CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

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[0.5.0] - 2023-12-28

Added

• Suggestions if an invoked function cannot be found #524
• Script for running and collecting Miri logs #537
• Tests for multi-file hot reloading #522

Changed

• Bump LLVM from 13 to 14 #495
• Use detailed error enums instead of anyhow in libraries #521
• Bump Inkwell to 0.2.0 #529
• Bump Rust to 1.73 #515 #541

Fixed

• Invalid output module path in ABI #520
• Missing polly static library #523
• Missing validators in diagnostics tests #527
• Detect and report cyclic type aliases and leaked privacy #528
• Failing test_function_release_strong_count test #535

[0.4.0] - 2022-12-12

Added

• Clone trait implementation to RootedStruct #323
• Private function leak validation #338
• Dynamically-sized arrays #341
• Private struct type leak validation #344
• Mun logo #355
• Send trait implementation to Mun Runtime #370
• Use static-crt on Windows #376
• Link type information when loading Mun library #377
• Indirect types to Mun ABI #415
• Type API to mitigate cyclic type references #427
• Mac M1 Support #444
• Bevy example #475

Changed

• Bump Rust from 1.50.0 to 1.65.0 #325 #327 #334 #346 #350 #357 #360 #369 #378 #406 #432 #474 #477
• Simplified invoke syntax #347
• Bump LLVM from 11 to 13 #351 #491
• Move Mun runtime FFI submodule to monorepo #352
• Bump Rust to 2021 edition #367
• Move Mun ABI submodule to monorepo #404
• Performance optimisations #405
• Reduce workspace target folder size from 10.9 GB to 10.6 GB #457
• Reduce workspace build dependencies from 296 to 270 #457
• Reduce workspace dev dependencies from 502 to 496 #457
• Move Rust examples submodule to monorepo #475
• Switch to LLVM code coverage instead of using Tarpaulin #478

Removed

• Move lld-rs to separate repository #373
• Unused dependencies #435

Fixed

• Typos in documentation #340 #348
• Type inference problem for resolved types #358
• Mac OS Big Sur sdkroot #362
• Missing closing brace of error_block #364
• Missing semicolon in declaration recovery set #365
• C API link in book #372
• Multi-threaded cargo test #407

[0.3.0] - 2021-04-12

The third Mun release includes big usability improvements; multi-file projects, a language server with diagnostics and autocompletion, and improvements to robustness and developer workflow to name a few.

Special thanks to @emi2k01, @tdejager, @ethanboxx, @sinato, @dependabot, @legendiguess, and @sburris0 for their contributions to this release.

Added

• generate rust tests for code snippets in book #311
• support for completions #306
• add mut keyword #305
• describe how to install/build LLVM #304
• runtime linking #300
• implements incremental file updates #298
• adds document symbol provider #297
• add option to emit IR #296
• integrated new vfs #294
• adds lsp document symbol provider #293
• shorten commit hash with environment file #292
• use statements language support #290
• make type-specific data (such as StructInfo) part of TypeInfo #287
• add AsValue macro support for enums #286
• alignment of struct fields #285
• adds modules and visibility #283
• adds fixtures to support multiple files from string #272
• refactored RawItems into ItemTree #271
• split database and added docs #267
• use Idx instead of macro in arena #266
• never return type in let initializer #264
• add mdbook plugin for testing mun code in book #263
• emit and link bitcode files instead of obj does not work on MacOS #261
• use custom prebuild llvm distribution on ubuntu #260
• emit and link bitcode files instead of object files #258
• move test utility functions to separate crate #253
• move library loading logic to separate crate #252
• type alias #251
• Implement mun new and mun init #246
• removed outdated comments #245
• upgrade to salsa 0.15 #244
• parsing of unmatched right curly braces ('}') #243
• explicitly specify latest Ubuntu LTS #241
• build binaries for release branches #240
• shared diagnostics between compiler and language server #239
• add benchmarks for and optimise struct field marshalling #238
• initial LSP support #236

Changed

• updated book for 0.3 changes #314
• update runtime FFI #312
• Inkwell beta.2 and LLVM11 #303
• upgrade to official inkwell #254
• generate C ABI from Rust code #255

Removed

• removed async code and switched to lsp_server #295

Fixed

• parser performance issues #307
• manually extract llvm release to get more output #302
• adds logging to windows llvm install #301
• fix broken book link and CoC link #284
• 7zip issues #280
• dont run mun tests on CI #278

[0.2.1] - 2020-07-08

This patch release for Mun v0.2.0 includes a variety of bug fixes.

Special thanks to @RadicalZephyr, @benediktwerner, and @fominok for their contributions to this release; and to @jDomantas and @sigmaSd for the initial discovery and reporting of fixed issues.

Added

• Type-safe inkwell types #202

Fixed

• Remove return-blocking semicolon from ch01 listing 01 of the book #192
• Code blocks in ch02-02-functions of the book #194
• Replace overly complicated redirection rules with a simple hack #196
• Missing argument for fibonacci function in the book #197
• Replace float with f32 in the book #204
• Windows libclang issues #205
• Crash on missing nested private function #221
• Panic when using mun build #229
• clippy::many_single_char_names in macro #231
• Compiler panics when accessing a field of a temporary #232
• LLVM assertions #233
• Proper tarpaulin skip attribute #235

[0.2.0] - 2020-05-15

The second Mun release includes big new features such as hot reloading support for data structures, garbage collection, and full operator and literal support for fundamental types.

Special thanks to @legendiguess and @jakbyte for their contributions to this release.

Added

• Updated binaries for Runtime C API #184
• crates.io publishing metadata #183
• Mun book in main repository #182
• Cloning instructions in README #179
• Log upon assembly reload #175
• Buoyancy example #174
• Zero initialise fields with different struct types during memory mapping
• Updated code sample in README #181
• Map fields with different struct memory kinds during memory mapping #171
• Support for adding extern functions in Runtime CAPI #169
• Split FunctionInfo into signature, prototype, and definition #166
• Test for type conversion during memory mapping #164
• Garbage collection methods in Runtime CAPI #163
• Number type inferencing #154
• Return Rc<RefCell<Runtime>> from RuntimeBuilder #153
• left-shift (<< and <<=), right-shift (>> and >>=) operators
• bitwise and (& and &=), or (| and |=), xor (^ and ^=) operators
• bool and (&&), or (||) operators
• struct assignment (=) operator
• bool assignment (=) operator #144
• StructRef can be cloned #143
• Clarified usage of unsafe code
• Cast fundamental types during struct memory mapping #140
• Unary ! and - operators #136
• % and %= operators #135
• Missing space in invoke_fn15 function #132
• Merged file_ir and group_ir snapshots #131
• Runtime support for extern functions without return type #127
• i128 and u128 integer types #124
• Use -> instead of : for function return types #123
• Allow underscores in numeric literals
• Hex, binary, and octal literals
• Typed literals #122
• struct memory mapping #117
• Retrieve TypeInfo and StructInfo during calls in a StructRef #109
• Performance benchmarks #104
• Test for incremental compilation #102
• Garbage collection using mark & sweep #99
• Size and alignment of types in ABI #98
• Heap-allocated object management using pointer indirection #97
• extern functions #96
• Marshalling of struct(value) types #93
• Restrict symbol generation to pub functions #92
• Integration with annotate-snippets crate #91
• Support for extern functions in the dispatch table #90
• Unit tests for Runtime CAPI
• Marshalling of fields with the struct type #87
• Unit test for LineIndex::line_str function #86
• MunStructInfo is appended to MunTypeInfo for struct types #84
• Marshalling of struct types #83
• Improved error messages for missing function signatures #80
• License, homepage, and repository information in README #71
• Simple binary operation type checking #70
• Tools for manual generation of ABI & runtime CAPI bindings #69
• Test UTF-8 validity of compiler-generated CStr #67
• Optimised CStr::from_ptr(ptr).to_str() to from_utf8_unchecked in ABI #66
• LLVM install instructions for Arch Linux in README #65
• ABI support for struct types
• struct literals
• struct declarations #64
• while expression #63
• break expression #62
• Changed crate authors #61
• loop expression #60
• Incremental compilation when hot reloading #49

Changed

• Removed old snapshots #170
• Updated badges in README #162
• Updated code sample in README #161
• Simplified MemoryMapper API #142
• Split artifact generation and CI tests #141
• Lock cbindgen dependency #126
• Updated Arch Linux install instructions in README #116
• Code coverage using tarpaulin instead of grcov #100
• Compiled libraries use munlib extension #75
• Use codecov.io instead of coveralls #59
• Install instructions in README #55

Removed

• Removed float, uint, and int types #157

In addition, there were a lot of bug fixes.

[0.1.0] - 2019-11-11

Added

• Support all fundamental types as return types when starting a Mun library from the CLI #45
• return expressions #38
• Statically link against liblld instead of spawning as process #37
• Generation and upload of artifacts #36
• Github actions continuous integration #30
• Update operators and diagnostics #29
• Example of hot reloading in the Mun Runtime
• Error reporting
• C++ bindings for the Mun Runtime #25
• Run clippy on CI and pre-commit
• Diagnostics for mismatching or missing else
• if expressions code generation
• if statement type checking
• never type
• Add cargo husky to enable automatic git hooks
• Testing of type inferencing
• Parsing of if statements #24
• Comparison operators #23
• Automatic generation of C bindings for the runtime #22
• Trait extension of Result type that allows retrying and waiting for a correct result #15
• Integrate dispatch table in Mun runtime #11
• Dispatch table
• Generation of function call IR
• Function call inferencing #9
• Command-line interface for Mun Compiler and Mun Runtime
• Compiler daemon that detects changed files and recompiles them
• Runtime builder #6
• Detection of duplicate definition names #5
• badges & licenses #1