3.4.1

New features:

• php7 : added source maps generation with -D source_map flag.

General improvements and optimizations:

• cpp : added cpp.Star and cpp.Struct to help with extern typing
• lua : cleaned up various parts of the standard library

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed compilation server issue with two identical @:native paths on extern abstracts (#5993)
• all : fixed invalid inling in a specific case (#6067)
• all : fixed various display related issues
• all : fixed inline super() calls missing field initializations (#6097)
• all : consider UNC paths to be absolute in haxe.io.Path.isAbsolute (#6061)
• cpp : improved typing of some Function/Callable-related types
• cpp : fixed problem with line numbers when debugging
• hl : various fixes and improvements
• php : fixed FileSystem.stat() for directories on Windows (#6057)
• php/php7 : fixed invalid result of Web.getPostData() (#6033)
• php7 : fixed invalid access to length of string in some cases (#6055)
• php7 : fixed infinite recursion on MysqlConnection.close() (#6056)

3.4.0

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : support completion for static extensions (#5766)
• all : removed neko dependency for macros, use PCRE instead
• all : disabled analyzer optimizations by default, re-enable with -D analyzer-optimize
• php7 : generate native $v instanceof MyType instead of Std.is(v, MyType) where possible for better performance
• php7 : added @:phpNoConstructor meta for externs which do not have native php constructors and yet can be constructed
• php7 : greatly reduced amount of generated tmp vars
• php7 : Array performance improvements
• hl : made various improvements

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed using picking up non-static abstract functions (#5888)
• all : fixed issue with side-effect detection when optimizing (#5911)
• all : fixed issue with zlib bindings causing zlib_deflate errors (#5941)
• php7 : Allow user-defined modules in php package (#5921)
• php7 : Dereference some of php.Syntax methods if required (#5923)
• php : fixed assigning a method of dynamic value to a variable (#5469)
• php : fixed missing initialization of dynamic methods in classes with empty constructors (#4723)

3.4.0-rc2

New features:

• js : added API documentation to HTML externs (#5868)
• php : added php7 target, enabled with -D php7

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed top-down inference infinite recursion issue (#5848)
• all : fixed regression in Compiler.include (#5847)
• all : fixed Not_found exception related to try/catch (#5851)
• all : fixed metadata completion showing up in trace arguments (#5775)
• all : fixed problem with useless pattern detection (#5873)
• all : fixed issue with toString handling in trace arguments (#5858)
• all : fixed inline constructor scoping (#5855)
• cpp : fixed issue with cpp.Pointer variables being eliminated (#5850)
• js : added Notification API to HTML externs (#5852)
• js : fixed several options structures in HTML externs (#5849)
• php/cs : FileSystem.deleteFile() and FileSystem.deleteDirectory() now throw on non-existent path (#5742)
• php/lua : fixed field access on null (#4988)
• php : fixed static field access on a Class<T> stored to a field (#5383)
• php : fixed invalid detection of NativeArray by Std.is() (#5565)
• php : fixed stdin(), stdout(), stderr() of Sys to use predefined constants for corresponding channels (#5733)
• php : fixed Std.parseInt() on hexstrings for PHP7+ (#5521)
• php : fixed typed cast in assign operations (#5135)
• php : fixed exception thrown by Reflect.fields(o) when o is Class<T> (#5608)
• php : fixed json encoding of empty objects (#5015)
• php : fixed checking floats for equality (#4260)
• php : throw if invalid json string supplied to Json.parse() (#4592)
• php : fixed ssl connections (#4581)
• php : fixed writing bytes containing zero byte to MySQL & SQLite (#4489)
• php : fixed call()() cases for PHP5 (#5569)

3.4.0-rc1

New features:

• all : support metadata completion
• all : support type-hint completion
• all : added @Signature display mode (#4758)
• all : finalized HashLink (HL) target

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed various optimization issues
• all : fixed various issues with side-effect detection
• all : fixed performance drain in the DCE implementation (#5716)
• all : fixed issue with assignments when inlining constructor (#5340)
• all : fixed major inlining issue when using compilation server (#5320)
• all : fixed pattern matching evaluation order issue (#5274)
• cpp : fixed various minor code generation issues
• js : fixed issue regarding iterating over abstracts (#5385)
• python : fixed evaluation order issue for array writing (#5366)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : greatly improved support for display mode in general
• all : made --times output look much nicer
• all : remove calls to functions that have no side-effect
• all : hid private property accessors from completion (#5678)
• js : updated jQuery extern (js.jquery.*) for jQuery 1.12.4 / 3.1.0 support.
• js : jQuery extern (js.jquery.*) now includes deprecated fields marked with @:deprecated.
• js : no longer rewrite o["s"] to o.s (#5724)
• cpp : greatly improved ObjC output and integration options
• lua : greatly improved code output quality

Standard Library:

• all : added Any type (#5500)
• all : added haxe.extern.AsVar
• all : added haxe.macro.CompilationServer (experimental)
• all : fixed haxe.Template.resolve (#5301)

3.3.0-rc1

New features:

• all : support @:resolve on abstracts (#3753)
• all : support extern abstracts and extern @:enum abstracts (#4862)
• all : support completion on { if the expected type is a structure (#3907)
• all : support (expr is Type) with mandatory parentheses (#2976)
• all : allowed passing package dot-paths on command line (#4227)
• all : support import.hx modules that define per-directory import/using directives (#1138)
• all : support parsing of postfix ! operator (can be used by abstract operator overloading and macros) (#4284)
• all : support parsing of ||= and &&= operators (can be used by abstract operator overloading and macros) (#4427)
• all : support @:structInit classes (#4526)
• all : reworked static analyzer and enabled it by default
• flash : update flash externs to version 21
• hl : added HL target (interpreter and C output)
• lua: added lua target
• js : introduced new jQuery extern (js.jquery.*) for jQuery 1.12.4 / 2.2.4 support. (#4377)
• js : introduced new SWFObject extern (js.swfobject.SWFObject) for SWFObject 2.3.20130521 (#4451)
• js : added js.Lib.rethrow (#4551)
• cs/java : added -D fast_cast as an experimental feature to cleanup casts

Bugfixes:

• all : properly disallowed assigning methods to structures with read-accessors (#3975)
• all : fixed a bug related to abstract + Int/Float and implicit casts (#4122)
• all : disallowed duplicate type parameter names (#4293)
• all : made UInt's >>> behave like >> (#2736)
• all : fixed various type loading issues
• all : fixed code generation problems with inline (#1827)
• php/as3 : support run-time metadata on interfaces (#2042)
• php : fixed argument passing to closures (#2587)
• neko/cpp : fixed various sys.Filesystem issues with Windows drive paths (#3266)
• as3 : fixed problem with covariant return types (#4222)
• as3 : fixed rare problem with static initialization order (#3563)
• python : fixed various reflection problems

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : added support for determining minimal types in Map literals (#4196)
• all : allowed @:native on abstracts to set the name of the implementation class (#4158)
• all : allowed creating closures on abstract inline methods (#4165)
• all : type parameter declarations can now have metadata (#3836)
• all : optimize Math.ceil/floor on constant arguments (#4223)
• all : allowed extern classes to have field names being used for both static and instance (#4376)
• all : added haxe.Constraints.Constructible (#4761)
• all : rewrote pattern matcher to improve output in many cases (#4940)
• python : use spaces instead of tabs to indent the output (#4299)
• cpp : reworked backend to improve overall code output quality and fix various issues
• swf : added scene-tag to allow creating accessible SWF files

Standard Library:

• all : added Lambda.flatten and Lambda.flatMap (#3553)
• all : added haxe.Constraints.Constructible (#4761)
• sys : proper quoting/escaping (can be opt-out) for Sys.command and sys.io.Process (#3603)
• js : added position parameter to haxe.macro.Compiler.includeFile
• js : removed -D embed-js (#4074)
• js : updated HTML externs

Macro features and changes:

• macro : added overloads field to ClassField (#3460)
• macro : added Context.getLocalImports (#3560)
• macro : added Context.onAfterTyping (#4714)
• macro : added Context.resolveType

3.2.1

Bugfixes:

• cs/java : fixed -dce no issues
• cs/java : fixed how KExpr type parameters are generated
• cs : fixed enum creation by reflection problem
• cpp : do not rely in reflection to make interfaces work for non-first interface parents
• cpp : fixed setting of static variables via reflection when class has no member variables* *
• cpp : make sure StringMap's h field is kept if we use StringMap*
• js : Avoid the use of eval/Function to get the top-level defined type/var to not break ContentSecurityPolicy

3.2.0

New features:

• all : added @:noPrivateAccess to re-enable access restrictions within @:privateAccess
• cpp : some support for @:nativeGen metadata

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed detection of @:generic classes with constructor constraints
• all : fixed variable initialization check issue in loop condition
• all : fixed pattern matching on @:enum abstracts via field access (#4084)
• all : fixed missing implicit casts in Map literals (#4100)
• all : fixed various minor issues in haxe.xml.Parser
• all : fixed class path issue when HAXE_STD_PATH is set (#4163)
• js : fixed DCE issue related to printing enums (#4197)
• js : fixed various issues with the new Bytes implementation
• php : fixed EOF handling in FileInput.readByte (#4082)
• cs/java : fixed Math.fround implementation (#4177)
• cs/java : fixed some cases of Std.parseInt failing (#4132)
• cpp : fixed compilation without -main (#4199)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : --macro keep no longer causes types to be included for compilation
• php : support interpolation in php code
• js : added variable number of arguments support in js.html.* classes
• js : refined new HTML externs

Macro features and changes:

• macro : [breaking] synced FClosure and FInstance with the compiler updates

3.2.0-rc2

New features:

• all : added --display mode for toplevel completion
• all : added --display mode for position and usage information
• all : allowed @:callable on abstracts to forward calls to their underlying type
• all : allowed pattern matching on getters
• all : allowed @:native on class fields
• all : added static analyzer with constant propagation
• all : added Haxe-based XML implementation
• python : added python target
• flash : flash player 12-14 support
• js : added @:jsRequire and js.Lib.require
• js : support haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack
• cs : added @:bridgeProperties
• cs : added -D erase_generics
• cs : added -D dll_import to import haxe-generated dlls
• java/cs : added sys.db package
• java/cs : clean unused files in output folder, unless -D keep_old_output is defined
• java/cs : added -c-arg to add C#/Java compiler arguments
• cpp : inititial implementation of cppia scripting

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed nullability of abstracts over functions
• all : fixed some equality checks between UInt and Int
• all : fixed rare issue with abstract casts
• all : fixed some internal code which relied on unspecified evaluation order
• all : fixed exhaustiveness checks involving guards
• all : fixed issue involving recursively constrained type parameters and @:generic
• all : fixed type inference issue in map literals
• all : fixed type inference issue when calling abstract method from within the abstract
• all : fixed several abstract variance issues
• all : fixed DCE issues with interface properties
• all : fixed variance issue with function variables and dynamic methods on interfaces
• all : fixed pattern matching on empty arrays that are typed as Dynamic
• all : fixed various @:generic issues
• all : fixed default cases on @:enum abstract being omitted
• all : fixed various expression positions
• all : disallowed break/continue in closures in loops
• all : disallowed inline functions in value places
• all : fixed parsing of cast followed by parentheses
• all : fixed resource naming in case of invalid file system characters
• all : fixed issue with inlined array declarations with field access
• cpp : fixed issue with the side-effect handler
• cpp : fixed issue with NativeArray in --no-inline mode
• php : fixed issue with invalid references for closures in for-loops
• php : fixed Reflect.compare and string comparison for numeric strings
• cs/java : fixed various issues with -java-lib and -net-lib.
• cs/java : added @:libType to skip checking on -java-lib / -net-lib types
• cs/java : compilation server now works with C#/Java [experimental support]
• cs : fixed Type.enumIndex / switch on C# native enums
• cs : fixed reflection on COM types
• java : fixed sys.net.Socket server implementation
• spod : various fixes - working now on cpp, java, neko, php and c#
• cpp : improved boot order, with enums constants first

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : disallowed using super in value positions
• all : check exhaustiveness of explicit Null types
• all : resolve unqualified identifiers to @:enum abstract constructors
• all : determine @:generic type parameters from constructor call if possible
• all : properly disallowed field redefinition in extending interface
• all : properly disallowed leading zeroes for Int and Float literals
• all : allowed variance on interface variables
• all : allowed pattern matching on arrays if they are typed as Dynamic
• all : allowed pattern matching on fields of parent classes
• all : -D doc-gen no longer implies -dce no
• all : allowed matching against null on any enum instance
• flash/js: optimized haxe.ds.StringMap
• neko : create output directory if it does not exist
• js : inline Math methods and fields
• cs/java : optimized Reflect.fields on dynamic structures
• cs/java : haxe will now clear output directory of old files (use -D keep-old-output to keep them)
• cs : optimized field lookup structure
• cs : optimized casting of parametrized types
• cs : beautify c# code output
• cs : added cs.Flags to manipulate C# enums that can be also flags
• xml : improved documentation generation and fixed missing entity escaping
• cpp : property access via Dynamic variables now requires property to be declared with @:nativeProperty
• cpp : allow injection of code from relative paths using @:sourceFile and @:cppInclude
• cpp : stronger typing of native functions via cpp.Function + cpp.Callable
• cpp : moved 'Class' implementation to hx namespace to improve objective C interaction
• cpp : added file_extension define to change the output filename extension (eg, ".mm")
• cpp : added pre-calculated hashes to string constants to allow faster lookups
• cpp : map implementation allows strongly typed interactions in some cases (avoids boxing)
• cpp : added native WeakMap implementation
• cpp : put each resource into own cpp file to allow more data/smaller files

Standard Library:

• all : added typed arrays to haxe.io package
• all : added haxe.ds.Either
• all : added haxe.extern.Rest type for representing "rest" arguments in extern method signatures
• all : added haxe.extern.EitherType abstract type for dealing with externs for dynamic targets
• all : added haxe.DynamicAccess type for working with dynamic anonymous structures using a Map-like interface
• all : [breaking] changed haxe.ds.Vector.get to return T instead of Null
• all : added haxe.macro.Compiler.addGlobalMetadata
• all : changed haxe.Int64 to be an abstract type instead of a class
• js : updated HTML externs

Macro features and changes:

• macro : added Context.getLocalTVars
• macro : added TypedExprTools.iter
• macro : added Context.getCallArguments
• macro : changed @:genericBuild macros to prefer ComplexType returns
• macro : [breaking] extended TAnonymous structures now have AExtend status instead of AClosed
• macro : added Context.getDefines
• macro : fixed file_seek from end (position was inversed)
• macro : added Context.storeTypedExpr
• macro : allowed type name reification

Deprecations:

• all : deprecated structurally extending classes and interfaces
• sys : Sys.command shell special chars (&|<>#;*?(){}$) are now properly escaped
• java/cs : Lib.nativeType is now renamed to Lib.getNativeType
• The Flash 8 target has been removed

3.2.0-rc1

New features:

• all : added --display mode for toplevel completion
• all : added --display mode for position and usage information
• all : allowed @:callable on abstracts to forward calls to their underlying type
• all : allowed pattern matching on getters
• all : allowed @:native on class fields
• all : added static analyzer with constant propagation
• all : added Haxe-based XML implementation
• python : added python target
• flash : flash player 12-14 support
• js : added @:jsRequire and js.Lib.require
• js : support haxe.CallStack.exceptionStack
• cs : added @:bridgeProperties
• cs : added -D erase_generics
• cs : added -D dll_import to import haxe-generated dlls
• java/cs : added sys.db package
• java/cs : clean unused files in output folder, unless -D keep_old_output is defined
• java/cs : added -c-arg to add C#/Java compiler arguments
• cpp : inititial implementation of cppia scripting

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed nullability of abstracts over functions
• all : fixed some equality checks between UInt and Int
• all : fixed rare issue with abstract casts
• all : fixed some internal code which relied on unspecified evaluation order
• all : fixed exhaustiveness checks involving guards
• all : fixed issue involving recursively constrained type parameters and @:generic
• all : fixed type inference issue in map literals
• all : fixed type inference issue when calling abstract method from within the abstract
• all : fixed several abstract variance issues
• all : fixed DCE issues with interface properties
• all : fixed variance issue with function variables and dynamic methods on interfaces
• all : fixed pattern matching on empty arrays that are typed as Dynamic
• all : fixed various @:generic issues
• all : fixed default cases on @:enum abstract being omitted
• all : fixed various expression positions
• all : disallowed break/continue in closures in loops
• all : disallowed inline functions in value places
• all : fixed parsing of cast followed by parentheses
• all : fixed resource naming in case of invalid file system characters
• all : fixed issue with inlined array declarations with field access
• cpp : fixed issue with the side-effect handler
• cpp : fixed issue with NativeArray in --no-inline mode
• php : fixed issue with invalid references for closures in for-loops
• php : fixed Reflect.compare and string comparison for numeric strings
• cs/java : fixed various issues with -java-lib and -net-lib.
• cs/java : added @:libType to skip checking on -java-lib / -net-lib types
• cs/java : compilation server now works with C#/Java [experimental support]
• cs : fixed Type.enumIndex / switch on C# native enums
• cs : fixed reflection on COM types
• java : fixed sys.net.Socket server implementation
• spod : various fixes - working now on cpp, java, neko, php and c#
• cpp : improved boot order, with enums constants first

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : disallowed using super in value positions
• all : check exhaustiveness of explicit Null types
• all : resolve unqualified identifiers to @:enum abstract constructors
• all : determine @:generic type parameters from constructor call if possible
• all : properly disallowed field redefinition in extending interface
• all : properly disallowed leading zeroes for Int and Float literals
• all : allowed variance on interface variables
• all : allowed pattern matching on arrays if they are typed as Dynamic
• all : allowed pattern matching on fields of parent classes
• all : -D doc-gen no longer implies -dce no
• all : allowed matching against null on any enum instance
• flash/js: optimized haxe.ds.StringMap
• neko : create output directory if it does not exist
• js : inline Math methods and fields
• cs/java : optimized Reflect.fields on dynamic structures
• cs/java : haxe will now clear output directory of old files (use -D keep-old-output to keep them)
• cs : optimized field lookup structure
• cs : optimized casting of parametrized types
• cs : beautify c# code output
• cs : added cs.Flags to manipulate C# enums that can be also flags
• xml : improved documentation generation and fixed missing entity escaping
• cpp : property access via Dynamic variables now requires property to be declared with @:nativeProperty
• cpp : allow injection of code from relative paths using @:sourceFile and @:cppInclude
• cpp : stronger typing of native functions via cpp.Function + cpp.Callable
• cpp : moved 'Class' implementation to hx namespace to improve objective C interaction
• cpp : added file_extension define to change the output filename extension (eg, ".mm")
• cpp : added pre-calculated hashes to string constants to allow faster lookups
• cpp : map implementation allows strongly typed interactions in some cases (avoids boxing)
• cpp : added native WeakMap implementation
• cpp : put each resource into own cpp file to allow more data/smaller files

Standard Library:

• all : added typed arrays to haxe.io package
• all : added haxe.ds.Either
• all : added haxe.extern.Rest type for representing "rest" arguments in extern method signatures
• all : added haxe.extern.EitherType abstract type for dealing with externs for dynamic targets
• all : added haxe.DynamicAccess type for working with dynamic anonymous structures using a Map-like interface
• all : [breaking] changed haxe.ds.Vector.get to return T instead of Null
• all : added haxe.macro.Compiler.addGlobalMetadata
• all : changed haxe.Int64 to be an abstract type instead of a class
• js : updated HTML externs

Macro features and changes:

• macro : added Context.getLocalTVars
• macro : added TypedExprTools.iter
• macro : added Context.getCallArguments
• macro : changed @:genericBuild macros to prefer ComplexType returns
• macro : [breaking] extended TAnonymous structures now have AExtend status instead of AClosed
• macro : added Context.getDefines
• macro : fixed file_seek from end (position was inversed)
• macro : added Context.storeTypedExpr
• macro : allowed type name reification

Deprecations:

• all : deprecated structurally extending classes and interfaces
• sys : Sys.command shell special chars (&|<>#;*?(){}$) are now properly escaped
• java/cs : Lib.nativeType is now renamed to Lib.getNativeType
• The Flash 8 target has been removed

3.1.3

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed handling of abstract variance
• flash : ensure correct endianess in haxe.io.BytesBuffer
• cpp : fixed issue involving class paths with spaces
• php : fixed >>>
• macro : fixed haxe.macro.Compiler.keep

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : give @:deprecated warnings by default, allow -D no-deprecation-warnings
• cpp : optimized Vector implementation

Standard Library:

• all : renamed Bytes.readDouble/Float to getDouble/Float to avoid inheritance issues
• all : deprecated Bytes.readString in favor of getString
• all : added pretty-printing to haxe.format.JsonPrinter (and haxe.Json)