3.7.4-RC3

Backported changes

• Lint avoids revisiting Inlined.call #24277
• Register no elements for lint after inlining #24279
• Use enclosing enclosingInlineds for empty call #24281
• Exclude synthetic opaque proxy from lint #24264
• Deprecate scala_legacy/MainGenericRunner/scalac -run/scalac -repl for removal #24267

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.4-RC2..3.7.4-RC4 these are:

  4  Wojciech Mazur
  2  Piotr Chabelski
  2  Som Snytt

3.7.4-RC2

Backported changes

• Always traverse Inlined.call in linter #24043
• Deduplicate patches before applying them to sources #24215
• Fix compiler crash with -Ymagic-offset-header #24124
• Fix completions for named tuples #24169
• Fix java record varargs field accessor #24172
• Fix parameter untupling for named tuples (#23440) #24152
• Fix possible SuspendException thrown when using macros #24174
• Fix rendering of function-type aliases #24042
• Ignore warnings when compiletime.testing is imported #24036

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.4-RC1..3.7.4-RC2 these are:

  5  Wojciech Mazur
  2  Li Haoyi
  2  Som Snytt
  2  Tomasz Godzik
  1  Florian3k
  1  Kacper Korban
  1  Oliver Bračevac
  1  aherlihy

3.3.7

Highlights of the release

• Warn a standard interpolator used toString on a reference type with -Wtostring-interpolated #20578
• Unblock Scala 3 on Android #22632
• Implement :jar (deprecate :require) in REPL #22343
• Linting rework: In selector check, prefix of reference must match import qualifier #20894
• Add REPL flag to quit after evaluating init script #22636
• Warn if implicit default shadows given with -Wrecurse-with-default #23559

Other changes and fixes

Annotations

• Approximate annotated types in wildApprox #22893
• Fix copy of annotation on @main methods #22582

Coverage

• Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23722

CI

• Disable Cats flaky tests #23007
• Switch releasing to Sontype Central instead of legacy Sonatype OSS #23290
• Revert dubious retry in vulpix #21801

Developer Experience

• Add support for running the test sub-command with the bisect script #22796

Documentation

• Improve the usage of inclusive language #22360
• Update indentation.md to fix a typo #23505

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Add regression test for #23616 #23623
• Disallow context function types as value-class parameters to avoid crashes #23015
• Handle type aliases in contextFunctionResultTypeAfter #21517
• Align erasure of Array[Nothing] and Array[Null] with Scala 2 #22517

Experimental: Erased definitions

• Erased fields are not nullable #23311

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532
• Try extensions for arguments with type mismatch error #23212

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432

Lambda Lift

• Fix: treat static vals as enclosures in lambdalift #22452
• Fix: record calls to constructors in lambdaLift #22487

Linting

• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Nowarn receiver of extension taking params #23351
• Dealias when looking into imports #22889
• Revert unconditional lint of Inlined expansion #22815
• Warn unused member of anonymous class #22729
• No warning for parameter of overriding method #22757
• Lazy val def member is pattern var #22750
• Ignore params to default arg getters #22749
• Restore resolving prefixes of implicit Ident #22751
• Exclude synthetic this.m, Any.m from import lookup #22695
• Nowarn public implicit val class params #22664
• Don't warn retainedBody #22510
• Suppress spurious Suppression #22383
• Handle Typeable #22663
• CheckUnused checks span.exists before testing its parts #22504
• Process Export for unused check #22984
• Enclosing package p.q not visible as q #23069
• Remove premature caching of lookups for unused lint #22982
• Improve checking LHS of Assign #22977
• Improve Unit ascription escape hatch #23147
• Mention extension in unused param warning #23132
• Dealias for unused param check #23256
• Take inferred or explicit refinement result for unused check #23325
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Handle NoType in TypeComparer.disjointnessBoundary #21520
• Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Metaprogramming

• Add a check for correct Array shape in quotes.reflect.ClassOfConstant #22033

Opaque Types

• Fix stack overflow errors when generating opaque type proxies #22479

Optional Braces

• Correctly detect colon lambda eol indent for optional brace of argument #22477

Overloading

• Fail compilation if multiple conflicting top-level private defs/vals are in the same package #22759

Parser

• Allow observing an indent after conditional #22611
• No outdent at eof #22435
• Fix annotations not expected in the middle of an array type by java parser #22391
• Fix incorrect warning with -no-indent #23216

Pattern Matching

• Fix issue in lazy symbol completion or bug in nested classfile parser #23634
• Fix existing GADT constraints with introduced pattern-bound symbols #22928
• Avoid crash in uninhab check in Space #22601

Pickling

• Try to handle SkolemTypes in SingletonTypeTree during pickling #23236

Presentation Compiler

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Fix: Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640
• Completions for requests just before string #22894
• Add enum type param support in sourceSymbol #18603
• Use untpd.Tree instead of tpd.Tree for SelectionRangeProvider #22702
• Fix: handle multiple params lists in for infer type #23197
• Fix completion mode filtering + optimize scopeCompletions #23172
• Add selection ranges for more names #23257
• Add inlay hints for by-name parameters #23283
• Add jpath to VirtualFile (for pc) #23203
• Add X-Ray Inlay Hints #23891
• Add using to completions when applicable #23647
• Do not add [] after derives #23811

Quotes

• Fix issue with static this references erroring in quoted code #22618
• Skip splice level checking for symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464

REPL

• REPL: JLine 3.29.0 (was 3.27.1) #22679
• REPL: emit warning for the :sh command #22694

Reflection

• Fix regression: do not approximate prefixes when using memberType in reflect API #22448
• Forbid StringConstant(null) #23064
• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Register nowarn when inlining #22682
• Filter help renders box border #22434
• Fix incorrect warning on type ascription for backquoted identifiers #23088
  ...

3.7.4-RC1

Highlights of the release

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.9.1 (was v1.9.0) #23962
• Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23722

Other changes and fixes

Context Functions

• Explain no expansion of ContextFunction0 #23844

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix #23737: Update superCallContext to include dummy capture parameters in scope #23740
• Fix separation checking for function results #23927
• Simple enhancement for pattern matching with capturing types #23524
• Don't check bounds in match type cases at CC #23738

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add warnings for inferred flexible types in public methods and fields #23880

Exports

• Refine isEffectivelyFinal to avoid no-owner crash #23675

Implicits

• Fix LiftToAnchors for higher-kinded type applications #23672
• Fix implicit scope liftToAnchors for parameter lower bounds #23679

Linting

• Invent given pattern name in for comprehension #23121
• Unused var message mentions unread or unset #23719
• Lint function arrow intended context function #23847

Match Types

• Fix derivesFrom false negative in provablyDisjointClasses #23834

Parser

• Improve message for nested package missing braces #23816
• Fix: allow postfix setters under language.postfixOps #23775

Pattern Matching

• Fix: do not transform Ident to This in PostTyper anymore #23899
• Call inhabited for AppliedType recursively #23964
• Fix false unreachable case warning #23800
• Add subtype-based fallback in inferPrefixMap and recalculate constraints after application #23771

Presentation Compiler

• Additional completions for using clause #23647
• Completions - do not add [] for ... derives TC@@ #23811
• Improve symbol order in completions provided by the presentation compiler #23888
• Porting XRayModeHints #23891
• Go to definition and hover for named args in pattern match #23956

Reporting

• Do not discard amended format when f-interpolator warns #23697
• Mention named givens in double def explainer #23833
• Compute the right span for abstract error messages #23853
• Add quick fix to add .nn #23598
• Add addendum to private val parameter variance error message #23876

Scaladoc

• Indicate optional parameters with = ... #23676
• Scaladoc Support for Capture & Separation Checking #23607
• Capture Calcuclus: don't eagerly drop caps on parameters #23759

SemanticDB

• Add context parameters to SemanticDB synthetics #23381
• Include synthetic apply in semanticdb #23629

Tuples

• Fix: make vals created in desugaring of n-ary lambdas non-synthetic #23896

Typer

• Prevent crash in SAM conversion with mismatched arity #23877
• Handle assertion error in TyperState #23665
• Correctly require a ClassTag when building a multidimensional Array #23902
• Make isExactlyNothing and isExactlyAny work for And/OrTypes #24016

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3..3.7.4-RC1 these are:

    12  Som Snytt
    11  noti0na1
    11  Wojciech Mazur
     6  Martin Odersky
     5  Eugene Flesselle
     4  Hamza Remmal
     4  Natsu Kagami
     4  Seyon Sivatharan
     3  Oliver Bračevac
     3  Yoonjae Jeon
     3  dependabot[bot]
     2  Jan Chyb
     2  Katarzyna Marek
     2  Matt Bovel
     1  HarrisL2
     1  Kacper Korban
     1  Martin Duhem
     1  Paweł Perłakowski
     1  Piotr Chabelski
     1  Tomasz Godzik
     1  Vadim Chelyshov
     1  Yichen Xu
     1  Zieliński Patryk
     1  aherlihy
     1  katrinafyi
     1  vder
     1  zielinsky

3.3.7-RC2

Backported fixes

• Backport: Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23955
• Backport: latest Scala Presentation Improvements to 3.3.7 #23945. This includes X-Ray Inlay Hints, using completions, do not add [] after derives.
• Revert: "Check exhaustivity of any case class" to 3.3 LTS #23943

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.3.7-RC1..3.3.7-RC2 these are:

     2  Tomasz Godzik
     1  Jan Chyb
     1  Vadim Chelyshov
     1  Zieliński Patryk
     1  vder

3.7.3

Release highlights

• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559
• Standardize on -Vprint:... (still support -Xprint:... as alias) #22828

Other changes and fixes

Desugaring

• Optimize simple tuple extraction #23373

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Replace erased class modifiers with Erased base traits #23447
• Bring back part of PruneErasedDefs #23466

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix parsing crash for update in later phases #23390
• Implement boxing for singleton type arguments #23418
• Expand Capability types also in arguments of Capability classes #23427
• Adjustments to the capability trilogy #23428
• Set context owner to the method for paramsToCap #23436
• Flatten nested capture sets in retainedElementsRaw #23571
• Fix well-formed test for capabilities #23393
• Add restricted capabilities x.only[C] #23485
• Rely on hidden sets for use checking #23580

Experimental: Separation Checking

• Make separation checking controlled by language import #23560

Experimental: Erased Definitions

• Refactorings and fixes to erased definition handling #23404

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add quick fix to remove unnecessary .nn #23461
• Add stableNull annotation to force tracking mutable fields #23528

Experimental: Global Initialization

• Rewrite resolveThis in global init checker #23282
• Fix errors in the global initialization checker when compiling bootstrapped dotty #23429
• Fix error in product-sequence match in global init checker #23480

Experimental: Into

• Fix isConversionTargetType test #23401

Experimental: Modularity

• Refinements to skolemizaton #23513

Experimental: Unroll

• Enable UnrollDefinitions phase in REPL frontend phases #23433

Extension Methods

• Avoid forcing extension on check of local select #23439

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432
• Fail not inlined inline method calls early #22925
• Fix inline export forwarder generation regression #23126

Linting

• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497
• Add suppression if nowarn differs #23652

Match Types

• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Named Tuples

• Skip bypassing unapply for scala 2 case classes to allow for single-element named tuple in unapply #23603

Parser

• Enforce -new-syntax under -language:future #23443
• Disallow Scala 2 implicits under -source:future #23472

Pattern Matching

• Fix problems in checking that a constructor is uninhabited for exhaustive match checking #23403

Pickling

• Don't force annotation unpickling when testing for SilentIntoAnnot #23506
• Drop invalid assumption from TastyUnpickler #23353

Printer

• Print update modifier when printing update method definitions #23392

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Add line number magic comment support #23549

Presentation Compiler

• Port Inlay hints for name parameters #23375
• Fix: Simplify infer type for apply #23434
• Fix: Inconsistent annotation tooltips #23454
• Fix adjust type when already exists #23455
• Exclude named parameters inlay hints for java defined #23462
• Fix: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in presentation compiler's hasColon method #23498
• Add InferredMethodProvider for automatic method signature generation #23563
• Fix completions for Quotes #23619
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Fix issue with pc breaking in requiredMethod on newly overloaded valueOf #23708
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640

Quotes

• Skip splice level checking for <refinement> symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464
• Emit an error for quoted pattern type variable after new #23618
• Fix issue with certain polyfunctions not properly matching in macros #23614
• Check PCP of constructor calls on the type #7531

Reflection

• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470
• Suppress warnings in comprehensions with 22+ binds #23590
• Unhelpful error message when trying to use named extraction, when not matching case class or named tuple #23354
• Improve error message for conflicting definitions #23453
• -Yprofile-trace properly report macro splicing source #23488
• -Yprofile-trace profiles all inline calls #23490

Rewrites

• Patch empty implicit parens on error recovery #22835
• Rewrite underscore with optional space #23525

Runner

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.9.0 (was v1.8.4) #23702

Scaladoc

• Scaladoc: fixes and improvements to context bounds and extension methods #22156
• Encode path of class #23503

SemanticDB

• Bugfix: Also save infos in semanticdb #23587

Transform

• Handle multiple type parameter lists in value class methods #23516
• Check path of module prefix for tailrec #23491

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types in var args seq literals and classOf instances #23465

Typer

• Fix #22922: Add TypeParamRef handling in isSingletonBounded #23501
• Fix this references everywhere in dependent function types #23514
• Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix #23531
• Support cleanup actions in class completers #23515
• Fix regressions in asSeenFrom introduced in 3.7 #23438
• Use correct owner in eta expansion #7564
• Fix irrefutability checking in for with untupling #23273
• Fix missing members reporting for var setter...

3.7.3-RC3

Backported changes

• Update scala-cli to 1.9.0 (was 1.8.5) #23861

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3-RC2..3.7.3-RC3 these are:

  3 Wojciech Mazur

3.3.7-RC1

Highlights of the release

• Warn if interpolator uses toString #20578
• Fixes #15736 blocking Scala 3 on Android #22632
• Implement :jar (deprecate :require) #22343
• In selector check, prefix of reference must match import qualifier #20894
• Fix #21242: Add REPL flag to quit after evaluating init script #22636
• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559

Other changes and fixes

Annotations

• Approximate annotated types in wildApprox #22893
• Fix copy of annotation on @main methods #22582

CI

• Disable Cats flaky tests #23007

Developer Experience

• Add support for running the test sub-command with the bisect script #22796

Documentation

• Improve the usage of inclusive language #22360
• Update indentation.md to fix a typo #23505

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Add regression test for #23616 #23623
• Disallow context function types as value-class parameters #23015
• Handle type aliases in contextFunctionResultTypeAfter #21517
• Align erasure of Array[Nothing] and Array[Null] with Scala 2 #22517

Experimental: Erased definitions

• Erased fields are not nullable #23311

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532
• Fix #20335: Try extensions for arguments with type mismatch error #23212

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432

Lambda Lift

• Fix: treat static vals as enclosures in lambdalift #22452
• Fix: record calls to constructors in lambdaLift #22487

Linting

• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Nowarn receiver of extension taking params #23351
• Dealias when looking into imports #22889
• Revert unconditional lint of Inlined expansion #22815
• Warn unused member of anonymous class #22729
• No warning for parameter of overriding method #22757
• Lazy val def member is pattern var #22750
• Ignore params to default arg getters #22749
• Restore resolving prefixes of implicit Ident #22751
• Exclude synthetic this.m, Any.m from import lookup #22695
• Nowarn public implicit val class params #22664
• Don't warn retainedBody #22510
• Suppress spurious Suppression #22383
• Handle Typeable #22663
• CheckUnused checks span.exists before testing its parts #22504
• Process Export for unused check #22984
• Enclosing package p.q not visible as q #23069
• Remove premature caching of lookups for unused lint #22982
• Improve checking LHS of Assign #22977
• Improve Unit ascription escape hatch #23147
• Mention extension in unused param warning #23132
• Dealias for unused param check #23256
• Take inferred or explicit refinement result for unused check #23325
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Handle NoType in TypeComparer.disjointnessBoundary #21520
• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Metaprogramming

• Add a check for correct Array shape in quotes.reflect.ClassOfConstant #22033

Opaque Types

• Fix stack overflow errors when generating opaque type proxies #22479

Optional Braces

• Correctly detect colon lambda eol indent for optional brace of argument #22477

Overloading

• Fail compilation if multiple conflicting top-level private defs/vals are in the same package #22759

Parser

• Allow observing an indent after conditional #22611
• No outdent at eof #22435
• Fix annotations being not expected in the middle of an array type by java parser #22391
• Fix incorrect warning with -no-indent #23216

Pattern Matching

• Fix issue in lazy symbol completion or bug in nested classfile parser #23634
• Fix existing GADT constraints with introduced pattern-bound symbols #22928
• Avoid crash in uninhab check in Space #22601

Pickling

• Try to handle SkolemTypes in SingletonTypeTree during pickling #23236

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581

Presentation Compiler

• Fix: Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640
• Completions for requests just before string #22894
• Add enum type param support in sourceSymbol #18603
• Use untpd.Tree instead of tpd.Tree for SelectionRangeProvider #22702
• Fix: handle multiple params lists in for infer type #23197
• Fix completion mode filtering + optimize scopeCompletions #23172
• Add selection ranges for more names #23257
• Add inlay hints for by-name parameters #23283
• Add jpath to VirtualFile (for pc) #23203

Quotes

• Fix issue with static this references erroring in quoted code #22618
• Skip splice level checking for symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464

REPL

• REPL: JLine 3.29.0 (was 3.27.1) #22679
• Repl: emit warning for the :sh command #22694

Reflection

• Fix regression: do not approximate prefixes when using memberType in reflect API #22448
• Forbid StringConstant(null) #23064
• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Register nowarn when inlining #22682
• Filter help renders box border #22434
• Fix incorrect warning on type ascription for backquoted identifiers #23088
• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470

Scaladoc

• Encode path of class #23503

Settings

• Chore: filter allowed source versions by import and by settings #23215

Testing framework

• Revert dubious retry in vulpix #21801

Transform

• Check only stable qual for import prefix #22633
• Warn trivial recursion with module prefix #23278

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types ...

3.7.3-RC2

Backported chnages

• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559
• Bump Scala CLI to v1.8.5 (was v1.8.4) #23702
• Fix issue with pc breaking in requiredMethod on newly overloaded valueOf #23708
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Add suppression if nowarn differs #23652
• Fix match type bounds checking problem #23695
• Generalize "Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix" #23628
• More careful ClassTag instantiation #23659
• Use more context for implicit search only if no default argument #23664
• Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3-RC1..3.7.3-RC2 these are:

  5  Martin Odersky
  4  Som Snytt
  2  Wojciech Mazur
  1  Guillaume Martres
  1  Jan Chyb
  1  Kacper Korban
  1  Piotr Chabelski
  1  aherlihy

3.7.3-RC1

Changes and fixes

Desugaring

• Fix #23224: Optimize simple tuple extraction #23373

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Replace erased class modifiers with Erased base traits #23447
• Bring back part of PruneErasedDefs #23466

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix parsing crash for update in later phases #23390
• Implement boxing for singleton type arguments #23418
• Expand Capability types also in arguments of Capability classes #23427
• Adjustments to the capability trilogy #23428
• Set context owner to the method for paramsToCap #23436
• Flatten nested capture sets in retainedElementsRaw #23571
• Fix well-formed test for capabilities #23393
• Add restricted capabilities x.only[C] #23485
• Rely on hidden sets for use checking #23580

Experimental: Seperation Checking

• Make separation checking controlled by language import #23560

Experimental: Erased Definitions

• Refactorings and fixes to erased definition handling #23404

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add quick fix to remove unnecessary .nn #23461
• Add stableNull annotation to force tracking mutable fields #23528

Experimental: Global Initialization

• Rewrite resolveThis in global init checker #23282
• Fix errors in the global initialization checker when compiling bootstrapped dotty #23429
• Fix error in product-sequence match in global init checker #23480

Experimental: Into

• Fix isConversionTargetType test #23401

Experimental: Modularity

• Refinements to skolemizaton #23513

Experimental: Unroll

• Enable UnrollDefinitions phase in REPL frontend phases #23433

Extension Methods

• Avoid forcing extension on check of local select #23439

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432
• Fail not inlined inline method calls early #22925
• Fix inline export forwarder generation regression #23126

Linting

• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Named Tuples

• Skip bypassing unapply for scala 2 case classes to allow for single-element named tuple in unapply #23603

Parser

• Enforce -new-syntax under -language:future #23443
• Disallow Scala 2 implicits under -source:future #23472

Pattern Matching

• Fix problems in checking that a constructor is uninhabited for exhaustive match checking #23403

Pickling

• Don't force annotation unpickling when testing for SilentIntoAnnot #23506
• Drop invalid assumption from TastyUnpickler #23353

Printer

• Print update modifier when printing update method definitions #23392

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Add line number magic comment support #23549

Presentation Compiler

• Port Inlay hints for name parameters #23375
• Fix: Simplify infer type for apply #23434
• Fix: Inconsistent annotation tooltips #23454
• Fix adjust type when already exists #23455
• Exclude named parameters inlay hints for java defined #23462
• Fix: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in presentation compiler's hasColon method #23498
• Add InferredMethodProvider for automatic method signature generation #23563
• Fix completions for Quotes #23619
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641

Quotes

• Skip splice level checking for <refinement> symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464
• Emit an error for quoted pattern type variable after new #23618
• Fix issue with certain polyfunctions not properly matching in macros #23614
• Check PCP of constructor calls on the type #7531

Reflection

• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470
• Suppress warnings in comprehensions with 22+ binds #23590
• Unhelpful error message when trying to use named extraction, when not matching case class or named tuple #23354
• Improve error message for conflicting definitions #23453
• -Yprofile-trace properly report macro splicing source #23488
• -Yprofile-trace profiles all inline calls #23490

Rewrites

• Patch empty implicit parens on error recovery #22835
• Rewrite underscore with optional space #23525

Scaladoc

• Scaladoc: fixes and improvements to context bounds and extension methods #22156
• Encode path of class #23503

SemanticDB

• Bugfix: Also save infos in semanticdb #23587

Settings

• Standardize on -Vprint:... (still support -Xprint:... as alias) #22828

Transform

• Handle multiple type parameter lists in value class methods #23516
• Check path of module prefix for tailrec #23491

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types in var args seq literals and classOf instances #23465

Typer

• Fix #22922: Add TypeParamRef handling in isSingletonBounded #23501
• Fix this references everywhere in dependent function types #23514
• Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix #23531
• Support cleanup actions in class completers #23515
• Fix regressions in asSeenFrom introduced in 3.7 #23438
• Use correct owner in eta expansion #7564
• Fix irrefutability checking in for with untupling #23273
• Fix missing members reporting for var setters #23476
• Guard against invalid prefixes in argForParam #23508
• Add missing case to TypeComparer #23550

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.2..3.7.3-RC1 these are:

    80  Martin Odersky
    56  Hamza Remmal
    22  Wojciech Mazur
    20  noti0na1
    18  Yichen Xu
    16  Som Snytt
    14  Jan Chyb
     9  Matt Bovel
     7  EnzeXing
     6  Guillaume Martres
     5  Sébastien Doeraene
     5  aherlihy
  ...