Announcing Dotty 0.9.0-RC1

Today, we are excited to release Dotty 0.9.0-RC1!

Blog Post: http://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2018/07/06/ninth-dotty-milestone-release.html

Notable Changes

  • Support for implicit conversions on singleton types #4738
  • The REPL now uses JLine3 under the hood which means support for Windows, better completions and multi-line editing #4680
  • Documentation support in the IDE #4461, #4648
  • Drop requirement that implicit functions must be non-empty #4549
  • Improved auto-completion in the REPL #4398
  • An experimental stream library built using quotes and splices #4317
  • A step toward tree inspection in macros #4279
  • Optimise applyOrElse for partial function literals #4245
  • Emit feature warnings for implicit conversions #4229
  • Optimise s and raw interpolators #3961
  • Support for compiler plugins #3438

As well as many bug fixes and stability work

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible :tada:

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.8.0..0.9.0-RC1 these are:

   200  Nicolas Stucki
   155  Martin Odersky
    71  Allan Renucci
    42  Paolo G. Giarrusso
    27  Aggelos Biboudis
    25  Guillaume Martres
    22  Martin Duhem
    10  Sebastian Nadorp
    10  Wojtek Swiderski
     6  Olivier Blanvillain
     5  benkobalog
     4  Ingar Abrahamsen
     3  Ankit Soni
     2  Liu Fengyun
     2  Olivier ROLAND
     2  Fabian Page
     1  Roberto Bonvallet
     1  Fengyun Liu
     1  Zoltán Elek
     1  benkbalog
     1  Glavo
     1  dieutth
     1  fschueler
     1  mentegy

Reporting Bugs

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue! :pray:

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