Haxe 3.1.0

Release Notes

Dear community,

On behalf of the Haxe Foundation, I am proud to announce that Haxe 3.1.0 is now officially released! It is available at https://haxe.org/download.

Our main focus for this release was on improving stability and fixing bugs. Nevertheless, several new features were introduced as well. Make sure to check out the changelog (http://haxe.org/file/CHANGES.txt).

This Haxe release also comes with an updated haxelib client which saw several bugfixes and improvements compared to the one included in the Haxe 3.0 release.

We removed the outdated haxedoc tool in favor of Dox (https://github.com/dpeek/dox). Dox will be updated on Haxelib soon for easy access.

I would like to thank both our old and new contributors, in particular:

• Andy Li for getting Haxe properly tested on Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/HaxeFoundation/haxe)
• Dan Korostelev for various improvements to the C# target and other contributions
• Bryan Ischo of TiVo for his work on the hxcpp debugger (https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxcpp-debugger)
• Cauê Waneck for setting up the automated Haxe binaries and installers (http://build.haxe.org/)
• Mike Welsh for his work on the Int32 and Int64 abstracts

If you want to appear on this list for the next release, make sure to check us out on GitHub.

Thank you for your support

Change Log

New features:

• all : allowed null-patterns in pattern matching
• all : allowed extractors in pattern matching using => syntax
• all : allowed extending generic type parameters
• all : allowed (expr : type) syntax (ECheckType)
• all : allowed @:enum and @:forward on abstracts
• all : allowed using abstracts as static extension
• all : allowed Class.new
• all : added EnumValue.match
• all : allow multiple structural extension using { > T1, > T2, fields }
• all : inline array and structure declarations if possible
• cs : added -net-lib
• cs : support for native delegates
• cs : support for attributes
• cs : support for events

Standard Library:

• all : support abstract types in haxe.rtti.XmlParser
• all : added Std.instance
• all : added length field to BytesBuffer, BytesOutput, BytesInput and StringBuf
• all : added UInt for all targets
• all : added Array.indexOf and Array.lastIndexOf
• all : added haxe.xml.Printer
• all : added haxe.Int32 as abstract type
• all : added haxe.format.JsonParser/Printer

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : optimized pattern matching output
• all : allowed recursive type parameter constraints
• all : improved support of custom @:coreType abstracts
• all : evaluate conditional expressions in @:require
• all : improved inline constructors by detecting more cases where it can be applied
• js : improved inlining
• js : always use JSON extern (compile with -D old-browser to disable)
• js : added -D js-flatten
• js : added -D js-es5
• cpp : improved side-effect detection

Bugfixes:

• all : inlining a parameter which has side effects will not remove it even if not used
• all : implemented constraints check on enum and enum field type parameters
• all : fixed memory leak in compilation server and optimized caching in general
• all : fixed issue with invalid lowercase class name in Windows completion
• flash : fixed font embedding with UTF8 chars
• flash : give error if non-nullable basic types are skipped in a call
• flash : give error if assigned parent class field values would be overwritten by super()

Macro features and changes:

• macro : add Context.onAfterGenerate
• macro : add Context.typeExpr
• macro : add Context.getExpectedType
• macro : add ExprTools.getValue
• macro : allowed $v{(c:Float|Int|String)}
• macro : resolve error line number in external files
• macro : rewrote macros used as static extension
• macro : exposed typed AST
• macro : added @:genericBuild
• macro : [breaking] first argument of ComplexType.TExtend is now Array<TypePath> instead of TypePath
• macro : improved expression printing