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Version 21.0.0

Fixes:

  • Improve AST sharing, and support auxiliary engine caching. On top of the regular AST sharing that allows sharing code between multiple contexts in a single engine, this allows persisting of the shared code, to share it across process boundaries.

  • Add support for MacOS Big Sur.

Deprecations:

  • Add deprecation warning for the old header locations polyglot.h and llvm/api/toolchain.h. This header files were deprecated already in 20.3.0, but without a warning.

Version 20.3.0

New features:

  • Introduced handles API for storing managed pointers in native memory.

  • Enabled AST sharing in the GraalVM LLVM runtime. This allows code of bitcode libraries to be shared between multiple contexts within a single engine.

Changes:

  • Updated LLVM toolchain to version 10.0.0.

  • Improved for va_list / varargs handling across language boundaries. Using va_start in an LLVM function that was called from a foreign language no longer forces all arguments into native memory. The resulting va_list object can be passed to code written in other languages, and accessed there using standard interop APIs.

  • Moved polyglot.h to graalvm/llvm/polyglot.h and llvm/api/toolchain.h to graalvm/llvm/toolchain-api.h. The old header locations are deprecated, and will be removed in a future release.

  • Renamed libpolyglot-mock.so to libgraalvm-llvm.so. The old name is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

  • Use the version of the LLVM toolchain as the LLVM language version (see lli --version).

Version 20.2.0

New features:

  • Support reading multi-byte values from polyglot arrays explicitly typed as i8 arrays.

  • Fail when a function is called over interop with fewer arguments than it expects.

  • Support InteropLibrary.isIdentical and related messages.

  • Added the --print-toolchain-api-identifier, --print-toolchain-api-tool <tool-name> and --print-toolchain-api-paths <path-name> arguments to the lli launcher. These can be used to query the Toolchain API from the command line.

  • The Java API of the Toolchain now supports requesting locations via the #getPaths() method. For example the location of the toolchain executables or libraries. See the JavaDoc for more details.

  • Added llvm/api/toolchain.h header for accessing the Toolchain from C code.

Removed:

  • Removed the --llvm.sourcePath option (deprecated since 19.0), use --inspect.SourcePath instead.

  • Removed support for the application/x-llvm-ir-bitcode-base64 mime-type (deprecated since 19.0).

Version 20.1.0

Changes:

  • libc++ and libc++abi are now shipped as bitcode libraries. For building those cmake is required to be installed.

  • C++ support (libsulong++) is no longer loaded by default. Instead, it is enabled if libc++ is loaded. Executables (ELF, Mach-O) compiled with the toolchain usually have a dependency on this library and will continue to work. Plain bitcode files, which do not allow to specify dependencies, may fail with an error similar to the following:

    Global variable _ZNSt3__15ctypeIcE2idE is declared but not defined.

    This can be solved by either compiling it into a proper executable, or by specifying the dependency on the command line (e.g., lli --lib libc++.so.1 ... on Linux or lli --lib libc++.1.dylib on macOS).

  • Module initialization order is now only based on the dependencies recorded in the ELF/Mach-O file instead of looking at imported symbols. Consequently, the order plain bitcode files are initialized might change since they do not allow recording dependencies. If the initialization order is important, the suggested approach to use ELF/Mach-O files. The Toolchain can help creating those.

  • Cover more cases when calling functions that receive structs by value across interop boundaries.

  • Bitcode execution now supports on-stack-replacement of loops, i.e., compiling long-running loops before the surrounding function is compiled.

Version 20.0.0

Changes:

New features:

  • Support accessing llvm-ar, llvm-nm, llvm-objcopy, llvm-objdump, llvm-ranlib, llvm-readelf, llvm-readobj and llvm-strip via the toolchain.

Version 19.3.0

Changes:

New features:

  • Added mx extract-bitcode command for extracting embedded bitcode. Usage: mx extract-bitcode inputFile.so outputFile.bc, where inputFile can be can be a file of any supported format such as wrapped bitcode or ELF/Mach-O with an embedded bitcode sections.

  • Added preliminary support for parsing bitcode produced by LLVM 9.

  • We are now shipping native libc++ and libc++abi libraries with the LLVM runtime, so users no longer need to install them manually.

  • We added linker support to the LLVM toolchain. A path to the linker can be requested via the LD tool name.

  • Added the --print-toolchain-path command line flag to lli to print the location of the toolchain on the standard output.

  • The toolchain Java API can be used to query the toolchain path using the PATH name.

  • Added intrinsics for pthread thread management functions.

Improvements:

  • Clang and other LLVM tools are no longer required to be installed for building the GraalVM LLVM runtime. Instead, the LLVM distribution bundled with the Toolchain is used.

Version 19.2.0

New features:

  • Support locating dynamic libraries relatively using (rpath).
  • Preliminary support for compiling to bitcode using the LLVM toolchain. See docs/contributor/TOOLCHAIN.md for more details. WARNING: The toolchain is experimental. Functionality may be added, changed or removed without prior notice.
  • Support for simple pointer arithmetics with foreign objects. In addition to offset arithmetics, GraalVM now supports "negated" pointers and simple bitmask operations (typically used for alignment operations).

Improvements:

  • Improved display of pointers to foreign objects in the LLVM debugger. When inspecting pointer values that point somewhere inside a foreign object, the debugger now allows inspecting the original foreign object, not just the contents of the pointer itself.

Version 19.1.0

Fixes:

  • Calling exit(...) in an embedded context is now a catchable PolyglotException.
  • Skip source path entries that we're not allowed to access. Previously, when running in an embedded context with restricted access to the file system, the LLVM engine threw an exception when it could not read the source files, even if no debugger was attached. Now it will still run. Only when a debugger is attached, an error is reported when the source file can't be accessed.

Version 19.0.0

Changes:

  • Moved polyglot.h into the include subdirectory.
  • Remove language version from LLVMLanguage. The LLVM engine in GraalVM is always released in sync with GraalVM, no need for a separate version number.

Fixes:

  • Don't use host interop for LLVM engine internals. This means the LLVM engine now works correctly with minimal permissions. In particular, the host interop permission is not needed anymore.

Version 1.0.0 RC15

New features:

  • Preliminary support for bitcode produced by LLVM 8.

Version 1.0.0 RC14

Changes:

  • Various bug fixes.

Version 1.0.0 RC13

New features:

  • Support for embedded bitcode in Mach-O files. We support bitcode in the __bitcode section of Mach-O object files, as well as bitcode files in an embedded xar archive in the __bundle section of executables or dylibs.

Changes:

  • Update libc++/libc++abi imports to 5.0.2 (no actual code changes).

Version 1.0.0 RC12

Removed:

  • Removed deprecated truffle_* builtin functions.
  • Dropped binary compatibility to bitcode compiled with very old polyglot.h versions (1.0.0-RC2 or older).

Bugfixes:

  • Read-only globals are now allocated in read-only memory.

Version 1.0.0 RC11

Changes:

  • Stack traces report line numbers even if the original source file can not be found.
  • Don't allow polyglot_eval for internal languages.

Deprecations:

  • Deprecate --llvm.sourcePath option in favour of the more general --inspect.SourcePath option.

Version 1.0.0 RC10

New features:

  • New option --llvm.sourcePath to specify search path for source files when debugging.
  • Make debugging of internal functions possible. This is disabled by default, enable with the --inspect.Internal option.

Changes:

  • Uncaught exceptions are now output on stderr (previously stdout).
  • Hide internal functions (e.g. _start or __cxa_throw) in stack traces.

Version 1.0.0 RC9

No changes.

Version 1.0.0 RC8

New features:

  • Expert-level option --llvm.loadC++Libraries=false to disable automatic loading of C++ standard libraries.

Version 1.0.0 RC7

New features:

  • New polyglot builtin polyglot_has_member.

Changes:

  • Removed support for implicit polyglot types for local variables as the availability of type information is not guaranteed. Explicit polyglot casts are now strictly required (polyglot_as_typed). See docs/contributor/INTEROP.md and polyglot.h for more details.
  • Support for IR-level tracing.
  • Preliminary support for LLVM 7.

Version 1.0.0 RC6

New features:

  • Support for IR-level debugging.
  • New polyglot cast functions for primitive array types.
  • Support for function pointer members in polyglot_as_typed.

Version 1.0.0 RC5

New features:

  • Support the __builtin_debugtrap function based on LLVM's @llvm.debugtrap intrinsic

Improvements:

  • Support "zero-length array at end of struct" pattern when accessing polyglot values as structs.
  • Improved performance of global variable access.
  • Improved support for vectorized bitcode operations.

Version 1.0.0 RC4

No changes.

Version 1.0.0 RC3

New features:

  • Dynamic polyglot cast functions polyglot_from_typed and polyglot_as_typed.

Version 1.0.0 RC2

New features:

  • Use dynamic linker semantics when loading multiple bitcode files.
  • Support ELF files with embedded LLVM bitcode.
  • Pointers to bitcode functions can now be called from other languages.

New polyglot builtins:

  • polyglot_eval_file
  • polyglot_java_type
  • polyglot_remove_member
  • polyglot_remove_array_element
  • polyglot_can_instantiate
  • polyglot_new_instance

Improvements:

  • Support polyglot values in all pointer operations.

Version 1.0.0 RC1

New features:

  • New API for conversion of user-defined native structs from and to polyglot values.

Version 0.33

New features:

  • Support for bitcode of LLVM version 6.0.
  • New API for accessing polyglot values from C (polyglot.h).

Changes:

  • The libc++ dependency is now optional and only required for running C++ code. libc++abi is no longer required.