VERSIONS.md

Zig versions

0.1.0

• zig compilation and automatic nif generation
• safety checks on ingress and egress data
• documentation of zig code through ExDoc
• unit test integration

0.1.1

Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber @dch for testing.

• freebsd tested and unsupported Logger error removed.
• zig documentation is now correctly linked.

0.1.2

• updated documentation for mix zig_doc
• fixed compilation so that importing zig stdlib doesn't error
• added better compilation failures for bad types in args and retvals
• added beam struct support for ok and error tuples

0.1.3

• fixed error reporting for the /// nif: directive
• added ok/error tuple with string
• added c header path support
• restored documentation for exceptions

0.2.0

• general rewrite of nif parsing routines
• initial support for resources
• experimental addition of :dirty, :long and :safe function directives

0.3.0-pre

• supported zig version: 0.6.0
• disabled :long mode

0.3.0-pre3

• support for (and autodetect) nerves
• use erlang nif headers taken from the include directory of your erts.
• correct and verified support for releases
• adds a mechanism for patching errors in zig/llvm releases
• adds ~z for substituted values
• zigler fetches zig on compile when it's in prod.

0.3.0

• verified that zig tests run correctly
• updated documentation.
  • preliminary "under the hood" category.

0.3.1

• support for amd64 in freebsd, (thanks @dch)

0.3.2

• better support for nerves (thanks @fhunleth)
• fixed documentation linking for bootstrap

0.7.1

• upgraded to zig 0.7.1. From now on zigler version numbers will track Zig releases.
• completed implementation of threaded nifs.
• makes the interface to beam.send simpler and less confusing.
• adds extra atom/tuple directives
• important: changes the base module namespace from Zigler to Zig
• readme and guides are now checked.
• libraries are now brought into the staging directory.
• unblocked windows compilation path. There are still some bugs. Thanks @seomwan
• regressions:
  • Nerves support will have to be dropped until arm32 is tier 1. Use 0.3.2.
  • zigtests do not seem to work when libraries are loaded

0.7.2

• note: this compiles with zig 0.7.1
• important (breaking): semantics for beam.yield have changed. there is no longer any need to update the environment of the yielding function, and beam.yield() now returns !void
• beam.yield is safely usable in non-yielding nifs.
• Zigler now no longer automatically links libc. This may cause compilation problems on non-linux platforms. Please post any bug reports to github tracker.
• thanks to (@dch and @wojtekmach for updating some dependency issues)

0.7.3

• note: this compiles with zig 0.7.1
• better platform matching for nerves cross-compliation (@fhunleth)

0.8.1

• beam.assert deprecated. Use std.testing functions.
• support for error-returning functions and error return traces merged with stacktraces.
• support for cancellation of threaded nifs with beam.yield
• better support for 'bring your own zig'; moved to library config function
• tentative support for MacOS and FreeBSD targets
• void returning functions now output :ok instead of nil

0.9.1

• updated to zig 0.9.1, after allocgate
• support for compling C and C++ files using zig cc
• support for link_libcpp in addition to link_libc
• special thanks to @jeremyowensboggs, who had a nicer upgrade implementation than mine.

0.10.1

• complete overhaul of entire zig system
• Breaking changes:
  • beam.get, beam.make
  • nif selection is no longer done using inline docstrings
    • select nifs using use Zig options.
  • zig test has been deprecated, and may return as a plugin library in the future
  • zig doc has been deprecated for general use, though can be used experimentally through Zig.Doc
  • yielding nifs are not supported, but will return in 0.11 due to zig async not working in 0.10.x

0.11.1

• fixes to zig installation. Now use mix zig.get installer

Upcoming

• beam.call which will call erlang or elixir modules (but only in yielding or threaded contexts)