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V 0.4.10

20 Mar 2025

Improvements in the language

  • Implement assignable anonymous struct (fix #23855) (#23857)
  • Remove ancient deprecations (#23479)

Breaking changes

  • Make old [attr] syntax an error (@[attr] has to be used instead)
  • builtin: string.index_after() now returns an Option (like string.index()), use string.index_after_() for the old behavior
  • Vweb is now deprecated in favor of faster and more stable and easy to use veb

Checker improvements/fixes

  • Allow none to be passed to ?T param (fix #23381) (#23385)
  • Fix for iterator method .next(), not marked as used (fix #23312) (#23321)
  • Fix generic var inferring to be passed to []T (fix #23315) (#23322)
  • Clean up and optimise infix - reduce as casting (#23327)
  • Fix structinit validation on nested generic Map[K]V (fix #23329) (#23332)
  • Fix comptime indexexpr resolving (#23333)
  • Fix comptime evaluation on infix expr (fix #23341) (#23344)
  • Fix alias to fixed array w/ size defined by constant (fix #23356) (#23357)
  • Fix missing option variable checking when casting using as operator (fix #23349) (#23358)
  • Fix assign expected type on rechecking enum assigns (fix #23366) (#23367)
  • Allow calling foo(?i64(123)) for fn foo(x ?I64) { and type I64 = i64 (#23373)
  • Cache node.args[0] on fixed_array_builtin_method_call and array_builtin_method_call (#23411)
  • Fix missing check for invalid prefixexpr expression &(&var) (fix #23365) (#23418)
  • Disallow &((&a)) and similar expressions, with innermost ast.PrefixExpr (enhance #23418) (#23419)
  • Fix call with mut arg with different pointer levels (fix #23157) (#23428)
  • Fix missing detection for return in lockexpr stmts (fix #23434) (#23435)
  • Do not allow auto reference of voidptr params
  • Check if unwrapped m[key] if m is Option (fix #23446) (#23459)
  • Builtin,checker: remove @[markused] from fn isnil(), set c.table.used_features.auto_str_ptr = true instead (#23464)
  • Fix checker generic alias type (fix #23474) (#23475)
  • Fix missing check for a := [none] (fix #23457) (#23504)
  • Fix missing check for concrete type on match branch expr (fix #23506) (#23508)
  • Fix missing check for invalid argument for builtin (fix #23511) (#23515)
  • Fix selector nested unwrapping (fix #23519) (#23521)
  • Fix message with old attr syntax (#23529)
  • Cache repeated node.args.len, method.generic_names.len, node.concrete_types.len and node.op.str() (#23536)
  • Disallow expr is Type if expr is Optional (fix #23486) (#23510)
  • Make option_var.str() an error, when done without unwrapping it first (fix #23557, fix #23558) (#23563)
  • Fix private symbol visibility checking (fix #23518) (#23543)
  • Disallow constant modification on unsafe {} (#23588)
  • Fix sumtype variant option type mismatch (#23659)
  • Disallow arr = voidptr(0) (fix #23675) (#23687)
  • Allow for module no_main programs, that can redefine their own main function, or not define any of their own as well
  • Fix match branch checking of nonreturn call on last expr (fix #23698) (#23699)
  • Check and error for invalid utf8 string literals (#23721)
  • Fix call from unknown enum (fix #23728) (#23730)
  • Add checker for passing multi return as arg to func that expects less param (fix #23735) (#23744)
  • Fix spreed operator ref field validation (fix #23759) (#23760)
  • Fix missing check for method that returns veb.Result (fix #23647) (#23762)
  • Allow generic operators to be called in fn (fix #23773) (#23774)
  • Fix missing struct cast validation (fix #23748) (#23788)
  • Fix map when casting to interface (fix #23790) (#23799)
  • Allow for pub type C.HINSTANCE = voidptr, being used in @[export: "wWinMain"] fn mymain(x C.HINSTANCE, xprev C.HINSTANCE, lpcmdline &C.WCHAR, cmdshow int) int { in module no_main programs (#23812)
  • Add option type inference on if expr (implement most of #23827, except the error for v := if c { none } else { none }) (#23829)
  • Add missing check for IfExpr and MatchExpr with no valid type (#23832)
  • Fix MatchExpr type inferring, when none is used (fix #23831) (#23833)
  • Add missing check for generic fntype type names (fix #23453) (#23850)
  • Add checking for comptime assign without comptime if checking (fix #23796) (#23848)
  • Fix option ptr field assign checking (fix #23879) (#23880)
  • Add missing any type validation on assignment (fix #23905) (#23906)
  • Add fntype casting validations (#23872)
  • Fix signed integer literal overflow error, when most significant bit occupies signed bit (fix #23782) (#23919)
  • Add missing check for casting generic type to literal values (#23915)
  • Check if next() method infers generic type correctly (fix #23927) (#23932)
  • Disallow references to constants (fix #23935) (#23942)
  • Fix typeof evaluation for generic reference (fix #23951) (fix #23952) (#23958)

Parser improvements

  • Reduce allocations in empty_comptime_const_expr (#23324)
  • Add error for array init of Results []!type{} (fix #23360) (#23375)
  • Allow map cast syntax map[k]v(expr) (#23401)
  • Inline some commonly used fns (#23535)
  • Fix anon fn return type option/result followed by comment parsing in vfmt mode (fix #23607) (#23608)
  • Keep track of the number of all scanned tokens too, and show it with -stats
  • Fix the error message position, for a struct Abc, that lacks a body (#23627)
  • Prevent unused warning on import mod { Sym }, when Sym is later used, for more cases (fix #23412) (#23626)
  • Add support for -d trace_parse_file_path_and_mod, to help diagnosing module lookup problems
  • Allow for @[has_globals] to be used for all V programs, turn the @[wasm_import_namespace] error into a notice
  • Remove table dep for script main check
  • Fix enum value parsing inside array initialization (fix #23937) (#23941)
  • Fix the registration of fixed arrays, when size_expr is a const (fix #23946) (#23949)
  • Disallow invalid expr in comptime $for (fix #23953) (#23959)

Compiler internals

  • markused: fix -skip-unused on a short program, that prints array (fix #23436) (#23437)
  • markused: fix eprintln(err) on imported module on short program (related: #23498) (#23499)
  • markused: fix markused auto str detection (fix #23501) (#23503)
  • markused: fix option ptr printing (fix #23559) (#23562)
  • checker,markused: add identification for sumtype.type_name() call (fix #23732) (#23739)
  • markused: improve stability (avoid runtime crash) when processing generic functions (partial fix for #23927)
  • markused: fix markused behavior on array / map index getter / setter / slice (#23931)
  • markused: fix markused behavior on struct field's default expression (fix #23909) (#23933)
  • builder: do not search for msvc when it is not needed (#23386)
  • pref: stop parsing CLI options, on encountering -- (#23470)
  • util: show unknown command suggestions, for more misspelled variants, like v sefl; make util.new_suggestion calls parametrizable
  • pref: add Preferences.vroot_file/1 (done here, without using it, to ease the bootstrapping of the cheaders extraction, that will follow next)
  • pref: fix panic in parse_args_and_show_errors, called with no args (fix #23713) (#23794)
  • pref: allow for -os wasm32_emscripten and filtering _d_wasm32_emscripten.c.v and _notd_wasm32_emscripten.c.v files. (#23797)
  • v.builder: show the last line of the C compiler output, in case of errors, in addition to the truncated first lines (the last line is useful, since it usually has an error counter)
  • os,v.transformer: fix warnings for ./v -os cross -o vc/v.c cmd/v && clang-18 -o v_from_vc vc/v.c -lpthread
  • util: fix stack overflow during parsing of #flag -DName=$d(...) (#23895)
  • builder: extract Builder.show_parsed_files/0 to make it easier to debug import/parsing issues
  • builder: remove forgotten b.show_parsed_files/0 call
  • util.version: centralise the use of @VCURRENTHASH, to minimise the vlang/vc diffs for each commit
  • builder: support -d trace_parsed_files
  • util: shorten the V paths used in the C #line directives with tcc (the ../../../.. etc is no longer needed with newer tcc) (#23974)

Standard library

  • json: fix default struct field initialization with long array (#23355)
  • markused,builtin,strconv,vlib: reduce generated C sizes for compilers != tcc, for short programs, by simplifying the generation of backtraces, and reducing string interpolations in panics (#23380)
  • thirdparty/sokol: allow -cflags -D_SGL_DEFAULT_MAX_VERTICES=4194304 to customize how many vertices you can send through gg/sokol in a frame
  • crypto.ecdsa: expand ecdsa module, to support other curves like secp384r1, secp521r1, secp256k1 (#23407)
  • crypto.ecdsa: fix memleaks, reported by the CI sanitizer jobs (#23450)
  • ci: force the checking of changed vlib/crypto/ecdsa files with the sanitizer jobs
  • builtin: add a @[markused] tag to isnil(), because cgen generates calls to it in some cases (#23462)
  • builtin: reduce a bit the generated #if defined checks for small programs (#23484)
  • crypto.ecdsa: improve safety checking, unify signing (and verifying) api to accept options (#23463)
  • regex: fix misspelled word "firts" in replace_n description (#23514)
  • os: add split_path/1: os.split_path('/usr/lib/test.so') -> ('/usr/lib','test','.so'); fix platform dependent behaviour of os.dir/1, os.base/1, os.file_name/1 (#23532)
  • breaking,log: set stderr as default log output, add .set_output_stream() to allow for opting in the old default of stdout (#23444)
  • builtin: add -prealloc -d prealloc_memset -d prealloc_memset_value=65 -d prealloc_dump, to better analyze the memory patterns of running V programs
  • builtin: change the default builder size used for string interpolations, from 256 bytes to 64 bytes
  • gg: mark create_image_with_size as deprecated (image resizing is done by stbi.resize_uint8/3, with a different fn signature) (#23580)
  • crypto.ecdsa: split out the C wrapper to a new .c.v file (#23595)
  • builtin: add &u8.free() (fix #23592) (#23598)
  • crypto.ecdsa: fix bug in .with_no_hash handling (#23612)
  • crypto.ecdsa: fix handling of sign() with custom_hash (#23619)
  • runtime: add note for the availability of the free_memory/0 implementation (#23620)
  • builtin: make public the FnGC_WarnCB alias (#23633)
  • os: add disk_usage/1 (#23634)
  • builtin: add string.split_by_space() (#23651)
  • crypto.ecdsa: migrate ecdsa.PrivateKey.new() to use a high level API (#23640)
  • gg: fix incorrect Event.mouse_x and Event.mouse_y on gg.Context.event_fn and gg.Context.on_event on HiDPI displays (#23668)
  • crypto.ecdsa: migrate generate_key and simplify it (part 3) (#23662)
  • encoding.csv: add support for multithreading to encoding.csv.RandomAccessReader (#23677)
  • v.builder: add os.quoted_path() to os.system calls using v.pref.out_name, for the compress flag (fix #23685) (#23686)
  • time: reduce chances of failures on the CI, by time_test.c.v; make the failure diagnostic easier
  • time: improve the robustness of time_test.c.v (check if the diff is within ±1 second of the current timezone difference)
  • crypto.ecdsa: migrate core routines for signing (and verifying), it now requires using OpenSSL 3 (#23705)
  • all: use arguments() instead of os.args in some files
  • math.big: fix 1/115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007908834671663 leading to panic (fix #23771)
  • v.cflag: support #flag $when_first_existing(libABC.a, /some/path/libABC.a, ...), without panicing (unlike #flag $first_existing(...)) (#23780)
  • term: add more comments in vlib/term/README.md
  • log: fix panic on mutex destroy, when exiting a program, while a thread is still logging
  • log: fix valgrind_test.v failure
  • math.vec: add rotate_around_* (cw/ccw) functions to vec.Vec2[T] (#23807)
  • math.big: bump newton_division_limit to 1_000_000 (workaround issue #23806)
  • math.big: add vlib/math/big/big_division_test.v (follow-up to 270941a)
  • strconv: fix strconv.atof64() inconsistency with the other .ato functions; make it return an error by default, when it detects an extra non number character after a number (#23815)
  • os: add File.write_u8/1 and File.read_u8/0 helper methods
  • ci,os: fix bootstrapping with -os cross -o vc/v.c (avoid the generic calls in the new write_u8 and read_u8)
  • log: remove the notice about the stdout -> stderr migration (#23837)
  • veb: fix "error parsing request: io.Eof" when expecting a request body, but the data is not ready yet (fix #22464) (#23842)
  • json: fix json.decode autofree codegen (fix #23834) (#23839)
  • time: add .week_of_year() method for time.Time instances (#23838)
  • time: add documentation for remaining time-related functions and ISO 8601 parsing (#23867)
  • crypto: add missing doc comments for public methods (#23864)
  • builtin,os: fix warnings for ./v -os cross -o vc/v.c cmd/v && cc -o v_from_vc vc/v.c -lpthread
  • crypto.ecdsa: migrate new_key_from_seed to use high opaque, simplify the logic (#23876)
  • math: fix ./v -prod -cstrict -cc gcc-11 vlib/math/math_bench_test.v (use unions to implement f64_bits/1 and f64_from_bits/1 for compilers != tcc)
  • crypto.ecdsa: complete the migration to the newer OpenSSL APIs (follow up to #23876) (#23877)
  • x.json2: add a convenience Any.as_map_of_strings/0 method
  • cli: add missing struct members to str() method and fix some comments (#23893)
  • crypto.ecda: improvement the performance of PrivateKey.new by avoiding match+assignments (#23899)
  • crypto.ecdsa: improves internal function of calc_digest_with_evpkey (#23901)
  • crypto.aes: fix notices about order of operations (fix #23898) (#23902)
  • Revert "math.bits: port changes from e66e996, so that -cstrict -cc gcc-11 passes for markdown as well"
  • crypto.ecdsa: improve the performance of the .public_key method of PrivateKey (#23920)
  • gg: add is_key_down/1 helper method
  • datatypes: optimize linkedlist (fix #23928) (#23934)
  • x.json2: fix "\" scanner bug, disallow (ch < 0x20) unescaped control characters (#23954)
  • crypto.ecdsa: improve internal sign_digest routine (#23960)

Web

  • veb: add ctx.no_content() + prevent content-type being set if the mime type is empty (#23425)
  • net.ftp: use unsafe { nil }
  • net.smtp: make public the Attachment fields (to be used as plain structs in initialisation) (#23477)
  • x.vweb: remove the entire module (it's now veb)
  • ci: fix failure of the docker-ubuntu-musl job (keep vlib/vweb/vweb_app_test.v in the skip_files)
  • picoev: enable running veb services on Termux
  • thirdparty: improve -cstrict -cc clang-18 -prod compatibility for programs that do import net.mbedtls
  • net.http.file: use urllib decode uri, to handle urls to files that have unicode characters in their name (fix #23683) (#23684)
  • veb.csrf: do not print anything by default, add an verbose: true option, to restore the old behavior if needed (#23725)
  • net.unix: make unix_socket_test.v trace its actions more thoroughly
  • veb.request_id: new middleware that implements request ID tracking (#23727)
  • veb: update the blog tutorial
  • net.openssl: use proper library search path for local installations of OpenSSL 3, use SSL_get1_peer_certificate instead of the deprecated SSL_get_peer_certificate .
  • ci: fix vweb_run_at.run.out and vweb_run_at.skip_unused.run.out, ensure stable ordering of stdout/stderr for v run file.v, in case of compiling a program with warnings/notices.
  • veb: handle sendfile errors, when the connection is canceled, before the file is completely transferred (#23891)

ORM

Database drivers

  • db.sqlite: add tracing for more calls, when using -d trace_sqlite, not just for the ORM
  • db.pg: add support for prepared statement, with db.prepare/3 and db.exec_prepared/2 (#23442)
  • db.mysql: add SSL support; turn ConnectionFlag into @[flag] (#23975)

Native backend

  • native: fix convert_int_to_string, add comments in the verbose (-v) mode (#23743)
  • native: fix int prints (#23747)
  • native: for statement : add support for all expressions handled by g.condition (#23752)
  • native: fix inc and improve support for i32 (#23753)
  • native: support negative integer literals (#23755)
  • native: fix missing symbols CaptureStackBackTrace and __debugbreak (#23765)
  • native: fibonacci test
  • native: add support for enums of different types (#23786)
  • native: fix unsigned and signed int comparison (#23808)

C backend

  • Fix type_default for option type, when the default expr is none (fix #23318) (#23320)
  • Remove double string cloning (#23331)
  • Fix type_default for array init >= 8 items (spotted while building the vhamll project) (#23334)
  • Fix codegen for alias struct embed (fix #23347) (#23353)
  • Fix codegen for sumtype casting on selector on as cast with non pointer field (fix #23387) (#23391)
  • Fix generic alias option assigning (fix #23382) (#23393)
  • Fix codegen for selector on shared var with embed (fix #23378) (#23394)
  • Fix codegen for nested selectorexpr on unwrapped option (fix #23406) (#23409)
  • Cache return_stmt()'s node.exprs[0] and node.types[0] (#23408)
  • Fix codegen for indexing generic map (fix #23376) (#23402)
  • Support -d trace_unused_by_main and -d trace_skip_unused_just_unused_fns, to find out potentially obsolete functions that are not used at all in a project
  • Fix shared array indexing (fix #23410) (#23413)
  • Fix shared array fixed initializing with -cstrict (fix build of chip8-v project) (#23414)
  • Fix codegen for array fixed comparison on MatchExpr (fix #23403) (#23415)
  • Fix struct init for anon struct field on C structs (fix #23421) (#23422)
  • Fix shared array slice (fix #23426) (#23427)
  • Fix array of sumtype initialization with var string (fix #23429) (#23432)
  • Fix codegen for ifguard indexing array of option (fix #23438) (#23439)
  • Fix assigning option of array index (fix #23451) (#23455)
  • Fix compilation for a project using a lot of json, threads, embeds + parallel-cc (#23467)
  • Fix cgen error for instance.t.wait() on default 0 initialized thread field t (fix #23390) #23392
  • Fix array decomposing on variadic call (found while working on solving #23474) (#23476)
  • Fix option var nested unwrapping from sumtype (fix #23478) (#23485)
  • Fix option unwrapping on heap var (#23489)
  • Fix codegen for indexing anon_fn (fix #23493) (#23495)
  • Fix nested option selector unwrapping (fix #23500) (#23497)
  • Fix interface casting in anon fn (fix #23530) (#23533)
  • Fix codegen for spawn with interface on submodule (fix #23471) (#23517)
  • Parser,ast,cgen: support nested unions with field union {, to improve interoperability with C (similar to field struct {) (#23539)
  • Fix unwrapping option interface field (fix #23540) (#23541)
  • Fix codegen for assign from unsafe fn returning fixed array (fix #23546) (#23548)
  • Fix codegen for a fixed array init with different node types (fix #23545) (#23547)
  • Fix return on last statement of return IfExpr (fix #23550) (#23551)
  • Fix auto str which expects ptr for ptr type (fix #23552) (#23553)
  • Fix codegen for assigning from infixexpr with generic operand (fix #23560) (#23561)
  • Fix codegen for array's .grow_cap and .grow_len methods for generic arrays (fix #23566) (#23568)
  • Fix codegen for const fixed array initialization with another const as item (fix #23565) (#23572)
  • Fix codegen for unwrapping option comptime var (fix #23590) (#23591)
  • Fix hash functions for map[Enum]Value, and enum Enum as u64 { (fix #23630) (#23632)
  • Fix unwrap option ptr selector (fix #23631) (#23638)
  • Fix codegen for for or-block (fix #23625) (#23644)
  • Fix codegen for option value on map_set (fix #23650) (#23652)
  • Fix codegen for option sumtype with option variant (fix #23653) (#23656)
  • Remove commented code blocks using if true {
  • Reduce interpolations when a method is not found in Table.find_method/2; merge rand.constants back to rand.v (#23660)
  • Fix $if typeof[T]().idx, $if typeof[T]().unaliased_typ checking (#23665)
  • Fix codegen for sumtype cast from option variants on map_set (fix #23654) (#23669)
  • Fix codegen for a const assigned a fixed array, initialized with unsafe exprs (fix #23674) (#23676)
  • Fix @[sql: serial] and @[serial] are not the same (fix #23346) (#23678)
  • Improve support for v -path bootstrap_alternative_backend/ run simple.v (#23679)
  • Fix codegen for array fixed on if and match expr (fix #23577, fix #23589) (#23682)
  • Add support for a #postinclude directive
  • Fix #preinclude, add test case for #postinclude too
  • Fix codegen for returning an initialised fixed array (fix #23693) (#23700)
  • Use global_g.out << g.out instead of global_g.out.write(g.out) or { panic(err) }
  • Fix issues found with the stricter sanitizers in clang-18 on Ubuntu 24.04 (#23710)
  • Fix codegen for nested if on return (fix #23723) (#23729)
  • Fix sumtype smartcasted var as inherited var (fix #23716) (#23731)
  • Fix map with an Enum as key type, with size < 4 bytes on tcc (fix #23714) (#23738)
  • Fix codegen for match with sumtype ptrptr (fix #23776) (#23785)
  • Fix aggregate var handling on match branch (fix #23768) (#23787)
  • Fix gowrapper codegen for receiver ptrptr (fix #23798) (#23800)
  • Fix regression, preventing the use of -gc none -d no_main -no-builtin -no-preludes to compile C style V programs
  • Fix array fixed assignment for @[keep_args_alive] (partial fix for #23804) (#23805)
  • Fix nested option fixed array (fix #23708) (#23845)
  • Fix codegen for match on return (fix #23661) (#23851)
  • Fix casting primitive type to alias, where option alias is expected (fix #23859) (#23860)
  • Fix interface method list ordering to make test buildable with g++ (fix #23701) (#23870)
  • Make ./v -prod -cstrict -cc gcc-11 test vlib/math/ pass cleanly (workaround a problem in V's cgen, that -cstrict discovered)
  • Fix codegen for global array passed as mut (fix #23873) (#23881)
  • Fix msvc build filename, remove temp files (#23890)
  • Improve the stability of generated code for auto string methods
  • Fix codegen for array of anon struct (fix #23896) (#23907)
  • Make sure to call the overriden pub fn (mut a []string) free() { method, NOT the generic fn (a &array) free() { one. (#23911)
  • Fix generic container init (fix #23910) (#23912)
  • Fix codegen for generic structinit and generic array return (fix #23916) (#23943)
  • Implement alias operator overloading for generic struct parent type (fix #23965) (#23967)
  • Add T.key_type, typeof(expr).key_type, T.value_type, typeof(expr).value_type, T.element_type, typeof(expr).element_type for getting Map[K]V and []T types (fix #23914) (#23962)
  • Builtin,markused,pref,cgen: improve markused for small programs

vfmt

  • Fix formatting for an option array of anon structs (fix #23841) (#23844)
  • Fix comment handling on ending of struct decl (fix #23947) (#23948)

Tools

  • ci, vc: use the full V repo commit hash, when generating vlang/vc commit messages
  • Support v should-compile-all folder/, where folder/ contains project subfolders (containing v.mod files and multiple top level .v files)
  • Improve v should-compile-all . with support for compiling .wasm.v and .js.v files; skip module name files, compile projects that have .glsl files
  • Improve v bug report wording
  • v.help: improve message formatting (#23363)
  • Restore emcc --version diagnostic in v doctor, when emcc is present
  • ci: fix v -W build-tools (#23368)
  • ci: force all tools to build without warnings/notices in tools_ci.yml (#23371)
  • Fix v buf file.v, when run in a folder != vroot
  • Improve output of v bug file.v, fix v bug /long/abs/path/file.v too
  • ci: make show_manual_release_cmd.vsh use a fixed weekly.YYY.WW format for the weekly release tags
  • ci: make easier the debugging of the docker-alpine-musl-gcc job (#23399)
  • vvet: fix for v vet folder/ + new features (track long fns, empty fns and repeated code), enabled by the new -F and -r flags (#23405)
  • v.help: add a message for v help crun (#23431)
  • Make cmd/tools/vretry_test.v independent from the presence of git (fix issue #23398)
  • ci: add compile_herolib.sh, use it to make sure it keeps working (related #23467) (#23469)
  • ci: fix toml-module-pass-external-test-suites after the CI image runner upgraded jq to version 1.7, by downloading and using the release version of jq-1.6
  • ci: fix failure of the check-markdown job
  • vet: add an -I option to notice fns, with the potential to be inlined (#23534)
  • ci: update last known good commit hash for herolib to ca8799af39228a5678a7be81128c5b0c342c9efc
  • Make v check-md . print the actual length of lines too, when reporting errors/warnings about them (#23606)
  • Restore previous behavior of v download (show progress on stdout, when it is connected to an interactive terminal; hide log stdout->stderr notice)
  • ci: fix CI=name ./v -d network test cmd/tools/vpm/ ; update the image runners in vpm_ci.yml (#23628)
  • Add v reduce program.v, in order to make smaller reproductions (rpdc.v files), before filing cgen bugs (#23636)
  • Add a small utility script cmd/tools/vrun, to make it easier to use .vsh scripts on systems, with /usr/bin/env still not supporting -S
  • Describe a more direct way to use a v run shebang in cmd/tools/vrun
  • Fix show_manual_release_cmd.vsh, use .strftime(%V) for calculating the proper default week number
  • Improve the v reduce parser for functions, and add more loops to reduce more (#23694)
  • Improve v reduce output; bump version, warn on failed string_reproduces/3, but continue to run (#23697)
  • Fix warnings in v reduce (#23709)
  • Move cmd/tools/vdoc/doc to cmd/tools/vdoc/document, so that it can be imported from other programs through -path, without conflicting with the top level doc/ folder in the main repo (#23733)
  • ci: avoid duplicating work by removing the remaining -skip-unused tasks, since that is the new default (#23746)
  • ci: use distinct names for the jobs, for easier filtering/searching in the Github's UI
  • ci: fix job names in cmd/tools/modules/testing/common.v as well
  • ci: fix github job names in cmd/tools/vtest-self.v
  • ci: update the remaining runners from ubuntu-20.04 to ubuntu-22.04 and ubuntu-24.04 (#23754)
  • ci: rebuild V with v -g self in .github/workflows/native_backend_ci.yml, to improve remote diagnosis of panics in PRs
  • ci: use -silent for the longer test runs (suppress most OK lines, to reduce scrolling on failure)
  • .gitignore: ignore the project settings file for gf2 (a very nice GUI gdb frontend)
  • vrepl: fix slow response for empty line input (after just pressing 'enter/return') (fix #23856) (#23858)
  • Make v repeat failing_cmd show the error output just once, but also still measure the time it took to execute
  • Add --check flag to v ast (#23938)
  • Add v timeout to be able to later use v timeout 5.1 git -C . fetch V_REPO in v doctor and other tools.
  • Add a custom timeout of 5s for the network using command git -C . fetch V_REPO in v doctor (it normally takes <1s) (fix #23955)
  • Support v doctor -skip-github to fully skip the fetching step, in places that have limited connectivity (alternative fix/workaround for #23955)
  • ci: use -silent in more jobs that produce a lot of OK lines normally (for test-cleancode, test-self, build-examples, build-tools)

Operating System support

  • Avoid os.glob, in favour of os.walk_ext (which works consistently even on windows)
  • gg: add linux support for fn screen_size() Size (fix #23146) (#23326)
  • Define _GNU_SOURCE on Linux (#23364)
  • Fix v doctor format, fixes for windows, tcc and others (#23361)
  • picoev: fix for windows apps with veb in a thread, parallel to a webview, that opens a lot of file descriptors (#23492)
  • v.pref: set DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH on macos, when -use-coroutines is used, so that v run can work, and the executable can find the downloaded photonwrapper shared library (#23516)
  • encoding.iconv: add flag for OpenBSD to find iconv include and library (fix #23573) (#23575)
  • runtime: add free_memory/0 implementation for OpenBSD (fix #23579) (#23583)
  • Fix v doctor output on OpenBSD: get gcc version from egcc; do not run ldd to get the glibc version (fix #23576) (#23578)
  • make.bat: add note about antivirus programs on windows and compilation slowdowns (#23586)
  • runtime: add free_memory/0 implementation for FreeBSD too (fix #23581) (#23594)
  • log,sync: fix macos CI failure when log.ThreadSafeLog is used explicitly in v download (#23613)
  • Let v test . show the running _test.v files each minute (set by VTEST_REPORT_RUNNING_PERIOD_MS); diagnose stuck windows gcc CI jobs (#23649)
  • ci: run FreeBSD on a VM in github ci, instead of on the Cirrus service (which stopped working today) (#23692)
  • cgen,builder: fix windows 32bit dll function name mangle (fix #23689) (#23690)
  • ci: update linux image runners from ubuntu-20.04 to ubuntu-24.04 (#23706)
  • ci: do not use VJOBS: 1 in the windows tcc job anymore
  • make: use .exe only on Windows
  • ci: reduce the timeouts in windows_ci.yml to 60 minutes (V is now faster, and the runners use faster hardware as well)
  • native: allow for searching for wine system32/ .dlls, and for adding more paths for .dll lookups, by setting VNATIVE_PE_DLL_PATH, to make it easier to diagnose problems with PE generation on non windows platforms (#23756)
  • ci: skip fibonacci_native.vv on windows for now
  • sync: support x86_64-alt-linux gcc paths too when tcc is used (needed for ALT Linux)
  • ci: make freebsd_ci.yml runnable on personal forked repos, that are not named v (#23779)
  • ci: remove the VJOBS=1 restriction for test-cleancode on linux (#23801)
  • os: fix buffer overflow in os.get_raw_line under Windows (#23816)
  • ci: move test in pe_test.v to native_test.v (both used -b native, competing the creation of the backend executable => CI failures on the gcc-windows job)
  • Make v install avoid using --filter=blob:none --shallow-submodules --also-filter-submodules on windows (#23840)
  • os: fix get_raw_line() on windows (fix #23843) (#23846)
  • ci: add a limit of 20 minutes to the test-on-freebsd-14-2-x86 CI job
  • Support // vtest build: !do_not_test ?, // vtest build: !windows && tinyc to skip files during testing on specific platforms, without having to keep centralised skip lists (#23900)
  • cgen,dl: remove workaround in dl, generate a DllMain() in cgen instead for -shared on windows (#23961)

Examples

  • Allow for passing arbitrary compiler flags to v bug, for example: v bug -cg -autofree file.v (#23335)
  • examples,builtin,cgen,live: fix windows hot reload with -cc tcc, improve the infrastructure, use a V global instead of a C one (fix #23214) (#23350)
  • Fix unused db.pg import warning for examples/database/psql/customer.v
  • gg,sokol,examples: add example of overriding _SGL_DEFAULT_MAX_VERTICES in code
  • Mention also the RAM usage increase in many_thousands_of_circles_overriding_max_vertices.v
  • gg: enable clean compilation without notices for ./v -check-unused-fn-args examples/tetris/
  • Add vascii.v showing a table of the first 128 ASCII characters with their names and codes in dec, oct, hex, bin formats (#23466)
  • Add a solution to the "1 Billion Row Challenge" (#23458)
  • examples,io: add sha256sum_with_io_cp.v, make the size of the buffer used by io.cp parametrisable (#23585)
  • log: add log.use_stdout(), use it to silence the transition note for the most commonly used V tools/examples (#23642)
  • Implement an -s option for v ast, to skip all nodes with default values like [], {}, 0, false; with it v ast -pts examples/hello_world.v | wc -l is 36 lines
  • gg: fix ./v -gc none -autofree run examples/tetris/ (avoid return s1 + s2 + s3, clone the arrays, passed to the fontstash wrapper)
  • examples,gg: modify all remaining calls to fons.add_font_mem/3 to use an array.clone()
  • Add examples/hot_reload/tunnel.v
  • Add minimal_c_like_program_using_puts.v showing how to produce a much smaller executable on Linux, using clang, mold and sstrip.
  • Build examples, that start with module no_main as well
  • ci: fix v build-examples failure on gcc-windows
  • Support module no_main based examples in v should-compile-all
  • term: make the second example in the README.md compilable as well
  • Show how to use a v file server for the wasm version of 2048, instead of emrun
  • sokol: allow for v -os wasm32_emscripten -o examples/tetris/tetris.html examples/tetris/ (avoid using -sMODULARIZE) (#23814)
  • Fix poll_coindesk_bitcoin_vs_usd_rate.v, use the new v2 API endpoint
  • math,examples: add examples/sokol/sounds/simple_sin_tone_using_audio_push.v, cleanup math
  • Add a small breakout game, supporting keyboard and touch controls (#23861)
  • Cleanup snek.v, by using math.vec, the builtin array support, instead of datatypes, and by removing casts that are no longer needed
  • Fix v -cstrict -cc gcc-11 examples/sokol/particles and the same but with clang-18 too
  • Fix more compilation errors with -cstrict -cc clang-18 for the sokol examples
  • Fix VFLAGS='-no-skip-unused -cstrict -cc clang-18' v should-compile-all examples/sokol/ too
  • Add a small minesweeper game in examples/gg/minesweeper.v
  • Add a small Sokoban puzzle game with levels (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban)
  • Use textures in the sokoban game, instead of colors
  • Shorten the periodic output of examples/hot_reload/message.v
  • Fix (ball->side edge of brick) collision detection in breakout.v
  • Add subtle light and shadow effects to the breakout game, to give it a little depth (#23885)
  • Run the update method of breakout on its own frame independent rate
  • gg,examples: use a timer to limit the rate of updates in breakout, instead of a separate thread, restore ability to run in a browser through emscripten
  • Make the tetris update rate, independent from the frame rate too
  • Make the 2048 game update rate, independent from the frame rate as well
  • Fix panic, discovered by fuzzing examples/2048/2048.v with zzuf on the CI
  • Add vanilla_http_server - a fast, multi-threaded, non-blocking, port and host reuse, thread-safe, epoll server (#23094)
  • v.build_constraint: support comments too, for example linux&&gcc // some comment
  • Make v repeat -R 5 -r 10 "v run examples/hello_world.v" also show the time it took for all runs in each repeat
  • Add an asteroids game (it is currently < 400 lines of V, using gg)
  • Remove the generic alias type overloaded operator workaround, after 29e60da
  • Fix v should-compile-all examples/
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