Announcing Dotty 0.11.0-RC1

[allanrenucci]

Today, we are excited to release Dotty version 0.11.0-RC1!

Blog Post: https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2018/11/30/11th-dotty-milestone-release.html

Notable Changes

Tooling

• IDE: New shiny Worksheet mode for VS Code #5102, #5230, #5238, #5277, #5320, #5380
• IDE: Improved completions for imports #5476
• IDE: Added support for Signature Help #5395
• IDE: Added support for Jump to Definition in imports #4199
• IDE: Added support for Go to Implementation #5401
• IDE: Improve display of documentation on hover #5394
• IDE: Support for multi-projects Find all References #5209
• REPL: History now persists across sessions #5252
• REPL: Syntax highlighting of comments is now supported #5301
• TASTY files can now be the input of dotc -from-tasty #5325

Language

• New Opaque Types Aliases #5300
• Synthesised copy and apply methods of case classes now share the same visibility as their constructor #5472
• Introduction of soft modifiers (i.e. inline , opaque ) that can be used as identifiers #5471
• Replacement for Weak Conformance #5371
• Improvements to lazy vals performance and code size #5354, #5446, #5478
• Improved error reporting for @tailrec annotated methods #5399, #5431
• Exhaustivity checker now takes anonymous classes into account #5396
• Several improvements to structural types #5377, #5391
• Several improvements and addition to Macros and the Tasty reflect API
  #5164, #5181, #5235, #5398, #5416, #5435, #5437, #5475, #5477, #5483, #5504

Platforms

• Our support for Windows has been improved #5415, #5430, #5452, #5457, #5487

As well as many bug fixes and other improvements!

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.10.0..0.11.0-RC1 these are:

   143  Martin Duhem
   104  Nicolas Stucki
    82  Martin Odersky
    60  Guillaume Martres
    35  Allan Renucci
    21  poechsel
    12  Olivier Blanvillain
    10  Liu Fengyun
     8  Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki
     6  Tobias Bordenca
     5  Sébastien Doeraene
     4  Stéphane Micheloud
     3  João Pedro Evangelista
     3  Miles Sabin
     3  Neeraj Jaiswal
     3  Abel Nieto
     2  Ólafur Páll Geirsson
     2  Fengyun Liu
     2  veera venky
     1  mikhail
     1  Glavo
     1  0xflotus
     1  Paolo G. Giarrusso

Reporting Bugs

If you encounter a bug, please open an issue!