Version 1.6.8

Mostly internal / build-related / KTLO changes. The main user-visible bug fix is #1468

Full Changelog: v1.6.7...v1.6.8

Version 1.6.7

The major user-visible change is initial support for JDK 23 bytecodes.

Full Changelog: v1.6.6...v1.6.7

Version 1.6.6

What's Changed

• Support building and running on JDK 22 by @msridhar in #1419

Full Changelog: v1.6.5...v1.6.6

Version 1.6.5

Again this release has mostly behind-the-scenes changes. @MadhuNimmo contributed efficiency optimizations for bounded call graph construction for JavaScript and some improved models of JavaScript library functions.

Full Changelog: v1.6.4...v1.6.5

Version 1.6.4

Mostly behind-the-scenes / build-related changes (many by @liblit). For those running WALA in a multithreaded setting, #1379 may fix some crashes. Also, #1357 updated the version of Eclipse we depend on, which necessitated that Eclipse-related artifacts now require JDK 17 to run. The non-Eclipse-related WALA artifacts still run on JDK 11.

New Contributors

• @aakgna made their first contribution in #1355

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.6.4

Version 1.6.3

The key user-visible change for this release is support for running WALA on JDK 21 and also processing JDK 21 bytecodes. Support for new recent bytecode features has not been tested thoroughly; please file issues if you find bugs. Internally, various build configuration improvements and updates were contributed by @liblit.

Full Changelog: v1.6.2...v1.6.3

Version 1.6.2

The main user-visible change in this release is the ability to set up WALA's analysis scope to only include a subset of the modules present in a JDK 9+ JVM. See the PR for details. Internally, WALA's test suite has been updated to use JUnit 5 by @liblit.

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.6.2

Version 1.6.1

What's Changed

• Numerous build configuration updates and improvements by @liblit
• Fix crash in JS CG construction for malformed calls to new Function by @msridhar in #1243
• Fix NPE in EclipseSourceFileModule ctor by @khatchad in #1261
• Improve source locations for constructor calls for JS function statements by @msridhar in #1268
• Properly handle static interface methods as entrypoints by @hjjandy in #1275
• Support running on JDK 17 by @msridhar in #1281. WALA will now not crash on JDK 17 bytecodes and core functionality has been tested. We have not tested recently-added bytecode features, but would welcome bug reports / pull requests for such features.

New Contributors

• @hjjandy made their first contribution in #1275

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.6.1

Version 1.6.0

Most notably, version 1.6.0 is the first WALA release that only runs on JDK 11+ JVMs. Running on JDK 8 is no longer supported.

Also, com.ibm.wala.util now includes nullability annotations. We plan to add such annotations to more WALA modules in the near future.

Version 1.5.9

Mostly minor bug fixes and cleanup; see the commits for the details.

Note: This is the final WALA release that will support running on a JDK 8 JVM. Subsequent releases will only run on a JDK 11+ JVM.