swig-4.0.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Release Notes

Detailed release notes are available with the release and are also published on the SWIG web site at ​http://swig.org/release.html.

SWIG-4.0.0 summary:

• Support for Doxygen documentation comments which are parsed and converted into JavaDoc or PyDoc comments.
• STL wrappers improved for C#, Java and Ruby.
• C++11 STL containers added for Java, Python and Ruby.
• Improved support for parsing C++11 and C++14 code.
• Various fixes for shared_ptr.
• Various C preprocessor corner case fixes.
• Corner case fixes for member function pointers.
• Python module overhaul by simplifying the generated code and turning most optimizations on by default.
• %template improvements wrt scoping to align with C++ explicit template instantiations.
• Added support for a command-line options file (sometimes called a response file).
• Numerous enhancements and fixes for all supported target languages.
• SWIG now classifies the status of target languages into either 'Experimental' or 'Supported' to indicate the expected maturity level.
• Support for CFFI, Allegrocl, Chicken, CLISP, S-EXP, UFFI, Pike, Modula3 has been removed.
• Octave 4.4-5.1 support added.
• PHP5 support removed, PHP7 is now the supported PHP version.
• Minimum Python version required is now 2.7, 3.2-3.7 are the only other versions supported.
• Added support for Javascript NodeJS versions 2-10.
• OCaml support is much improved and updated, minimum OCaml version required is now 3.12.0.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 21526.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed