Haxe 2.9.0

Change Log

• all : optimized const == const and const != const (with different const types)
• all : add Type.allEnums(e)
• all : big improvements with completion speed and fixed many issues
• flash9 : fixed -D swfprotected with swc output
• neko : added ~ implementation
• js : upgraded jquery version, more api overloads
• sys : added "in" operator for spod macros, added relation access in expressions
• macro : added ECheckType
• macro : added TLazy for not-yet-typed class fields
• js/php/neko : added haxe.web.Request
• all : added Std.format
• js : trace() output fallback on console.log if no id="haxe:trace"
• all : ensure that Std.is(2.0,Int) returns true on all platforms
• js : replaced $closure by function.$bind + changes in output format
• all : allowed @:extern on static methods (no generate + no closure + force inlining)
• all : added documentation in --display infos + display overloads in completion
• js : removed --js-namespace, added $hxClasses
• flash : output traces to native trace() when using -D fdb or -D nativeTrace
• all : allowed abitrary string fields in anonymous objects
• all : allowed optional structure fields (for constant structs)
• all : allowed optional args in functions types (?Int -> Void)
• all : added Reflect.getProperty/setProperty (except flash8)
• all : added --wait and --cwd and --connect (parsed files and module caching)
• all : fixed completion in macros calls arguments
• all : fixed DCE removing empty but still used interfaces/superclasses
• all : added haxe.Utf8 (crossplatform)
• neko : Reflect now uses $fasthash (require neko 1.8.2)
• all : allow \uXXXX in regexp (although not supported everywhere)
• js : make difference between values and statements expressions in JSGenApi
• js : added source mapping with -debug (replace previous stack emulation)
• flash : added @:file("a.dat") class File extends flash.utils.ByteArray
• flash : added @:sound("file.wav|mp3") class S extends flash.media.Sound
• js : added --js-modern for wrapping output in a closure and ES5 strict mode
• all : null, true and false are now keywords
• all : neko.io.Path, cpp.io.Path and php.io.Path are now haxe.io.Path
• neko, cpp, php : added Sys class, sys.io and sys.net packages and "sys" define
• all : allow to access root package with std prefix (std.Type for example)
• all : added haxe.EnumFlags
• sys : io.File.getChar/stdin/stdout/stderr are now in Sys class
• cpp : Reflect.getField and Reflect.setField no longer call property functions. Use Reflect.getProperty and Refelect.setProperty instead.
• cpp : Default arguments now use Null<T> for performance increase and interface compatibility
• cpp : Added metadata options for injecting native cpp code into headers, classes and functions
• php : added php.Lib.mail
• (hotfix) fixed bug in completion and disabled profiling on Linux
• (hotfix) fixed $ssize when doing new String(v) in neko
• (hotfix) fixed bug with properties in interfaces for Flash & PHP