We're happy to announce that X10 and X10DT version 2.1.0 are now available for download.
This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements to the code base. For more details, please see the X10 2.1.0 release page at http://x10-lang.org/X10+2.1.0+Release. Below is a summary of JIRA issues addressed for the X10 2.1.0 ** New Features and Improvements * [XTENLANG-549] - Getting started with X10 * [XTENLANG-648] - Generic parameters aren't *that* generic * [XTENLANG-800] - Can't genericize over numeric types * [XTENLANG-807] - Introduce clocked clause * [XTENLANG-1076] - Search index for various bits of X10DT tooling * [XTENLANG-1120] - Signature of main method should be Array[String](1) instead of Rail[String]! * [XTENLANG-1123] - Object initialization, defaulted types * [XTENLANG-1189] - Get rid of await(e) * [XTENLANG-1327] - x10doc should process package.html * [XTENLANG-1544] - x10 (Java backend): support (or document?) command-line argument to control number of places * [XTENLANG-1565] - Permit definite initialization of vals from within asyncs * [XTENLANG-1608] - proto language design debate * [XTENLANG-1619] - nuke future * [XTENLANG-1620] - nuke or * [XTENLANG-1621] - eliminate pinned keyword * [XTENLANG-1622] - eliminate incomplete keyword * [XTENLANG-1835] - Improve scaling of ateach * [XTENLANG-1836] - Improve scaling of DistArray creation * [XTENLANG-1874] - Implement copying semantics for at (here) S ** Bugs * [XTENLANG-31] - "cannot find symbol constructor X" in constructor for class A(p) extends X[C] * [XTENLANG-51] - operators involving multi-dimensional region constants (e.g. [0..1,2..3] || [4..5,6..7]) don't (can't?) work * [XTENLANG-499] - Compiler fails to complain about checked exceptions thrown by a closure body that doesn't declare them * [XTENLANG-533] - Overloading not allowed for function types? * [XTENLANG-625] - Cannot do Pair(1,1) * [XTENLANG-719] - T <: proto T, contra spec * [XTENLANG-769] - Compiler sometimes thinks that creating a closure can throw an exception thrown by the body of the closure * [XTENLANG-811] - Failure to detect that an anonymous class is abstract (and therefore new is illegal) * [XTENLANG-815] - TypeCastException or ClassCastException? -- and java.lang.ClassCastException? * [XTENLANG-823] - X10 doesn't detect an attempt to break out of a loop through an async * [XTENLANG-829] - Exceptions from futures are badly described (I hope) * [XTENLANG-955] - Trouble throwing generic type * [XTENLANG-978] - Inheriting two instantiations of the same method? * [XTENLANG-979] - Spurious name collision re: instantiating two versions of related interfaces. * [XTENLANG-1003] - CUDA: memory allocation blocks * [XTENLANG-1101] - File icons displayed incorrectly upon re-launch of workbench * [XTENLANG-1107] - Error reading Help table of contents file * [XTENLANG-1111] - C++ backend doesn't properly rename type parameter of outer this * [XTENLANG-1198] - 'at' should be allowed to access var variables in the lexically enclosing scope * [XTENLANG-1216] - Typechecker bug * [XTENLANG-1277] - Typechecker (?) dies with nasty Java stack trace when it shoudl die gracefully. * [XTENLANG-1325] - f = f.f.f; crashes when f has a constraint (f:Hello!) * [XTENLANG-1356] - const must die! * [XTENLANG-1369] - X10 compiler does not complain about importing from default package * [XTENLANG-1388] - NPE in AnnotationCreator * [XTENLANG-1438] - Type checker should reject method which throws checked exception without having throws Exception clause * [XTENLANG-1451] - Not doing a proper renaming when moving field initializers to the constructor body in FieldInitializerMover * [XTENLANG-1469] - Inference of static generic methods is broken * [XTENLANG-1471] - X10DT should create projects with X10 nature, and offer to switch to X10 perspective * [XTENLANG-1477] - Misleading error message or miscomputation of place constraint * [XTENLANG-1483] - Foo! should imply Foo{self!=null} * [XTENLANG-1494] - Closures and checked exceptions do not work properly * [XTENLANG-1495] - Compiler doesn't type-check all methods * [XTENLANG-1498] - Generics and inner classes - there is currently no syntax for it * [XTENLANG-1537] - x10.samples.CUDABlackSholes example program: bad place exception * [XTENLANG-1553] - Circular declaration sends x10 compiler into infinite loop (the infinite loop is in the constraints code) * [XTENLANG-1562] - Race condition between file deletion and parser scheduler? * [XTENLANG-1588] - "!" vs. at(here) vs. at(this.home) : not consistent - bugs in spec and in the compiler * [XTENLANG-1591] - "!" on static variables is not implemented correctly * [XTENLANG-1593] - InternalCompilerError "Cannot exception check ambiguous node" * [XTENLANG-1616] - Java backend should produce X10 stack traces, not Java stack traces * [XTENLANG-1643] - The compiler adds zero-initializers for "var" fields, even when it's not needed. * [XTENLANG-1644] - In line optimization violates privacy Array field * [XTENLANG-1654] - polyglot.util.InternalCompilerError: Cannot access field "x" within a null container type. * [XTENLANG-1655] - Type-checker throws InternalCompilerError: "Cannot get FieldDef before type-checking field access" * [XTENLANG-1663] - Remove the "test and try something else if exception" pattern from the typechecker * [XTENLANG-1687] - StackOverflowError in type declare * [XTENLANG-1702] - Can't call Object's toString via a super call: results in post-compilation errors in the Java backend * [XTENLANG-1711] - typeName is still broken as of 2.0.5 * [XTENLANG-1712] - Default initial value of var fields of struct type (both backends) * [XTENLANG-1743] - Any.x10 uses the keyword "at" * [XTENLANG-1750] - NativeRep.x10 uses the keyword "type" * [XTENLANG-1753] - rename Array.copyTo/copyFrom to asyncCopy * [XTENLANG-1761] - The types returned by ClassType.interfaces() are lazy loaded which block "Add unimplemented methods" quick fix * [XTENLANG-1765] - InitChecker doesn't handle try-catch correctly * [XTENLANG-1768] - Duplicate class error when there is no duplication * [XTENLANG-1771] - Compiler does not produce any errors and code generated has a compilation error * [XTENLANG-1773] - Java backend, X10/Java String API mismatch bug * [XTENLANG-1776] - {{null}} is considered a value of a generic type * [XTENLANG-1779] - method overloading resolution for Writer.write * [XTENLANG-1783] - Compiler: polyglot.types.SemanticException when accessing non-static field from static context * [XTENLANG-1785] - Collecting finish doesn't collect remote activities * [XTENLANG-1786] - instanceof Iterator[String] returns true for Iterator[Int] * [XTENLANG-1787] - Print type params when casting to parameterized type * [XTENLANG-1788] - Type parameter accesses are not checked correctly * [XTENLANG-1789] - Anonymous local classes inside anonymous local classes fail to compile. * [XTENLANG-1794] - instanceof Iterable[String] returns true for Iterable[Int] * [XTENLANG-1799] - missing type: error message from post compiler. * [XTENLANG-1801] - X10 should report on "Illegal forward reference" even when the fields are prefixed with "this" explicitly * [XTENLANG-1803] - X10DT optimization mysteries * [XTENLANG-1805] - X10 must check that VAL fields are read only after they're written to * [XTENLANG-1809] - Break in for loop does not seem to behave as one would expect * [XTENLANG-1810] - InternalCompilerError: Cannot get LocalDef before type-checking local variable * [XTENLANG-1817] - HeatTransfer v4 and v5 (from tutorial/samples) broken * [XTENLANG-1818] - set() with one argument cannot be invoked using the operator syntax: a()=3 * [XTENLANG-1819] - Typechecker produces unknown type for recursively-dependent method parameters * [XTENLANG-1826] - Missing parenthesis around ternary operator {{flag ? e1 : e2}} * [XTENLANG-1827] - The target/receiver of an anonymous class should be "this" (but it is null) * [XTENLANG-1829] - {{self.here}} appears in error messages * [XTENLANG-1831] - Collecting finish deadlocks on >=4 single-threaded places * [XTENLANG-1832] - NPE for instanceof UInt * [XTENLANG-1838] - Problem with generics and interfaces * [XTENLANG-1844] - Inner classes are broken in the presence of generics * [XTENLANG-1848] - Compiler fails without any error message * [XTENLANG-1855] - Fix toString on Point to correspond to the point deconstruction syntax * [XTENLANG-1856] - Problems in constraint system with Dist/Region rank constraints * [XTENLANG-1858] - Some @NativeRep'ed classes don't have constructors with the outer instance parameter * [XTENLANG-1859] - Java error compiling constrained-type closure * [XTENLANG-1860] - generics, subclasses, and interfaces, oh my! * [XTENLANG-1866] - Generic bounds are incorrect when creating a static version of a private method (final public static <T> void) * [XTENLANG-1868] - xlupc transport: can't create socket for accepting connections: Address already in use * [XTENLANG-1870] - Codegen for custom deserialization of generic classes in Java backend * [XTENLANG-1871] - Initialization within finish-async block that includes uncounted async should be rejected. * [XTENLANG-1873] - java backend handling of command-line arguments * [XTENLANG-1880] - Java backend produces invalid code for abstract generic methods * [XTENLANG-1882] - Missing cast in the Java generated code when invoking a method of a generic type * [XTENLANG-1884] - Enforce static locality constraints for var references in at * [XTENLANG-1886] - bridge method raiseBoundsError$P(int) is not being created in x10.array.Array.java * [XTENLANG-1887] - Javacaster throws an NPE when processing 2-nested anonymous inner classes * [XTENLANG-1888] - Front-end not rejecting closures that access var local variables of lexically enclosing scope * [XTENLANG-1889] - HeatTransfer v3 overflows max depth of constraint system * [XTENLANG-1892] - Inference of generic type parameters incorrectly selects a less specific method * [XTENLANG-1893] - Passing a var into an async differs from C++ to Java backends * [XTENLANG-1894] - Boxing of "var" for an async is not done properly in java * [XTENLANG-1898] - x10 C++ backend bug in implementation of caputured async variables * [XTENLANG-1901] - clocked ateach is not a valid X10 construct; parser must reject it and report error * [XTENLANG-1903] - Update x10doc comments in Any and Object * [XTENLANG-1906] - error message (#394215580)_. * [XTENLANG-1908] - Field here not found in type "x10.array.Array[x10.lang.Int]{self==ia, ia.region==e, ia!=null} * [XTENLANG-1910] - Accessing (read & write) local var in an async * [XTENLANG-1926] - string equality on Java backend For the details of JIRA issues fixed in this release, see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XTENLANG/fixforversion/16496 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. 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