Haxe 2.6.0

Change Log

• neko : change serializer to be able to handle instances of basic classes from other modules
• js : add Document.createTextNode
• all : bugfix with inline when modifying var with same name as one of current local
• flash9 : classes implementing ArrayAccess<T> are now dynamic (including TypedDictionary)
• all : allow "using" on typedefs
• as3 : minor fixes in genas3 and --gen-hx-classes
• as3 : fix with readonly/writeonly properties accesses
• flash9 : list native getter/setters in Type API class/instance fields
• all : make haxe.rtti.Generic typing lazy (fix for self-recursion)
• all : allow haxe.rtti.Generic + inheritance
• all : added resource size limit to 12MB (ocaml max_string_size is 16MB + b64)
• flash : changes in swf handling to work with >16MB swfs
• flash9 : only init dynamic methods if not already defined (in subclass)
• std : added haxe.SHA1
• compiler : added TCast, allow cast optimization on flash9/cpp
• as3 : fixed Std.init generating 'null'
• compiler : fixed -no-opt
• flash : allow several -swf-lib
• no longer support automatic creation of classes for f8 swfs in f9 mode
• classes defined in f9 swf are not redefinable in haXe code (use extern)
• flash9 : allow direct access and completion with classes defined in -swf-lib's
• flash9 : remove imported libraries debug infos when not compiled with -debug
• all : only display errors with --display if no completion matched
• all : some completion related errors fixed
• flash9 : added @:bind support
• all : fixed StringTools.hex with negative numbers
• flash9 : fixed Type.typeof(1<<28) was TFloat
• flash9 : use flash.XML parser for Xml class implementation
• neko : fixed Array.splice (was not setting null at end of array)
• neko : rewrote Array class using neko.NativeArray
• all : core classes implementation are now in std/(platform)/_std
• all : added @:final support
• all : added haxe.rtti.Meta
• flash9 : added flash.desktop.Clipboard* classes (added in flash10)
• as3 : fixed Date.toString issue in flash.Boot (now use .toStringHX instead)
• this will only work if .toString called explicitely on Date class
• all : only allow "using" on Dynamic if first parameter is Dynamic
• php : haxe.Http now supports Https connections when OpenSSL extension is enabled (issue 143)
• php : fixed enum constructors sequence (issue 142)
• php : added error message when using 2 fields with different cases in the same class/enum
• php : fixed field declaration for properties with getter and setter (issue 124)
• php : fixed comparison issues between strings (issue 132)
• php : enhanced FileInput.readLine using native fgets function (issue 103)
• flash9 : renamed flash.Error to flash.errors.Error
• php : removed eval() everywhere and simplified _hx_lambda
• php : fixed return type for Std.string() with integers and floats
• php : fixed php.Lib.rethrow
• all : added custom haXe serialization
• php : aligned php.Web.parseMultipart signature with neko implementation
• cpp : Added source location and stack dump for errors in debug mode
• cpp : Remapped more keywords
• cpp : Added templated fast iterator code for arrays and FastLists
• cpp : Added option for tracing GC references in debug mode
• cpp : Switch the native string implementation from wchar_t to utf8 - for regex speed
• cpp : Added extra "()" to ensure correct order of operations
• cpp : Fixed various bugs for unusual (and not so unusual) language constructs
• cpp : Fixed order of enum generation from index
• cpp : Added unsafe_get and unsafe_set to Array as possible optimizations
• cpp : Default to mult-thread compiling on windows for cl version >= 14
• cpp : Seed Math.random
• cpp : Use strftime for Dates
• cpp : Fix socket sellect passing _s
• cpp : Throw error when match count does not match regex
• cpp : Improve register capture in GC
• cpp : Fix Dynamic interger compare
• cpp : Implement makeVarArgs
• cpp : Fix toString for nulls in Enums and Arrays
• cpp : Added initial Android support
• cpp : Move initializers to entry functions in standard ndlls.
• cpp : Changes some CFFI register funtions to char, from wchar_t
• cpp : Added some initial support for v8 script target
• cpp : Use non-recursive GC marking to avoid overflow in big lists
• cpp : Added __hxcpp_obj_id