blueprint-compiler/NEWS.md

v0.6.0

Breaking Changes

• Quoted and numeric literals are no longer interchangeable (e.g. "800" is no longer an accepted value for an integer type).
• Boxed types are now type checked.

Added

• There is now syntax for GType literals: the typeof() pseudo-function. For example, list stores have an item-type property which is now specifiable like this: item-type: typeof(.MyDataModel). See the documentation for more details.

Changed

• The language server now logs to stderr.

Fixed

• Fix the build on Windows, where backslashes in paths were not escaped. (William Roy)
• Remove the syntax for specifying menu objects inline, since it does not work.
• Fix a crash in the language server that was triggered in files with incomplete using Gtk 4.0; statements.
• Fixed compilation on big-endian systems.
• Fix an issue in the interactive port tool that would lead to missed files. (Frank Dana)

Documentation

• Fix an issue for documentation contributors where changing the documentation files would not trigger a rebuild.
• Document the missing support for Gtk.Label <attributes>, which is intentional, and recommend alternatives. (Sonny Piers)
• Add a prominent warning that Blueprint is still experimental

v0.4.0

Added

• Lookup expressions
• With the language server, hovering over a diagnostic message now shows any associated hints.

Changed

• The compiler now uses .typelib files rather than XML .gir files, which reduces dependencies and should reduce compile times by about half a second.

Fixed

• Fix the decompiler/porting tool not importing the Adw namespace when needed
• Fix a crash when trying to compile an empty file
• Fix parsing of number tokens
• Fix a bug where action widgets did not work in templates
• Fix a crash in the language server that occurred when a using statement had no version
• If a compiler bug is reported, the process now exits with a non-zero code