Vala 0.12.0 released

Hello,
a new stable release of the Vala programming language has been released. The version 0.12.0 is now out and branched, therefore the new development series will be 0.13.

Changes since 0.11.7

• Add get_next_char to string class.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Changes since 0.10.4

• Add last_index_of, last_index_of_char, get_next_char, index_of, index_of_char, char_count to string class.
• Add parse and try_parse methods to boolean and numeric types.
• Add clutter-gtk-1.0, pixmap-1 bindings.
• Refactoring in the code generator.
• Improvements to the .gir writer.
• Support BusName sender parameter in GDBus servers.
• Update libnotify bindings to 0.7.0.
• Improvements to the .gir reader.
• Require and target GLib >= 2.16.
• Guard access to out parameters to allow null arguments.
• Add support for local constants.
• Support file descriptor passing with GDBus.
• Support cached property values in GDBus clients.
• Support Cancellable parameter in GDBus clients.
• Support no-reply methods in GDBus clients and servers.

I'd like to anticipate that the first 0.13.0 version will completely drop the dbus-glib support in favor of gdbus (migrating guide for C).

Stay tuned for the next stable and development releases.