1.3.41

Compiler

• KT-31981 New type inference asks to use ?. on non-null local variable
• KT-32029 Exception when callable reference is resolved against unresolved type
• KT-32037 No coercion to Unit for last expression with lambda in code block
• KT-32038 Unsubstituted stub type cause type mismatch later for builder inference
• KT-32051 NEW_INFERENCE_NO_INFORMATION_FOR_PARAMETER on matching Nothing with generic type parameter
• KT-32081 New type inference fails involving Either and Nothing
• KT-32089 False positive IMPLICIT_NOTHING_AS_TYPE_PARAMETER with lambdas
• KT-32094 NI: member from star import has higher resolution priority than member imported by FQN
• KT-32116 Type inference for HashMap<,> fails but compiles
• KT-32123 Wrong unused import for extension method
• KT-32133 Regression in Kotlin 1.3.40 new inference engine
• KT-32134 java.lang.Throwable: Resolution error of this type shouldn't occur for resolve try as a call for incomplete try-construction
• KT-32143 1.3.40 new inference: backward incompatibility in method calls with multiple SAM arguments
• KT-32154 setOf(Map.Entry<*, *>::key) gives error on IDE
• KT-32157 Issue with new type inference in unbounded generics
• KT-32175 New Type Inference Algorithm, RxJava and IDE-Compiler Inconsistency
• KT-32184 NI: Argument for @NotNull parameter 'type' of org/jetbrains/kotlin/types/CommonSupertypes.depth must not be null
• KT-32187 Exception when using callable reference with an unresolved LHS
• KT-32218 Cannot call get on a Map<out Any,Any> with new type system
• KT-32230 New inference not working with RxJava combineLatest
• KT-32235 New type inference failure with in check

JavaScript

• KT-32215 Reified generic doesn't work with ByteArray on js

Tools. CLI

• KT-32272 kotlinc - no main manifest attribute, in hello.jar

Tools. REPL

• KT-32085 Kotlinc REPL: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jline/reader/LineReaderBuilder"

Tools. Scripts

• KT-32169 Kotlin 1.3.40 - Crash on running *.main.kts script: "NoSuchMethodError: kotlin.script.templates.standard.ScriptTemplateWithArgs.<init>"
• KT-32206 Custom script definitions not loaded in the cli compiler

Previous releases

This release also includes the fixes and improvements from the previous releases.

This project publishes no release notes. Between v1.3.40 and v1.3.41 there were 28 commits, 28 of them substantive:

• Fix jline proguarding in the compiler: fixes cli REPL
• Implement command-line REPL smoke test
• Fix custom script definition cashing and script validity check:
• Implement main-kts test with command-line compiler
• [NI] Don't avoid Nothing-like constraints if Nothing was in initial type
• [NI] Added test for KT-32094
• [NI] Skip fake call for descriptor from object in builder-inference
• [NI] Fix exception: callable reference is used with an unresolved LHS
• [NI] Fix exception: don't try to compute type depth on null type
• [NI] Capture receiver of invoke-based call
• [NI] Support callable references on qualified types with generics
• [NI] Fix exception for type check callable reference against error type
• [NI] Coerce to Unit expression in last block with explicit Unit
• [NI] Fix composite substitution for stubbed type in builder-inference
• [NI] Record DFI for callable reference arguments
• Gradle: Add a shortcut DSL method for linuxArm64 target
• Exclude functional types for the warning reporting about implicitly inferred a type parameter to Nothing
• Bind WrappedVariableDescriptorWithAccessors in IR deserializer
• JS: fix reified T::class for primitive T (e.g. Int) (KT-32215 fixed)
• Gradle, JS: don't project.getTasksByName inside task realization callback

…and 8 more.

Content

The release contains the JVM version of Kotlin compiler and also one native system dependent version for every major platform (Linux, macOS, and Windows).

CHANGELOG

1.3.40

Android

Fixes

• KT-12402 Android DataBinding work correctly but the IDE show it as error
• KT-31432 Remove obsolete code introduced in KT-12402

Compiler

New Features

• KT-29915 Implement typeOf on JVM
• KT-30467 Provide a way to to save compiled script(s) as a jar

Performance Improvements

• KT-17755 Optimize trimIndent and trimMargin on constant strings
• KT-30603 Compiler performance issue: VariableLivenessKt.useVar performance

Fixes

• KT-19227 Load built-ins from dependencies by default in the compiler, support erroneous "fallback" built-ins
• KT-23426 Actual typealias to Java enum does not match expected enum because of modality
• KT-23854 Inference for common type of two captured types
• KT-25105 False-positive warning "Remove final upper bound" on generic override
• KT-25302 New inference: "Type mismatch" between star projection and Any? type argument in specific case
• KT-25433 Wrong order of fixing type variables for callable references
• KT-26386 Front-end recursion problem while analyzing contract function with call expression of self in implies
• KT-26412 Wrong LVT generated if decomposed parameter of suspend lambda is not the first parameter.
• KT-27097 JvmMultifileClass + JvmName causes NoSuchMethodError on sealed class hierarchy for top-level members
• KT-28534 Local variable entries are missing in LVT for suspend lambda parameters
• KT-28535 Rename result to $result in coroutines' LVT
• KT-29184 Implement inference for coroutines according to the @BuilderInference contract in NI
• KT-29772 Contracts don't work if contract function is fully qualified (FQN)
• KT-29790 Incorrect version requirement in metadata of anonymous class for suspend lambda
• KT-29948 NI: incorrect DSLMarker behaviour with generic star projection
• KT-30021 +NewInference on Kotlin Native :: java.lang.StackOverflowError
• KT-30242 Statements are not coerced to Unit in last expressions of lambda
• KT-30243 Include FIR modules into compiler
• KT-30250 Rewrite at slice exception for callable reference argument inside delegated expression
• KT-30292 Reference to function is unresolved when LHS is a star-projected type
• KT-30293 Wrong intersection type for common supertype from String and integer type
• KT-30370 Call is completed too early when there is "Nothing" constraint
• KT-30405 Support expected type from cast in new inference
• KT-30406 Fix testIfOrWhenSpecialCall test for new inference
• KT-30590 Report diagnostic about not enough information for inference in NI
• KT-30620 Exception from the compiler when coroutine-inference is involved even with the explicitly specified types
• KT-30656 Exception is occurred when functions with implicit return-stub types are involved in builder-inference
• KT-30658 Exception from the compiler when getting callable reference to a suspend function
• KT-30661 Disable SAM conversions to Kotlin functions in new-inference by default
• KT-30676 Overload resolution ambiguity when there is a callable reference argument and candidates with different functional return types
• KT-30694 No debug metadata is generated for suspend lambdas which capture crossinline
• KT-30724 False positive error about missing equals when one of the operands is incorrectly inferred to Nothing
• KT-30734 No smartcast inside lambda literal in then/else "if" branch
• KT-30737 Try analysing callable reference preemptively
• KT-30780 Compiler crashes on 'private inline' function accessing private constant in 'inline class' (regression)
• KT-30808 NI: False negative SPREAD_OF_NULLABLE with USELESS_ELVIS_RIGHT_IS_NULL
• KT-30816 BasicJvmScriptEvaluator passes constructor parameters in incorrect order
• KT-30826 There isn't report about unsafe call in the new inference (by invalidating smartcast), NPE
• KT-30843 Duplicate JVM class name for expect/actual classes in JvmMultifileClass-annotated file
• KT-30853 Compiler crashes with NewInference and Kotlinx.Coroutines Flow
• KT-30927 Data flow info isn't used for 'this' which is returned from lambda using labeled return
• KT-31081 Implement ArgumentMatch abstraction in new inference
• KT-31113 Fix failing tests from SlicerTestGenerated
• KT-31199 Unresolved callable references with typealias
• KT-31339 Inliner does not remove redundant continuation classes, leading to CNFE in JMH bytecode processing
• KT-31346 Fix diagnostic DSL_SCOPE_VIOLATION for new inference
• KT-31356 False-positive error about violating dsl scope for new-inference
• KT-31360 NI: inconsistently prohibits member usage without explicit receiver specification with star projection and DSL marker
• KT-18563 Do not generate inline reified functions as private in bytecode
• KT-20849 Inference results in Nothing type argument in case of passing 'out T' to 'in T1'
• KT-25290 New inference: KNPE at ResolutionPartsKt.getExpectedTypeWithSAMConversion() on out projection of Java class
• KT-26418 Back-end (JVM) Internal error when compiling decorated suspend inline functions
• KT-26925 Decorated suspend inline function continuation resumes in wrong spot
• KT-28999 Prohibit type parameters for anonymous objects
• KT-29307 New inference: false negative CONSTANT_EXPECTED_TYPE_MISMATCH with a Map
• KT-29475 IllegalArgumentException at getAbstractTypeFromDescriptor with deeply nested expression inside function named with a right parenthesis
• KT-29996 Properly report errors on attempt to inline bytecode from class files compiled to 1.8 to one compiling to 1.6
• KT-30289 Don't generate annotations on synthetic methods for methods with default values for parameters
• KT-30410 [NI] Front-end recursion problem while analyzing contract function with call expression of self in implies
• KT-30411 Fold recursive types to star-projected ones when inferring type variables
• KT-30706 Passing noinline lambda as (cross)inline parameter result in wrong state-machine
• KT-30707 Java interop of coroutines inside inline functions is broken
• KT-30983 ClassCastException: DeserializedTypeAliasDescriptor cannot be cast to PackageViewDescriptor on star-import of expect enum class actualized with typealias
• KT-31242 "Can't find enclosing method" proguard compilation exception with inline and crossinline
• KT-31347 "IndexOutOfBoundsException: Insufficient maximum stack size" with crossinline and suspend
• KT-31354 Suspend inline functions with crossinline parameters are inaccessible from java
• KT-31367 IllegalStateException: Concrete fake override public open fun (...) defined in TheIssue[PropertyGetterDescriptorImpl@1a03c376] should have exactly one concrete super-declaration: []
• KT-31461 NI: NONE_APPLICABLE instead of TYPE_MISMATCH when invoking convention plus operator
• KT-31503 Type mismatch with recursive types and SAM conversions
• KT-31507 Enable new type inference algorithm for IDE analysis
• KT-31514 New inference generates multiple errors on generic inline expression with elvis operator
• KT-31520 False positive "not enough information" for constraint with star projection and covariant type
• KT-31606 Rewrite at slice on using callable reference with array access operator
• KT-31620 False-positive "not enough information" for coroutine-inference when target method is assigned to a variable
• KT-31624 Type from declared upper bound in Java is considered more specific than Nothing producing type mismatch later
• KT-31860 Explicit type argument isn't considered as input type causing errors about "only input types"
• KT-31866 Problems with using star-projections on LHS of callable reference
• KT-31868 No type mismatch error when using NoInfer annotation
• KT-31941 Good code red in IDE with smart cast on parameter of a generic type after null check

IDE

New Features

• KT-11242 Action to copy project diagnostic information to clipboard
• KT-24292 Support external nullability annotations
• KT-30453 Add plugin option (registry?) to enable new inference only in IDE

Performance Improvements

• KT-13841 Classes and functions should be lazy-parseable
• KT-27106 Performance issue with optimize imports
• KT-30442 Several second lag on project open in KotlinNonJvmSourceRootConverterProvider
• KT-30644 ConfigureKotlinInProjectUtilsKt freezes UI

Fixes

• KT-7380 Imports insertion on paste does not work correctly when there were alias imports in the source file
• KT-10512 Do not delete imports with unresolved parts when optimizing
• KT-13048 "Strip trailing spaces on Save" should not strip trailing spaces inside multiline strings in Kotlin
• KT-17375 Optimize Imports does not remove unused import alias
• KT-27385 Uast: property references should resolve to getters/setters
• KT-28627 Invalid detection of Kotlin jvmTarget inside Idea/gradle build
• KT-29267 Enable ultra-light classes by default
• KT-29892 A lot of threads are waiting in KotlinConfigurationCheckerComponent
• KT-30356 Kotlin facet: all JVM 9+ target platforms are shown as "Target Platform = JVM 9" in Project Structure dialog
• KT-30514 Auto-import with "Add unambiguous imports on the fly" imports enum members from another package
• KT-30583 Kotlin light elements should be isEquivalentTo to it's origins
• KT-30688 Memory leak in the PerModulePackageCacheService.onTooComplexChange method
• KT-30949 Optimize Imports removes used import alias
• KT-30957 Kotlin UAST: USimpleNameReferenceExpression in "imports" for class' member resolves incorrectly to class, not to the member
• KT-31090 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.UtilsKt.addModuleDependencyIfNeeded on import of a multiplatform project with Android target (191 IDEA + master)
• KT-31092 Don't check all selected files in CheckComponentsUsageSearchAction.update()
• KT-31319 False positive "Unused import" for provideDelegate extension
• KT-31332 Kotlin AnnotatedElementsSearch does't support Kotlin object
• KT-31129 Call only Kotlin-specific reference contributors for getting Kotlin references from PSI
• KT-31693 Project with no Kotlin: JPS rebuild fails with NCDFE for GradleSettingsService at KotlinMPPGradleProjectTaskRunner.canRun()
• KT-31466 SOE in Java highlighting when a Kotlin ultra-light method is invoked
• KT-31723 Exception from UAST for attempt to infer types inside unresolved call
• KT-31842 UOE: no descriptor for type constructor of TypeVariable(T)
• KT-31992 Fix ColorsIcon.scale(float) compatibility issue between IU-192.5118.30 and 1.3.40-eap-105

IDE. Completion

• KT-29038 Autocomplete "suspend" into "suspend fun" at top level and class level (except in kts top level)
• KT-29398 Add "arg" postfix template
• KT-30511 Replace extra space after autocompleting data class with file name by parentheses

IDE. Debugger

• KT-10636 Debugger: can't evaluate call of function type parameter inside inline function
• KT-18247 Debugger: class level watches fail to evaluate outside of class instance context
• KT-18263 Settings / Debugger / Java Type Renderers: unqualified Kotlin class members in Java expressions are shown as errors
• KT-23586 Non-trivial properties autocompletion in evaluation window
• KT-30216 Evaluate expression: declarations annotated with Experimental (LEVEL.ERROR) fail due to compilation error
• KT-30610 Debugger: Variables view shows second this instance for inline function even from the same class as caller function
• KT-30714 Breakpoints are shown as invalid for classes that are not loaded yet
• KT-30934 "InvocationException: Exception occurred in target VM" on debugger breakpoint hit (with kotlintest)
• KT-31266 Kotlin debugger incompatibility with latest 192 nightly: KotlinClassWithDelegatedPropertyRenderer
• KT-31785 Exception on attempt to evaluate local function

IDE. Gradle

• KT-29854 File collection dependency does not work with NMPP+JPS
• KT-30531 Gradle: NodeJS downloading
• KT-30767 Kotlin import uses too much memory when working with big projects
• KT-29564 kotlin.parallel.tasks.in.project=true causes idea to create kotlin modules with target JVM 1.6
• KT-31014 Gradle, JS: Webpack watch mode
• KT-31843 Memory leak caused by KOTLIN_TARGET_DATA_NODE on project reimport
• KT-31952 Fix compatibility issues with IDEA after fixing IDEA-187832

IDE. Gradle. Script

• KT-30638 "Highlighting in scripts is not available until all Script Dependencies are loaded" in Diff viewer
• KT-31124 “compileKotlin - configuration not found: kotlinScriptDef, the plugin is probably applied by a mistake” after creating new project with IJ and Kotlin from master
• KT-30974 Script dependencies resolution failed error while trying to use Kotlin for Gradle

IDE. Hints

• KT-30057 "View->Type info" shows "Type is unknown" for named argument syntax

IDE. Inspections and Intentions

New Features

• KT-11629 Inspection: creating Throwable without throwing it
• KT-12392 Unused import with alias should be highlighted and removed with Optimize Imports
• KT-12721 inspection should be made for converting Integer.toString(int) to int.toString()
• KT-13962 Intention to replace Java collection constructor calls with function calls from stdlib (ArrayList() → arrayListOf())
• KT-15537 Add inspection + intention to replace IntRange.start/endInclusive with first/last
• KT-21195 ReplaceWith intention could save generic type arguments
• KT-25262 Intention: Rename class to containing file name
• KT-25439 Inspection "Map replaceable with EnumMap"
• KT-26269 Inspection to replace associate with associateWith or associateBy
• KT-26629 Inspection to replace == operator on Double.NaN with equals call
• KT-27411 Inspection and Quickfix to replace System.exit() with exitProcess()
• KT-29344 Convert property initializer to getter: suggest on property name
• KT-29666 Quickfix for "DEPRECATED_JAVA_ANNOTATION": migrate arguments
• KT-29798 Add 'Covariant equals' inspection
• KT-29799 Inspection: class with non-null self-reference as a parameter in its primary constructor
• KT-30078 Add "Add getter/setter" quick fix for uninitialized property
• KT-30381 Inspection + quickfix to replace non-null assertion with return
• KT-30389 Fix to convert argument to Int: suggest roundToInt()
• KT-30501 Add inspection to replace filter { it is Foo } with filterIsInstance<Foo> and filter { it != null } with filterNotNull
• KT-30612 Unused symbol inspection should detect enum entry
• KT-30663 Fully qualified name is added on quick fix for original class name if import alias exists
• KT-30725 Inspection which replaces .sorted().first() with .min()

Fixes

• KT-5412 "Replace non-null assertion with if expression" should replace parent expression
• KT-13549 "Package directive doesn't match file location" for root package
• KT-14040 Secondary enum class constructor is marked as "unused" by IDE
• KT-18459 Spring: "Autowiring for Bean Class (Kotlin)" inspection adds not working @Named annotation to property
• KT-21526 used class is marked as "never used"
• KT-22896 "Change function signature" quickfix on "x overrides nothing" doesn't rename type arguments
• KT-27089 ReplaceWith quickfix doesn't take into account generic parameter
• KT-27821 SimplifiableCallChain inspection quick fix removes comments for intermediate operations
• KT-28485 Incorrect parameter name after running "Add parameter to function" intention when argument variable is upper case const
• KT-28619 "Add braces to 'if' statement" moves end-of-line comment inside an if branch if statement inside if is block
• KT-29556 "Remove redundant 'let' call" doesn't rename parameter with convention invoke call
• KT-29677 "Specify type explicitly" intention produces invalid output for type escaped with backticks
• KT-29764 "Convert property to function" intention doesn't warn about the property overloads at child class constructor
• KT-29812 False positive for HasPlatformType with member extension on 'dynamic'
• KT-29869 'WhenWithOnlyElse': possibly useless inspection with false grey warning highlighting during editing the code
• KT-30038 'Remove redundant Unit" false positive when return type is nullable Unit
• KT-30082 False positive "redundant .let call" for lambda functions stored in nullable references
• KT-30173 "Nested lambda has shadowed implicit parameter" is suggested when both parameters are logically the same
• KT-30208 Convert to anonymous object: lambda generic type argument is lost
• KT-30215 No "surround with null" check is suggested for an assignment
• KT-30228 'Convert to also/apply/run/with' intention behaves differently depending on the position of infix function call
• KT-30457 MoveVariableDeclarationIntoWhen: do not report gray warning on variable declarations taking multiple lines / containing preemptive returns
• KT-30481 Do not report ImplicitNullableNothingType on a function/property that overrides a function/property of type 'Nothing?'
• KT-30527 False positive "Type alias is never used" with import of enum member
• KT-30559 Redundant Getter, Redundant Setter: reduce range to getter/setter header
• KT-30565 False positive "Suspicious 'var' property" inspection with annotated default property getter
• KT-30579 Kotlin-gradle groovy inspections should depend on Groovy plugin
• KT-30613 "Convert to anonymous function" should not insert named argument when interoping with Java functions
• KT-30614 String templates suggest removing curly braces for backtick escaped identifiers
• KT-30622 Add names to call arguments starting from given argument
• KT-30637 False positive "unused constructor" for local class
• KT-30669 Import quick fix does not work for property/function with original name if import alias for them exist
• KT-30761 Replace assert boolean with assert equality produces uncompilable code when compared arguments type are different
• KT-30769 Override quickfix creates "sealed fun"
• KT-30833 Exception after "Introduce Import Alias" if invoke in import
• KT-30876 SimplifyNotNullAssert inspection changes semantics
• KT-30900 Invert 'if' condition respects neither code formatting nor inline comments
• KT-30910 "Use property access syntax" is not suitable as text for inspection problem text
• KT-30916 Quickfix "Remove redundant qualifier name" can't work with user type with generic parameter
• KT-31103 Don't invoke Gradle related inspections when Gradle plugin is disabled
• KT-31349 Add name to argument should not be suggested for Java library classes
• KT-31404 Redundant 'requireNotNull' or 'checkNotNull' inspection: don't remove first argument
• KT-25465 "Redundant 'suspend' modifier" with suspend operator invoke
• KT-26337 Exception (resource not found) in quick-fix tests in AS32
• KT-30879 False positive "Redundant qualifier name"
• KT-31415 UI hangs due to long computations for "Use property access syntax" intention with new inference
• KT-31441 False positive "Remove explicit type arguments" inspection for projection type
• KT-30970 No warning for empty if operator and alsomethod
• KT-31855 IDE + new inference: Java SAM conversion is not suggested by IDE services

IDE. JS

• KT-31895 New Project wizard: Kotlin Gradle + Kotlin/JS for Node.js: incorrect DSL is inserted

IDE. Libraries

• KT-30790 Unstable IDE navigation behavior to expect/actual symbols in stdlib
• KT-30821 K/N: Navigation downwards the hierarchy in stdlib source code opens to stubs

IDE. Misc

• KT-31364 IntelliJ routinely hangs and spikes CPU / Memory usage when editing kotlin files

IDE. Navigation

• KT-18322 Find Usages not finding Java usage of @JvmField declared in primary constructor
• KT-27332 Gutter icons are still shown even if disabled

IDE. Refactorings

• KT-30471 Make KotlinElementActionsFactory.createChangeParametersActions able to just add parameters

IDE. Run Configurations

• KT-29352 Kotlin + Java 11 + Windows : impossible to run applications with long command lines, even with dynamic.classpath=true

IDE. Scratch

• KT-29642 Once hidden, Scratch Output window wouldn't show the results unless the project is reopened

IDE. Script

• KT-30295 Resolver for 'completion/highlighting in ScriptDependenciesSourceInfo...' does not know how to resolve [] or [Library(null)]
• KT-30690 Highlighting for scripts in diff view doesn't work for left part
• KT-31452 IDE editor: MISSING_SCRIPT_STANDARD_TEMPLATE is reported inconsistently with the single line in script

IDE. Tests Support

• KT-30995 Gradle test runner: "No tasks available" for a test class in non-MPP project

IDE. Ultimate

• KT-30886 KotlinIdeaResolutionException in Velocity template (.ft) with Kotlin code

IDE. Wizards

• KT-30645 Update New Project Wizard templates related to Kotlin/JS
• KT-31099 Remove Gradle configuration boilerplate for JS from multiplatform New Project Wizard templates related to Kotlin/JS
• KT-31695 Gradle, JS: update wizard templates

JS. Tools

• KT-31563 Gradle/JS: npmResolve fails with "Invalid version" when user project's version does not match npm rules
• KT-31566 Gradle/JS: with explicit call to nodejs { testTask { useNodeJs() } } configuration fails : "Could not find which method to invoke"
• KT-31560 Gradle: provide descriptions for JS tasks
• KT-31564 Gradle/JS: npmResolve reports warning "[email protected] has unmet peer dependency"
• KT-31662 Gradle/JS: with empty useKarma {} lambda the execution of jsBrowserTest never stops
• KT-31686 Gradle/JS: useKarma { useConfigDirectory() } fails to configure
• KT-31694 Gradle, NPM, windows: creating symlink requires administrator privilege
• KT-31931 Gradle JS or Native: test processing fails in some cases

JavaScript

• KT-31007 Kotlin/JS 1.3.30 - private method in an interface in the external library causes ReferenceError

Libraries

• KT-30174 Annotation for experimental stdlib API
• KT-30451 Redundant call of selector in maxBy&minBy
• KT-30560 Fix Throwable::addSuppressed from stdlib to make it work without stdlib-jdk7 in runtime
• KT-24810 Support common string<->ByteArray UTF-8 conversion
• KT-29265 String.toCharArray() is not available in common stdlib
• KT-31194 assertFails and assertFailsWith don't work with suspend functions
• KT-31639 'Iterbale.drop' drops too much because of overflow
• KT-28933 capitalize() with Locale argument in the JDK stdlib

Reflection

• KT-29041 KAnnotatedElement should have an extension function to verify if certain annotation is present
• KT-30344 Avoid using .kotlin_module in kotlin-reflect

Tools. Android Extensions

• KT-30993 Android Extensions: Make @Parcelize functionality non-experimental

Tools. CLI

• KT-27638 Add -Xjava-sources compiler argument to specify directories with .java source files which can be referenced from the compiled Kotlin sources
• KT-27778 Add -Xpackage-prefix compiler argument to specify package prefix for Java sources resolution
• KT-30973 Compilation on IBM J9 (build 2.9, JRE 1.8.0 AIX ppc64-64-Bit) fails unless -Xuse-javac is specified

Tools. Compiler Plugins

• KT-30343 Add new Quarkus preset to all-open compiler plugin

Tools. Gradle

New Features

• KT-20156 Publish the Kotlin Javascript Gradle plugin to the Gradle Plugins Portal
• KT-26256 In new MPP, support Java compilation in JVM targets
• KT-27273 Support the Gradle 'application' plugin in new MPP or provide an alternative
• KT-30528 Gradle, JS tests: support basic builtin test runner
• KT-31015 Gradle, JS: Change default for new kotlin-js and experimental kotlin-multiplatform plugins
• KT-30573 Gradle, JS: enable source maps by default, change paths relative to node_modules directory
• KT-30747 Gradle, JS tests: provide option to disable test configuration per target
• KT-31010 Gradle, JS tests: Mocha
• KT-31011 Gradle, JS tests: Karma
• KT-31013 Gradle, JS: Webpack
• KT-31016 Gradle: yarn downloading
• KT-31017 Gradle, yarn: support workspaces

Fixes

• KT-13256 CompileJava tasks in Kotlin2Js Gradle plugin
• KT-16355 Rename "compileKotlin2Js" Gradle task to "compileKotlinJs"
• KT-26255 Using the jvmWithJava preset in new MPP leads to counter-intuitive source set names and directory structure
• KT-27640 Do not use -Xbuild-file when invoking the Kotlin compiler in Gradle plugins
• KT-29284 kotlin2js plugin applies java plugin
• KT-30132 Could not initialize class org.jetbrains.kotlin.com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil on build by gradle
• KT-30596 Kotlin Gradle Plugin: Forward stdout and stderr logger of out of process though gradle logger
• KT-31106 Kotlin compilation fails with locked build script dependencies and Gradle 5
• KT-28985 Java tests not executed in a module created with presets.jvmWithJava
• KT-30340 kotlin("multiplatform") plugin is not working properly with Spring Boot
• KT-30784 Deprecation warning "API 'variant.getPackageLibrary()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getPackageLibraryProvider()'" for a multiplatform library with Android target
• KT-31027 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No static method hashCode(Z)I in class Ljava/lang/Boolean; or its super classes (declaration of 'java.lang.Boolean' appears in /system/framework/core-libart.jar)
• KT-31696 Gradle, NPM: select one version between tools and all of compile configurations
• KT-31697 Gradle, NPM: report about clashes in packages_imported
• KT-31891 Gradle: JS or Native tests execution: build --scan fails with ISE "Expected attachment of type ... but did not find it"
• KT-31023 Update Gradle module metadata warning in MPP publishing

Tools. Incremental Compile

• KT-31131 Regression: incremental compilation of multi-file part throws exception

Tools. J2K

• KT-23023 J2K: Inspection to convert Arrays.copyOf(a, size) to a.copyOf(size)
• KT-26550 J2K: Check context/applicability of conversion, don't suggest for libraries, jars, etc.
• KT-29568 Disabled "Convert Java File to Kotlin File" action is shown in project view context menu for XML files

Tools. JPS

• KT-13563 Kotlin jps-plugin should allow to instrument bytecode from Intellij IDEA.

Tools. REPL

• KT-21443 Kotlin's JSR223 script engine does not work when used by a fat jar

Tools. Scripts

• KT-30986 Missing dependencies when JSR-223 script engines are used from kotlin-script-util

Tools. kapt

• KT-26203 kapt.use.worker.api=true throws a NullPointerException on Java 10/11
• KT-30739 Kapt generated sources are not visible from the IDE when "Create separate module per source set" is disabled
• KT-31064 Periodically build crash when using incremental kapt
• KT-23880 Kapt: Support incremental annotation processors
• KT-31322 Kapt does not run annotation processing when sources change.
• KT-30979 Issue with Dagger2 providers MissingBinding with 1.3.30
• KT-31127 Kotlin-generating processor which uses Filer API breaks JavaCompile task
• KT-31714 incremental kapt: FileSystemException: Too many open files

Previous releases

This release also includes the fixes and improvements from the previous releases.