kotlin-fork/CHANGELOG.md

v0.7 (May 2018)

• Interop with Objective-C/Swift changes:
  • Uniform direct and reverse interops (values could be passed in both directions now)
  • Interop by exceptions
  • Type conversion and checks (as, is) for interop types
  • Seamless interop on numbers, strings, lists, maps and sets
  • Better interop on constructors and initializers
• Switched to Xcode 9.3 on Apple platforms
• Introduced object freezing API, frozen object could be used from multiple threads
• Kotlin enums are frozen by default
• Switch to Gradle 4.6
• Use Gradle native dependency model, allowing to use .klib as Maven artifacts
• Introduced typed arrays API
• Introduced weak references API
• Activated global devirtualization analysis
• Performance improvements (box caching, bridge inlining, others)

v0.6.2 (Mar 2018)

• Support several expectedBy-dependencies in Gradle plugin.
• Improved interaction between Gradle plugin and IDE.
• Various bugfixes

v0.6.1 (Mar 2018)

• Various bugfixes
• Support total ordering in FP comparisons
• Interop generates string constants from string macrodefinitions
• STM32 blinky demo in pure Kotlin/Native
• Top level variables initialization redesign (proper dependency order)
• Support kotlin.math on WebAssembly targets
• Support embedded targets on Windows hosts

v0.6 (Feb 2018)

• Support multiplatform projects (expect/actual) in compiler and Gradle plugin
• Support first embedded target (STM32 board)
• Support Kotlin 1.2.20
• Support Java 9
• Support Gradle 4.5
• Transparent Objective-C/Kotlin container classes interoperability
• Produce optimized WebAssembly binaries (10x smaller than it used to be)
• Improved APIs for object transfer between threads and workers
• Allow exporting top level C function in reverse interop with @CName annotation
• Supported debugging of code with inline functions
• Multiple bugfixes and performance optimizations

v0.5 (Dec 2017)

• Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as framework from Objective-C/Swift programs
• Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as shared object from C/C++ programs
• Support generation of shared objects and DLLs by the compiler
• Migration to LLVM 5.0
• Support WebAssembly target on Linux and Windows hosts
• Make string conversions more robust
• Support kotlin.math package
• Refine workers and string conversion APIs

v0.4 (Nov 2017)

• Objective-C frameworks interop for iOS and macOS targets
• Platform API libraries for Linux, iOS, macOS and Windows
• Kotlin 1.2 supported
• val and function parameters can be inspected in debugger
• Experimental support for WebAssembly (wasm32 target)
• Linux MIPS support (little and big endian, mips and mipsel targets)
• Gradle plugin DSL fully reworked
• Support for unit testing annotations and automatic test runner generation
• Final executable size reduced
• Various interop improvements (forward declaration, better handling of unsupported types)
• Workers object subgraph transfer checks implemented
• Optimized low level memory management using more efficient cycle tracing algorithm

v0.3.4 (Oct 2017)

• Intermediate release

v0.3.2 (Sep 2017)

• Bug fixes

v0.3.1 (Aug 2017)

• Improvements in C interop tools (function pointers, bitfields, bugfixes)
• Improvements to Gradle plugin and dependency downloader
• Support for immutable data linked into an executable via ImmutableDataBlob class
• Kotlin 1.1.4 supported
• Basic variable inspection support in the debugger
• Some performance improvements ("for" loops, memory management)
• .klib improvements (keep options from .def file, faster inline handling)
• experimental workers API added (see sample)

v0.3 (Jun 2017)

• Preliminary support for x86-64 Windows hosts and targets
• Support for producing native activities on 32- and 64-bit Android targets
• Extended standard library (bitsets, character classification, regular expression)
• Preliminary support for Kotlin/Native library format (.klib)
• Preliminary source-level debugging support (stepping only, no variable inspection)
• Compiler switch -entry to select entry point
• Symbolic backtrace in runtime for unstripped binaries, for all supported targets

v0.2 (May 2017)

• Added support for coroutines
• Fixed most stdlib incompatibilities
• Improved memory management performance
• Cross-module inline function support
• Unicode support independent from installed system locales
• Interoperability improvements
  • file-based filtering in definition file
  • stateless lambdas could be used as C callbacks
  • any Unicode string could be passed to C function
• Very basic debugging support
• Improve compilation and linking performance

v0.1 (Mar 2017)

Initial technical preview of Kotlin/Native