v0.33.0

What's Changed

⭐ Features

• Add publicTypes method to DeployedContract for introspection by @dreamsmasher in #2242
• Parse type parameter lists for function declarations by @turbolent in #2145
• Allow equality tests on arrays if their inner types support it by @dreamsmasher in #2271

🛠 Improvements

• improve wording and classification of some interpreter errors by @dsainati1 in #2194
• Also update flow-go's new insecure package by @turbolent in #2220
• Correct example code link by @alilloig in #2209
• Allow errors to pretty-print excerpts over multiple lines by @dsainati1 in #2197
• Add additional metering methods to the interface by @janezpodhostnik in #2222
• Ensure GetProgram calls before SetProgram by @turbolent in #2249
• Replace interface GetProgram and SetProgram with GetAndSetProgram by @turbolent in #2254
• Replace empty common.Address{} with singleton by @dreamsmasher in #2256
• Improve update tool and documentation by @SupunS in #2261
• add unwrap to ExternalError by @dsainati1 in #2286
• Refactor external types to instantiate only once whenever possible by @SupunS in #2225
• add Config() method to runtime.Runtime interface by @dreamsmasher in #2281
• Improve compatibility diff checker by @SupunS in #2291
• Add Cadence to Go type translator, refactor Block type by @turbolent in #2278
• Add support for type parameters to Cadence to Go type translator by @turbolent in #2287
• Simplify lookaheads by @turbolent in #2298
• Clear the test runtime program cache automatically after contract update by @turbolent in #2306
• Use dedicated type parameters for test-stdlib functions by @SupunS in #2206
• Remove support for importing/exporting and JSON encoding/decoding path links and cadence type by @turbolent in #2248
• Add backward compatibility check CI workflow by @SupunS in #2237
• Avoid unnecessary use of any and casts, parse function is generic now by @turbolent in #2270
• Automate the release process by @SupunS in #2239
• Make compatibility checker workflow work with old tags by @SupunS in #2288
• Improve version bump command by @SupunS in #2314

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Revert "don't ignore invalid identifier" / PR by @turbolent in #2218
• Ensure SetProgram is called after GetProgram, even if there is an error by @turbolent in #2245
• Fix loop variables being captured in closures by @dreamsmasher in #2255
• Re-merge #2302, Fix docstring parsing for functions by @turbolent in #2313
• Retain docstrings for special function declarations, remove unnecessary return type annotations by @turbolent in #2303
• Handle cyclic imports in analyzer tool by @SupunS in #2315

📖 Documentation

• Add documentation for contracts.borrow by @dsainati1 in #2216
• Remove old diagrams by @turbolent in #2246
• Fix Capability example in JSON-Cadence Data Interchange Format specs by @fxamacker in #2207
• Add documentation on the release process by @SupunS in #2253
• Update docs to reflect Account inbox live after MN21 spork by @j1010001 in #2265
• Updates to Cadence guidance for Solidity developers by @franklywatson in #2263
• Fix: typos by @omahs in #2297

Other Changes

• Bump version by @SupunS in #2214
• Refactor the existing issue templates to forms by @turbolent in #2229
• Remove copyright years from file headers, update years in NOTICE by @turbolent in #2258
• Downgrade benchstat version to bring back html output by @SupunS in #2274
• Clear warnings by removing unnecessary type arguments in tests by @dreamsmasher in #2277
• Fix confusion of return type of checker's visitExpression methods by @SupunS in #2269
• add dreamsmasher to issue assignees, codeowners for automatic reviewer requests by @dreamsmasher in #2312
• Bypass go-proxy to always pick the latest commit by @SupunS in #2316

New Contributors

• @franklywatson made their first contribution in #2263
• @omahs made their first contribution in #2297

Full Changelog: v0.31.1...v0.33.0

v0.31.3

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Ensure SetProgram is called after GetProgram, even if there is an error by @turbolent in #2241

Full Changelog: v0.31.2...v0.31.3

v0.31.2

What's Changed

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Revert "don't ignore invalid identifier" / PR by @turbolent in #2218

Full Changelog: v0.31.1...v0.31.2

v0.31.1

What's Changed

🛠 Improvements

• Add equal method for cadence external types by @SupunS in #2203

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix function activations by @turbolent in #2213

📖 Documentation

• Correct definition of block view by @jordanschalm in #2205

New Contributors

• @jordanschalm made their first contribution in #2205

Full Changelog: v0.31.0...v0.31.1

v0.31.0

What's Changed

🛠 Improvements

• Adds some suggestions/improvements to sema error messages by @dsainati1 in #2190
• Skip broken values during storage iteration by @SupunS in #2202

Other Changes

• Improve field alignment by @turbolent in #2186
• Add update tool by @turbolent in #2198
• Add test case for publishing and claiming private account capability by @turbolent in #2195

Full Changelog: v0.30.0...v0.31.0

v0.30.0

What's Changed

⭐ Features

• Improve JSON encoding test cases, add REPL command for exporting by @turbolent in #2107
• Add static and native modifiers for fields and functions by @turbolent in #2119
• Implement FLIP 1071: borrow contract by @bluesign in #1934
• Allow embedders to reuse interpreter shared state by @turbolent in #2100

🛠 Improvements

• Improve interpreter config by @turbolent in #2097
• Allow export of function values by @turbolent in #2052
• Improve JSON decoding error messages, add utility by @turbolent in #2104
• Improve common supertype calculation by @SupunS in #2103
• Fix "log" crashing the REPL by @dreamsmasher in #2109
• Type fixes and improvements by @turbolent in #2135
• Improve error messages for values/types that cannot be imported or exported by @turbolent in #2138
• Meter big int allocations in parser, improve over-estimation by @turbolent in #2110
• Improve parameter AST node by @turbolent in #2143
• Address some tech debt by @turbolent in #2155
• Improve reference static type by @turbolent in #2156
• Improve type mismatch errors by @turbolent in #2161
• Improve sema by @turbolent in #2166
• Optimize sema by @turbolent in #2162
• Use invocation's interpreter by @turbolent in #2159
• improve ConformanceError error message by @dsainati1 in #2172
• Suggest lexically closest member in cases of NotDeclaredMemberError by @dsainati1 in #2173
• Add support for nested pragma declarations by @turbolent in #2169
• Initialize the Crypto contract lazily by @turbolent in #2183
• Pretty print interpreter errors by @dsainati1 in #2185
• Fix whitespace parsing between expressions by @turbolent in #2115
• Improve allocations in checker by @turbolent in #2127
• Add positions to numerical runtime errors by @dsainati1 in #2174
• Optimize elaboration by @turbolent in #2178
• Avoid unnecessary slice allocations by @turbolent in #2191

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix self declaration by @turbolent in #2108
• Report invalid identifier preceding a member or nested declaration by @turbolent in #2134
• Fix parsing of array and dictionary expressions by @turbolent in #2136

📖 Documentation

• rename why-cadence.md to why.md to fix broken link by @j1010001 in #2102
• Add documentation for String.fromUTF8, numeric types' fromString by @dreamsmasher in #2105
• Note in docs that inbox api is not yet released on mainnet by @dsainati1 in #2123
• Fix documentation by @turbolent in #2122
• Remove outdated callout from the testing-framework docs by @SupunS in #2132
• Update flow-docs.json by @bthaile in #2133
• Add meeting notes for interface inheritance meeting by @SupunS in #2144
• Update design-patterns.mdx by @gregsantos in #2146
• Add link to style guide by @bthaile in #2149
• Fix links in documentation by @turbolent in #2142

Other Changes

• Add JSON language annotations to expected JSON encodings in AST tests by @turbolent in #2118
• Move test framework tests to Cadence by @turbolent in #2129
• Update CI jobs by @turbolent in #2128
• Lint JSON files by @turbolent in #2139
• Clean up metering by @turbolent in #2152
• Report unkeyed composite literals by @turbolent in #2184

New Contributors

• @bthaile made their first contribution in #2133
• @gregsantos made their first contribution in #2146

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.30.0

v0.29.0

What's Changed

⭐ Features

• Publish and Claim: Inbox API for Capability Bootstrapping by @dsainati1 in #1983
• Allow for-loops over strings by @turbolent in #2080
• Add String.fromCharacters by @turbolent in #2083

🛠 Improvements

• Directly transfer published values by @dsainati1 in #2042
• Simplify parser by @dreamsmasher in #2064
• Re-use interpreter for value decoding in test-framework by @SupunS in #2074
• Use Value.Clone instead of custom deep copy function by @turbolent in #2058
• Improve interpreter storage by @turbolent in #2072
• Improve type inference for case expressions in switch statement by @SupunS in #2079
• refactor AccountKeysCount to expect an error too by @dreamsmasher in #2093
• Make the interpreter globals map allocation lazy by @turbolent in #2065
• Improve block comment parsing by @turbolent in #2068
• Optimize resource tracking by @turbolent in #2073

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix account inbox implementation by @turbolent in #2053

📖 Documentation

• Update design pattern documentation to refer to the new Capability Bootstrapping API by @dsainati1 in #2035
• Fixes dead link in unsaferandom documentation by @justjoolz in #2047
• cleanup docs-tutorial06 by @AmarildoGrembi in #2071
• Document setup() and tearDown() functions in test-framework by @SupunS in #2043
• Add "why Cadence" section to Cadence docs by @j1010001 in #2039
• Update flow-docs.json to include "why cadence" section. by @10thfloor in #2040
• Adds link to Playground on Cadence homepage by @10thfloor in #2078

💥 Breaking Changes

• Add key iteration, count methods to AccountKeyProvider interface by @dreamsmasher in #2038
  (This change does not affect Cadence programs, only embedders, like FVM)

Other Changes

• Lint with gofmt 1.19, upgrade to go 1.19 by @dreamsmasher in #2041
• Improve CI by @turbolent in #2055
• Parallelize more tests, use checker errors helper by @turbolent in #2087

New Contributors

• @justjoolz made their first contribution in #2047
• @AmarildoGrembi made their first contribution in #2071
• @j1010001 made their first contribution in #2039

Full Changelog: v0.28.0...v0.29.0

v0.29.0-stable-cadence

This is a preview release of Stable Cadence.

Read all about this release in the forum announcement.

What's Changed

💥 Breaking Changes

• Remove deprecated key management API by @turbolent in #1842
• Fix ToBigEndianBytes implementations for U?Int(128|256) by @dreamsmasher in #1917
• Prevent keywords from being used as identifiers (redux) by @dreamsmasher in #1937
• Add machinery for parsing and checking view functions by @dsainati1 in #1818
• View Enforcement by @dsainati1 in #1870
• Enforce view in function conditions by @dsainati1 in #1871
• Improve reference expressions by @turbolent in #2010
• Take argument labels into account when declaring members for nested declarations by @turbolent in #2013
• Improve resource tracking for optional binding by @turbolent in #2044
• Detect invalidated references statically by @SupunS in #2037
• Invalidate resource references when the referenced resource is moved by @SupunS in #1999

🛠 Improvements

• Prevent keywords from being used as names in function declarations by @dreamsmasher in #2067
• Add invalidation info to the invalid reference usage error by @SupunS in #2096

Full Changelog: v0.29.0...v0.29.0-stable-cadence

v0.28.0

What's Changed

⭐ Features

• Add fromString method on numeric types by @dreamsmasher in #1982

🛠 Improvements

• Improve resource tracking by @turbolent in #2033
• Catch interpreter panics in REPL by @dreamsmasher in #2028
• Improve REPL by @turbolent in #2021
• Introduce and use singleton for Void value by @turbolent in #2029
• Introduce and use singletons for bool values by @turbolent in #2030
• Introduce and use singleton value for nil by @turbolent in #2031
• Optimize location range by @turbolent in #2036
• Check errors' potential secondary message and error notes by @turbolent in #2034

📖 Documentation

• Update 06-fungible-tokens.mdx by @MrDSGC in #2020
• Fix composite types documentation by @turbolent in #2025

Full Changelog: v0.27.1...v0.28.0

v0.27.1

What's Changed

⭐ Features

• Add key iteration method on dictionaries by @dreamsmasher in #1992
• Make Void values constructible by @dreamsmasher in #2004

🛠 Improvements

• Improve parser function naming, remove dead code by @turbolent in #2016

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fix accounts not being returnable from scripts by @dsainati1 in #2022

📖 Documentation

• Add language clarifying the type parameter's type in the private and public path iteration functions by @dsainati1 in #2012

Other Changes

• Remove npm-packages for the languageserver and docgen tool by @SupunS in #2002
• Make argument names in test-stdlib compatible with stable cadence by @SupunS in #2015

Full Changelog: v0.27.0...v0.27.1