1.14.0

Features

lang

• Allow ^ in constant numeric expressions (#14951, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• Add support for Windows on aarch64 (#14911, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (collection) [breaking] Add support for negative start index in Slice#[start, count] (#14778, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (collection) Add Slice#same? (#14728, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (concurrency) Add WaitGroup.wait and WaitGroup#spawn (#14837, thanks @jgaskins)
• (concurrency) Open non-blocking regular files as overlapped on Windows (#14921, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Support non-blocking File#read and #write on Windows (#14940, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Support non-blocking File#read_at on Windows (#14958, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Support non-blocking Process.run standard streams on Windows (#14941, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Support IO::FileDescriptor#flock_* on non-blocking files on Windows (#14943, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Emulate non-blocking STDIN console on Windows (#14947, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Async DNS resolution on Windows (#14979, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (crypto) Update LibCrypto bindings for LibreSSL 3.5+ (#14872, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (llvm) Expose LLVM instruction builder for neg and fneg (#14774, thanks @JarnaChao09)
• (llvm) [experimental] Add minimal LLVM OrcV2 bindings (#14887, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (llvm) Add LLVM::Builder#finalize (#14892, thanks @JarnaChao09)
• (llvm) Support LLVM 19.1 (#14842, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add Crystal::Macros::TypeNode#has_inner_pointers? (#14847, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add HashLiteral#has_key? and NamedTupleLiteral#has_key? (#14890, thanks @kamil-gwozdz)
• (numeric) Implement floating-point manipulation functions for BigFloat (#11007, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Stop & start the world (undocumented API) (#14729, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (runtime) Add Pointer::Appender#to_slice (#14874, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (serialization) Add URI.from_json_object_key? and URI#to_json_object_key (#14834, thanks @nobodywasishere)
• (serialization) Add URI::Params::Serializable (#14684, thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (system) Enable full backtrace for exception in process spawn (#14796, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (system) Implement System::User on Windows (#14933, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (system) Implement System::Group on Windows (#14945, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (system) Add methods to Crystal::EventLoop (#14977, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (text) Add underscore_to_space option to String#titleize (#14822, thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (text) Support Unicode 16.0.0 (#14997, thanks @HertzDevil)

compiler

• (cli) Adds initial support for external commands (#14953, thanks @bcardiff)
• (interpreter) Add Crystal::Repl::Value#runtime_type (#14156, thanks @bcardiff)
• (interpreter) Implement Reference.pre_initialize in the interpreter (#14968, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Enable the interpreter on Windows (#14964, thanks @HertzDevil)

Bugfixes

lang

• Fix Slice.literal for multiple calls with identical signature (#15009, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add location info to some MacroIf nodes (#14885, thanks @Blacksmoke16)

stdlib

• (collection) Fix Range#size return type to Int32 (#14588, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (concurrency) Update DeallocationStack for Windows context switch (#15032, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Fix race condition in pthread_create handle initialization (#15043, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) [regression] Fix File#truncate and #lock for Win32 append-mode files (#14706, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) [breaking] Avoid flush in finalizers for Socket and IO::FileDescriptor (#14882, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (files) Make IO::Buffered#buffer_size= idempotent (#14855, thanks @jgaskins)
• (macros) Implement #sort_by inside macros using Enumerable#sort_by (#14895, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Fix internal error when calling #is_a? on External nodes (#14918, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (networking) Use correct timeout for Socket#connect on Windows (#14961, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (numeric) Fix handle empty string in String#to_f(whitespace: false) (#14902, thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (numeric) Fix exponent wrapping in Math.frexp(BigFloat) for very large values (#14971, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (numeric) Fix exponent overflow in BigFloat#to_s for very large values (#14982, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (numeric) Add missing @[Link(dll:)] annotation to MPIR (#15003, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Add missing return type of LibC.VirtualQuery (#15036, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Fix main stack top detection on musl-libc (#15047, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (serialization) [breaking] Remove XML::Error.errors (#14936, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (specs) [regression] Fix Expectations::Be for module type (#14926, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (system) Fix return type restriction for ENV.fetch (#14919, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (system) #file_descriptor_close should set @closed (UNIX) (#14973, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) reinit event loop first after fork (UNIX) (#14975, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (text) Fix avoid linking libpcre when unused (#14891, thanks @kojix2)
• (text) Add type restriction to String#byte_index offset parameter (#14981, thanks @straight-shoota)

compiler

• (cli) Add error handling for linker flag sub commands (#14932, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (codegen) Allow returning Procs from top-level funs ([#14917], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Fix CRT static-dynamic linking conflict in specs with C sources ([#14970], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Fix Linux getrandom failure in interpreted code ([#15035], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Fix undefined behavior in interpreter mixed union upcast ([#15042], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (semantic) Fix TopLevelVisitor adding existing ClassDef type to current scope ([#15067], thanks @straight-shoota)

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1.13.3

Bugfixes

stdlib

• [regression] Fix use global paths in macro bodies (#14965, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (system) [regression] Fix Process.exec stream redirection on Windows (#14986, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (text) [regression] Fix String#index and #rindex for Char::REPLACEMENT (#14937, thanks @HertzDevil)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.13.3 (#14991, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (ci) Enable runners from runs-on.com for Aarch64 CI (#15007, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.13.2

1.13.2 (2024-08-20)

Bugfixes

stdlib

• (collection) Fix explicitly clear deleted Hash::Entry (#14862, thanks @HertzDevil)

compiler

• (codegen) Fix ReferenceStorage(T) atomic if T has no inner pointers (#14845, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Fix misaligned store in Bool to union upcasts (#14906, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Fix misaligned stack access in the interpreter (#14843, thanks @HertzDevil)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.13.2 (#14914, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.13.1

1.13.1 (2024-07-12)

Bugfixes

stdlib

• (serialization) [regression] Revert "Optimize JSON parsing a bit" (#14804, thanks @straight-shoota)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.13.1 (#14806, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.13.0

1.13.0 (2024-07-09)

Features

lang

• Allow rescuing exceptions that include a module (#14553, thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (macros) Allow assignment to _ inside macro expressions (#14452, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• (collection) Add Array#insert_all (#14486, thanks @summer-alice)
• (collection) Improve compile time error for #sort(&block : T, T -> U) (#14693, thanks @beta-ziliani)
• (concurrency) Add WaitGroup synchronization primitive (#14167, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (concurrency) Allow Atomics of pointer types (#14401, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Add Thread.new yields itself (#14543, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (concurrency) Add support for Atomic(Bool) (#14532, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (concurrency) Add Thread.sleep(Time::Span) (#14715, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (files) Implement IO#tty? in Win32 (#14421, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Implement File.readable? and .writable? in Win32 (#14420, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Make File.readable? and .writable? follow symlinks on Windows (#14514, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (llvm) Add some missing LLVM::Context bindings (#14612, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (llvm) Do not strip the macOS target triple (#14466, thanks @hovsater)
• (log) Support UInt32 and UInt64 in Log Context (#14459, thanks @toddsundsted)
• (macros) Add AST node methods for macro-related nodes (#14492, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Support short blocks in #[] operator call's macro interpolation (#14523, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add macro methods for Select (#14600, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add TypeNode#private?, #public? and #visibility (#11696, thanks @Hadeweka)
• (macros) Add StringLiteral#to_utf16 (#14676, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) Relax type restriction of handlers in HTTP::Server.new to Indexable(HTTP::Handler) (#14413, thanks @hugopl)
• (networking) [security] OpenSSL: don't change default cipher suites (#14655, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) Allow parsing cookies with space in the value (#14455, thanks @anton7c3)
• (runtime) Add EventLoop::Socket module (#14643, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (runtime) Add EventLoop::FileDescriptor module (#14639, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (runtime) Add Crystal::Tracing for runtime tracing (#14659, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) [security] [breaking] Disable implicit execution of batch files on Windows (#14557, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (system) Add EventLoop#run(blocking) and EventLoop#interrupt (#14568, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) Add Crystal::System::Time.ticks (#14620, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) Add Crystal::System::Thread.current_thread?, #scheduler? (#14660, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) Protect fork/exec on targets that don't support atomic CLOEXEC (#14674, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) Add Crystal::System.panic (#14733, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (text) Add Regex::MatchOptions overload for String#index! (#14462, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (text) Add StringPool#get? (#14508, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (text) Add pkg_config names for pcre2 and pcre (#14584, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (text) Add UUID v7 (#14732, thanks @jgaskins)
• (time) Add Time::Error (#14743, thanks @Blacksmoke16)

compiler

• (codegen) Add compiler flags -Os and -Oz to optimize binary size (#14463, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (codegen) Add compiler support for AVR architecture (Arduino) (#14393, thanks @ysbaddaden)

tools

• (formatter) Allow new formatter styles for trailing comma and whitespace around proc literal (#14726, thanks @Blacksmoke16)

Bugfixes

lang

• (macros) Fix parsing of non-trailing if bodies inside macro expressions (#14505, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Drop parentheses around -> inside certain comma-separated lists (#14506, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Fix indentation of Select nodes' macro interpolation (#14510, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Fix indentation of parenthesized Expressions#to_s (#14511, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• (collection) [regression] Ensure Enumerable#to_a and Enumerable#tally properly retain return type of T ([#14447], thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (collection) [breaking] Never raise IndexError in #[]?(Range) ([#14444], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (collection) [breaking] Fix Set#to_a(&) ([#14519], thanks @meatball133)
• (collection) Fix Hash#rehash to reset @first ([#14606], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (collection) Fix macro interpolation in NamedTuple#from ([#14790], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (collection) [regression] Fix regression with NamedTuple.new when using key with a hyphen ([#14785], thanks @Blacksmoke16)
• (files) Allow #fsync and #flock_* on IO::FileDescriptor ([#14432], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Make IO::FileDescriptor#tty? return false for NUL on Windows ([#14509], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Fix blockless IO::FileDescriptor echo and raw mode methods ([#14529], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Remove target path's forward slashes in File.symlink on Windows ([#14522], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Fix IO#same_content? accepting prefix on second stream ([#14664], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (files) Fix overflow in File#read_at for large offsets on Windows ([#14708], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (files) Fix IO::FileDescriptor.new for closed fd ([#14697], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (files) Fix IO::Delimited reading into limited slice with peek ([#14772], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (files) Fix Compress::Gzip extra field ([#14550], thanks @kojix2)
• (log) delete source from builder cache when finalize ([#14475], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) Fix Socket#close error handling on Windows ([#14517], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (networking) Set UTF-8 charset on directory listing in HTTP::StaticFileHandler ([#14546], thanks @alexkutsan)
• (networking) Don't pass socket file descriptors to subprocesses on Unix (SOCK_CLOEXEC) ([#14632], thanks @carlhoerberg)
• (networking) [security] OpenSSL: don't set default ECDH curve ([#14656], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) [security] OpenSSL: deprecate Mozilla's TLS Server recommendation ([#14657], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) use SOCK_CLOEXEC with FD_CLOEXEC fallback ([#14672], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (networking) [regression] Fix regression on Socket#connect timeout type restriction ([#14755], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (networking) Drop default timeout for Socket#connect on Windows ([#14756], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (networking) don't hardcode alpn protocol byte size (OpenSSL) ([#14769], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (numeric) Fix BigRational#format ([#14525], thanks @meatball133)
• (numeric) [regression] Restore leading zero in exponent for printf("%e") and printf("%g") ([#14695], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (runtime) Fix enable docs for builtin constants ([#14571], thanks @straight-shoota)
• (runtime) Fi...

1.12.2

1.12.2 (2024-05-31)

Patch release with a bug fix necessary for support of latest libgc

Bugfixes

stdlib

• (runtime) Don't allocate in Fiber.unsafe_each and Thread.unsafe_each (#14635, thanks @ysbaddaden)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.12.2 (#14640, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.12.1

1.12.1 (2024-04-11)

Bugfixes

tools

• (formatter) [regression] Fix formatter with whitespace before closing parenthesis (#14471, thanks @straight-shoota)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.12.1 (#14472, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.12.0

1.12.0 (2024-04-09)

Features

lang

• Allow multiple parameters and blocks for operators ending in = (#14159, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• (concurrency) MT: reduce interleaved backtraces in spawn unhandled exceptions (#14220, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (concurrency) Fix: opening/reading from fifo/chardev files are blocking the thread (#14255, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (concurrency) Fix: Atomics and Locks (ARM, AArch64, X86) (#14293, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (files) Add IO::FileDescriptor::Handle (#14390, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (macros) Add macro methods for lib-related nodes (#14218, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add macro methods for Primitive (#14263, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add macro methods for TypeOf (#14262, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add macro methods for Alias (#14261, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Add macro methods for Asm and AsmOperand (#14268, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Relax delegate's setter detection (#14282, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (numeric) Add BigRational#%, #tdiv, #remainder (#14306, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) [experimental] Add ReferenceStorage for manual allocation of references (#14270, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Add MSVC invalid parameter handler (#14313, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (system) Add Signal#trap_handler? (#14126, thanks @stakach)
• (system) Thread: set name (#14257, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (system) Add Process.on_terminate (#13694, thanks @stakach)
• (time) Add support for Etc/UTC time zone identifier without tzdb (#14185, thanks @femto)

compiler

• Add CRYSTAL_CONFIG_CC compiler config (#14318, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (cli) Respect NO_COLOR in the compiler (#14260, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (cli) Respect --static on Windows (#14292, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (cli) Allow --single-module and --threads for eval and spec (#14341, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Add --frame-pointers to control preservation of frame pointers (#13860, thanks @refi64)
• (codegen) x86-64 Solaris / illumos support (#14343, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Support @[Link]'s DLL search order in the interpreter on Windows (#14146, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Automatically detect MSVC tools on Windows interpreter (#14391, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (parser) Allow calling #[]= with a block using method syntax (#14161, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (semantic) Change short_reference for top-level macros to ::foo (#14203, thanks @femto)

tools

• Add crystal tool flags (#14234, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (formatter) Add more whitespace around ProcLiterals (#14209, thanks @HertzDevil)

Bugfixes

lang

• (macros) Remove extra newline in top-level FunDef's string representation (#14212, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (macros) Remove T* and T[N] macro interpolation behavior inside libs (#14215, thanks @HertzDevil)

stdlib

• (collection) Fix Hash#update when default block also adds given key (#14417, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (collection) Fix Hash#put_if_absent putting duplicate keys (#14427, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Reserve stack space on non-main threads for crash recovery on Windows (#14187, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (concurrency) Add memory barrier to Mutex#unlock on aarch64 (#14272, thanks @jgaskins)
• (concurrency) init schedulers before we spawn fibers (#14339, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (files) Make FileUtils.mv work across filesystems on Windows (#14320, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (llvm) Use correct string size for LLVM::Type#inline_asm (#14265, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (llvm) Fix System V ABI for packed structs with misaligned fields (#14324, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (networking) OpenSSL 3.x reports unexpected EOF as SSL error (#14219, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (numeric) Make equality between Complex and other numbers exact (#14309, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (numeric) Fix #hash for the Big* number types (#14308, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Do not allocate memory in the segmentation fault signal handler (#14327, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Fix crash stack trace decoding on macOS (#14335, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Crystal::RWLock should be a struct (#14345, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (runtime) Fix min_by? in IOCP event loop #run_once (#14394, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (serialization) XML::Reader: Disallow attributes containing null bytes (#14193, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (serialization) Always call LibXML.xmlInitParser when requiring XML libraries (#14191, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (system) Fix macro Crystal::LIBRARY_PATH.split when cross-compiling (#14330, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (system) Add SA_RESTART flag to sigaction syscall (#14351, thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (text) Add Nil return type restriction to String::Formatter#consume_substitution (#14430, thanks @straight-shoota)

compiler

• (cli) build --no-codegen output file name error (#14239, thanks @apainintheneck)
• (codegen) Do not handle inline assembly with "intel" flag as AT&T syntax ([#14264], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) [breaking] Respect alignments above alignof(Void*) inside union values ([#14279], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Fix stack corruption in union-to-union casts ([#14289], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Don't copy DLL to output directory if file already exists ([#14315], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Fix Proc#call that takes and returns large extern structs by value ([#14323], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Never discard ivar initializer inside .allocate and .pre_initialize ([#14337], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (codegen) Use separate names for constant and class variable internals ([#14445], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) fix fiber's resumable property ([#14252], thanks @ysbaddaden)
• (interpreter) Ensure all constants only have one initializer in the interpreter ([#14381], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Handle NaN comparisons in the interpreter ([#14441], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Check UInt16#to_u8 for overflow in the interpreter ([#14436], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (interpreter) Fix interpreter internal overflow for UInt128#to_f32 and #to_f32! ([#14437], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (parser) Fix name locations of FunDef and External nodes ([#14267], thanks @HertzDevil)
• (parser) Fix end locations of Alias nodes ([#14271], thanks @HertzDevil)

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1.11.2

Bugfixes

stdlib

• (files) Fix missing cause parameter from IO::Error#initialize (#14242, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (runtime) Always use %p for pointers in Crystal::System.print_error (#14186, thanks @HertzDevil)
• (runtime) Fixup for always use %p for pointers in Crystal::System.print_error (#14221, thanks @HertzDevil)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.11.2 (#14249, thanks @straight-shoota)

1.11.1

Bugfixes

stdlib

• (crypto) Revert "Fix OpenSSL error handling for EOF (support for OpenSSL 3.2) (#14169)" (#14217, thanks @straight-shoota)

compiler

• (interpreter) Remove pkg-config name for libgc as workaround for interpreter loader (#14198, thanks @straight-shoota)
• (semantic) Revert "Add ReferenceStorage for manual allocation of references (#14106)" (#14207, thanks @straight-shoota)

Infrastructure

• Changelog for 1.11.1 (#14208, thanks @straight-shoota)
• Bump VERSION to 1.11.1-dev (#14197, thanks @straight-shoota)