1.6.0
Version 1.6 (2024-04-25)
Nickel 1.6 is a maintenance release including several bug fixes and improvements, in particular around the features introduced in Nickel 1.5 (enum variants and background evaluation in the LSP).
Core language
- Extend merge to enum variants by @yannham in #1862
- [Fix] Allow multiple underscore to start identifiers by @yannham in #1884
Stdlib
- Add
std.string.find_all
by @fuzzypixelz in #1870 - Add empty optional fields-aware record operator variants by @yannham in #1876
Documentation
- modular-configurations.md: to_lower -> lowercase by @Jasha10 in #1857
- manual/modular-configurations.md: add argument to std.string.join by @Jasha10 in #1859
- manual/syntax.md: minor typo by @Jasha10 in #1860
LSP
- Improve diagnostic location in nls by @jneem in #1856
- Propagate pending array contracts in permissive_eval by @jneem in #1854
- Don't leak memory in background eval by @jneem in #1869
- Add a recursion limit to background evaluation by @jneem in #1878
- Dedup diagnostics by @jneem in #1883
- Extend the symbol range to include the rhs by @jneem in #1887
- Leverage function contract information by @yannham in #1888
- Fix LSP not showing type signature in untyped code by @yannham in #1889
Tooling
- Markdown documentation generation: do not insert line breaks by @yannham in #1879
- [Fix] Nickel doc: fix missing newline in markdown output by @yannham in #1880
- Fix infinite recursion in doc symbols. by @jneem in #1881
Fixes
New Contributors
Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.6.0