The Blog

This release brings the long-awaited indentation syntax and a few bugfixes.

About 150 SVN commits were made since the last release.

Availability

As usual we provide a source code release and a number of binary packages. Starting with this release we provide a generic Unix binary installer, similar to the one Mono has (but text-mode only). RPM and MSI packages are also ready. DEB package is on its way.

Language changes

With the -i option compiler can now recognize indentation based syntax. More info at the wiki page.

Additions

• MSBuild task.
• Marcin Grzeskowiak contributed a new matching compiler as a part of his MSc thesis. It is not yet enabled by default, as we're still testing it. You can try it with -new-matching option, but beware -- it can still contain some nasty bugs!

The library

• Logging and accessor macros were improved.
• Group is now also a member of the list variant.

Bugfixes

• #520: indentation based syntax
• #521: high memory usage when compiling mcs tests
• #528: runtime assertion failure w/respect to generics
• #530: antlr dll isn't compatible with mono 1.1.9
• #531: Using generic method inside try-block fails to compile
• #532: assertion failed in file typing/Subst.n, line 184
• #533: Error using quoted events
• #535: Double try in local function optimized to code causes error
• #537: Verification fails for nondesc-subseq.n
• #539: Failed CheckSTV with monad code
• #540: Using void as generic argument causes invalid IL
• #541: Requires macro do not work for property setter
• #542: Logging macros should allow various logging functions to be used (and other improvements)
• #543: Compiler gives internal error when trying to output into invalid directory
• #544: .NET do not understand 'a ---> 'b implicit conversions
• #551: { } brackets in string interpolation crash compiler
• #553: Preprocessor symbols accessible from macros API
• #554: Assertion about unsupported type for a complex generic hierarchy