Vala 0.15.1 released

The new 0.15.1 version of the Vala programming language has been released. This version introduces a lot of enhancements and regression fixes with regards to the previous 0.15.0 release.

Changes

• Support arrays with nullable elements.
• Add support to .gir reader and writer.
• Switch clutter-gtk-1.0 bindings to .gir.
• Switch gio-2.0 bindings to .gir.
• Add cogl-pango-1.0 bindings.
• Add gdl-3.0 bindings.
• Add libnl-3.0 bindings.
• Add packagekit-glib2 bindings.
• Add xtst bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

Important breakage note
Now captured parameters of array type are no more copied implicitly by Vala. A captured parameter is one of the following:

• Either it is a parameter of an async method
• Or it is a parameter used inside of a closure

The advantage is that async methods in GIO that have arrays as parameters (like buffers) can finally be overridden, otherwise impossible. Same goes parameters referred by closures.
Therefore, if you were relying on the implicit array copy made by Vala in these cases, please take care of this change.

More information and downloads at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.15.0 released

The development snapshot version 0.15.0 of the Vala programming language has been released. All the bugs fixes shipped with 0.14.1 have been included in 0.15.0 plus other fixes and enhancements.

Changes

• Manage memory of GQueue elements.
• Switch atk bindings to .gir.
• Switch gdk-pixbuf-2.0 bindings to .gir.
• Switch gdk-3.0 bindings to .gir.
• Add libwnck-3.0 bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

Most notably this release fixes the memory management with GLib.Queue. If you were using this data structure, the change will fix several memory leaks.

More information and download at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.14.1 released

The new stable release 0.14.1 of the Vala programming language introduces a number of significant fixes with regards to the first 0.14.0 stable release. It is very recommended to upgrade to 0.14.1.

Changes

• Add libwnck-3.0 bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

 
More information and downloads at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.14.0 released

Hello,
the new stable 0.14 version of Vala has been released. Changes since 0.13.4 are bug fixes, nothing particularly noteworthy.

Changes since version 0.12.1:

• Enable flow analysis for out parameters.
• Refactor attribute handling. 
• More refactoring in the code generator.
• Improvements to the .gir reader.
• Drop deprecated support for D-Bus GLib in favor of GDBus.
• Add gedit-3.0, gtksourceview-3.0, rest-0.7, vte-2.90 and libpeas-1.0 bindings.
• Switch pangocairo, gudev-1.0, mx-1.0, clutter-1.0, libgdata, libsoup-2.4 and json-glib-1.0 bindings to use GIR.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

Additionally you might want to take a look at the notes in the following two links when upgrading to vala 0.14:

• About discouraged copy of delegates
• About libvala breakage, command "valac file.vapi" breakage and warnings for out parameters

More information at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.13.4 has been released

The new 0.13.4 version of the Vala programming language has been released. Notice that we didn't announce the 0.13.3 version on this blog. So this post will be cumulative of the changes since version 0.13.2:

Changes

• Switch pangocairo bindings to .gir.
• Switch gudev-1.0 bindings to .gir.
• Switch mx-1.0 bindings to .gir.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

As usual more information and download at the Vala homepage.

Libgee 0.7.0 released

Hello,
the new 0.7.0 version of libgee has been released. Libgee is a collection library providing GObject-based interfaces and classes for commonly used data structures.

API changes

• Move to delegates with targets
• Name of delegates moved into Gee namespace (Alban Browaeys)
• Gee.Hashable interface
• Moved Iterator.first into BidirIterator.first
• Allow checking if iterator is valid by Iterator.valid property
• Add highier-level functions by Traversable interface
• Add lazy values
• Introduce SortedMap interface

New implementations

• TreeMap now implements SortedMap

Infrastructure

• Use automake 1.11 vala support
• Allow installation in parallel with libgee 0.5/0.6

Code Quality

• Many bug fixes
• Allow better code optimization for user by higher level functions
• Lots of additional documentation

Also please note that now Libgee has its own mailing-list and its own #gee IRC channel.

More information at the libgee homepage.

Vala 0.13.2 released

Hello,
after one month of active development, the new 0.13.2 version of the Vala programming language has been released.

Changes

• Enable flow analysis for out parameters.
• Refactor attribute handling.
• Add gedit-3.0 bindings.
• Add gtksourceview-3.0 bindings.
• Add rest-0.7 bindings.
• Add vte-2.90 bindings.
• Switch clutter-1.0 bindings to .gir.
• Switch libgdata bindings to .gir.
• Switch libsoup bindings to .gir.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Some stats since 0.13.1: 216 commits and 77+ bug fixes (56 of which were bug reports).

libvala breakage. Due to the "Refactor attribute handling" point in the release notes, the libvala API regarding the C information of symbols etc. has changed. All the C bits like get_cname() have been moved out of the code tree into CCodeBaseModule. Notice that CCodeBaseModule extensively cache the results of the calls per codenode, and never invalidates it.

valac file.vapi breakage. Passing .vapi files to valac won't peek the relative .deps file anymore. This behavior will be available only when using the --pkg switch.

out parameter warnings. The "Enable flow analysis for out parameters" point in the release notes means that out parameters must be initialized both before using it and before returning from the method.

More information and download at the Vala homepage.