vala-0.50.4

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

News
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 * Highlights:
  - Add further support for params arrays in constructors [#128]

 * Various improvements and bug fixes:
  - codegen:
    + Improve support of SimpleType struct constructors
    + Improve handling of "NoWrapper" attribute
    + Allow CCode.type_cname for classes and use get_ccode_type_name()
    + Always use G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS/INTERFACE for external symbols
    + Also check array type of variable argument for ref parameters
    + Don't leak array memory after it was implicitly copied
    + Use g_boxed_free in free-wrapper for heap-allocated GLib.Value
    + Don't leak GLib.Value when implicitly unboxing it
    + Don't leak memory moving heap-allocated struct to stack
    + Chain up to base struct destroy function
    + Correctly retrieve symbol_reference of nested cast expressions [#1134]
    + Strip all nested occurances of CCodeCastExpression [#1134]
    + Don't wrongly emit declaration for default-handler of signals
    + Include "string.h" for strcmp() (POSIX)
  - vala:
    + Improve detection of duplicate package source files
    + GtkChild fields/properties must be declared as unowned [#1121]
    + Don't allow assigning GtkChild fields/properties [#1121]
    + Apply stricter condition for lambda to delegate assignment
    + Don't allow disposable SimpleType structs
    + GLib.Value unboxing returns unowned value
    + Don't allow GLib.Value casting to nullable struct/simple types
    + Check type-arguments in base-types/prerequisites of class/interface [#404]
    + Capturing va_list parameters/variables is not allowed [#1136]
    + Generics value holding struct pointer requires casting on access [#347]
    + Infer needle type for "in" expression on enum [#1138]
    + Improve context check whether property is writeable on assignments
    + Include "stdlib.h" for Enum.to_string() (POSIX) [#1143]
    + Set proper source_reference for implicit "this" and "result" variables
    + Report error for invalid inner operand of unary expressions
  - codewriter: Don't write trailing ";" after body of WithStatement
  - girparser:
    + Handle anonymous delegate not backed by virtual-method or signal
    + Apply "delegate_target" metadata for methods and parameters
    + Apply "destroy_notify_cname" metadata for fields
    + Apply "type_get_function" metadata for classes and inferfaces
    + Set CCode.type_cname for classes if it doesn't match our default
  - girwriter: Write instance-parameter elements [#1128]
  - girwriter: Output default handler of signals
  - libvaladoc/html: Don't sort struct fields to keep their original order
  - libvaladoc: Correctly retrieve value for Api.Class.is_compact
  - libvaladoc: Add wrapper for "agedge" of graphviz

 * Bindings:
  - Fix several bindings which lead to invalid code by using them in:
    cairo, gobject-2.0, pango, goocanvas-2.0, curses, alsa, bzlib, sqlite3,
    libgvc, posix, gstreamer-1.0, gdk-3.0, gdk-x11-3.0, gtk+-3.0, gtk4,
    fuse, libxml-2.0
  - gdk-pixbuf-2.0: Fix Pixbuf.save_to_streamv_async()
  - gio-2.0: Fix binding of PollableOutputStream.write*_nonblocking()
  - gio-2.0,gtk+-3.0,gtk4: Drop explicit c-type attributes of va_list parameters
  - gio-2.0: Pick up missing invoker for some AppInfo/File.*() methods
  - glib-2.0: Add GLib.[S]List.is_empty() convenience methods for non-null
  - glib-2.0: Bind assert_cmp* functions [#395]
  - glib-2.0: Improve type of OptionEntry.flags field
  - glib-2.0: Make PtrArray a subclass of GenericArray
  - gstreamer-1.0: Set CCode.type_id of MiniObject to G_TYPE_BOXED [#1133]
  - gtk+-2.0,javascriptcoregtk-4.0: Wrong usage of CCode.type_cname attribute
  - gtk+-3.0,gtk4: Fix some delegate return values and parameters
  - gtk4: Update to 4.0.2

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at r24327

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed