Jul 3, 2015.

We are excited to announce the release of Scala.js 0.6.4!

This release brings support for Scala 2.11.7 and 2.12.0-M1, as well as a significant part of the Java collections library in java.util, thanks to @andreaTP and @nicolasstucki. It also fixes numerous bugs.

Getting started

If you are new to Scala.js, head over to the tutorial.

Release notes

For changes in the 0.6.x series compared to 0.5.x, read the announcement of 0.6.0.

As a minor release, 0.6.4 is backward source and binary compatible with previous releases in the 0.6.x series. Libraries compiled with earlier versions can be used with 0.6.4 without change. However, it is not forward compatible: libraries compiled with 0.6.4 cannot be used by projects using 0.6.{0-3}.

Please report any issues on GitHub.

Potential breaking changes

The bug fix for #1705 in this release is potentially a breaking change that might affect your code silently. If you had something like this in a facade type:

object JS extends js.Object {
  @JSName("b_=")
  def a_=(x: Int): Unit = js.native
}

JS.a = 1

the last line would previously (erroneously) translate to

JS["b"] = 1;

This releases fixes the compiler to instead translate to

JS["b_="] = 1;

If you relied on the former code to be emitted, you should change the @JSName annotation as @JSName("b").

There is no deprecation period because there was no way to, at the same time, warn against problems, and still allow correct new code to be warning-free, unfortunately.

Improvements

Java Collections API

Some Scala libraries use the collections of Java in some cases. To help port these libraries to Scala.js, a number of collection types have been ported. At the moment, the following data structures are supported:

• List: ArrayList, LinkedList, CopyOnWriteArrayList
• Set: HashSet, LinkedHashSet, ConcurrentSkipListSet
• Map: HashMap, LinkedHashMap, ConcurrentHashMap
• Queue: LinkedList, ConcurrentLinkedQueue

as well as the helper classes Arrays and Collections.

Better and earlier diagnostics for illegal @JSExports and facade types

There were a number of illegal usages of @JSExport and facade types that were not detected by the compiler. Using those would previously result in crashes of the linker or production of completely wrong .js code. See tickets #1647, #1664, #1704, #1706, #1707 and #1717 for details.

Running with Rhino also reports linking errors

Until 0.6.3, running with Rhino (the default) would not truly link, and therefore would not report linking errors. This caused confusions in several occasions, because code that appeared to work on Rhino refused to link and therefore fastOptJS would not work. As of 0.6.4, even running with Rhino will report linking errors.

Bug fixes

Among others, the following bugs have been fixed:

• #1646 Char#isUpper behavior diverges between Scala.js/Scala-JVM
• #1664 @JSName(variable) annotation does not fail on objects and classes
• #1671 Double.toInt and Float.toInt are broken
• #1718 Pattern.compile doesn’t validate regex
• #1722 Rhino crash with Scalatest
• #1733 @JSName does not work for vals and vars
• #1734 Charset decoding fails with read-only byte buffers
• #1743 js.Dynamic.literal.applyDynamic("apply")(map.toSeq: _*) causes optimizer to crash
• #1748 Source root not found for shared project error (CrossProject friendlier to Scoverage)
• #1759 new Int8Array(n).toArray throws TypeError
• #1764 BigInteger.modInverse always throws an exception
• #1774 ClassCastException: org.mozilla.javascript.UniqueTag running Scala.js project
• #1781 When the optimizer crashes, it is left in an inconsistent state

You can find the full list on GitHub.