Vala Releases

Vala 0.7.8

source tarball

released on November 4, 2009

Changes

• Support constructor chain up to GObject using Object (...).
• Add syntax for string templates.

• Support (!) non-null casts.

• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.7

source tarball

released on September 27, 2009

Changes

• Support `using' directives inside namespaces.
• Use const only for immutable structs.
• Support string marshalling for enums in D-Bus (Didier Ptitjes).

• Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).

• Add libgda-4.0 bindings (Shawn Ferris).
• Many bug fixes for closures and async methods.

Vala 0.7.6

source tarball

released on September 18, 2009

Changes

• Add support for closures.
• Improve support for asynchronous methods.
• Support async methods in D-Bus servers.
• Add clutter-1.0 bindings (Rob Taylor).
• Add GVariant, GSettings, and dconf bindings (Ryan Lortie).
• Add linux, libnl-1, and libasound bindings (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer).
• Add gnutls bindings (Jiří Zárevúcky).
• Add librest bindings (Adrien Bustany).
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.5

source tarball

released on August 2, 2009

Changes

• Add support for static properties.
• Add support for delegate properties.
• Support virtual default handler for signals.
• Add limited support for derived compact classes.
• Add libgdata bindings (Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal).
• Add libusb-1.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.4

source tarball

released on June 28, 2009

Changes

• Add support for array properties.
• Support implicit and explicit GValue casts.
• Add initial support for generic methods.
• Add postgres bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.3

source tarball

released on May 26, 2009

Changes

• Add initial support for POSIX profile.
• Add --vapi and --gir commandline options.
• Add initial x11, xcb, and cairo-xcb bindings.
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.2

source tarball

released on May 7, 2009

Changes

• Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
• Many bug fixes and binding updates.

Vala 0.7.1

source tarball

released on April 20, 2009

Changes

• Introduce new syntax to connect/disconnect signal handlers.
• Add experimental support for fixed-length arrays.

• Update Genie parser (Jamie McCracken).

• Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.7.0

source tarball

released on April 5, 2009

Changes

• Do not generate header files unless requested by the -H commandline
  • option. This requires changes in the build system of Vala projects.
• Support conditional compilation.

Vala 0.6.1

source tarball

released on April 12, 2009

Changes

• Updates to the GLib, Cairo, GTK+, GStreamer, and POSIX bindings.
• Minor bug fixes.

Vala 0.6.0

source tarball

released on March 30, 2009

Changes

• Improvements to the .gir reader and writer (Didier Ptitjes).
• Add librsvg-2.0 bindings (Evan Nemerson).
• Add Maemo libosso bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).

• Add V4L2 bindings (Matías De la Puente).

• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.7

source tarball

released on February 20, 2009

Changes

• Support signals in static D-Bus clients.
• Various improvements to asynchronous method support (Ryan Lortie).
• Report unused internal methods.
• Extend POSIX bindings.
• Add FUSE bindings (John Carr).
• Add libdaemon bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.6

source tarball

released on January 18, 2009

Changes

• Do not require libgee for custom indexer access.
• Add Log.FILE, Log.LINE, and Log.METHOD constants.
• Various improvements to the .gir reader.
• Add Lua bindings (pancake and Phil Housley).
• Add MySQL bindings (Jukka-Pekka Iivonen).
• Add partial POSIX bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.5

source tarball

released on January 10, 2009

Changes

• Improve syntax of owned property getters.
• Add --enable-deprecated and --enable-experimental commandline options.
• Remove --disable-non-null commandline option.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.4

source tarball

released on January 7, 2009

Changes

• Support array initializers as expressions.
• Support += to efficiently append elements to arrays.
• Calculate length for null-terminated arrays.
• Support initializers for multi-dimensional arrays.

• Add owned' keyword to replace #'.

• Various fixes in coroutine support.
• Support boxed structs as GObject properties.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.3

source tarball

released on December 16, 2008

Changes

• Rewrite D-Bus server support to directly use libdbus.
• Register structs as boxed types.
• Improve error reporting on invalid code.
• Support private class fields and class destructors.
• Add partial raptor and rasqal bindings.
• Drop vala-gen-project, moved to vtg.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.2

source tarball

released on December 1, 2008

Changes

• Report uninitialized local variables.
• Report unused fields, methods, and local variables.
• Fix error handling in complex statements.
• Improve support for generic types.
• Support parameter arrays in bindings.
• Do not require libgee for foreach statements.
• Support enums in D-Bus clients and servers.
• Support structs in hash tables in D-Bus servers.
• Experimental static D-Bus client support.
• Add --dump-tree commandline option to write code tree to file.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.5.1

source tarball

released on November 3, 2008

Changes

• Support type checks for error domains and error codes.
• Experimental support for yield statements and coroutines.
• Support GValue and GHashTable in D-Bus clients.
• Various improvements to the .gir reader.
• Drop deprecated support for static classes.
• Modularize code generator.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.4.0

source tarball

released on October 20, 2008

Changes

• Support more flexible constructors.
• Partial support for reading and writing .gir files.
• Improve compiler performance.
• Copy arrays where necessary.
• Basic support for static properties.
• Partial support for struct holding object references.
• Add tracker indexer bindings (Roberto Majadas)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.3.5

source tarball

released on August 14, 2008

Changes

• Notify on property changes by default (Jared Moore)
• Add unique-1.0 bindings (Phil Housley)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.3.4

source tarball

released on June 26, 2008

Changes

• Various improvements to D-Bus client and service support.
• Basic support for detailed signals.
• Check types of printf arguments.

• Support `in' operator for Gee.Collection and Gee.Map (Jamie McCracken)

• Add libgsf-1 bindings (Michael Lawrence)
• Add loudmouth-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
• Updates to the GLib, GTK+, and GStreamer bindings.
• Many bug fixes.

Vala 0.3.3

source tarball

released on June 3, 2008

Changes

• Support overriding default method handlers of signals.
• Support dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects.
• Experimental support for nullable value types.
• Improve support for classes not deriving from GLib.Object.
• Support """verbatim strings""".

• Add parser for Genie (Jamie McCracken)

• Experimental support for arrays of arrays.
• Documentation improvements (Phil Housley)
• Improvements to D-Bus support (Ali Sabil, Philip Van Hoof, Yu Feng)
• Add libepc-1.0 bindings (Ali Sabil)
• Add libtiff bindings (Christian Meyer)
• Updates to the GStreamer bindings (Ali Sabil and Jaap A. Haitsma)
• Many bug fixes and performance improvements.

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.