Kotlin 1.7.20 just got released!

Changelog

Analysis API

• KT-52667 FIR IDE: fun interfaces (SAM interfaces) are not properly resolved
• KT-52136 FIR: Implicit type declaration from the other module cannot be used for overloading

Analysis API. FE1.0

• KT-51962 Analysis API: Finish Analysis API for FE1.0

Analysis API. FIR

• KT-52779 FIR IDE: Import Optimizer cannot handle generic type qualifiers
• KT-50236 Fix OOB modification trackers for non-Kotlin code
• KT-51240 Analysis API: KtAnalysisSession for a specific module cannot create a symbol for PSI that cannot be seen from that module.
• KT-50868 Analysis API: decompiled type aliases are not resolved

Compiler

• KT-53739 Builder inference, extension hides members
• KT-53733 Kotlin/Native: update source documentation for the new default memory manager
• KT-53667 Compiler crashes on attempt to alloc a string on the stack in new MM
• KT-53480 Internal error in file lowering: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.android.systemui.R$string
• KT-52843 Compose: NPE at Parameters.getParameterByDeclarationSlot if inline function with default arguments takes a lambda which captures value class represented by Long
• KT-51868 JVM / IR: Inconsistent behaviour between lambda expression and SAM interface conversion for the same interface
• KT-53475 Kotlin/Native for iOS: "IllegalArgumentException: Sequence has more than one element"

New Features

• KT-52495 Support until operator in back-ends
• KT-52420 Implement resolve of until operator
• KT-52419 Implement until operator in the parser
• KT-33755 Kotlin/Native: Provide a way to customize a bundle Identifier of a generated framework
• KT-51665 FIR: implement label resolve for "typed this" case
• KT-52361 Report warning on potentially empty intersection types

Performance Improvements

• KT-47816 Disable script discovery for non-script environments
• KT-48635 JVM IR: Double/Float values are boxed when comparing for equality in equals method of data/value classes
• KT-23397 Optimize out field for property delegate when it's safe (JVM)

Fixes

• KT-53272 Backend Internal error: Exception during IR lowering / No such value argument slot: 2
• KT-53124 Receiver type mismatch when combining extension properties, type projections, Java sources, and F-bounded type-variables
• KT-51868 JVM / IR: Inconsistent behaviour between lambda expression and SAM interface conversion for the same interface
• KT-36770 Prohibit unsafe calls with expected @NotNull T and given Kotlin generic parameter with nullable bound
• KT-52974 "IllegalStateException: Symbol with IrSimpleFunctionSymbolImpl is unbound" compiling native targets of MPP project
• KT-53007 JVM: "Bad invokespecial instruction: current class isn't assignable to reference class" when call superclass of outer class method from inner class
• KT-53019 K2: cannot cast callable reference to Function1 in runtime
• KT-53031 K2 compiler crashes with IllegalStateException: No type in ProtoBuf.ValueParameter
• KT-29168 Prohibit upper bounds violation with generic typealias using not all type parameters as arguments for underlying type in supertypes
• KT-52432 Using the IDE compiled with K2 (useFir) throws VerifyError exception
• KT-52327 False negative: TYPECHECKER_HAS_RUN_INTO_RECURSIVE_PROBLEM isn't reported
• KT-49682 Support JVM IR in KAPT stub generation
• KT-24643 Prohibit using a type parameter declared for an extension property inside delegate
• KT-51972 FIR, Gradle: "Symbol is invisible" compilation error with enabled Kotlin Lombok compiler plugin
• KT-52011 [FIR] All-open compiler plugin isn't supported
• KT-51950 JVM IR: "IndexOutOfBoundsException: Cannot pop operand off an empty stack" with crossinline lambdas and interface delegation
• KT-52540 Native: kotlin.NotImplementedError with Arrow library
• KT-48031 "IllegalStateException: Type variable TypeVariable(T) should not be fixed!"
• KT-47708 RequiresOptIn check does not flag experimental method usage in SAM lambda expressions
• KT-52913 JVM / IR: "IllegalArgumentException: Inline class types should have the same representation" when trying to down cast cast a value class
• KT-50771 IR partial linkage: Removed abstract callable members are not supported
• KT-52994 Enable generic inline classes as experimental feature
• KT-52742 CYCLE_IN_ANNOTATION_PARAMETER_ERROR false positive on annotations with default values
• KT-52743 Non-null generic functions throws NPE when assigned to val
• KT-52745 Frontend / K2: "IncompatibleClassChangeError: class A$B overrides final method A.length()I" caused by delegation in a sealed class
• KT-52832 Tree-generator's method FirExpression::isFirType returns true and false for different field names; it should always be true
• KT-52403 IncompatibleClassChangeError when inlining suspend funs
• KT-50107 Missed USAGE_IS_NOT_INLINABLE diagnostic: Leaking inline lambda parameter through extension receiver
• KT-47965 Missed USAGE_IS_NOT_INLINABLE diagnostic on inline lambda parameter usage as receiver of .let call
• KT-25787 No error on crossinline usage of receiver parameter of functional type in an inline function
• KT-52762 Frontend / K2: Named arguments for Java classes lead to "Cannot find a parameter with this name"
• KT-52680 K2: overload resolution ambiguity if this is casted in a different method
• KT-52676 K2: Unsupported compile-time value IrGetFieldImpl instead of IrConst in AnnotationCodegen for constant from Java
• KT-50293 False positive: USELESS_CAST on stub types
• KT-52175 WRONG_ANNOTATION_TARGET for annotation that used inside if
• KT-52338 "IncompatibleClassChangeError: Expected non-static field" with Kotlin class with same-named companion object property as base Java class field
• KT-49507 JVM: "IllegalAccessError: class X tried to access private field" with same-named Kotlin property and Java base class field
• KT-44512 FIR DFA: incorrect smartcast after null assignment inside a lambda
• KT-49200 FIR/FE 1.0: different behavior with multiple matching star imports
• KT-52718 declaringClass deprecation message mentions the wrong replacement in 1.7
• KT-52190 FIR2IR: Unexpected IrErrorTypeImpl type for put method inside buildMap
• KT-52197 Incorrect inference of var type inside lambda that passed to extension function with type parameters that defined inside this lambda
• KT-52057 Unsupported compile-time value STRING_CONCATENATION and GET_FIELD in annotation arguments
• KT-47823 JVM IR: "IllegalArgumentException: Inline class types should have the same representation" with break usage in the loop range
• KT-51883 Kotlin 1.6.20 generates "-" in type names around lambdas and inline extension function with reified type which breaks Apache Beam
• KT-52684 Syntax error regression on complicated combination of LT and GTEQ
• KT-52417 Reflection: Can't reflect on type parameters captured by SAM converted lambda
• KT-46797 JVM IR: suspendImpl has no generic signature, breaking reified types in anonymous object supertypes when using the type token pattern
• KT-51464 FIR: Unable to infer type in coroutines flow code
• KT-52163 JVM IR: Double.compareTo(Int) compiled to integer comparison
• KT-41980 FIR: erroneous scope during annotation resolve
• KT-47159 KtPsiUtils.areParenthesesUseless() is returning a false positive on expressions for interface delegation
• KT-51418 Substitute anonymous type's supertypes
• KT-35544 kotlin.TypeCastException has no message on Native
• KT-52386 StackOverflowError during Kotlin/Native gradle build
• KT-52592 NPE from KProperty.getExtensionDelegate on property delegated to another property
• KT-52551 Delegating to object property reference does not invoke object's initializer
• KT-51704 Contracts: "AssertionError: Arguments and parameters size mismatch" with companion object
• KT-25527 False positive UNUSED_VALUE for delegated property/variable
• KT-51002 [FIR] Hidden declaration hides visible one
• KT-51008 [FIR] Star import does not work for nested calssifiers of java class
• KT-52407 FIR: Star import has lower priority than built-in import
• KT-52431 Reported error instead of warning due to empty intersection type found
• KT-49394 Bad message and suggestion: The feature "unit conversion" is disabled
• KT-51168 FIR: Inference error with Java interop and captured types
• KT-49961 "AssertionError: Left expression was not processed: BINARY_EXPRESSION" when analyzing dangling [bracketed] expression inside elvis
• KT-50108 Difference in fun interface conversion behavior for uninitialized not-null function values
• KT-51889 Calls to super-classes constructors with context receivers fail on runtime
• KT-51228 [FIR] Unresolved reference on callable reference on implicit this with smartcast
• KT-52364 False positive for INFERRED_TYPE_VARIABLE_INTO_EMPTY_INTERSECTION
• KT-52237 JVM / IR: "IllegalArgumentException: No argument for parameter VALUE_PARAMETER CONTINUATION_CLASS" when implementing Map interface on class with suspending functions
• KT-50832 Method references to suspend inline functions are processed incorrectly
• KT-52194 False positive "Class 'my.packge.MyClass' is compiled by a pre-release version of Kotlin and cannot be loaded by this version of the compiler" but builds fine
• KT-47203 JVM Debugger: Parameter value doesn't change for tailrec function
• KT-52131 False positive variable unused warning when calling inline function in finally block
• KT-51738 Debugger: stepping over in inline function with multiple inline lambda invocations is incorrect
• KT-52198 Losing reference to the value of an outer variable (Ref$ObjectRef) when using suspend inline with suspendCancellableCoroutine
• KT-50994 FIR: AssertionError during inference of delegated properties with implicit types
• KT-51757 FIR does not see various JS/Native specific declarations in common modules
• KT-51201 FIR: ARGUMENT_TYPE_MISMATCH diagnostic contains generic parameter instead of the actual type
• KT-48444 FIR: type argument rejected for annotation
• KT-51754 JVM: Local variable table invalid for do-while with continue
• KT-51936 Breakpoint not hit on last line of suspend function on Android
• KT-27333 Forbid @Synchronized annotation on suspend functions
• KT-51530 "StackOverflowError: CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor.spillVariables" with data class in Flow
• KT-51460 FIR: Protected property inaccessible from inner class
• KT-53947 IllegalStateException: No mapping for symbol: VALUE_PARAMETER INSTANCE_RECEIVER
• KT-51234 Context receivers can be duplicated in function declaration
• KT-51576 Context receivers: "AssertionError: Callers must check that current token is IDENTIFIER followed with '@'" with at character
• KT-49479 JVM / IR: "IllegalStateException: IrErrorType" during IR lowering with non-trivial recursion calls
• KT-52270 NullPointerException caused by braces on if-else returning a method reference inside lambda
• KT-47621 False negative INVISIBLE_MEMBER on call to inaccessible protected synthetic property setter
• KT-37796 NI: "ISE: Error type encountered" when inferring type of a property that delegates to itself
• KT-45430 PSI2IR: "org.jetbrains.kotlin.psi2ir.generators.ErrorExpressionException: null: KtCallExpression: toString()" with recursive function call in "also" block in nontrivial context
• KT-52691 K2: Expected FirResolvedTypeRef with ConeKotlinType but was FirImplicitTypeRefImpl with intertwined functional interfaces
• KT-52822 Fix contract for KtElement.getReference()
• KT-50223 IndexOutOfBoundsException from ClassicTypeSystemContext$DefaultImpls.getParameter during call resolution
• KT-51963 Change Maven version to 1.7.255
• KT-47664 Incorrect type checking in the case of generic types
• KT-48765 NI: Inferred type does not respect the bound of type variable
• KT-51243 False positive error "No required context receiver" inside contextual lambda
• KT-43541 TYPE_MISMATCH for member function which is not occur for top level function during unsafe cast
• KT-51016 [FIR] False positive OVERLOAD_RESOLUTION_AMBIGUITY between two extensions on different supertypes
• KT-50155 FIR: support contextual receivers -KT-38637 Catch NoSuchFieldException in optimized when expression over enum

Docs & Examples

• KT-49896 Kotlin/JS: improve -Xir-property-lazy-initialization description due to making it true by default

IDE

• KTIJ-22286 Kotlin JPS project created via wizard does not contain Kotlin libraries in case of not-released version
• KTIJ-22065 IDE notification motivating Kotlin users to use EAP
• KTIJ-22209 Configure Kotlin on 221 idea adds 1.6.10 Kotlin (despite the fact that IDE plugin is 1.7.10)
• KTIJ-22171 Fix test BuiltInDecompilerConsistencyTest
• KTIJ-22016 Empty .kt file and build.gradle.kts can trigger an error while searching for a facade light class
• KT-52571 MPP Tasks on import are not up-to-date after subsequent launches
• KT-47777 ISE thrown from KtLightClassForFacadeImpl.Companion.createForFacadeNoCache has wrong message.

IDE. FIR

• KT-52360 FIR IDE: Make the fix of isInheritor method better
• KT-51786 FIR IDE: IllegalStateException exception in Inspections' infrastructure
• KT-52331 Analysis API: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception in Diagnostics' infrastructure

IDE. Code Style, Formatting

• KTIJ-21346 Incorrect formatting for functions with context receivers and visibility modifiers

IDE. Completion

• KTIJ-21910 FIR IDE: Fix completion tests started failing after visibility checker refinement

IDE. Decompiler, Indexing, Stubs

• KTIJ-21243 ContextReceivers: "UpToDateStubIndexMismatch: PSI and index do not match" plugin exception on - - library with context receivers usage attempt

IDE. Gradle Integration

• KT-47627 IDE import fails with com.intellij.util.lang.PathClassLoader error for runCommonizer Gradle task on 212, 213 IDEAs
• KTIJ-21638 MPP: IntelliJ can not resolve MPP references in common-code
• KT-52216 HMPP / KTOR: False positive "TYPE_MISMATCH" with Throwable descendant

IDE. Inspections and Intentions

• KTIJ-22540 Invalid "remove unnecessary parentheses" when delegating a functional interface to a SAM in brackets

IDE. J2K

• KTIJ-21665 J2K generates non compiling code when lifting return and one branch is broken before binary operator

IDE. JS

• KTIJ-22337 Wizard: Kotlin/Js for browser: cssSupport DSL should be updated

IDE. K2

• KTIJ-21672 FIR IDE: Method reference on generic class breaks resolve
• KTIJ-21714 FIR IDE: Inherently imported type from another module is not properly resolved

IDE. Script

• KT-52525 Update scripts handling in source roots

IDE. Misc

• KTIJ-21699 Refactoring: move out parts of the plugin useful for both FE10 and K2

JavaScript

New Features

• KT-39423 KJS: Optionally generate a method to handle optional parameters for function in typescript
• KT-42282 KJS IR: add an ability to run separate tests

Performance Improvements

• KT-50270 KJS IR: Unnecessary getter and setter calls when accessing class members

Fixes

• KT-51133 Kotlin/JS - IR: even simple lambdas generate a lot of useless boilerplate
• KT-51123 Provide a way to add comments to generated JS
• KT-48493 KJS / IR: Invalid d.ts for inner classes inside objects
• KT-52553 KJS / IR: diamond hierarchy with super.toString produces stack overflow in runtime
• KT-23252 JS: Unit materialization on declaration and assignment
• KT-51128 Kotlin/JS - IR generate huge count of useless blocks
• KT-50778 KJS/IR: Inline class has no field when building production distribution
• KT-50157 KSJ IR: Applying identity equality operator to Chars always returns false
• KT-38262 Javascript generation (and Typescript) fails on 'then', 'catch' and 'finally' (and others?) claiming they are reserved names
• KT-51066 KJS / IR: suspend lambda parameter of value class is undefined
• KT-51102 KJS/IR: Assertion failed at translateCallArguments(jsAstUtils.kt:343)
• KT-51878 KJS / Legacy: Unit is not materialized in an overridden method, but it should be

Language Design

• KT-47986 Implicit inferring a type variable into an upper bound in the builder inference context
• KT-49264 Deprecate infix function calls of functions named "suspend" with dangling function literal
• KT-25636 Native: Object is frozen by default problem
• KT-49303 Implement support for basic compile-time evaluation

Libraries

• KT-52932 Open-ended ranges in the standard library
• KT-52909 Implement a walk extension function for java.nio.file.Path
• KT-52910 Provide visit extension functions for java.nio.file.Path
• KT-48232 Multiplatform function for computing cubic root
• KT-52778 The documentation for the Duration does not indicate any differences from the ISO-8601
• KT-52618 ThreadLocalRandom is not a good source of randomness on Android before SDK 34, so don't use it for Kotlin Random
• KT-52910 Provide visit extension functions for java.nio.file.Path
• KT-52909 Implement a walk extension function for java.nio.file.Path
• KT-52910 Provide visit extension functions for java.nio.file.Path
• KT-52909 Implement a walk extension function for java.nio.file.Path

Native

• KT-53346 MPP project with kotlinx-serialization-json:1.4.0-RC is not built

Native. C Export

• KT-45468 Kotlin/Native: Bitcode verification error when trying to export a cached klib to a static or dynamic library

Native. C and ObjC Import

• KT-53373 Native: @ExportObjCClass doesn't work with the new memory manager
• KT-49034 Kotlin/Native: cnames.structs.Foo resolves into wrong declaration
• KT-26478 Objective-C object's class name is null in ClassCastException's message

Native. ObjC Export

• KT-51593 Include more information in Objective-C header documentation
• KT-33117 Improve customizing Info.plist in produced frameworks
• KT-52681 Native: @end; for Objective-C is generated with an unnecessary semicolon

Native. Platforms

• KT-52226 Kotlin/Native: Add support for cross-compilation of MIPS targets from macOS and Windows hosts

Native. Runtime

• KT-52430 KMM 1.6.21 framework built with Xcode13, new MM GC Can't support iOS 9.x
• KT-53534 Kotlin/Native: -Xruntime-logs=gc=info flag doesn't work with compiler caches in 1.7.20-beta

Native. Runtime. Memory

• KT-52692 Kotlin/Native: fix tests with aggressive GC
• KT-52130 Kotlin/Native: use Xallocator for Kotlin objects only
• KT-51436 Kotlin/Native: optimize mark queue

Reflection

• KT-51804 An error occurs when callBy a KFunction that contains a value class as an argument, has a default argument set, and has more than 32 arguments.

Tools. CLI

• KT-52465 CLI: IllegalStateException IrSimpleFunctionPublicSymbolImpl when source root is duplicated
• KT-52380 Invalid path to compiler plugins should be reported as a compiler error
• KT-51025 JVM CLI compiler takes class file from classpath instead of input java source file
• KT-51846 Setting random value to the compiler argument where number is expected should produce an error. "-Xbackend-threads=abcd"

Tools. Compiler Plugins

• KT-52486 [K2] Looking for function/constructor whose parameters are annotated or meta annotated
• KT-52872 Mark supportsK2 in ComponentRegistrar.kt as JvmDefault to avoid compatibility problems
• KT-52804 A function obtained by Fir IrBuiltins has an incorrect package
• KT-52468 Rename module and jar for lombok compiler plugin

Tools. Gradle

• KT-53670 Gradle: Cyclic dependency between kotlin-gradle-plugin-idea-1.7.20-Beta and kotlin-gradle-plugin-idea-proto-1.7.20-Beta
• KT-53615 Gradle: Fix deprecation warnings in CleanableStoreImpl
• KT-53118 Fully up-to-date builds are slower with Kotlin 1.7.0
• KT-51923 Improve usability of errors and warnings by being able to click on them
• KT-53244 Report from gradle about compiler plugins
• KT-52839 Warn in Gradle log why incremental compilation failed
• KT-46019 Compatibility with Gradle 7.1 release
• KT-47047 Migrate Kotlin Gradle Plugin from using Gradle conventions
• KT-52698 Don't add InspectClassesForMultiModuleIC task when new incremental compilation is enabled
• KT-52867 Provide simplified JVM toolchain configuration method
• KT-45747 Add basic JUnit 5 Kotlin Gradle Plugin Android tests setup
• KT-46034 Shadow Kotlin Gradle plugin dependencies
• KT-28664 Support ExtensionContainer on kotlin targets and source sets.
• KT-19472 Useful extensions of Gradle Kotlin DSL provided by Gradle Kotlin plugin
• KT-34393 Kotlin Gradle DSL: Inconsistent srcDir configuration between Java and Kotlin
• KT-51629 There isn't enough info about incremental compilation state in logs while running build with --info key

Tools. Gradle. Cocoapods

• KT-53174 CocoaPods: Synthetic Podfile does not specify platform
• KT-53127 "MaterialComponents normal armv7" in Cocoapods plugin between Kotlin 1.6.21 and 1.7.0
• KT-44155 Cocoapods doesn't support pods without module map file inside
• KT-49032 Cocoapods cinterop: some header files are not found
• KT-53337 Add warning about future changing default linking type of framework provided via cocoapods plugin

Tools. Gradle. JS

• KT-52637 KJS / Gradle: Add SCSS webpack config
• KT-51527 Kotlin/JS: BrowserXRun causes full-screen Webpack error "Compiled with problems: asset size limit/entrypoint size limit" for fresh Kotlin-React project from wizard
• KT-51532 Kotlin/JS: passing environment variable via Gradle script causes "Execution optimizations have been disabled" warnings
• KT-52221 Kotlin/JS: failed Node tests are not reported in a standard way

Tools. Gradle. Multiplatform

• KT-52243 CInteropProcess is not cacheable despite the annotation
• KT-52741 MPP: klib outputs are not reproducible
• KT-52208 MPP: Gradle plugin 1.7 doesn't support latest api versions (1.8, 1.9)
• KT-54071 MPP/AGP compatibility: Bump maxSupportedVersion to 7.3.0

Tools. Gradle. Native

• KT-52632 Gradle / Native: commonizeNativeDistributionTask can never be up-to-date
• KT-52328 "ld: framework not found SQLCipher" linkDebugTestIosSimulatorArm64 error

Tools. Incremental Compile

• KT-53168 Incremental compilation doesn't perform correctly after a few iterations
• KT-52925 [IR BE] Non incremental build occurs after build failure for compileKotlinJs task
• KT-52946 CompileKotlinJs task is executed non-incrementally if there were changes made to the dependant module
• KT-52329 Reduce memory usage of classpath snapshot cache
• KT-53266 Increment Compilation: "IllegalStateException: The following LookupSymbols are not yet converted to ProgramSymbols" when changing companion object constant field
• KT-53231 New IC reports build failures for missing classpath snapshots

Tools. JPS

• KT-47824 'when expression must be exhaustive' isn't thrown during incremental compilation
• KT-51873 JPS build is incorrect after gdw build
• KTIJ-17072 JPS does not rebuild Kotlin usages of declared in Java when enum entry is added
• KT-51537 Rebuild module on plugin classpaths change

Tools. REPL

• KT-45065 REPL: Incorrect output for unsigned value
• KT-53043 Scripting: Changes in REPL protocol: mark end of errors

Tools. Scripts

• KT-52598 Scripts and REPL snippets are not checked against using 'kotlin' package
• KT-47187 Kotlin ScriptEngine Failes to Compile a Trivial Statement After Failing to Compile a Broken One
• KT-47191 [Kotlin Script Engine] Compiling Without Evaluating Leaves Engine in a Bad State

Tools. Kapt

• KT-52761 Kotlin 1.7.0 breaks kapt processing for protobuf generated java sources