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Scala 2.9.2 RC2

After some additional backporting, a new Release Candidate in the Scala 2.9.x series is now available for download: 2.9.2 RC2. This release includes many bugfixes, as well as backported documentation and scaladoc improvements from the community.

This RC2 release candidate is made available for testing purposes only and is not intended for production environments: a final 2.9.2 release will follow at the end of the RC cycle. Please help us with the testing of this candidate, and let us know of any issues that you may encounter.

 

Here's a list of the issues that have been fixed since 2.9.1-1:

11cb359863  Document regex replacement strings behavior. 
125b5037c8  Fix for a bug in CharArrayReader which made tri... 
a26dd939b8  Revert attempt to limit private types in lubs. 
3cfbfa3d0e  Fixes SI-5380: non-local return of try expression (cherry picked from commit 02e260a8e67e2b2b6f876aafe76cd61248a89374) 
1864e6d1c1  Add test case for SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835
841f074e2b  Fixed SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835). 
da794bb4ee  Fixes NPE using iterator with an XML attribute ... 
b783e17319  Fix various InnerClasses bugs. 
28be69e263  Close file descriptor leak in sys.process. 
2e66a13e26  fixes SI-5506. better cps type propagation for polymorphic and multi-argument list methods. 
9c3cbde0fd  Fix for error printing regression. 
e1810d1e88  Migration message and version cleanup 
b57f68f34e  Improve description of flatten, flatMap 
0fcc5ce9c5  Explain Function1 vs PartialFunction 
634382969a  Fixes SI-4507. 
d1870c2162  Fixes to javascript in Scaladoc, contributed by... 
f4dec8a8af  Scaladoc now hides members with @bridge annotat... 
4f6cd102de  Improves the usability of Scaladoc when images ... 
1fb3760f96  Minor changes to the Scaladoc stylesheets, as s... 
be067ac8de  Scaladoc shouldn't drop type arguments to alias... 
e54aa8c7bf  Fixes SI-4641 again. 
2701d7fa47  Backported commit 7a99c03da1d31ac5950eecb30f422f43c5e3d04e from master 

 

Special thanks to all the contributors!

52  Paul Phillips 
31  Josh Suereth 
22  Heather Miller 
17  Kato Kazuyoshi 
11  Daniel C. Sobral 
Iulian Dragos 
Tiark Rompf 
Szabolcs Berecz 
Simon Ochsenreither 
michelou 
Martin Odersky 
Kota Mizushima 
Josh Marcus 
Blair Zajac 
Vlad Ureche 
Robert J. Macomber 
Philipp Haller 
Petr Hosek 
Pedro Furlanetto 
Mirco Dotta 
Matthew Farwell
Lukas Rytz
Hubert Plociniczak 
Grzegorz Kossakowski 
fedgehog 
Adriaan Moors 

 

Here's a complete list of changes:

cb99853c86 Added latest link for sources so we can include them in distributions.
11cb359863 Document regex replacement strings behavior.
500b5ccce7 Fixed stackoverflow problem when initializing large scopes.
313d1a60ae Scaladoc is now pointing to sources in github
aa47345ed8 Removed git from source repo generation.
80a5c62700 Updated README for latest installations
c27d4f04f2 No longer generate SBAZ documentation as part of distribution.
a623a3e0bd disable version numbers on windows, they're broken.
b1d438034c Yet another attempt to make the version a good one
4fa90f1c81 Remove unnecessary method.
6f43d81942 Fix for si-4771 Scala eats exit code when piping stdin
9eb9682f79 Changes the fork join pool detection for JVM1.7...
0e49b3743f Fixes #4895.
c8f61955e3 Fixed versioning scheme when running on a tag.
bbdcd768c7 First cut at a release notes tool to help generate them.
243c62957e  Fixed sha to not have the 'g' for git. Swapped 'r' to 'v' now that I've had more coffee and sleep. 
f7e9d9cafe  Fixed maven deployment issues for new versioning scheme. 
7ecc31ea02  Finished migrating to new versioning scheme 
125b5037c8  Fix for a bug in CharArrayReader which made tri... 
c192c10e13  Remove source-compatibility-breaking parentheses 
9cf68515c7  properties loading is now maven/osgi version aware. yippie. 
a8b5d8a349  Modified build for new versioning scheme. 
31653af16a  Moved to Mirco's versioning idea. 
6ec24f1611  Fixes to build numbering system for 2.9.x release 
b8b51b70bf  Fix for checkfile difference. 
a26dd939b8  Revert attempt to limit private types in lubs. 
33c0dd81f0  Fix deadlocks occurring during presentation compiler shutdown. 
82000a1701  Fix for cps regression. Closes 5538. Closes 5445. (cherry picked from commit 9f5767dd31395cac0bc64c86c2cacf247b1924fa) 
5a6af8fbc9  Fixed type in maven deploy 
3cfbfa3d0e  Fixes SI-5380: non-local return of try expression (cherry picked from commit 02e260a8e67e2b2b6f876aafe76cd61248a89374) 
908be8f709  Fixed instrumented.jar and scalacheck.jar location 
1864e6d1c1  Add test case for SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835
841f074e2b  Fixed SI-4835 (https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4835). 
da794bb4ee  Fixes NPE using iterator with an XML attribute ... 
cab91e5e8c  Fixing missing , because I'm an idiot 
43fb071a47  Fixed nightly target to include all documentation 
e8b02f7a92  Yanked lubList from master. 
278040d820  Created simple infrastructure for creating muta... 
216d75b981  slight improvement to lubList so that the simpl... 
3d3d8689f0  Better fix for memory leaks in the presentation compiler. Switched to perRunCaches and call clearAll from the presentation compiler 
b0ec249faf  More use of perRunCaches. 
b97d758bf2  Fix version.number setting for snapshots 
74e5468f85  -Xplugin value passed by the Eclipse IDE are incorrectly parsed when it contains whitespaces. 
496f29398a  changed repo id to denote new credentials for new serer. 
f1dbafb562  Modified repository deployments to point to OSSRH 
9a956ff4e0  Removed not-binary-compatible methods. 
b783e17319  Fix various InnerClasses bugs. 
47d0ef4ac1  Move code to a better place. 
7669675a77  Major rewrite of sys.process documentation. 
28be69e263  Close file descriptor leak in sys.process. 
9c486dcc73  improve cps handling of if-then-else. no review. 
2e66a13e26  fixes SI-5506. better cps type propagation for polymorphic and multi-argument list methods. 
0b9a0e0d09  Added the SYNTHETIC flag for BRIDGE methods. The Eclipse Java compiler complains about duplicate methods otherwise. 
326984f988  Speed up deployment using combined deploy settings. 
3181c55c1f  Fixed POM for sonatypes standards. 
6bbcf90564  Added the ability to publish signed artifacts. 
0667c9a124  Merged doc fixes from 2.10.x into 2.9.x 
143c184c4d  Remove alphanumeric characters from the major part of the Scala version number. 
69c2eb5ad2  Establish more baseline tags. 
9415696be1  Time-traveled get-scala-revision to 3-way merge base. 
b16cbcdf2e  Fix 2.9.2 scaladoc replacing nightlies in jenkins 
2f3370524f  Injecting epfl-publish into merge-base. 
ecd2e84ba7  Added caching to binary resolution. 
ae80a3e6bf  Missing txt files when building compiler for strapp. 
3dc87b0ad3  Checkfile update. 
a9129076d0  Disambiguate some type printing. 
9c3cbde0fd  Fix for error printing regression. 
482fb9e3eb  Changing few Scaladoc values to methods to allow their overriding in Colladoc 
7ad3595a8d  Made the binary push script a bit friendlier for humans 
e1810d1e88  Migration message and version cleanup 
bfa8154328  Reword confusing explanation 
b57f68f34e  Improve description of flatten, flatMap 
0fcc5ce9c5  Explain Function1 vs PartialFunction 
6544bcca85  Add "Google tokens for Scala" for symbolic names 
634382969a  Fixes SI-4507. 
2e2394c7c9  Fixes the annoying spaces between name, type params and params in ScalaDoc. 
0071ab37ee  Turning line endings to unix. 
9aef869d22  revise and expand root-level Scaladoc 
d1870c2162  Fixes to javascript in Scaladoc, contributed by... 
9b083a77b7  Two argument asserts please. 
f4dec8a8af  Scaladoc now hides members with @bridge annotat... 
401da07efe  Fixed a Scaladoc layout issue affecting how typ... 
90b0f1b98a  Adds ability to document root package 
eab63b12e4  Added footer command line option to ScalaDoc 
4f6cd102de  Improves the usability of Scaladoc when images ... 
163e7349b1  Updated copyright notice in scaladoc. No review. 
e9b55f1b54  Added copyright notice to all scaladoc pages. 
de0056de61  Shows modifiers before kinds. 
10a3f7ac1e  Some "synthetic" code don't have RangePosition. 
fe71ffc544  Adds support in Scaladoc for @todo tag. 
f155eaaa00  Adds version information from @migration and @d... 
1fb3760f96  Minor changes to the Scaladoc stylesheets, as s... 
be067ac8de  Scaladoc shouldn't drop type arguments to alias... 
37bab89515  Scaladoc should decode symbolic type alias name. 
a96e633f6b  Should not set the parameter name's width on CSS. 
e54aa8c7bf  Fixes SI-4641 again. 
0b9271cbef  scaladoc fixes and improvements 
13ec9bc2bd  Add a test for #4421 and clean up a little. 
8b826aaa29  Adds support for @throws in ScalaDoc. 
b19a216042  The '#' sign may easily to lead to problems, So... 
1508d14f93  Adds support for @note in ScalaDoc. 
c9cea6b811  Some kind of scaladoc quoting fix from the sbt ... 
7542b8d312  Merged enhancements made to scaladoc filter pan... 
e6afebf4bd  Some minor scaladoc tweaks and deletion of inco... 
3ef5a3d7eb  Fix a typo in the original commit. 
71164e23ee  Restore deprecated methods removed by mistake. 
259f75b273  Fix documentation error 
452a55866b  Update scaladoc links to collections overview. 
e44aa9b36f  Enhanced scaladoc of collection classes with links to the relevant pages of "The Scala 2.8 Collections API" overview. 
a9e69b895f  Fix typo on Regex documentation. 
004c24b0d4  Example in scala.sys.process didn't match the text that describes it. Fixed. 
8d5ce6459c  Big improvements to scala.Either. 
d6c7844e60  Big improvements to the documentation of collection.Iterator, courtesy of Daniel Sobral. Also includes a small correction to the documentation of sys.process.Process. No review. 
3f0b3feb39  Hugely improves the API documentation for JavaTokenParsers, Parsers, and RegexParsers. Contributed by Daniel Sobral during the September doc spree. 
5e8e33d9a6  Improves PagedSeq API documentation. 
2b90c7de0b  Docspree documentation for Stream from Derek Wyatt 
44101d7d3c  Document the usage and methods of scala.sys.process. 
1c8add1460  Improves documentation of scala.Predef. 
3808b3a6cd  Replaced Application with App in ScalaDoc. 
c90b3782ba  Hugely improves Regex documentation. 
90f2fdd4ee  A big improvement to Ordering documentation. 
a8c49d6d6a  Update Scaladoc for LinkedList and for some of the functions/operators - that it inherits. Completed Scaladoc for append Added example - in GenSeqLike for apply. Added $collectExample to collect in - GenTraversableLike and supplied an actual example in LinkedList 
4c1c65a0c5  Move vector descrition from the obejct to the class, where it actually makes sense. Preserve previously existing attribute definitions. 
c745ce3a51  Updated documentation for testing.Benchmark. 
2728b4ae5a  document scala.util.control.Breaks methods 
8188f74402  collection docs: fix copy-paste errors in GenTraversableOnce 
fa989a2db6  Some post-facto patch cleanups, no review. 
a493b30ec9  Fleshed out scala.math.Ordered documentation. 
4631885aaa  Fix wiki markup of Equiv.scala.  From Josh Marcus. 
fe2eb1794e  Fix Benchmark documentation to match current ar... 
5950c8416f  Documentation and examples for Regex. 
e2f9a6bace  Fixes some remaining formatting issues. 
b6f00c7dc1  Small changes to docs only. No review. 
d04f8904aa  Further ScalaDoc fixes. 
8a947a2eb3  Clarify scala.collection.immutable.Map#withDefaultValue() docs. 
f0da4d7976  Fix documentation typo. 
83a09b4d8d  Fix doc comment. no review 
70aafe3fcc  Changed typo on doc of scala.collection.Seq. 
9638ca573b  Improved API documentation for scala.compat.Pla... 
488148654f  Improved documentation for scala.collection.imm... 
f2dc052a24  Improves Benchmark documentation. 
54bac27e9e  Adds more documentation to Array. 
99bd373acd  Fixed doc comments of the keys and values metho... 
34ef5f08d5  Basic scaladoc for some scala.math classes. 
3c83c646bf  Basic scaladoc for Vector. 
0152bb89e6  Added documentation for RichInt. 
fc10c4c1b5  Merge pull request #42 from jamie-allen/master 
d6faa07048  Additional documentation for the Array type, wi... 
ce4e81a33f  corrected typo in scaladoc comment 
4c21f2a4a3  Formatting fixes for scala.collection.JavaConve... 
c5f0b07dff  Fixes typo in ScalaDoc: IndexOutofBoundsExcepti... 
2701d7fa47  Backported commit 7a99c03da1d31ac5950eecb30f422f43c5e3d04e from master 
4c37608e5c  Fix in bytecode generation. 
9b510ea991  Don't mark mixed in methods as bridges. 
6ac297d3cc  Tweaking build string some more. 
cdabd23911  More on get-scala-revision. 
5c7086b3c8  More build.xml massaging. 
3a3832700f  Tweaking build string some more. 
a348cc3f83  More on get-scala-revision. 
7d2db571b4  Hardening get-scala-version. 
56536de18c  Making path to settings.xml configurable. 
59348d0160  Boiling more logic out of jenkins. 
9c15462891  Swimming with the jenkins current. 
abfc737822  Separated build and publish scripts. 
ff7f9fcaa2  Unified 2.8.x and 2.9.x build scripts. 
a2be0aff10  Moved jenkins build script. 
e210de1128  Unified 2.8.x and 2.9.x build scripts. 
068ae73d18  Moved jenkins build script. 
e29bfb10c4  Follow up on previous commit. 
0f2df920b1  Backport of 26012,26013. 
227bffd370  Backported r25904 and r25959. 
44b32ff306  Backport of r25948 
e196a153cc  Whitespace fix for continutations tests. 
07b1d4703e  Merged whitespace fixes 
c6f6a5f781  Manually Backported r25899. 
8c1a86b2a0  Backport of r25890 
75738b6d40  Merged revisions 25817 via svnmerge from 
2c38c7a8b0  Removed stray (and incorrect) test 
e1fcf40707  backport of 25800,25801 
9a691cecef  backport of r25739 
2719ac0a7d  Backport of r25661 and r25664. 
d35c4ad450  Backport of r25625 and r25596. 
6a6ec3a372  Version number on 2.9.x branch: 2.9.1.final -> ... 

 

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