Vala 0.17.3 released

The new 0.17.3 version of the Vala programming language has been released. We'll include the changes of the 0.17.1 release as we haven't posted them previously. We skipped the 0.17.2 and 0.16.1 versions as they haven't enhanced any feature.

Changes (both 0.17.3 and 0.17.1)

• Require and target GLib >= 2.18.
• Support async creation methods.
• Improve assertion messages.
• Add --enable-gobject-tracing commandline option.
• Bug fixes and binding updates. 

More information and downloads at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.17.0 released

The new 0.17.x development cycle has started. This is the first release introducing several bug fixes and some enhancements.

Changes

• Support simple method-level profiling.
• Add VALA_CHECK_MODULES and VALA_PROG_VAPIGEN to vala.m4.
• Bug fixes and binding updates. 

The method-level profiling is enabled by adding the [Profile] attribute on top of your methods. When your application terminates, some stats will be printed to the output.

More information at the homepage of Vala.

Vala 0.16.0 released

The new stable version of the Vala programming language has been released.

Changes since 0.15.2

• Add udisks2 bindings.
• Bug fixes and binding updates. 

More information and downloads at the Vala homepage.

Vala 0.15.2 released

The new 0.15.2 version of the Vala programming language has been released. This version includes several bug fixes (including some regression fixes) and small but worthy enhancements.

Changes

• Switch poppler-glib bindings to .gir.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

 More information at the Vala homepage.

Valadoc website renewal

The valadoc website for unstable packages gets renewed:

• A fast search for looking up symbols
• Tooltips to read signature and short descriptions of symbols without leaving the page
• Ajax loading of the web pages
• It has a slightly new look that resembles gnome.org

Planned features:

• Comments by the community, for sharing experience and examples
• Proper syntax highlighting

This new version will be soon available for stable packages as well.

Valadoc is a tool for generating documentation for Vala projects and external projects featuring a GIR file, and much more.

Vala 0.14.2 released

The new 0.14.2 stable version of the Vala programming language has been released. This version doesn't only include many bug fixes but also many enhancements.

Changes

• Add libnl-3.0 bindings.
• Add packagekit-glib2 bindings.
• Add xtst bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates. 

More information at the Vala homepage.

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.