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@vgvassilev vgvassilev released this 22 Aug 10:12
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Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the interactive C++ interpreter Cling, release 0.7. Cling is built on top of Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Here we describe the status of Cling in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work.

Note that if you are reading this file from a git checkout or the main Cling web page, this document applies to the next release, not the current one.

What's New in Cling 0.7?

Some of the major new features and improvements to Cling are listed here. Generic improvements to Cling as a whole or to its underlying infrastructure are described first.

Major New Features

  • Implement a mechanism allowing to redefine entities with the same name -- the
    DefinitionShadower is not default and can be turned on by: 
    [cling] #include "cling/Interpreter/Interpreter.h"
[cling] gCling->allowRedefinition()
  • Improve CUDA support:
    • Replace the PTX compiler with the internal one.
    • Add in-memory fatbin generation.
  • Initial Apple Silicon Support
  • Tighter Clang C++ Modules integration:
    • Implement global module indexing to improve module loading.
    • Automatic virtual overlay files for libc, std, tinyxml, boost and cuda.
  • Implement dynamic library symbol resolver based on the binary object formats.

Misc

  • Improvements in the cpt packaging system and travis continuous integration.
  • Windows improvements of jitted variables

Fixed Bugs

Cling-197 Cling-284 Cling-297

ROOT-10193 ROOT-10224 ROOT-10285 ROOT-10333 ROOT-10354 ROOT-10426 ROOT-10499 ROOT-10511 ROOT-10677 ROOT-10689 ROOT-10751 ROOT-10777 ROOT-10791 ROOT-10798 ROOT-10803 ROOT-10812 ROOT-10917

Special Kudos

This release wouldn't have happened without the efforts of our contributors,
listed in the form of Firstname Lastname (#contributions):

FirstName LastName (#commits)

Vassil Vassilev (57)
Pratyush Das (35)
Axel Naumann (28)
Simeon Ehrig (13)
Javier Lopez-Gomez (13)
Vaibhav Garg (8)
Philippe Canal (7)
Bertrand Bellenot (7)
Frederich Munch (3)
Chris Burr (2)
pankaj kumar (1)
Stephan Hageboeck (1)
Sergey Linev (1)
Oksana Shadura (1)
Martin Ritter (1)
Jonas Hahnfeld (1)
Enrico Guiraud (1)
Alexander Penev (1)

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