Announcing Dotty 0.26.0-RC1

We are proud to announce Dotty 0.26.0-RC1. In this version, we have improved the extension methods – their syntax is now more uniform. We have also implemented local selectable instances and have done a bunch of improvements to the compiler and the language API. Otherwise, we are focusing our efforts on reducing the issue count on the issue tracker, boosting performance and improving the stability of the compiler in other ways

You can read more about these and other changes in the blog post: https://dotty.epfl.ch/blog/2020/07/27/26th-dotty-milestone-release.html

Notable Changes

Language & API

Unified extension methods #9255
Allow structural anonymous classes #9201
Add summonAll and constValueTuple #9209

Compiler improvements

Infer missing implicit args in using clause #9347
Change implicit to using #9333
Use new extension syntax in scala.tasty.Reflection #9311
Have a per-run time budget for import suggestions #9167

Contributors

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

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 0.25.0-RC2..0.26.0-RC1 these are:

   128  Martin Odersky
    53  Nicolas Stucki
    30  Sébastien Doeraene
    18  Anatolii Kmetiuk
    18  Guillaume Raffin
    17  Lan, Jian
    12  Guillaume Martres
     5  Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki
     3  Ruslan Shevchenko
     3  odersky
     2  Alden Torres
     2  Robert Stoll
     2  yu-croco
     1  Alex Zolotko
     1  Kevin Dreßler
     1  FabioPinheiro
     1  adpi2
     1  Matthew Pickering
     1  Liu Fengyun

Reporting Bugs

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

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