Vala 0.41.90 Released

Vala development has never been stopped. New features and better code generation is present in recent development version.

This is like a “Beta” version, so go ahead and test with your new code.

Checkout that now is possible to annotate an automatic property, with a [GtkChild] attribute, making possible to bind directly your XML builder defined widget to your class, so is easy to create powerful custom widgets.

Also checkout Vala deprecations remove <= 0.22, so your Vala code could fail to compile. Just port to new API bindings.

From release notes:

• Reintroduce POSIX profile (No GLib/GObject dependency!)
• parser: Add support for explicit unlock syntax
• vala: Support anonymous definitions of delegates in bindings
• codegen: Support automatic properties as GtkChild (makes easy create custom GTK+ widgets)
• codegen: Apply G_PARAM_EXPLICIT_NOTIFY on properties with “notify = false”
• codegen: Drop support for non-auto property initializer in gobjects
• codegen: Avoid using deprecated “g_type_class_add_private”
• vala: Constants and signals are not lockable
• codegen: Don’t apply ref_sink_function if target_type is floating_reference
• vala: Treat floating method-return-type as nullable if error may be thrown
• vala: Transfer floating-reference attribute while casting – analyzer: Break cyclic references of BasicBlock
• vala: Break reference chain between DataType and Symbol if possible
• codegen: Fix invocation of abstract/virtual methods with NoWrapper in compact classes
• vala: Report error for invalid base access in method/property of compact class
• libvaladoc: Replace void* with corresponding Vala API
• codegen: Don’t include the full absolute path in line directives
• codegen: Add source_reference to unsupported floating reference error

Updated Bindings include:

• gobject-2.0: Make GLib.Signal a struct of uint and bind g_signal_new*
• clutter-1.0: Change type of Clutter.Key.* constants to uint
• gdk-3.0: Change type of Gdk.Key.* constants to uint
• gtk+-4.0: Change type of Gdk.Key.* constants to uint
  gstreamer: Update from 1.15+ git master
• webkit2gtk-4.0: Add JSC namespace to javascriptcoregtk-4.0 and fix depends
• Remove clutter-gst-1.0, GStreamer 0.10, rest-0.6,
  tracker-indexer-module-1.0, libsoup-2.2, gdu and gdu-gtk,
  twitter-glib-1.0, mx-1.0
• Remove vala-specific deprecations <= vala-0.22