Vala Releases

Vala 0.3.2

source tarball

released on May 12, 2008

Changes

• Add support for class constructors, class fields, and class methods.
• Various improvements to methods in D-Bus services.
• Add support for properties and signals in D-Bus services (Yu Feng)
• Add Time API to GLib bindings.
• Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
• Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.3.1

source tarball

released on April 21, 2008

Changes

• Enable non-null types by default.
• Add --disable-non-null commandline option.
• New handwritten parser.
• Support virtual methods in interfaces.
• Add `dynamic' type modifier for D-Bus client support.
• Add experimental support for writing D-Bus services.
• Don't require `new' operator for structs.
• Warn when using deprecated syntax.
• Add libsexy bindings (Evan Nemerson)
• Updates to the GLib and GTK+ bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.2.0

source tarball

released on April 7, 2008

Changes

• Support nested namespaces.
• Support static constructors.
• Register enums with GType (Marc-André Lureau)
• Small syntax change for default values of properties.
• Add --verbose commandline option (Daniel Silverstone)
• Improve pointer support.
• Add GNOME Keyring bindings (Andrea Del Signore)
• Add SDL bindings (Levi Bard)
• Add libftdi bindings (Evan Nemerson)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and SQLite bindings.
• Many bug fixes all over the place.

Vala 0.1.7

source tarball

released on March 2, 2008

Changes

• Support private property accessors.
• Support default values for properties.
• Improve support for array length and delegate target parameters.
• Improve delegate and signal handler support.
• Introduce new syntax to declare errordomains.
• Improve exception support.
• Report errors for missing return statements.
• Report warnings for unreachable code.
• Improve support for generic types.
• Support pointer member access and pointer element access.
• Support pointer arithmetic.
• Add --quiet commandline option (Emmanuele Bassi)

• Add WebKit bindings.

• Add JSON-GLib bindings (Ali Sabil)
• Add goocanvas bindings (Roberto Majadas)
• Add hildon-fm-2 bindings (Levi Bard)
• Add taglib bindings (Andreas Brauchli)
• Add libusb bindings (Evan Nemerson)
• Add bzip2 bindings (Maciej Piechotka)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, and libsoup bindings.
• Fixes for Windows.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.6

source tarball

released on January 19, 2008

Changes

• Add support for instance delegates.
• Support conditional method compilation.
• Add support for nested generic types.
• Add size_t and ssize_t.
• Use non-null types by default with --enable-non-null option.
• Limited support for nullable types.
• Add basic support for method pre- and postconditions.
• Improve pointer support.
• Always enable memory management.
• Add libgnome-menu bindings (Roberto Majadas)
• Add liboobs-1 bindings (Roberto Majadas)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, GStreamer, SQLite, and libxml2 bindings.
• Small documentation improvements.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.5

source tarball

released on November 25, 2007

Changes

• Add Vala Project Generator.
• Support in operator for enums.
• Support typeof for generic type parameters.
• Replace gidlgen by vala-gen-introspect with a real C parser.
• Update all bindings to use vala-gen-introspect.
• Fix many gcc warnings.
• Fix build with Cygwin and MinGW (Yaakov Selkowitz).
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.4

source tarball

released on October 9, 2007

Changes

• Use .vapi as file extension for bindings.
• Add Vala Reference Manual.
• Add support for object initializers.
• Emit #line directives in debug mode.
• Add --basedir option.
• Support creation methods in structs.
• Add support for [Notify] attribute for properties.
• Add experimental support for registering new fundamental classed types.
• Improve support for non-GObject classes.
• Improve error reporting.
• Add vapicheck to verify generated bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
• Drop xml_pp dependency (Alberto Ruiz).
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.3

source tarball

released on August 31, 2007

Changes

• Convert reference-type structs to classes for a more consistent type system.

• Support as operator (Mathias Hasselmann).

• Improve array support.
• Experimental D-Bus client support.
• Add GConf bindings.
• Add libgnome and libgnomeui bindings.
• Add Glade bindings.
• Add libnotify bindings (Nicolas Christener, Roland Hostettler).
• Add GnomeVFS bindings.

• Add GtkSourceView bindings.

• Add Panel Applet bindings.
• Add GNOME Desktop Library bindings.
• Add libsoup bindings.
• Add libwnck bindings.

• Add GtkMozEmbed bindings (Alberto Ruiz).

• Add Poppler bindings (Alberto Ruiz).
• Add Enchant bindings (Mathias Hasselmann).
• Add Hildon bindings (Marcelo Lira).
• Add SQLite bindings.
• Add curses bindings (Ed Schouten).
• Build system fixes (Nicolas Trangez).
• Add manual pages for gidlgen and vapigen (Kumar Appaiah).
• Many bug fixes all over the place.

Vala 0.1.2

source tarball

released on July 27, 2007

Changes

• Use and support libgee collection library (internal copy for now).
• Performance improvements.
• Improve support for generic types.
• Many memory management fixes.
• Add support for inner classes.
• Add --cc and -X commandline options to control the C compiler.
• Use GSlice for reference-type structs.
• Add experimental GStreamer bindings.

Vala 0.1.1

source tarball

released on July 13, 2007

Changes

• Support simple exception handling.
• Improve array and string support.
• Support multi-dimensional arrays.
• Add --thread commandline option.
• Improve bindings.
• Bug fixes.

Vala 0.1.0

source tarball

released on July 9, 2007

Changes

• Add commandline options for running the C compiler and linker.
• Use # modifier for reference transfer in method parameters.
• Replace callback keyword by delegate.
• Improve and update GLib and GTK+ bindings.
• Add experimental GVFS binding.
• C89/MSVC portability fixes (Hans Breuer).
• Refactor code generator.
• Add experimental bindings generator.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.0.9

source tarball

released on April 30, 2007

Changes

• Add support for defining new generic classes.
• Improve array support.
• Memory management fixes.
• Improve abstract property support.
• Add basic support for flags types.
• Improve GLib binding.
• Add VTE binding.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.0.8

source tarball

released on March 22, 2007

Changes

• Add support for overridden properties.
• Support properties and signals in interfaces.
• Improve interface runtime suport.
• Verify that classes implement all abstract and interface methods.
• Basic compile-time support for generic types.
• Default to strong references for return values and local variables.
• Improve signal support.
• Add support for pointers.
• Improve support for numeric types.
• Support writing GTypeModule-based plug-ins.
• Improve manual memory management support.
• Improve GTK+ bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.0.7

source tarball

released on March 4, 2007

Changes

• New object construction syntax.
• Interface implementations don't have to specify override anymore.
• Improve interface support.

Vala 0.0.6

source tarball

released on February 28, 2007

Changes

• Improve interface support.
• Support do loops.
• Improve array support.
• Improve enum support.
• Add automated testing infrastructure.
• Fixes for prefix and postfix operators.
• Add more types to GLib bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.0.5

source tarball

released on November 2, 2006

Changes

• Support base access.
• Support typeof expressions.
• Improve array support.
• Fix possible memory leak in foreach statements.
• Fix many warnings during C compilation.
• Improve GTK+ bindings.

Vala 0.0.4

source tarball

released on October 6, 2006

Changes

• Support + operator in strings.
• Support unicode character literals.
• Add implicit conversions for numeric types.
• Improve interface support.
• Improve array support.
• Support arbitrary signal parameters.
• Add threading support.
• Support lock statements.
• Many improvements to the GTK+ bindings.