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4.1.0
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2020-05-13: 4.1.0

New features:

  • all : added tail recursion elimination (#8908)
  • all : added unified exception handling (#9124)
  • all : allow try {} catch(e) {} as a shortcut for try {} catch(e:haxe.Exception) {} (#9269)
  • eval : added SSL support (#9009)
  • jvm : the JVM target is no longer considered experimental

General improvements:

  • all : implemented different display support approach (#8962)
  • all : improved display services related to reference finding
  • all : added go-to-implementation support (#9043)
  • all : made various improvements to diagnostics
  • all : support completion for map keys (#9133)
  • all : improved parser robustness for incomplete syntax (#9148)
  • all : disallowed the combination of @:overload and inline (#3846)
  • all : improved renaming of local variables (#9304)
  • all : better inlining of for-loops with anonymous iterators (#8848)
  • all : remove redundant final return in Void functions (#6420)
  • all : remove redundant continue in loops (#8952)
  • all : improved various compilation errors reporting
  • all : allowed (get,default) property access combination (#6195, #8825)
  • all : allowed ++ and -- on member properties of abstracts (#8930)
  • js : use abstract type name for generating its implementation class (#9006)
  • js : improve haxe.ds.StringMap implementation (#8909)
  • js : improve interface checking and make it more minifier-friendly (#9178)
  • js : generate let instead of var when compiler with -D js-es=6 (#9280)
  • js : optimize .bind on constructors (#9227)
  • jvm : rewrote function handling to me much faster and more portable (#9208)
  • jvm : generate interfaces for typedefs for improved performance (#9195)
  • jvm : added support for haxe.MainLoop
  • jvm : support @:jvm.synthetic and use it to hide some generated fields (#9213)
  • jvm : respect @:private and @:protected
  • lua : improve error handling behavior when throwing objects/instances
  • lua : optimize haxe.iterators.StringIterator
  • php : optimize Std.isOfType for String, Bool and Float
  • php : make Haxe Array implement native interfaces Iterator, IteratorAggregate, Countable (#8821, 9377)
  • cs : support @:assemblyMeta and @:assemblyStrict (#8347)
  • python : added __contains__ and __getitem__ implementations to generated python code for _hx_AnonObject, so it is subscribable and behaves like a python dict (#9109)

Standard Library:

  • all : negative startIndex argument of String.indexOf and String.lastIndexOf is unspecified (#8365)
  • all : changed Array.iterator() to return instances of haxe.iterators.ArrayIterator (#8987)
  • all : added Array.contains (#9179)
  • all : added Array.keyValueIterator (#7422)
  • all : added haxe.Constraints.NotVoid (#8357)
  • all : added Lambda.findIndex() (#9071)
  • all : added Lambda.foldi() (#9054)
  • all : added array access and key-value iteration support to haxe.ds.HashMap (#9056)
  • jvm : added JVM-specific versions of sys.thread.Lock and sys.thread.Thread
  • jvm : added JVM-specific version of haxe.ds.StringMap
  • java/jvm : use native versions of MD-5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 for haxe.crypto modules (#9298)
  • macro : added haxe.macro.Context.containsDisplayPosition(pos) (#9077)
  • nullsafety : treat Strict as a single-threaded mode; added StrictThreaded (#8895)

Deprecations:

  • all : deprecated Std.is; use Std.isOfType instead (#2976)
  • all : added a warning for an uninitialized variable usage captured in a closure (#7447)
  • js : deprecated untyped __js__(code, args); use js.Syntax.code(code, args) instead
  • php/neko : deprecated neko.Web and php.Web; will be moved to hx4compat library later (#9153)

Bugfixes:

  • all : fixed display support for static imports (#9012)
  • all : fixed completion in macro mode picking up the wrong type (#7703)
  • all : fixed wonky analyzer transformation related to locals captured in closures (#9305)
  • all : allow return; in abstract constructors (#7809)
  • all : fixed static @:op([]) functions (#9347)
  • all : fixed @:optional handling in the inheritance of @:structInit classes (#7559)
  • all : support negative numbers as constant type parameters for @:generic types (#9149)
  • all : fixed false positive compilation server error with empty methods in inheritance (#9029)
  • all : fixed default values for manually defined @:structInit constructors (#9177, #9258)
  • all : fixed inference of Void return type for arrow functions (#9181)
  • all : fixed inconsistencies in wildcard imports resolution (#9189, #9190)
  • all : fix array comprehension for a chain of if..else if without final else (#9040)
  • all : prohibit @:structInit on interfaces (#9017)
  • macro : fixed handling TAnonymous in haxe.macro.TypeTools.map (#9147)
  • eval : fixed EReg.matchSub handling with negative length (#9333)
  • eval : fixed extern classes being generated and causing errors in some cases (#9366)
  • eval : fixed StringBuf.addSub unicode handling (#9382)
  • jvm : fixed Void being generated with the wrong casing (#8717)
  • jvm : fixed debugging-related data being generated in the wrong place
  • jvm : fixed switches on string values being too optimistic
  • jvm : fixed problems with Std.parseInt and Std.parseFloat
  • jvm : made sure type parameter types are boxed
  • jvm : fixed dynamic access on null yielding null (#8452)
  • cpp : fixed native compilation if there is a hx package in a project (#8543)
  • cs : fixed null to 0 conversion in parametrized functions for Null<Int> params (#7428)
  • cs : fixed integer division handling (#9232)
  • php : fixed closure creation out of fields with null value (#9316)
  • js : fixed interface generation for minification with Google Closure Compiler in advanced mode (#9172)
  • js : fixed a crash at startup in IE8 (#9062)
  • hl : fixed BLOB handling in SQLite (#9048)
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