Vala Roadmap

The basic functionality of the Vala compiler is in place for quite some time now. As more and more people are starting to use Vala for various projects, it's time to work towards a stable Vala 1.0 release. We aim to stabilize the compiler and the language during the GNOME 2.23 development cycle and release Vala 1.0 together with GNOME 2.24. In case that the quality of the compiler turns out to be insufficient, we'll release 0.4.0 and delay the stability guarantees to GNOME 2.26.

• Vala 0.2.0 (2008-04-07)
  • Bug fix release
• Vala 0.3.1 (2008-04-21)
  • Replace generated LALR parser by handwritten recursive descent parser
  • More bug fixes
• Vala 0.3.2 (2008-05-12)
  • Work on language documentation
  • Add unit tests for all documented language features
  • Fix issues uncovered by unit tests
• Vala 0.3.3 (2008-06-02)
  • Complete language documentation and associated test cases
• Vala 0.3.4 (2008-06-23)
  • Bug fix release
  • Work on gobject-introspection to switch to new .gir format and move metadata from Vapigen to gobject-introspection
• Vala 0.3.5 (2008-07-21)
  • Support .gir files natively as alternative to .vapi files, replaces Vapigen
• Vala 0.3.6 (2008-08-04)
  • Add full D-Bus support
• Vala 0.3.90 (2008-08-18)
  • Improve metadata for bindings of the GTK+ platform
• Vala 0.3.91 (2008-09-01)
  • More binding improvements
  • More bug fixes
• Vala 0.3.92 (2008-09-08)
  • Bug fixes
• Vala 1.0.0 (2008-09-22)
  • Stable language as specified in documentation, no incompatible changes for Vala 1.x
  • Maybe stable bindings for selected libraries (depends on the state of gobject-introspection)