vala-0.56.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Vala 0.56.0

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • codegen: Drop confusing warning when accessing interface members

• Bindings:
  • Add webkit2gtk-4.1 bindings
  • glib-2.0: Fix memory management of TestSuite.add*/get_root() with 2.70 [#1295]
  • libarchive: Fix a few binding errors
  • SDL2_ttf: Fix a few binding errors
  • tiff: Fix a few binding errors

Vala 0.55.91

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • girparser:
    • Handle duplicated and unnamed symbols
    • Add support for "copy_/free_function" metadata for compact classes
    • Don't count instance-parameter when checking for backwards closure reference [#721]

• Bindings:
  • gst-editing-services-1.0: Fix BaseEffect.set_time_translation_funcs()
  • gstreamer-audio-1.0: Fix a few binding errors
  • gstreamer-base-1.0: Fix a few binding errors
  • gstreamer-video-1.0: Fix a few binding errors
  • gtk4: Fix content_deserialize_async()
  • libarchive: Fix a few binding errors
  • libgsf-1: Fix a few binding errors
  • libgrss: Fix FeedItem.get_geo_point() parameters

Vala 0.55.90

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • codegen:
    • Emit G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC() for interfaces with base class [#1292]
    • Emit G_DEFINE_AUTO_CLEANUP_CLEAR_FUNC() for structs [#1293]
    • Default to "has_type_id = false" for external error-domains
    • Emit GType definition for error domains [#699]
  • vala:
    • Catch and throw possible inner error of lock statements [#83]
    • Keep error-code symbol reference in callable expression context
    • Allow delegate without target to be used as constant type
  • girparser: Pick up type_id of error domains

• Bindings:
  • glib-2.0: Update 2.70/72 symbols
  • gstreamer: Update from 1.21.0+ git main
  • vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

Vala 0.55.3

• Highlights:
  • Allow usage of dynamic on VarType [#187]

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • codegen: Use correct target/destroy of delegate field initializer [#1285]
  • codegen: Stop generating wrappers for dynamic property access
  • gtkmodule: Improve UI parsing and handling of nested objects and properties
  • vala:
    • Add missing TraverseVisitor.visit_data_type()
    • Improve check of generic type references in static contexts [#1284]
    • Make sure to drop our "trap" jump target in case of an error [#1287]
    • Move dynamic property errors to semantic analyzer pass
    • Free empty stack list for code contexts
    • Clear SemanticAnalyzer.current_{symbol,source_file} when not needed anymore

• Bindings:
  • gio-2.0,glib-2.0,gobject-2.0: Update 2.72 symbols
  • gstreamer: Update from 1.19.90+ git main
  • gtk4: Specify sentinel for GtkAcessible methods
  • gtk4: Update to 4.6.0+06ec4ec1
  • vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

Vala 0.55.2

• Highlights:
  • Add support for async main and yield statements in main block [#1275]
  • Add foreach statement support for GLib.Array and GLib.Sequence

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • codegen:
    • Avoid symbol clashes with "va_*" from "stdarg.h"
    • Access of inline allocated array is guaranteed to be non null [#1282]
    • Don't uncoditionally null check callback_func for GLib.Closure [#1282]
    • Access of stack allocated struct is guaranteed to be non null [#1282]
    • Write array length of formal parameters with fixed length
  • vala:
    • Require lvalue access of delegate target/destroy "fields" [#857]
    • Implement missing YieldStatement.accept()
    • Add support to infer return type of dynamic signals
    • Transform assignment of an array element as needed [#889] [#1258]
  • parser: Reduce the source reference of main block method to its beginning
  • parser: Improve handling of nullable VarType in with-statement
  • manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org

• Bindings:
  • glib-2.0,gio-2.0: Update 2.72 symbols
  • gstreamer: Update from 1.19.3+ git master
  • gtk4: Update to 4.6.0+a092986a
  • glib-2.0: Fix criticals in string.joinv() with arrays that start with null
  • vapi: Add linux-media bindings (linux/media.h)
  • alsa: Add/fix *.alloca() functions
  • posix: Add limits.h binding
  • v4l2: Update V4l2.Capabilities and fix some inline arrays

Vala 0.55.1

• Highlights:
  • Add support for partial classes [#370]
  • Add support for nested methods (local functions) [#1232]
  • Add multi-line support to Vala.Report [#764]
  • Support "emit" for explicit signal emission
  • Add native support to specify non default length-type for arrays [#607]

• Various improvements and bug fixes:
  • codegen:
    • Move some errors to semantic analyzer pass
    • Stop generating wrappers for dynamic signal connections
    • gdbus: Use g_dbus_method_invocation_take_error() as simplification
    • Initialize type parameter properties for generics earlier [#67]
    • Initialize "result" variable on declaration for abstract methods only
    • Use once instead of volatile in generated code
    • Generated SimpleType structs don't have a type id
  • vala:
    • Add optional SourceReference parameter to DataType classes
    • Preserve the source reference when resolving data types
    • Set source references of created DataType instances in OCE
    • Set TypeParameter as symbol of GenericType
    • Add accessibility check of type for constants and structs base type
    • Don't allow casting to void [#1070]
    • Don't allow casting real structs to classes or simple-types [#1249]
    • Check accessibility of initializer for constant and enum value
    • Show source location when reporting deprecations

• Bindings:
  • Add gnome-desktop-4, gnome-bg-4 and gnome-rr-4 bindings
  • Add libsoup-3.0 binding
  • Add webkit2gtk-5.0 bindings
  • glib-2.0: Add Unicode 14.0 symbols
  • glib-2.0: Update 2.72 symbols
  • gstreamer: Update from 1.19.3+ git master
  • gstreamer-1.0: Make Gst.Uri a sealed class
  • gtk4: Update to 4.6.0+06e5da45
  • webkit2gtk-*.0: Update to 2.35.1
  • vapi: Update GIR-based bindings

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 67042ee3bf1e1d421d745008919f11d5260dccde

 Package updates.
    Update to vala-0.56.0.
    Update to glib-2.72.0.