| # 1.4.31 (Feb 2021) |
| * [KT-44295](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44295) Fix Kotlin/Native compiler crash on Android NDK |
| * [KT-44826](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44826) Fix failing build with "Backend Internal error: Exception during IR lowering" |
| * [KT-44764](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44764) Fix failing build with "AssertionError: FUN name:onError_6 visibility:public modality:OPEN" |
| * [GH-4588](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4588) Fix runtime crash in createTypeInfo in release framework binaries |
| |
| # 1.4.30 (Feb 2021) |
| * [KT-44083](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44083) Fix NSUInteger size for Watchos x64 |
| |
| # 1.4.30-RC (Jan 2021) |
| * [KT-44271](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44271) Incorrect linking when targeting linux_x64 from mingw_x64 host |
| * [KT-44219](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-44219) Non-reified type parameters with recursive bounds are not supported yet |
| * [KT-43599](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43599) K/N: Unbound symbols not allowed |
| * [KT-42172](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42172) Kotlin/Native: StableRef.dispose race condition on Kotlin deinitRuntime |
| * [KT-42482](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42482) Kotlin subclasses of Obj-C classes are incompatible with ISA swizzling (it causes crashes) |
| |
| # 1.4.30-M1 (Dec 2020) |
| * [KT-43597](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43597) Xcode 12.2 support |
| * [KT-43276](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43276) Add watchos_x64 target |
| * [KT-43198](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43198) Init blocks inside of inline classes |
| * [KT-42649](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42649) Fix secondary constructors of generic inline classes |
| * [KT-38772](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-38772) Support non-reified type parameters in typeOf |
| * [KT-42428](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42428) Inconsistent behavior of map.entries on Kotlin.Native |
| * Compiler customization |
| * [KT-40584](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40584) Untie Kotlin/Native from the fixed LLVM distribution |
| * [KT-42234](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42234) Move LLVM optimization parameters into konan.properties |
| * [KT-40670](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40670) Allow to override konan.properties via CLI |
| * Runtime |
| * [KT-42822](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42822) Kotlin/Native Worker leaks ObjC/Swift autorelease references (and indirectly bridged K/N references) on Darwin targets |
| * [KT-42397](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42397) Reverse-C interop usage of companion object reports spurious leaks |
| * [GH-4482](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4482) Add a switch to destroy runtime only on shutdown |
| * [GH-4575](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4575) Fix unchecked runtime shutdown |
| * [GH-4194](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4194) Fix possible race in terminate handler |
| * C-interop |
| * [KT-42412](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42412) Modality of generated property accessors is always FINAL |
| * [KT-38530](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-38530) values() method of enum classes is not exposed to Objective-C/Swift |
| * [GH-4572](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4572) Fix for interop enum and struct generation |
| * Optimizations |
| * [KT-42294](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42294) Significantly improved compilation time |
| * [KT-42942](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42942) Optimize peak backend memory by clearing BindingContext after psi2ir |
| * [KT-31072](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-31072) Don't use non-reified arguments to specialize type operations in IR inliner |
| |
| # 1.4.21 (Dec 2020) |
| * Fixed [KT-43517](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43517) |
| * Fixed [KT-43530](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43530) |
| * Fixed [KT-43265](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-43265) |
| |
| # 1.4.20 (Nov 2020) |
| * XCode 12 support |
| * Completely reworked escape analysis for object allocation |
| * Use ForeignException wrapper to handle native exceptions ([GH-3553](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/3553)) |
| * CocoaPods plugin improvements |
| * equals/hashCode support for adapted callable references ([KT-39800](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39800)) |
| * equals/hashCode support for fun interfaces ([KT-39798](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39798)) |
| * IR-level optimizations |
| * Constant folding |
| * String concatenation flattening |
| * Various fixes/improvements to compiler caches |
| * Some fixes to samples (calculator, tensorflow) |
| * Bug fixes |
| * Eliminate recursive GC calls ([KT-42275](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42275)) |
| * Fix support for @OverrideInit constructors with default arguments ([KT-41910](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41910)) |
| * Fix support for forward declarations ([KT-41655](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41655)) |
| * [KT-41394](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41394) |
| * [KT-41811](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41811) |
| * [KT-41716](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41716) |
| * [KT-41250](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41250) |
| * [KT-42000](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42000) |
| * [KT-41907](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41907) |
| |
| # 1.4.10 (Sep 2020) |
| * Fixed a newline handling in @Deprecated annotation in ObjCExport ([KT-39206](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39206)) |
| * Fixed suspend function types in ObjCExport ([KT-40976](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40976)) |
| * Fixed support for unsupported C declarations in cinterop ([KT-39762](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39762)) |
| |
| # v1.4.0 (Aug 2020) |
| * Objective-C/Swift interop: |
| * Reworked exception handling ([GH-3822](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/3822), [GH-3842](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/3842)) |
| * Enabled support for Objective-C generics by default ([GH-3778](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/3778)) |
| * Support for Kotlin’s suspending functions ([GH-3915](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/3915)) |
| * Handle variadic block types in ObjC interop ([`KT-36766`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-36766)) |
| * Added native-specific frontend checkers (implemented in the main Kotlin repository: [GH-3293](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/pull/3293), [GH-3091](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/pull/3091), [GH-3172](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/pull/3172)) |
| * .dSYMs for release binaries on Apple platforms ([GH-4085](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/4085)) |
| * Improved compilation time of builds with interop libraries by reworking cinterop under the hood. |
| * Experimental mimalloc allocator support (-Xallocator=mimalloc) to improve execution time performance. ([GH-3704](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/3704)) |
| * Tune GC to improve execution time performance |
| * Various fixes to compiler caches and Gradle daemon usage |
| |
| # v1.3.72 (April 2020) |
| * Fix ios_x64 platform libs cache for iOS 11 and 12 (GH-4071) |
| |
| # v1.3.71 (March 2020) |
| * Fix `lazy {}` memory leak regression ([`KT-37232`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-37232), GH-3944) |
| * Fix using cached Kotlin subclasses of Objective-C classes (GH-3986) |
| |
| # v1.3.70 (Dec 2019) |
| * Support compiler caches for debug mode (GH-3650) |
| * Support running Kotlin/Native compiler from Gradle daemon (GH-3442) |
| * Support multiple independent Kotlin frameworks in the same application (GH-3457) |
| * Compile-time allocation for some singleton objects (GH-3645) |
| * Native support for SIMD vector types in compiler and interop (GH-3498) |
| * API for runtime detector of cyclic garbage (GH-3616) |
| * Commonized StringBuilder (GH-3593) and Float.rangeTo (KT-35299) |
| * Fix interop with localized strings (GH-3562) |
| * Provide utility for user-side generation of platform libraries (GH-3538) |
| * On-stack allocation using local escape analysis (GH-3625) |
| * Code coverage support on Linux and Windows (GH-3403) |
| * Debugging experience improvements (GH-3561, GH-3638, GH-3606) |
| |
| # v1.3.60 (Oct 2019) |
| * Support XCode 11 |
| * Switch to LLVM 8.0 |
| * New compiler targets: |
| * watchOS targets, watchos_x86, watchos_arm64 and watchos_arm32 (GH-3323, GH-3404, GH-3344) |
| * tvOS targets tvos_x64 and tvos_arm64 (GH-3303, GH-3363) |
| * native Android targets android_x86 and android_x64 (GH-3306, GH-3314) |
| * Standard CLI library kotlinx.cli is shipped with the compiler distribution (GH-3215) |
| * Improved debug information for inline functions (KT-28929, GH-3292) |
| * Improved runtime performance of interface calls, up to 5x faster (GH-3377) |
| * Improved runtime performance of type checks, up to 50x faster (GH-3291) |
| * Produce native binaries directly from klibs, speeds up large project compilation (GH-3246) |
| * Supported arbitrary (up to 255 inclusive) function arity (GH-3253) |
| * Supported callable references to suspend functions (GH-3197) |
| * Implemented experimental -Xg0 switch, symbolication of release binaries for iOS (GH-3233, GH-3367) |
| * Interop: |
| * Allow passing untyped null as variadic function's parameter (GH-3312, KT-33525) |
| * Standard library: |
| * Allow scheduling jobs in arbitrary K/N context, not only Worker (GH-3316) |
| * Important bug fixes: |
| * Boxed negative values can lead to crashes on ios_arm64 (GH-3296) |
| * Implemented thread-safe tracking of Objective-C references to Kotlin objects (GH-3267) |
| |
| # v1.3.50 (Aug 2019) |
| * Kotlin/Native versioning now aligned with Kotlin versioning |
| * Exhaustive platform libraries on macOS (GH-3141) |
| * Update to Gradle 5.5 (GH-3166) |
| * Improved debug information correctness (GH-3130) |
| * Major memory manager refactoring (GH-3129) |
| * Embed actual bitcode in produced frameworks (GH-2974) |
| * Compilation speed improvements |
| * Interop: |
| * Support kotlin.Deprecated when producing framework (GH-3114) |
| * Ensure produced Objective-C header does not have warnings (GH-3101) |
| * Speed up interop stub generator (GH-3082, GH-3050) |
| * getOriginalKotlinClass() to get KClass for Kotlin classes in Objective-C (GH-3036) |
| * Supported nullable primitive types in reverse C interop (GH-3198) |
| * Standard library |
| * API for delayed job execution on worker (GH-2971) |
| * API for running via worker's job queue (GH-3078) |
| * MonoClock and Duration support (GH-3028) |
| * Support typeOf (KT-29917, KT-28625) |
| * New zero-terminated utf8 to String conversion API (GH-3116) |
| * Optimize StringBuilder for certain cases (GH-3202) |
| * Implemented Array.fill API (GH-3244) |
| |
| # v1.3.0 (Jun 2019) |
| * CoreLocation platform library on macOS (GH-3041) |
| * Converting Unit type to Void during producing framework for Objective-C/Swift (GH-2549, GH-1271) |
| * Support linux/arm64 targets (GH-2917) |
| * Performance improvements of memory manager (GH-2813) |
| * FreezableAtomicReference prototype (GH-2776) |
| * Logging and error messages enhancements |
| * Interop: |
| * Support nullable String return type in reverse C interop (GH-2956) |
| * Support setting custom exception hook in reverse C interop (GH-2941) |
| * Experimental generics support for produced frameworks for Objective-C/Swift implemented by Kevin Galligan (GH-2850) |
| * Improve support for Objective-C methods clashing with methods of Any (GH-2914) |
| * Support variadic Objective-C functions (GH-2896) |
| |
| # v1.2.1 (Apr 2019) |
| * Fix Objective-C interop with React (GH-2872) |
| * Fix “not in vtable” compiler crash when generating frameworks (GH-2865) |
| * Implement some optimizations (GH-2854) |
| * Fix release build for 32-bit Windows (GH-2848) |
| * Fix casts to type parameters with multiple bounds (GH-2888) |
| * Fix “could not get descriptor uniq id for deserialized class FlagEnum” compiler crash when generating framework (GH-2874) |
| |
| # v1.2.0 (Apr 2019) |
| * New intermediate representation based library format allowing global optimizations |
| * Exception backtraces in debug mode on macOS and iOS targets contains symbolic information |
| * Support for 32-bit Windows targets (target mingw_x86) |
| * Support for cross-compilation to Linux (x86-64 and arm32) from macOS and Windows hosts |
| * Static Apple frameworks can be produced |
| * Support Gradle 5.1 |
| * Fix alignment-related issues on ARM32 and MIPS platforms |
| * Write unhandled exceptions stacktrace on device to iOS crash log |
| * Fix undefined behavior in some arithmetic operations |
| * Interop: |
| * Get rid of libffi dependency |
| * Support returning struct from C callbacks |
| * Support passing Kotlin strings to C interop functions accepting UTF-32 arguments |
| * Fix bool conversion |
| * Support variable length arrays |
| * Provide Kotlin access to C compiler intrinsics via platform.builtins package |
| * Support clang modules (for Objective-C only) |
| * Experimental integration with CocoaPods |
| * IDE |
| * Kotlin/Native plugin is supported in CLion 2018.3 and AppCode/CLion 2019.1 |
| * Basic highlighting support for .def files |
| * Navigation to source files from exception backtrace |
| |
| ## v1.1.0 (Dec 2018) |
| * Performance optimizations: |
| * runtime: optimization of queue of finalization |
| * compiler: loop generation optimization |
| * compiler: reduce RTTI size |
| * runtime: reduce size of the object header |
| * Contracts support |
| * Regex engine: fix quantifier processing |
| |
| ## v0.9.3 (Sep 2018) |
| * Bugfixes |
| |
| ## v0.9.2 (Sep 2018) |
| * Support Xcode 10.0 |
| * iOS 9.0 is the minimal supported version for all targets |
| * Swift interop improvements |
| * Support shared top level values of some immutable types (i.e. String and atomic references) |
| * Support release Kotlin 1.3.0 |
| |
| ## v0.9.1 (Sep 2018) |
| * Improve naming in produced Objective-C frameworks. Use ‘Kotlin’ prefix instead of ‘Stdlib’ prefix. |
| * Improvements in KLIB: Library versioning, IDEA-friendly internal format. |
| |
| # v0.9 (Sep 2018) |
| * Support Kotlin 1.3M2 |
| * Note: Common modules of multiplatform projects also should use Kotlin 1.3 |
| * Major standard library (native parts) rework and rename |
| * New Gradle plugin with multiplatform integration and reworked DSL |
| * Support unsigned types in Kotlin and interop |
| * Support non-experimental coroutines API (kotlin.coroutines) |
| * Top level object var/val can only be accessed from the main thread |
| * Support lazy properties in singleton objects |
| * Update LLVM to 6.0.1 |
| |
| ## v0.8 (Jul 2018) |
| * Singleton objects are frozen after creation, and shared between threads |
| * String and primitives types are frozen by default |
| * Common stdlib with Kotlin/JVM and Kotlin/JS |
| * Implemented `kotlin.random.*` and `Collection.shuffle` |
| * Implemented atomic integers and atomic references |
| * Multiple bugfixes in compiler (coroutines, inliner) |
| * Support 32-bit iOS (target `ios_arm32`) |
| * New experimental Gradle plugin |
| * Support Xcode 9.4.1 |
| * Optimizations (switch by enum, memory management) |
| |
| ## v0.7.1 (Jun 2018) |
| * Bugfixes in the runtime (indexOf, GC for kotlin.Array, enum equality) and the compiler |
| * Fix NSBlock problem, preventing upload of binaries to the AppStore |
| * Create primitive type boxes and kotlin.String as frozen by default |
| * Support Gradle 4.7, provide separate run task for each executable |
| * Support Xcode 9.4 and CoreML and ClassKit frameworks on Apple platforms |
| * Improved runtime Kotlin variable examination |
| * Minor performance optimizations in compiled code and runtime |
| * Add `disableDesignatedInitializerChecks` definition file support |
| |
| ## v0.7 (May 2018) |
| * Interop with Objective-C/Swift changes: |
| * Uniform direct and reverse interops (values could be passed in both directions now) |
| * Interop by exceptions |
| * Type conversion and checks (`as`, `is`) for interop types |
| * Seamless interop on numbers, strings, lists, maps and sets |
| * Better interop on constructors and initializers |
| * Switched to Xcode 9.3 on Apple platforms |
| * Introduced object freezing API, frozen object could be used from multiple threads |
| * Kotlin enums are frozen by default |
| * Switch to Gradle 4.6 |
| * Use Gradle native dependency model, allowing to use `.klib` as Maven artifacts |
| * Introduced typed arrays API |
| * Introduced weak references API |
| * Activated global devirtualization analysis |
| * Performance improvements (box caching, bridge inlining, others) |
| |
| ## v0.6.2 (Mar 2018) |
| * Support several `expectedBy`-dependencies in Gradle plugin. |
| * Improved interaction between Gradle plugin and IDE. |
| * Various bugfixes |
| |
| ## v0.6.1 (Mar 2018) |
| * Various bugfixes |
| * Support total ordering in FP comparisons |
| * Interop generates string constants from string macrodefinitions |
| * STM32 blinky demo in pure Kotlin/Native |
| * Top level variables initialization redesign (proper dependency order) |
| * Support kotlin.math on WebAssembly targets |
| * Support embedded targets on Windows hosts |
| |
| ## v0.6 (Feb 2018) |
| * Support multiplatform projects (expect/actual) in compiler and Gradle plugin |
| * Support first embedded target (STM32 board) |
| * Support Kotlin 1.2.20 |
| * Support Java 9 |
| * Support Gradle 4.5 |
| * Transparent Objective-C/Kotlin container classes interoperability |
| * Produce optimized WebAssembly binaries (10x smaller than it used to be) |
| * Improved APIs for object transfer between threads and workers |
| * Allow exporting top level C function in reverse interop with @CName annotation |
| * Supported debugging of code with inline functions |
| * Multiple bugfixes and performance optimizations |
| |
| ## v0.5 (Dec 2017) |
| * Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as framework from Objective-C/Swift programs |
| * Reverse interop allowing to call Kotlin/Native code compiled as shared object from C/C++ programs |
| * Support generation of shared objects and DLLs by the compiler |
| * Migration to LLVM 5.0 |
| * Support WebAssembly target on Linux and Windows hosts |
| * Make string conversions more robust |
| * Support kotlin.math package |
| * Refine workers and string conversion APIs |
| |
| ## v0.4 (Nov 2017) ## |
| * Objective-C frameworks interop for iOS and macOS targets |
| * Platform API libraries for Linux, iOS, macOS and Windows |
| * Kotlin 1.2 supported |
| * `val` and function parameters can be inspected in debugger |
| * Experimental support for WebAssembly (wasm32 target) |
| * Linux MIPS support (little and big endian, mips and mipsel targets) |
| * Gradle plugin DSL fully reworked |
| * Support for unit testing annotations and automatic test runner generation |
| * Final executable size reduced |
| * Various interop improvements (forward declaration, better handling of unsupported types) |
| * Workers object subgraph transfer checks implemented |
| * Optimized low level memory management using more efficient cycle tracing algorithm |
| |
| ## v0.3.4 (Oct 2017) ## |
| * Intermediate release |
| |
| ## v0.3.2 (Sep 2017) ## |
| * Bug fixes |
| |
| ## v0.3.1 (Aug 2017) ## |
| * Improvements in C interop tools (function pointers, bitfields, bugfixes) |
| * Improvements to Gradle plugin and dependency downloader |
| * Support for immutable data linked into an executable via ImmutableDataBlob class |
| * Kotlin 1.1.4 supported |
| * Basic variable inspection support in the debugger |
| * Some performance improvements ("for" loops, memory management) |
| * .klib improvements (keep options from .def file, faster inline handling) |
| * experimental workers API added (see [`sample`](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/samples/workers)) |
| |
| ## v0.3 (Jun 2017) ## |
| * Preliminary support for x86-64 Windows hosts and targets |
| * Support for producing native activities on 32- and 64-bit Android targets |
| * Extended standard library (bitsets, character classification, regular expression) |
| * Preliminary support for Kotlin/Native library format (.klib) |
| * Preliminary source-level debugging support (stepping only, no variable inspection) |
| * Compiler switch `-entry` to select entry point |
| * Symbolic backtrace in runtime for unstripped binaries, for all supported targets |
| |
| ## v0.2 (May 2017) ## |
| * Added support for coroutines |
| * Fixed most stdlib incompatibilities |
| * Improved memory management performance |
| * Cross-module inline function support |
| * Unicode support independent from installed system locales |
| * Interoperability improvements |
| * file-based filtering in definition file |
| * stateless lambdas could be used as C callbacks |
| * any Unicode string could be passed to C function |
| * Very basic debugging support |
| * Improve compilation and linking performance |
| |
| ## v0.1 (Mar 2017) ## |
| Initial technical preview of Kotlin/Native |
