Notable Changes

Syntax

• Make indentation significant in old-style control syntax #7235
• Don't require colon after class or object signatures #7185
• Replace the[...] by summon[...] #7205
• Allow given bindings in patterns #7194
• Replace delegate match with summonFrom. #7201
• Switch to ? for wildcard types #7144
• Require (...) around parameters of a lambda #7156
• Drop old syntax styles for givens #7245

Macros

• Upgrade to scala-library 2.13.1 #7263
• Detect macro dependencies within the current run #7192
• Add dotty-staging.g8 in the staging documentation #7165
• Intrinsify scala.compiletime.testing.typeChecks #7129

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.18.1-RC1..0.19.0-RC1 these are:

    87  Martin Odersky
    50  Nicolas Stucki
    42  Guillaume R
    33  Nikita Eshkeev
    20  Guillaume Martres
     9  Liu Fengyun
     8  Anatolii
     5  Robert Stoll
     3  Miles Sabin
     1  Sam Desborough
     1  Anatolii Kmetiuk
     1  Jon Pretty
     1  Oron Port
     1  Aggelos Biboudis

Reporting Bugs

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue! 🙏