPSHOT.2021-06-15

Enso Nightly 0.2.12-SNAPSHOT.2021-06-15

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• Implemented Standard Library methods for controlling default visualizations in
  the graphical interface (#1786).
  

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.
  
• Added support for bidirectional dataflow tracking to the DataflowAnalysis
  pass (#1748). This will allow
  the interpreter to perform more detailed analyses in the future to enable
  optimisations and new features.
  

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.
  
• Added support for evaluating one-shot expressions on the result values of
  arbitrary expressions (#1749).
  This is very useful for enabling more advanced introspection in the IDE.
  
• Added the workspace/projectInfo endpoint to the language server
  (#1759). This allows the IDE to
  get information about the running project in contexts where the project
  manager isn't available or works differently.
  
• Added the file/checksum endpoint to the language server
  (#1787). This allows the IDE to
  verify the integrity of files that it has transferred. The checksum is
  calculated in a streaming fashion so the checksummed file need not be resident
  in memory all at once.
  
• Added support for reading and writing byte ranges in files remotely
  (#1795). This allows the IDE to
  transfer files to a remote back-end in a streaming fashion.
  

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 HTTP portion of the Base library 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 the main branch 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.