dev-2024-06

New Language Features

• intrinsics.type_is_matrix_row_major + intrinsics.type_is_matrix_column_major
• #hash(<string>[, algo])
• @(link_suffix=<string>)

Compiler Improvements

• New NetBSD target support
• Experimental orca_wasm32 target support
• Documentation tests fixed and re-enabled
• Fix >= for strings, add test for string comparisons
• Suggest -all-packages if testing an empty directory
• core:intrinsics -> base:intrinsics
• .. range is now an error. Use ..< or ..=
• Reimplement -build-mode:static / -build-mode:lib
• Strictly enforce switch &x in y semantics and fix for &v in &fixed_array
• Fix intrinsics.ptr_sub
• Fix indexing type when using a #row_major matrix
• Remove constant indexing for matrix value propagation
• Improve error messages and their suggestions
• Delay checking foreign import paths until the global scope is checked

New Packages

• core:container/rbtree
• core:encoding/ini
• core:crypto/aes

Package Improvements

• Fix some edge cases and oversights for bit_field
• Fix read_directory skipping directories on Unix-likes
• Add default heap/general purpose allocator for WASM
• Fix and improve i18n .mo plurals
• Correctly load/store uint & int for wasm64p32
• Fix bug in QOI encoder + decoder
• Fix the way %32b and other prefixed numbers are written`
• Improve fmt parsing of struct field tags
• vendor:microui gained textbox selection, cut, copy and paste
• Add a custom iterator to CSV package.
• Allow space as allowed separator to RFC 3339 parser
• Add abbreviated ISO 8601 parser
• Lots and lots of bugfixes

Packages deprecated

• core:odin/printer and core:odin/format have been removed in favor of using OLS

Full Changelog: dev-2024-05...dev-2024-06