0.11.0

[0.11.0] - 2017-03-11

Fixed

• Make HTTPSession type tag by default (PR #1650)
• Fix type parameters not being visible to a lambda type in a type alias (PR #1633)
• Remove the check for union types on match error (PR #1630)
• TCPListener: unsubscribe asio before socket close (PR #1626)
• Fix buffer overlow in case method docstring (PR #1615)
• Fix capability checking for gencap-constrained type parameters. (PR #1593)
• Fix error in ANTLR grammar regarding duplicate '-~'. (#1602) (PR #1604)
• Escape special characters in ANLTR strings. (#1600) (PR #1601)
• Use LLVM to detect CPU features by default if --features aren't specified. (PR #1580)
• Always call finalisers for embedded fields (PR #1586)
• Check for null terminator in String._append (PR #1582)
• Fix TCP Connection data receive race condition (PR #1578)
• Fix Linux epoll event resubscribe performance and race condition. (PR #1564)
• Correctly resubscribe TCPConnection to ASIO events after throttling (PR #1558)
• Performance fix in the runtime actor schedule (PR #1521)
• Disallow type parameter names shadowing other types. (PR #1526)
• Don't double resubscribe to asio events in TCPConnection (PR #1509)
• Improve Map.get_or_else performance (PR #1482)
• Back pressure notifications now given when encountered while sending data during TCPConnection pending writes
• Improve efficiency of muted TCPConnection on non Windows platforms (PR #1477)
• Compiler assertion failure during type checking
• Runtime memory allocator bug
• Compiler crash on tuple sending generation (issue #1546)
• Compiler crash due to incorrect subtype assignment (issue #1474)
• Incorrect code generation when sending certain types of messages (issue #1594)

Added

• Close over free variables in lambdas and object literals (PR #1648)
• Add assert_no_error test condition to PonyTest (PR #1605)
• Expose st_dev and st_ino fields of stat structure (PR #1589)
• Packed structures (RFC 32) (PR #1536)
• Add insert_if_absent method to Map (PR #1519)
• Branch prediction annotations (RFC 30) (PR #1528)
• Readline interpret C-d on empty line as EOF (PR #1504)
• AST annotations (RFC 27) (PR #1485)
• Unsafe mathematic and logic operations. Can be faster but can have undefined results for some inputs (issue #993)
• Equality comparison for NetAddress (PR #1569)
• Host address comparison for NetAddress (PR #1569)

Changed

• Rename IPAddress to NetAddress (PR #1559)
• Remove delegates (RFC 31) (PR #1534)
• Upgrade to LLVM 3.9.1 (PR #1498)
• Deprecate LLVM 3.6.2 support (PR #1511) (PR #1502) (PR ##1512)
• Ensure TCPConnection is established before writing data to it (issue #1310)
• Always allow writing to _ (dontcare) (PR #1499)
• Methods returning their receiver to allow call chaining have been changed to return either None or some useful value. Generalised method chaining implemented in version 0.9.0 should be used as a replacement. The full list of updated methods follows. No details means that the method now returns None.
  • builtin.Seq
    • reserve
    • clear
    • push
    • unshift
    • append
    • concat
    • truncate
  • builtin.Array
    • reserve
    • compact
    • undefined
    • insert
    • truncate
    • trim_in_place
    • copy_to
    • remove
    • clear
    • push
    • unshift
    • append
    • concat
    • reverse_in_place
  • builtin.String
    • reserve
    • compact
    • recalc
    • truncate
    • trim_in_place
    • delete
    • lower_in_place
    • upper_in_place
    • reverse_in_place
    • push
    • unshift
    • append
    • concat
    • clear
    • insert_in_place
    • insert_byte
    • cut_in_place
    • replace (returns the number of occurrences replaced)
    • strip
    • lstrip
    • rstrip
  • buffered.Reader
    • clear
    • append
    • skip
  • buffered.Writer
    • reserve
    • reserve_chunks
    • number writing functions (e.g. u16_le)
    • write
    • writev
  • capsicum.CapRights0
    • set
    • unset
  • collections.Flag
    • all
    • clear
    • set
    • unset
    • flip
    • union
    • intersect
    • difference
    • remove
  • collections.ListNode
    • prepend (returns whether the node was removed from another List)
    • append (returns whether the node was removed from another List)
    • remove
  • collections.List
    • reserve
    • remove
    • clear
    • prepend_node
    • append_node
    • prepend_list
    • append_list
    • push
    • unshift
    • append
    • concat
    • truncate
  • collections.Map
    • concat
    • compact
    • clear
  • collections.RingBuffer
    • push (returns whether the collection was full)
    • clear
  • collections.Set
    • clear
    • set
    • unset
    • union
    • intersect
    • difference
    • remove
  • files.FileMode
    • exec
    • shared
    • group
    • private
  • files.File
    • seek_start
    • seek_end
    • seek
    • flush
    • sync
  • time.Date
    • normal
  • net.http.Payload
    • update (returns the old value)
  • net.ssl.SSLContext
    • set_cert
    • set_authority
    • set_ciphers
    • set_client_verify
    • set_server_verify
    • set_verify_depth
    • allow_tls_v1
    • allow_tls_v1_1
    • allow_tls_v1_2
• TCP sockets on Linux now use Epoll One Shot
• Non-sendable locals and parameters are now seen as tag inside of recover expressions instead of being inaccessible.
• TCP sockets on FreeBSD and MacOSX now use Kqueue one shot
• All arithmetic and logic operations are now fully defined for every input by default (issue #993)
• Removed compiler flag --ieee-math
• The pony_start runtime function now takes a language_features boolean parameter indicating whether the Pony-specific runtime features (e.g. network or serialisation) should be initialised

0.10.0

[0.10.0] - 2016-12-12

Fixed

• Don't violate reference capabilities when assigning via a field (PR #1471)
• Check errors correctly for method chaining (PR #1463)
• Fix compiler handling of type params in stacks (issue #918) (PR #1452)
• Fix String.recalc method for cases where no null terminator is found (issue #1446) (PR #1450)
• Make space() check if string is null terminated (issue #1426) (PR #1430)
• Fix is_null_terminated reading arbitrary memory (issue #1425) (PR #1429)
• Set null terminator in String.from_iso_array (issue #1435) (PR #1436)

Added

• Added String.split_by, which uses a string delimiter (issue #1399) (PR #1434)
• Extra DTrace/SystemTap probes concerning scheduling.

Changed

• Behaviour calls return None instead of their receiver (RFC 28) (PR #1460)
• Update from_array to prevent a copy (issue #1097) (PR #1423)

0.9.0

[0.9.0] - 2016-11-11

Fixed

• Stop leaking memory during serialization (issue #1413) (PR #1414)
• Fixed compiler segmentation fault when given an invalid target triple. (PR #1406)
• Fixed error message when no type arguments are given (issue #1396) (PR #1397)
• Fixed compiler assert failure when constructor is called on type intersection (issue #1398) (PR #1401)
• Fix compiler assert fail on circular type inference error (issue #1334) (PR #1339)
• Performance problem in the scheduler queue when running with many threads (issue #1404)
• Invalid name mangling in generated C headers (issue #1377)

Added

• Method chaining (RFC #25) (PR #1411)
• Iter class methods all, any, collect, count, find, last, nth, run, skip, skip_while, take, take_while (issue #1370)
• Output of ponyc --version shows C compiler used to build pony (issue #1245)
• Makefile detects llvmconfig39 in addition to llvm-config-3.9 (#1379)
• LLVM 3.9 support

Changed

• Changed lambda literal syntax to be more concise (issue #1391) (PR #1400)

0.8.0

[0.8.0] - 2016-10-27

Fixed

• Link the correct version of libponyrt when compiling with --pic on Linux (issue #1359)

Added

• Runtime function pony_send_next. This function can help optimise some message sending scenarios.
• Floating point min_normalised. The function returns the smallest normalised positive number, as min_value used to do (issue #1351)

Changed

• Floating point min_value now returns the smallest negative number instead of the smallest normalised positive number (issue #1351)

0.7.0

[0.7.0] - 2016-10-22

Fixed

• Concatenate docstrings from case methods (issue #575).

Added

• TCP read and write backpressure hooks in TCPConnection (issue #1311)
• Allow TCP notifiers to cause connections to yield while receiving (issue #1343)

Changed

• break without a value now generates its value from the else branch of a loop instead of being an implicit break None.
• The for loop will now break out of the loop instead of continuing with the following iterations if Iterator.next errors.

0.6.0

[0.6.0] - 2016-10-20

Fixed

• Compiling ponyrt with Clang versions >= 3.3, < 3.6.
• Restrict mutable tuple recovery to maintain reference capability security (issue #1123)
• Crash in the runtime scheduler queues

Added

• DTrace and SystemTap support - use=dtrace

Changed

• Replaces use=telemetry by DTrace/SystemTap scripts
• String.cstring() now always returns a null-terminated string
  (which may result in a copy) while cpointer() (also available on
  Array objects) returns a pointer to the underlying array as-is
  (issue #1309).

0.5.1

[0.5.1] - 2016-10-15

Fixed

• SSLConnection ignoring the sent notifier method (issue #1268)
• Runtime crash in the runtime scheduler queues (issue #1319)

0.5.0

[0.5.0] - 2016-10-09

Fixed

• Memory copy bounds for String.clone (issue #1289).
• Security issues in ProcessMonitor (issue #1180)
• SSLConnection bugs due to missing sentv notify method (issue #1282)

Added

• Iter class (issue #1267)
• read_until method on buffered.Reader (RFC 0013)
• format package (issue #1285)

Changed

• Stringable interface no longer involves formatting (issue #1285)
• Remove unused error types from ProcessError (issue #1293)
• HTML documentation for expanded union types now adds line breaks to improve readability (issue #1263)

0.4.0

[0.4.0] - 2016-09-26

Fixed

• Unexpected message ordering in ProcessManager (issue #1265)

Added

• TCP writev performance improvement by avoiding throwing errors

0.3.3

[0.3.3] - 2016-09-23

Fixed

• Incorrect build number generated on Windows when building from non-git directory.
• Stop generating llvm.invariant.load for fields of val references.
• Embedded fields construction through tuples.

Added

• Improved error handling for files package.
• ProcessMonitor.expect
• ProcessNotify.created
• ProcessNotify.expect

Changed

• On Linux and FreeBSD, ponyc now uses $CC as the linker if the environment variable is defined.