ELENA 6.3.0

[arakov]

Description

ELENA 6.3.0 is out for all supported platforms : Windows x86 / x86-64, Linux x86 / x86-64 / AARCH64 / PPC64le!

The release includes a number of critical bug fixes, new functionality and ported samples.

Fixes # (issue)

ELENA 6.3.0

• [ADDED] key-value expression
• [ADDED] Support enumeration list #265 : Support enumeration list
• [ADDED] self attribute
• [ADDED] new operator $size
• [ADDED] text blocks
• [ADDED] method reference - &myMethod
• [FIXED] single dispatcher : if an argument is nillable, it can accept nil value
• [ADDED] String interpolation
• [REDUX] iterator method
• [ADDED] public / private / protected fields #496 : private fields
• [FIXED] private constructor must be called directly
• [FIXED] accessing static fields inside a structure
• [FIXED] ppc64le : decoratorTest()
• [FIXED] Boxing the symbol expression #667 : Boxing the symbol expression
• [FIXED] only public classes can be loaded in run-time
• [ADDED] Optimization unit tests #637 : bt optimization 4 unit test
• [FIXED] var attribute is allowed to be in the method argument list
• [FIXED] "__typeof self" expression inside the nested class / closure
• [FIXED] GC_ALLOC routine for vm mode
• [ADDED] CF : alternative output
• [ADDED] reusing PermVectorTable after windows are closed
• [ADDED] xforms60 script
• [FIXED] external calls to be excluded from managed stack frames
• [FIXED] Directory.getFiles : raising an exception if no files were found
• [ADDED] xforms example
• [ADDED] VSCode extension to run / debug ELENA program #658 : new project LDBG - ELENA Debugger Adapter

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Link

Please visit a release page to download the binaries: https://github.com/ELENA-LANG/elena-lang/releases/tag/v6.3.0