odin-lang/Odin dev-2025-11

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Licensing Changes

• Change Odin's LICENSE to zlib from BSD 3-clause

New Language Features

• intrinsics.concatenate
  • Concatentation of constant slices, strings, and some arrays at compile time
• intrinsics.objc_super & @(objc_superclass=<type>)

New Compiler Improvements

• Objective-C interface improvements
  • intrinsics.objc_super and automatically emit objc_msgSend calls where necessary for @(objc_superclass) attribute
  • Fix block symbols naming conflict across modules
• LLVM backend fixes
  • #simd vector only uses bit cast when elements are not pointers
  • Fix bitcasting context pointer to prevent compilation errors on LLVM-14
  • Numerous constant union improvements
  • Prefer the Type * ver LLVMTypeRef when looking up struct_field_remapping due to lack of uniqueness
• Default parameter exclusion counting improvement for procedure groups
• Improved -target-features flag by allow the user to disable a target feature
  • -target-features:-sse,-sse2,-avx
• -export-linked-libs-file:<string> flag to export the linked libraries to a file
• Fix a few compiler hangs on macOS.
• LLVM 21 support for non-Windows platforms
• Fix: #load alignment bug
  • set minimum alignment to 16-bytes
• Fix orca linking path
• Add #subtype/using to name canonicalization rules
• Numerous frontend bugs fixed

New Packages

Package Improvements

• More documentation improvements across the core library
• General improvements and more documentation for core:os/os2
• Add inject_at_soa and append_nothing_soa
• vendor:wgpu update to 27.0.2.0
• core:unicode/utf8: Add Grapheme_Iterator
• New slice.sort implementation to allow for better code generation and general API
• Deprecate the C style procedures in strconv (e.g. iota, atoi, etc`)
• WASM: Fix odin.js undefined this.mem
• Fix sRGB <-> linear RGB conversion
• core:encoding/json fixes
  • Fix null parsing in certain cases
• core:encoding/cbor: Fix epoch tag with small values
• core:container/rbtree add find_or_insert
• Fix bindings generator for vendor:vulkan for extensions and ~0 style constants
• Disable bounds checking where appropriate for Unicode and UTF-8 procedures
• vendor:fontstash: Fix crash with .TTC files
• core:simd : Fix incorrectly named calls in bit_not
• vendor:sdl3: Add PointInRectFloat
• vendor/egl
  • add a few more procedures and constants
  • Fix GetPlatformDisplay and CreatePlatformWindowSurface to use int instead of i32
• vendor:box2d
  • fixes to bindings mismatches
  • Add targetAngle to RevoluteJoint struct/procs
• core:odin/parser
  • fixes for end_pos
  • parse empty identifiers after selector as a selector expression with an empty field
• core:hash: add CCITT CRC-16
• Make packed conditional on EPoll_Event to match kernel
• core:math/linalg/hlsl: support half types
• core:math/ease: Add inverse ease procedures
• vendor:raylib: add MAX_MATERIAL_MAPS constant
• core:sys/darwin/Foundation: add additional AppKit bindings
• core:text/scanner allow for octal prefix style parsing for C-style ints

Full Changelog: dev-2025-10...dev-2025-11