4.0.0-rc.4

2019-09-04: 4.0.0-rc.4

Standard Library:

• all : added Map.clear (#8681)
• all : improved Date API (#8508)
• all : added JSON-RPC protocol types to haxe.display package (#8610)
• all : added default timeout to HTTP sockets (#8646)
• macro : added Context.info (#8478)
• macro : added Context.getMessages and Context.filterMessages (#8471)
• macro : added function kind to EFunction (#8653)
• macro : added string literal kind to CString (#8668)
• flash : added flash.AnyType (#8549)

General improvements and optimizations:

• all : allowed enum constructors without arguments as static inline var (#8187)
• all : improved handling of default values when inlining (#8397)
• all : made various improvements to the display API as usual
• all : detect invalid #tokens in inactive code (#7108)
• all : allowed function types in @:generic (#3697)
• all : improved --help-defines and --help-metas
• all : improved overall file finding (#8202)
• all : improved server reaction to added and removed files (#8451)
• all : improved memory handling of the compilation server (8727)
• all : improved handling of native libraries on the compilation server (#8629)
• all : support partial completion results (#8642)
• all : improved support of hovering over inactive conditional compilation blocks
• all : improved completion support in .platform.hx files
• all : support hovering conditional compilation identifiers
• all : improved and unified identifier checks for names, fields and types (#8708)
• all : improved --times performance (#8733)
• all : remove some redundant cast expressions (#8725)
• all : added --server-connect (#8730)
• lua : improved -D lua-vanilla
• js : improved HTML externs

Bugfixes:

• all : fixed various position and replace ranges in the display API
• all : fixed compiler hang related to @:arrayAccess (#5525)
• all : fixed bug regarding abstract this modification in inline methods (#8454)
• all : fixed from Dynamic on abstracts (#8425)
• all : fixed overeager recursive inline check (#8489)
• all : fixed the pattern matcher allowing inexhaustive switches in value-places (#8277)
• all : fixed pattern matcher allowing invalid abstract unification (#8579)
• all : fixed local variable type information being lost on the compilation server (#8511)
• all : don't generate return expressions in Void lambda functions (#6503)
• all : fixed unification of recursive typedefs again (#8523)
• all : fixed various hangs related to abstracts (#8588)
• all : fixed various GADT-related problems (#7672)
• all : fixed macro @:from methods allowing any return type (#8463)
• macro : fixed Sys.programPath assertion failure (#8466)
• js : fixed typed array APIs (#8422)
• java : fixed Std.is on non-reference and unrelated types (#5168)
• java/macro : fixed null-pointer exception in Reflect.getProperty (#4934)
• java/jvm : fix switch on null string (#4481)
• jvm : fixed boxed vs. unboxed comparison (#8577)
• jvm : generate toplevel types to haxe.root like genjava does (#8590)
• jvm : improved 32bit support (#8601)
• cs/python : fixed various issues with code generation
• cs : fixed NativeArray casting (#3949)