solidity/Changelog.md

0.6.4 (unreleased)

Language Features:

• Inline Assembly: Allow assigning to _slot of local storage variable pointers.
• General: Deprecated value(...) and gas(...) in favor of {value: ...} and {gas: ...}

Compiler Features:

• AssemblyStack: Support for source locations (source mappings) and thus debugging Yul sources.

Bugfixes:

• Inheritance: Fix incorrect error on calling unimplemented base functions.
• isoltest: Added new keyword wei to express function value in semantic tests
• Reference Resolver: Fix scoping issue following try/catch statements.
• Standard-JSON-Interface: Fix a bug related to empty filenames and imports.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal errors when analysing tuples.
• Yul AST Import: correctly import blocks as statements, switch statements and string literals.

0.6.3 (2020-02-18)

Language Features:

• Allow contract types and enums as keys for mappings.
• Allow function selectors to be used as compile-time constants.
• Report source locations for structured documentation errors.

Compiler Features:

• AST: Add a new node for doxygen-style, structured documentation that can be received by contract, function, event and modifier definitions.
• Code Generator: Use calldatacopy instead of codecopy to zero out memory past input.
• Debug: Provide reason strings for compiler-generated internal reverts when using the --revert-strings option or the settings.debug.revertStrings setting on debug mode.
• Yul Optimizer: Prune functions that call each other but are otherwise unreferenced.

Bugfixes:

• Assembly: Added missing source field to legacy assembly json output to complete the source reference.
• Parser: Fix an internal error for abstract without contract.
• Type Checker: Make invalid calls to uncallable types fatal errors instead of regular.

0.6.2 (2020-01-27)

Language Features:

• Allow accessing external functions via contract and interface names to obtain their selector.
• Allow interfaces to inherit from other interfaces
• Allow gas and value to be set in external function calls using c.f{gas: 10000, value: 4 ether}().
• Allow specifying the salt for contract creations and thus the create2 opcode using new C{salt: 0x1234, value: 1 ether}(arg1, arg2).
• Inline Assembly: Support literals true and false.

Compiler Features:

• LLL: The LLL compiler has been removed.
• General: Raise warning if runtime bytecode exceeds 24576 bytes (a limit introduced in Spurious Dragon).
• General: Support compiling starting from an imported AST. Among others, this can be used for mutation testing.
• Yul Optimizer: Apply penalty when trying to rematerialize into loops.

Bugfixes:

• Commandline interface: Only activate yul optimizer if --optimize is given.
• Fixes internal compiler error on explicitly calling unimplemented base functions.

Build System:

• Switch to building soljson.js with an embedded base64-encoded wasm binary.

0.6.1 (2020-01-02)

Bugfixes:

• Yul Optimizer: Fix bug in redundant assignment remover in combination with break and continue statements.

0.6.0 (2019-12-17)

Breaking changes:

• ABI: Remove the deprecated constant and payable fields.
• ABI: The type field is now required and no longer specified to default to function.
• AST: Inline assembly is exported as structured JSON instead of plain string.
• C API (libsolc): Introduce context parameter to both solidity_compile and the callback.
• C API (libsolc): The provided callback now takes two parameters, kind and data. The callback can then be used for multiple purposes, such has file imports and SMT queries.
• C API (libsolc): solidity_free was renamed to solidity_reset. Functions solidity_alloc and solidity_free were added.
• C API (libsolc): solidity_compile now returns a string that must be explicitly freed via solidity_free()
• Commandline Interface: Remove the text-based AST printer (--ast).
• Commandline Interface: Switch to the new error reporter by default. --old-reporter falls back to the deprecated old error reporter.
• Commandline Interface: Add option to disable or choose hash method between IPFS and Swarm for the bytecode metadata.
• General: Disallow explicit conversions from external function types to address and add a member called address to them as replacement.
• General: Enable Yul optimizer as part of standard optimization.
• General: New reserved keywords: override, receive, and virtual.
• General: private cannot be used together with virtual.
• General: Split unnamed fallback functions into two cases defined using fallback() and receive().
• Inheritance: State variable shadowing is now disallowed.
• Inline Assembly: Only strict inline assembly is allowed.
• Inline Assembly: Variable declarations cannot shadow declarations outside the assembly block.
• JSON AST: Replace superFunction attribute by baseFunctions.
• Natspec JSON Interface: Properly support multiple @return statements in @dev documentation and enforce named return parameters to be mentioned documentation.
• Source mappings: Add "modifier depth" as a fifth field in the source mappings.
• Standard JSON Interface: Add option to disable or choose hash method between IPFS and Swarm for the bytecode metadata.
• Syntax: push(element) for dynamic storage arrays do not return the new length anymore.
• Syntax: Abstract contracts need to be marked explicitly as abstract by using the abstract keyword.
• Syntax: length member of arrays is now always read-only, even for storage arrays.
• Type Checker: Resulting type of exponentiation is equal to the type of the base. Also allow signed types for the base.

Language Features:

• Allow explicit conversions from address to address payable via payable(...).
• Allow global enums and structs.
• Allow public variables to override external functions.
• Allow underscores as delimiters in hex strings.
• Allow to react on failing external calls using try and catch.
• Introduce syntax for array slices and implement them for dynamic calldata arrays.
• Introduce push() for dynamic storage arrays. It returns a reference to the newly allocated element, if applicable.
• Introduce virtual and override keywords.
• Modify push(element) for dynamic storage arrays such that it does not return the new length anymore.
• Yul: Introduce leave statement that exits the current function.
• JSON AST: Add the function selector of each externally-visible FunctonDefinition to the AST JSON export.

Compiler Features:

• Allow revert strings to be stripped from the binary using the --revert-strings option or the settings.debug.revertStrings setting.
• ABIEncoderV2: Do not warn about enabled ABIEncoderV2 anymore (the pragma is still needed, though).

0.5.16 (2020-01-02)

Backported Bugfixes:

• Yul Optimizer: Fix bug in redundant assignment remover in combination with break and continue statements.

0.5.15 (2019-12-17)

Bugfixes:

• Yul Optimizer: Fix incorrect redundant load optimization crossing user-defined functions that contain for-loops with memory / storage writes.

0.5.14 (2019-12-09)

Language Features:

• Allow to obtain the selector of public or external library functions via a member .selector.
• Inline Assembly: Support constants that reference other constants.
• Parser: Allow splitting hexadecimal and regular string literals into multiple parts.

Compiler Features:

• Commandline Interface: Allow translation from yul / strict assembly to EWasm using solc --yul --yul-dialect evm --machine ewasm
• Set the default EVM version to "Istanbul".
• SMTChecker: Add support to constructors including constructor inheritance.
• Yul: When compiling via Yul, string literals from the Solidity code are kept as string literals if every character is safely printable.
• Yul Optimizer: Perform loop-invariant code motion.

Bugfixes:

• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when using abi.decode.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when using arrays or mappings of functions.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error in array of structs type.
• Version Checker: ^0 should match 0.5.0, but no prerelease.
• Yul: Consider infinite loops and recursion to be not removable.

Build System:

• Update to emscripten version 1.39.3.

0.5.13 (2019-11-14)

Language Features:

• Allow to obtain the address of a linked library with address(LibraryName).

Compiler Features:

• Code Generator: Use SELFBALANCE opcode for address(this).balance if using Istanbul EVM.
• EWasm: Experimental EWasm binary output via --ewasm and as documented in standard-json.
• SMTChecker: Add break/continue support to the CHC engine.
• SMTChecker: Support assignments to multi-dimensional arrays and mappings.
• SMTChecker: Support inheritance and function overriding.
• Standard JSON Interface: Output the storage layout of a contract when artifact storageLayout is requested.
• TypeChecker: List possible candidates when overload resolution fails.
• TypeChecker: Disallow variables of library types.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fixed a faulty assert that would wrongly trigger for array sizes exceeding unsigned integer.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when accessing indices of fixed bytes.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when using function pointers as arguments.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when implicitly converting string literals to fixed bytes.
• Type Checker: Disallow constructor of the same class to be used as modifier.
• Type Checker: Treat magic variables as unknown identifiers in inline assembly.
• Code Generator: Fix internal error when trying to convert super to a different type

0.5.12 (2019-10-01)

Language Features:

• Type Checker: Allow assignment to external function arguments except for reference types.

Compiler Features:

• ABI Output: Change sorting order of functions from selector to kind, name.
• Optimizer: Add rule that replaces the BYTE opcode by 0 if the first argument is larger than 31.
• SMTChecker: Add loop support to the CHC engine.
• Yul Optimizer: Take side-effect-freeness of user-defined functions into account.
• Yul Optimizer: Remove redundant mload/sload operations.
• Yul Optimizer: Use the fact that branch conditions have certain value inside the branch.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fix internal error when popping a dynamic storage array of mappings.
• Name Resolver: Fix wrong source location when warning on shadowed aliases in import declarations.
• Scanner: Fix multi-line natspec comment parsing with triple slashes when file is encoded with CRLF instead of LF.
• Type System: Fix arrays of recursive structs.
• Yul Optimizer: Fix reordering bug in connection with shifted one and mul/div-instructions in for loop conditions.

0.5.11 (2019-08-12)

Language Features:

• Inline Assembly: Support direct constants of value type in inline assembly.

Compiler Features:

• ABI: Additional internal type info in the field internalType.
• eWasm: Highly experimental eWasm output using --ewasm in the commandline interface or output selection of ewasm.wast in standard-json.
• Metadata: Update the swarm hash to the current specification, changes bzzr0 to bzzr1 and urls to use bzz-raw://.
• Standard JSON Interface: Compile only selected sources and contracts.
• Standard JSON Interface: Provide secondary error locations (e.g. the source position of other conflicting declarations).
• SMTChecker: Do not erase knowledge about storage pointers if another storage pointer is assigned.
• SMTChecker: Support string literal type.
• SMTChecker: New Horn-based algorithm that proves assertions via multi-transaction contract invariants.
• Standard JSON Interface: Provide AST even on errors if --error-recovery commandline switch or StandardCompiler settings.parserErrorRecovery is true.
• Yul Optimizer: Do not inline function if it would result in expressions being duplicated that are not cheap.

Bugfixes:

• ABI decoder: Ensure that decoded arrays always point to distinct memory locations.
• Code Generator: Treat dynamically encoded but statically sized arrays and structs in calldata properly.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when inlining functions that contain tuple expressions.
• SMTChecker: Fix pointer knowledge erasing in loops.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when using compound bitwise assignment operators inside branches.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when inlining a function that returns a tuple containing an unsupported type inside a branch.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when inlining functions that use state variables and belong to a different source.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when reporting counterexamples concerning state variables from different source files.
• SMTChecker: Fix SMT sort mismatch when using string literals.
• View/Pure Checker: Properly detect state variable access through base class.
• Yul Analyzer: Check availability of data objects already in analysis phase.
• Yul Optimizer: Fix an issue where memory-accessing code was removed even though msize was used in the program.

0.5.10 (2019-06-25)

Important Bugfixes:

• ABIEncoderV2: Fix incorrect abi encoding of storage array of data type that occupy multiple storage slots
• Code Generator: Properly zero out higher order bits in elements of an array of negative numbers when assigning to storage and converting the type at the same time.

Compiler Features:

• Commandline Interface: Experimental parser error recovery via the --error-recovery commandline switch or StandardCompiler settings.parserErrorRecovery boolean.
• Optimizer: Add rule to simplify SUB(~0, X) to NOT(X).
• Yul Optimizer: Make the optimizer work for all dialects of Yul including eWasm.

Bugfixes:

• Type Checker: Set state mutability of the function type members gas and value to pure (while their return type inherits state mutability from the function type).
• Yul / Inline Assembly Parser: Disallow trailing commas in function call arguments.

Build System:

• Attempt to use stock Z3 cmake files to find Z3 and only fall back to manual discovery.
• CMake: use imported targets for boost.
• Emscripten build: upgrade to boost 1.70.
• Generate a cmake error for gcc versions older than 5.0.

0.5.9 (2019-05-28)

Language Features:

• Inline Assembly: Revert change introduced in 0.5.7: The callvalue() instruction does not require payable anymore.
• Static Analyzer: Disallow libraries calling themselves externally.

Compiler Features:

• Assembler: Encode the compiler version in the deployed bytecode.
• Code Generator: Fix handling of structs of dynamic size as constructor parameters.
• Inline Assembly: Disallow the combination of msize() and the Yul optimizer.
• Metadata: Add IPFS hashes of source files.
• Optimizer: Add rule to simplify SHL/SHR combinations.
• Optimizer: Add rules for multiplication and division by left-shifted one.
• SMTChecker: Support inherited state variables.
• SMTChecker: Support tuples and function calls with multiple return values.
• SMTChecker: Support delete.
• SMTChecker: Inline external function calls to this.
• Yul Optimizer: Simplify single-run for loops to if statements.
• Yul Optimizer: Optimize representation of numbers.
• Yul Optimizer: Do not inline recursive functions.
• Yul Optimizer: Do not remove instructions that affect msize() if msize() is used.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Explicitly turn uninitialized internal function pointers into invalid functions when loaded from storage.
• Code Generator: Fix assertion failure when assigning structs containing array of mapping.
• Compiler Internals: Reset the Yul string repository before each compilation, freeing up memory.
• SMTChecker: Fix bad cast in base constructor modifier.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error when visiting state variable inherited from base class.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error in fixed point operations.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error in assignment to unsupported type.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal error in branching when inlining function calls that modify local variables.

0.5.8 (2019-04-30)

Important Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fix initialization routine of uninitialized internal function pointers in constructor context.
• Yul Optimizer: Fix SSA transform for multi-assignments.

Language Features:

• ABIEncoderV2: Implement encoding of calldata arrays and structs.
• Code Generation: Implement copying recursive structs from storage to memory.
• Yul: Disallow function definitions inside for-loop init blocks.

Compiler Features:

• ABI Decoder: Raise a runtime error on dirty inputs when using the experimental decoder.
• Optimizer: Add rule for shifts by constants larger than 255 for Constantinople.
• Optimizer: Add rule to simplify certain ANDs and SHL combinations
• SMTChecker: Support arithmetic compound assignment operators.
• SMTChecker: Support unary increment and decrement for array and mapping access.
• SMTChecker: Show unsupported warning for inline assembly blocks.
• SMTChecker: Support mod.
• SMTChecker: Support contract type.
• SMTChecker: Support this as address.
• SMTChecker: Support address members.
• Standard JSON Interface: Metadata settings now re-produce the original "useLiteralContent" setting from the compilation input.
• Yul: Adds break and continue keywords to for-loop syntax.
• Yul: Support . as part of identifiers.
• Yul Optimizer: Adds steps for detecting and removing of dead code.
• Yul Code Generator: Directly jump over a series of function definitions (instead of jumping over each one)

Bugfixes:

• SMTChecker: Implement Boolean short-circuiting.
• SMTChecker: SSA control-flow did not take into account state variables that were modified inside inlined functions that were called inside branches.
• Type System: Use correct type name for contracts in event parameters when used in libraries. This affected code generation.
• Type System: Allow direct call to base class functions that have overloads.
• Type System: Warn about shadowing builtin variables if user variables are named this or super.
• Yul: Properly register functions and disallow shadowing between function variables and variables in the outside scope.

Build System:

• Soltest: Add commandline option --test / -t to isoltest which takes a string that allows filtering unit tests.
• soltest.sh: allow environment variable SOLIDITY_BUILD_DIR to specify build folder and add --help usage.

0.5.7 (2019-03-26)

Important Bugfixes:

• ABIEncoderV2: Fix bugs related to loading short value types from storage when encoding an array or struct from storage.
• ABIEncoderV2: Fix buffer overflow problem when encoding packed array from storage.
• Optimizer: Fix wrong ordering of arguments in byte optimization rule for constants.

Language Features:

• Function calls with named arguments now work with overloaded functions.

Compiler Features:

• Inline Assembly: Issue error when using callvalue() inside nonpayable function (in the same way that msg.value already does).
• Standard JSON Interface: Support "Yul" as input language.
• SMTChecker: Show callstack together with model if applicable.
• SMTChecker: Support modifiers.
• Yul Optimizer: Enable stack allocation optimization by default if Yul optimizer is active (disable in yulDetails).

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Defensively pad memory for type(Contract).name to multiples of 32.
• Type System: Detect and disallow internal function pointers as parameters for public/external library functions, even when they are nested/wrapped in structs, arrays or other types.
• Yul Optimizer: Properly determine whether a variable can be eliminated during stack compression pass.
• Yul / Inline Assembly Parser: Disallow more than one case statement with the same label inside a switch based on the label's integer value.

Build System:

• Install scripts: Fix boost repository URL for CentOS 6.
• Soltest: Fix hex string update in soltest.

0.5.6 (2019-03-13)

Important Bugfixes:

• Yul Optimizer: Fix visitation order bug for the structural simplifier.
• Optimizer: Fix overflow in optimization rule that simplifies double shift by constant.

Language Features:

• Allow calldata arrays with dynamically encoded base types with ABIEncoderV2.
• Allow dynamically encoded calldata structs with ABIEncoderV2.

Compiler Features:

• Optimizer: Add rules for lt-comparisons with constants.
• Peephole Optimizer: Remove double iszero before jumpi.
• SMTChecker: Support enums without typecast.
• SMTChecker: Support one-dimensional arrays.
• Type Checker: Provide better error messages for some literal conversions.
• Yul Optimizer: Add rule to remove empty default switch cases.
• Yul Optimizer: Add rule to remove empty cases if no default exists.
• Yul Optimizer: Add rule to replace a switch with no cases with pop(expression).

Bugfixes:

• JSON ABI: Json description of library ABIs no longer contains functions with internal types like storage structs.
• SMTChecker: Fix internal compiler error when contract contains too large rational number.
• Type system: Detect if a contract's base uses types that require the experimental abi encoder while the contract still uses the old encoder.

Build System:

• Soltest: Add support for arrays in function signatures.
• Soltest: Add support for struct arrays in function signatures.
• Soltest: Add support for left-aligned, unpadded hex string literals.

0.5.5 (2019-03-05)

Language Features:

• Add support for getters of mappings with string or bytes key types.
• Meta programming: Provide access to the name of contracts via type(C).name.

Compiler Features:

• Support petersburg as evmVersion and set as default.
• Commandline Interface: Option to activate the experimental yul optimizer using -optimize-yul.
• Inline Assembly: Consider extcodehash as part of Constantinople.
• Inline Assembly: Instructions unavailable to the currently configured EVM are errors now.
• SMTChecker: Do not report underflow/overflow if they always revert. This removes false positives when using SafeMath.
• Standard JSON Interface: Allow retrieving metadata without triggering bytecode generation.
• Standard JSON Interface: Provide fine-grained control over the optimizer via the settings.
• Static Analyzer: Warn about expressions with custom types when they have no effect.
• Optimizer: Add new rules with constants including LT, GT, AND and BYTE.
• Optimizer: Add rule for shifts with constants for Constantinople.
• Optimizer: Combine multiple shifts with constant shift-by values into one.
• Optimizer: Do not mask with 160-bits after CREATE and CREATE2 as they are guaranteed to return an address or 0.
• Optimizer: Support shifts in the constant optimiser for Constantinople.
• Yul Optimizer: Add rule to replace switch statements with literals by matching case body.

Bugfixes:

• ABIEncoderV2: Fix internal error related to bare delegatecall.
• ABIEncoderV2: Fix internal error related to ecrecover.
• ABIEncoderV2: Fix internal error related to mappings as library parameters.
• ABIEncoderV2: Fix invalid signature for events containing structs emitted in libraries.
• Inline Assembly: Proper error message for missing variables.
• Optimizer: Fix internal error related to unused tag removal across assemblies. This never generated any invalid code.
• SMTChecker: Fix crash related to statically-sized arrays.
• TypeChecker: Fix internal error and disallow index access on contracts and libraries.
• Yul: Properly detect name clashes with functions before their declaration.
• Yul: Take built-in functions into account in the compilability checker.
• Yul Optimizer: Properly take reassignments to variables in sub-expressions into account when replacing in the ExpressionSimplifier.

Build System:

• Soltest: Add support for left-aligned, padded hex literals.
• Soltest: Add support for right-aligned, padded boolean literals.

0.5.4 (2019-02-12)

Language Features:

• Allow calldata structs without dynamically encoded members with ABIEncoderV2.

Compiler Features:

• ABIEncoderV2: Implement packed encoding.
• C API (libsolc / raw soljson.js): Introduce solidity_free method which releases all internal buffers to save memory.
• Commandline Interface: Adds new option --new-reporter for improved diagnostics formatting along with --color and --no-color for colorized output to be forced (or explicitly disabled).

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Defensively pad allocation of creationCode and runtimeCode to multiples of 32 bytes.
• Commandline Interface: Allow yul optimizer only for strict assembly.
• Parser: Disallow empty import statements.
• Type Checker: Disallow mappings with data locations other than storage.
• Type Checker: Fix internal error when a struct array index does not fit into a uint256.
• Type System: Properly report packed encoded size for arrays and structs (mostly unused until now).

Build System:

• Add support for continuous fuzzing via Google oss-fuzz
• SMT: If using Z3, require version 4.6.0 or newer.
• Soltest: Add parser that is used in the file-based unit test environment.
• Ubuntu PPA Packages: Use CVC4 as SMT solver instead of Z3

0.5.3 (2019-01-22)

Language Features:

• Provide access to creation and runtime code of contracts via type(C).creationCode / type(C).runtimeCode.

Compiler Features:

• Control Flow Graph: Warn about unreachable code.
• SMTChecker: Support basic typecasts without truncation.
• SMTChecker: Support external function calls and erase all knowledge regarding storage variables and references.

Bugfixes:

• Emscripten: Split simplification rule initialization up further to work around issues with soljson.js in some browsers.
• Type Checker: Disallow calldata structs until implemented.
• Type Checker: Return type error if fixed point encoding is attempted instead of throwing UnimplementedFeatureError.
• Yul: Check that arguments to dataoffset and datasize are literals at parse time and properly take this into account in the optimizer.
• Yul: Parse number literals for detecting duplicate switch cases.
• Yul: Require switch cases to have the same type.

Build System:

• Emscripten: Upgrade to emscripten 1.38.8 on travis and circleci.

0.5.2 (2018-12-19)

Language Features:

• Control Flow Graph: Detect every access to uninitialized storage pointers.

Compiler Features:

• Inline Assembly: Improve error messages around invalid function argument count.
• Code Generator: Only check callvalue once if all functions are non-payable.
• Code Generator: Use codecopy for string constants more aggressively.
• Code Generator: Use binary search for dispatch function if more efficient. The size/speed tradeoff can be tuned using --optimize-runs.
• SMTChecker: Support mathematical and cryptographic functions in an uninterpreted way.
• SMTChecker: Support one-dimensional mappings.
• Standard JSON Interface: Disallow unknown keys in standard JSON input.
• Standard JSON Interface: Only run code generation if it has been requested. This could lead to unsupported feature errors only being reported at the point where you request bytecode.
• Static Analyzer: Do not warn about unused variables or state mutability for functions with an empty body.
• Type Checker: Add an additional reason to be displayed when type conversion fails.
• Yul: Support object access via datasize, dataoffset and datacopy in standalone assembly mode.

Bugfixes:

• Standard JSON Interface: Report specific error message for json input errors instead of internal compiler error.

Build System:

• Replace the trusty PPA build by a static build on cosmic that is used for the trusty package instead.
• Remove support for Visual Studio 2015.

0.5.1 (2018-12-03)

Language Features:

• Allow mapping type for parameters and return variables of public and external library functions.
• Allow public functions to override external functions.

Compiler Features:

• Code generator: Do not perform redundant double cleanup on unsigned integers when loading from calldata.
• Commandline interface: Experimental --optimize option for assembly mode (--strict-assembly and --yul).
• SMTChecker: SMTLib2 queries and responses passed via standard JSON compiler interface.
• SMTChecker: Support msg, tx and block member variables.
• SMTChecker: Support gasleft() and blockhash() functions.
• SMTChecker: Support internal bound function calls.
• Yul: Support Yul objects in --assemble, --strict-assembly and --yul commandline options.

Bugfixes:

• Assembly output: Do not mix in/out jump annotations with arguments.
• Commandline interface: Fix crash when using --ast on empty runtime code.
• Code Generator: Annotate jump from calldata decoder to function as "jump in".
• Code Generator: Fix internal error related to state variables of function type access via base contract name.
• Optimizer: Fix nondeterminism bug related to the boost version and constants representation. The bug only resulted in less optimal but still correct code because the generated routine is always verified to be correct.
• Type Checker: Properly detect different return types when overriding an external interface function with a public contract function.
• Type Checker: Disallow struct return types for getters of public state variables unless the new ABI encoder is active.
• Type Checker: Fix internal compiler error when a field of a struct used as a parameter in a function type has a non-existent type.
• Type Checker: Disallow functions sha3 and suicide also without a function call.
• Type Checker: Fix internal compiler error with super when base contract function is not implemented.
• Type Checker: Fixed internal error when trying to create abstract contract in some cases.
• Type Checker: Fixed internal error related to double declaration of events.
• Type Checker: Disallow inline arrays of mapping type.
• Type Checker: Consider abstract function to be implemented by public state variable.

Build System:

• CMake: LLL is not built anymore by default. Must configure it with CMake as -DLLL=ON.
• Docker: Includes both Scratch and Alpine images.
• Emscripten: Upgrade to Emscripten SDK 1.37.21 and boost 1.67.

Solc-Js:

• Fix handling of standard-json in the commandline executable.
• Remove support of nodejs 4.

0.5.0 (2018-11-13)

How to update your code:

• Change every .call() to a .call("") and every .call(signature, a, b, c) to use .call(abi.encodeWithSignature(signature, a, b, c)) (the last one only works for value types).
• Change every keccak256(a, b, c) to keccak256(abi.encodePacked(a, b, c)).
• Add public to every function and external to every fallback or interface function that does not specify its visibility already.
• Make your fallback functions external.
• Explicitly state the data location for all variables of struct, array or mapping types (including function parameters), e.g. change uint[] x = m_x to uint[] storage x = m_x. Note that external functions require parameters with a data location of calldata.
• Explicitly convert values of contract type to addresses before using an address member. Example: if c is a contract, change c.transfer(...) to address(c).transfer(...).
• Declare variables and especially function arguments as address payable, if you want to call transfer on them.

Breaking Changes:

• ABI Encoder: Properly pad data from calldata (msg.data and external function parameters). Use abi.encodePacked for unpadded encoding.
• C API (libsolc / raw soljson.js): Removed the version, license, compileSingle, compileJSON, compileJSONCallback methods and replaced them with the solidity_license, solidity_version and solidity_compile methods.
• Code Generator: Signed right shift uses proper arithmetic shift, i.e. rounding towards negative infinity. Warning: this may silently change the semantics of existing code!
• Code Generator: Revert at runtime if calldata is too short or points out of bounds. This is done inside the ABI decoder and therefore also applies to abi.decode().
• Code Generator: Use STATICCALL for pure and view functions. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Commandline interface: Remove obsolete --formal option.
• Commandline interface: Rename the --julia option to --yul.
• Commandline interface: Require - if standard input is used as source.
• Commandline interface: Use hash of library name for link placeholder instead of name itself.
• Compiler interface: Disallow remappings with empty prefix.
• Control Flow Analyzer: Consider mappings as well when checking for uninitialized return values.
• Control Flow Analyzer: Turn warning about returning uninitialized storage pointers into an error.
• General: continue in a do...while loop jumps to the condition (it used to jump to the loop body). Warning: this may silently change the semantics of existing code.
• General: Disallow declaring empty structs.
• General: Disallow raw callcode (was already deprecated in 0.4.12). It is still possible to use it via inline assembly.
• General: Disallow var keyword.
• General: Disallow sha3 and suicide aliases.
• General: Disallow the throw statement. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• General: Disallow the years unit denomination (was already deprecated in 0.4.24)
• General: Introduce emit as a keyword instead of parsing it as identifier.
• General: New keywords: calldata and constructor
• General: New reserved keywords: alias, apply, auto, copyof, define, immutable, implements, macro, mutable, override, partial, promise, reference, sealed, sizeof, supports, typedef and unchecked.
• General: Remove assembly instruction aliases sha3 and suicide
• General: C99-style scoping rules are enforced now. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• General: Disallow combining hex numbers with unit denominations (e.g. 0x1e wei). This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• JSON AST: Remove constant and payable fields (the information is encoded in the stateMutability field).
• JSON AST: Replace the isConstructor field by a new kind field, which can be constructor, fallback or function.
• Interface: Remove "clone contract" feature. The --clone-bin and --combined-json clone-bin commandline options are not available anymore.
• Name Resolver: Do not exclude public state variables when looking for conflicting declarations.
• Optimizer: Remove the no-op PUSH1 0 NOT AND sequence.
• Parser: Disallow trailing dots that are not followed by a number.
• Parser: Remove constant as function state mutability modifier.
• Parser: Disallow uppercase X in hex number literals
• Type Checker: Disallow assignments between tuples with different numbers of components. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow values for constants that are not compile-time constants. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow arithmetic operations for boolean variables.
• Type Checker: Disallow tight packing of literals. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow calling base constructors without parentheses. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow conversions between bytesX and uintY of different size.
• Type Checker: Disallow conversions between unrelated contract types. Explicit conversion via address can still achieve it.
• Type Checker: Disallow empty return statements for functions with one or more return values.
• Type Checker: Disallow empty tuple components. This was partly already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow multi-variable declarations with mismatching number of values. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow specifying base constructor arguments multiple times in the same inheritance hierarchy. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow calling constructor with wrong argument count. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Disallow uninitialized storage variables. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Detecting cyclic dependencies in variables and structs is limited in recursion to 256.
• Type Checker: Require explicit data location for all variables, including function parameters. This was partly already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Only accept a single bytes type for .call() (and family), keccak256(), sha256() and ripemd160().
• Type Checker: Fallback function must be external. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Interface functions must be declared external. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Type Checker: Address members are not included in contract types anymore. An explicit conversion is now required before invoking an address member from a contract.
• Type Checker: Disallow "loose assembly" syntax entirely. This means that jump labels, jumps and non-functional instructions cannot be used anymore.
• Type System: Disallow explicit and implicit conversions from decimal literals to bytesXX types.
• Type System: Disallow explicit and implicit conversions from hex literals to bytesXX types of different size.
• Type System: Distinguish between payable and non-payable address types.
• View Pure Checker: Disallow msg.value in (or introducing it via a modifier to) a non-payable function.
• Remove obsolete std directory from the Solidity repository. This means accessing https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/blob/develop/std/*.sol (or https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/std/*.sol in Remix) will not be possible.
• References Resolver: Turn missing storage locations into an error. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Syntax Checker: Disallow functions without implementation to use modifiers. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Syntax Checker: Named return values in function types are an error.
• Syntax Checker: Strictly require visibility specifier for functions. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Syntax Checker: Disallow unary +. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.
• Syntax Checker: Disallow single statement variable declaration inside if/while/for bodies that are not blocks.
• View Pure Checker: Strictly enforce state mutability. This was already the case in the experimental 0.5.0 mode.

Language Features:

• General: Add staticcall to address.
• General: Allow appending calldata keyword to types, to explicitly specify data location for arguments of external functions.
• General: Support pop() for storage arrays.
• General: Scoping rules now follow the C99-style.
• General: Allow enums in interfaces.
• General: Allow mapping storage pointers as arguments and return values in all internal functions.
• General: Allow structs in interfaces.
• General: Provide access to the ABI decoder through abi.decode(bytes memory data, (...)).
• General: Disallow zero length for fixed-size arrays.
• Parser: Accept the address payable type during parsing.

Compiler Features:

• Build System: Support for Mojave version of macOS added.
• Code Generator: CREATE2 instruction has been updated to match EIP1014 (aka "Skinny CREATE2"). It also is accepted as part of Constantinople.
• Code Generator: EXTCODEHASH instruction has been added based on EIP1052.
• Type Checker: Nicer error message when trying to reference overloaded identifiers in inline assembly.
• Type Checker: Show named argument in case of error.
• Type System: IntegerType is split into IntegerType and AddressType internally.
• Tests: Determine transaction status during IPC calls.
• Code Generator: Allocate and free local variables according to their scope.
• Removed pragma experimental "v0.5.0";.
• Syntax Checker: Improved error message for lookup in function types.
• Name Resolver: Updated name suggestion look up function to take into account length of the identifier: 1: no search, 2-3: at most one change, 4-: at most two changes
• SMTChecker: Support calls to internal functions that return none or a single value.

Bugfixes:

• Build System: Support versions of CVC4 linked against CLN instead of GMP. In case of compilation issues due to the experimental SMT solver support, the solvers can be disabled when configuring the project with CMake using -DUSE_CVC4=OFF or -DUSE_Z3=OFF.
• Tests: Fix chain parameters to make ipc tests work with newer versions of cpp-ethereum.
• Code Generator: Fix allocation of byte arrays (zeroed out too much memory).
• Code Generator: Properly handle negative number literals in ABIEncoderV2.
• Code Generator: Do not crash on using a length of zero for multidimensional fixed-size arrays.
• Commandline Interface: Correctly handle paths with backslashes on windows.
• Control Flow Analyzer: Ignore unimplemented functions when detecting uninitialized storage pointer returns.
• Fix NatSpec json output for @notice and @dev tags on contract definitions.
• Optimizer: Correctly estimate gas costs of constants for special cases.
• Optimizer: Fix simplification rule initialization bug that appeared on some emscripten platforms.
• References Resolver: Do not crash on using _slot and _offset suffixes on their own.
• References Resolver: Enforce storage as data location for mappings.
• References Resolver: Properly handle invalid references used together with _slot and _offset.
• References Resolver: Report error instead of assertion fail when FunctionType has an undeclared type as parameter.
• References Resolver: Fix high CPU usage when using large variable names issue. Only suggest similar name if identifiers shorter than 80 characters.
• Type Checker: Default data location for type conversions (e.g. from literals) is memory and not storage.
• Type Checker: Disallow assignments to mappings within tuple assignments as well.
• Type Checker: Disallow packed encoding of arrays of structs.
• Type Checker: Allow assignments to local variables of mapping types.
• Type Checker: Consider fixed size arrays when checking for recursive structs.
• Type Checker: Fix crashes in erroneous tuple assignments in which the type of the right hand side cannot be determined.
• Type Checker: Fix freeze for negative fixed-point literals very close to 0, such as -1e-100.
• Type Checker: Dynamic types as key for public mappings return error instead of assertion fail.
• Type Checker: Fix internal error when array index value is too large.
• Type Checker: Fix internal error when fixed-size array is too large to be encoded.
• Type Checker: Fix internal error for array type conversions.
• Type Checker: Fix internal error when array index is not an unsigned.
• Type System: Allow arbitrary exponents for literals with a mantissa of zero.
• Parser: Fix incorrect source location for nameless parameters.
• Command Line Interface: Fix internal error when compiling stdin with no content and --ast option.

0.4.26 (2019-04-29)

Important Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fix initialization routine of uninitialized internal function pointers in constructor context.
• Type System: Use correct type name for contracts in event parameters when used in libraries. This affected code generation.

Bugfixes:

• ABIEncoderV2: Refuse to generate code that is known to be potentially buggy.
• General: Split rule list such that JavaScript environments with small stacks can use the compiler.

Note: The above changes are not included in 0.5.0, because they were backported.

0.4.25 (2018-09-12)

Important Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Properly perform cleanup for exponentiation and non-256 bit types.
• Type Checker: Report error when using indexed structs in events with experimental ABIEncoderV2. This used to log wrong values.
• Type Checker: Report error when using structs in events without experimental ABIEncoderV2. This used to crash or log the wrong values.
• Parser: Consider all unicode line terminators (LF, VF, FF, CR, NEL, LS, PS) for single-line comments and string literals. They are invalid in strings and will end comments.
• Parser: Disallow unterminated multi-line comments at the end of input.
• Parser: Treat /** / as unterminated multi-line comment.

0.4.24 (2018-05-16)

Language Features:

• Code Generator: Use native shift instructions on target Constantinople.
• General: Allow multiple variables to be declared as part of a tuple assignment, e.g. (uint a, uint b) = ....
• General: Remove deprecated constant as function state modifier from documentation and tests (but still leave it as a valid feature).
• Type Checker: Deprecate the years unit denomination and raise a warning for it (or an error as experimental 0.5.0 feature).
• Type Checker: Make literals (without explicit type casting) an error for tight packing as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Warn about wildcard tuple assignments (this will turn into an error with version 0.5.0).
• Type Checker: Warn when keccak256, sha256 and ripemd160 are not used with a single bytes argument (suggest to use abi.encodePacked(...)). This will turn into an error with version 0.5.0.

Compiler Features:

• Build System: Update internal dependency of jsoncpp to 1.8.4, which introduces more strictness and reduces memory usage.
• Control Flow Graph: Add Control Flow Graph as analysis structure.
• Control Flow Graph: Warn about returning uninitialized storage pointers.
• Gas Estimator: Only explore paths with higher gas costs. This reduces accuracy but greatly improves the speed of gas estimation.
• Optimizer: Remove unnecessary masking of the result of known short instructions (ADDRESS, CALLER, ORIGIN and COINBASE).
• Parser: Display nicer error messages by showing the actual tokens and not internal names.
• Parser: Use the entire location of the token instead of only its starting position as source location for parser errors.
• SMT Checker: Support state variables of integer and bool type.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fix revert with reason coming from a state or local string variable.
• Type Checker: Show proper error when trying to emit a non-event.
• Type Checker: Warn about empty tuple components (this will turn into an error with version 0.5.0).
• Type Checker: The ABI encoding functions are pure and thus can be used for constants.

0.4.23 (2018-04-19)

Features:

• Build system: Support Ubuntu Bionic.
• SMTChecker: Integration with CVC4 SMT solver
• Syntax Checker: Warn about functions named "constructor".

Bugfixes:

• Type Checker: Improve error message for failed function overload resolution.
• Type Checker: Do not complain about new-style constructor and fallback function to have the same name.
• Type Checker: Detect multiple constructor declarations in the new syntax and old syntax.
• Type Checker: Explicit conversion of bytesXX to contract is properly disallowed.

0.4.22 (2018-04-16)

Features:

• Code Generator: Initialize arrays without using msize().
• Code Generator: More specialized and thus optimized implementation for x.push(...)
• Commandline interface: Error when missing or inaccessible file detected. Suppress it with the --ignore-missing flag.
• Constant Evaluator: Fix evaluation of single element tuples.
• General: Add encoding routines abi.encodePacked, abi.encode, abi.encodeWithSelector and abi.encodeWithSignature.
• General: Add global function gasleft() and deprecate msg.gas.
• General: Add global function blockhash(uint) and deprecate block.hash(uint).
• General: Allow providing reason string for revert() and require().
• General: Introduce new constructor syntax using the constructor keyword as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• General: Limit the number of errors output in a single run to 256.
• General: Support accessing dynamic return data in post-byzantium EVMs.
• General: Allow underscores in numeric and hex literals to separate thousands and quads.
• Inheritance: Error when using empty parentheses for base class constructors that require arguments as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Inheritance: Error when using no parentheses in modifier-style constructor calls as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Interfaces: Allow overriding external functions in interfaces with public in an implementing contract.
• Optimizer: Optimize SHL and SHR only involving constants (Constantinople only).
• Optimizer: Remove useless SWAP1 instruction preceding a commutative instruction (such as ADD, MUL, etc).
• Optimizer: Replace comparison operators (LT, GT, etc) with opposites if preceded by SWAP1, e.g. SWAP1 LT is replaced with GT.
• Optimizer: Optimize across mload if msize() is not used.
• Static Analyzer: Error on duplicated super constructor calls as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Syntax Checker: Issue warning for empty structs (or error as experimental 0.5.0 feature).
• Syntax Checker: Warn about modifiers on functions without implementation (this will turn into an error with version 0.5.0).
• Syntax Tests: Add source locations to syntax test expectations.
• Type Checker: Improve documentation and warnings for accessing contract members inherited from address.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Allow block.blockhash without being called.
• Code Generator: Do not include internal functions in the runtime bytecode which are only referenced in the constructor.
• Code Generator: Properly skip unneeded storage array cleanup when not reducing length.
• Code Generator: Bugfix in modifier lookup in libraries.
• Code Generator: Implement packed encoding of external function types.
• Code Generator: Treat empty base constructor argument list as not provided.
• Code Generator: Properly force-clean bytesXX types for shortening conversions.
• Commandline interface: Fix error messages for imported files that do not exist.
• Commandline interface: Support --evm-version constantinople properly.
• DocString Parser: Fix error message for empty descriptions.
• Gas Estimator: Correctly ignore costs of fallback function for other functions.
• JSON AST: Remove storage qualifier for type name strings.
• Parser: Fix internal compiler error when parsing var declaration without identifier.
• Parser: Fix parsing of getters for function type variables.
• Standard JSON: Support constantinople as evmVersion properly.
• Static Analyzer: Fix non-deterministic order of unused variable warnings.
• Static Analyzer: Invalid arithmetic with constant expressions causes errors.
• Type Checker: Fix detection of recursive structs.
• Type Checker: Fix asymmetry bug when comparing with literal numbers.
• Type System: Improve error message when attempting to shift by a fractional amount.
• Type System: Make external library functions accessible.
• Type System: Prevent encoding of weird types.
• Type System: Restrict rational numbers to 4096 bits.

0.4.21 (2018-03-07)

Features:

• Code Generator: Assert that k != 0 for mulmod(a, b, k) and addmod(a, b, k) as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Code Generator: Do not retain any gas in calls (except if EVM version is set to homestead).
• Code Generator: Use STATICCALL opcode for calling view and pure functions as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• General: C99/C++-style scoping rules (instead of JavaScript function scoping) take effect as experimental v0.5.0 feature.
• General: Improved messaging when error spans multiple lines of a sourcefile
• General: Support and recommend using emit EventName(); to call events explicitly.
• Inline Assembly: Enforce strict mode as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Interface: Provide ability to select target EVM version (homestead or byzantium, with byzantium being the default).
• Standard JSON: Reject badly formatted invalid JSON inputs.
• Type Checker: Disallow uninitialized storage pointers as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Syntax Analyser: Do not warn about experimental features if they do not concern code generation.
• Syntax Analyser: Do not warn about pragma experimental "v0.5.0" and do not set the experimental flag in the bytecode for this.
• Syntax Checker: Mark throw as an error as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Syntax Checker: Issue error if no visibility is specified on contract functions as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Syntax Checker: Issue warning when using overloads of address on contract instances.
• Type Checker: disallow combining hex numbers and unit denominations as experimental 0.5.0 feature.

Bugfixes:

• Assembly: Raise error on oversized number literals in assembly.
• JSON-AST: Add "documentation" property to function, event and modifier definition.
• Resolver: Properly determine shadowing for imports with aliases.
• Standalone Assembly: Do not ignore input after closing brace of top level block.
• Standard JSON: Catch errors properly when invalid "sources" are passed.
• Standard JSON: Ensure that library addresses supplied are of correct length and hex prefixed.
• Type Checker: Properly detect which array and struct types are unsupported by the old ABI encoder.
• Type Checker: Properly warn when using _offset and _slot for constants in inline assembly.
• Commandline interface: throw error if option is unknown

0.4.20 (2018-02-14)

Features:

• Code Generator: Prevent non-view functions in libraries from being called directly (as opposed to via delegatecall).
• Commandline interface: Support strict mode of assembly (disallowing jumps, instructional opcodes, etc) with the --strict-assembly switch.
• Inline Assembly: Issue warning for using jump labels (already existed for jump instructions).
• Inline Assembly: Support some restricted tokens (return, byte, address) as identifiers in Iulia mode.
• Optimiser: Replace x % 2**i by x & (2**i-1).
• Resolver: Continue resolving references after the first error.
• Resolver: Suggest alternative identifiers if a given identifier is not found.
• SMT Checker: Take if-else branch conditions into account in the SMT encoding of the program variables.
• Syntax Checker: Deprecate the var keyword (and mark it an error as experimental 0.5.0 feature).
• Type Checker: Allow this.f.selector to be a pure expression.
• Type Checker: Issue warning for using public visibility for interface functions.
• Type Checker: Limit the number of warnings raised for creating abstract contracts.

Bugfixes:

• Error Output: Truncate huge number literals in the middle to avoid output blow-up.
• Parser: Disallow event declarations with no parameter list.
• Standard JSON: Populate the sourceLocation field in the error list.
• Standard JSON: Properly support contract and library file names containing a colon (such as URLs).
• Type Checker: Suggest the experimental ABI encoder if using structs as function parameters (instead of an internal compiler error).
• Type Checker: Improve error message for wrong struct initialization.

0.4.19 (2017-11-30)

Features:

• Code Generator: New ABI decoder which supports structs and arbitrarily nested arrays and checks input size (activate using pragma experimental ABIEncoderV2;).
• General: Allow constant variables to be used as array length.
• Inline Assembly: if statement.
• Standard JSON: Support the outputSelection field for selective compilation of target artifacts.
• Syntax Checker: Turn the usage of callcode into an error as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Improve address checksum warning.
• Type Checker: More detailed errors for invalid array lengths (such as division by zero).

Bugfixes:

0.4.18 (2017-10-18)

Features:

• Code Generator: Always use all available gas for calls as experimental 0.5.0 feature (previously, some amount was retained in order to work in pre-Tangerine-Whistle EVM versions)
• Parser: Better error message for unexpected trailing comma in parameter lists.
• Standard JSON: Support the outputSelection field for selective compilation of supplied sources.
• Syntax Checker: Unary + is now a syntax error as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Disallow non-pure constant state variables as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Do not add members of address to contracts as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Force interface functions to be external as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Require storage or memory keyword for local variables as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Compiler Interface: Better formatted error message for long source snippets

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Allocate one byte per memory byte array element instead of 32.
• Code Generator: Do not accept data with less than four bytes (truncated function signature) for regular function calls - fallback function is invoked instead.
• Optimizer: Remove unused stack computation results.
• Parser: Fix source location of VariableDeclarationStatement.
• Type Checker: Allow gas in view functions.
• Type Checker: Do not mark event parameters as shadowing state variables.
• Type Checker: Prevent duplicate event declarations.
• Type Checker: Properly check array length and don't rely on an assertion in code generation.
• Type Checker: Properly support overwriting members inherited from address in a contract (such as balance, transfer, etc.)
• Type Checker: Validate each number literal in tuple expressions even if they are not assigned from.

0.4.17 (2017-09-21)

Features:

• Assembly Parser: Support multiple assignment (x, y := f()).
• Code Generator: Keep a single copy of encoding functions when using the experimental "ABIEncoderV2".
• Code Generator: Partial support for passing structs as arguments and return parameters (requires pragma experimental ABIEncoderV2; for now).
• General: Support pragma experimental "v0.5.0"; to activate upcoming breaking changes.
• General: Added .selector member on external function types to retrieve their signature.
• Optimizer: Add new optimization step to remove unused JUMPDESTs.
• Static Analyzer: Warn when using deprecated builtins sha3 and suicide (replaced by keccak256 and selfdestruct, introduced in 0.4.2 and 0.2.0, respectively).
• Syntax Checker: Warn if no visibility is specified on contract functions.
• Type Checker: Display helpful warning for unused function arguments/return parameters.
• Type Checker: Do not show the same error multiple times for events.
• Type Checker: Greatly reduce the number of duplicate errors shown for duplicate constructors and functions.
• Type Checker: Warn on using literals as tight packing parameters in keccak256, sha3, sha256 and ripemd160.
• Type Checker: Enforce view and pure.
• Type Checker: Enforce view / constant with error as experimental 0.5.0 feature.
• Type Checker: Enforce fallback functions to be external as experimental 0.5.0 feature.

Bugfixes:

• ABI JSON: Include all overloaded events.
• Parser: Crash fix related to parseTypeName.
• Type Checker: Allow constant byte arrays.

0.4.16 (2017-08-24)

Features:

• ABI JSON: Include new field stateMutability with values pure, view, nonpayable and payable.
• Analyzer: Experimental partial support for Z3 SMT checker ("SMTChecker").
• Build System: Shared libraries (libsolutil, libevmasm, libsolidity and liblll) are no longer produced during the build process.
• Code generator: Experimental new implementation of ABI encoder that can encode arbitrarily nested arrays ("ABIEncoderV2")
• Metadata: Store experimental flag in metadata CBOR.
• Parser: Display previous visibility specifier in error if multiple are found.
• Parser: Introduce pure and view keyword for functions, constant remains an alias for view and pureness is not enforced yet, so use with care.
• Static Analyzer: Warn about large storage structures.
• Syntax Checker: Support pragma experimental <feature>; to turn on experimental features.
• Type Checker: More detailed error message for invalid overrides.
• Type Checker: Warn about shifting a literal.

Bugfixes:

• Assembly Parser: Be more strict about number literals.
• Assembly Parser: Limit maximum recursion depth.
• Parser: Enforce commas between array and tuple elements.
• Parser: Limit maximum recursion depth.
• Type Checker: Crash fix related to using.
• Type Checker: Disallow constructors in libraries.
• Type Checker: Reject the creation of interface contracts using the new statement.

0.4.15 (2017-08-08)

Features:

• Type Checker: Show unimplemented function if trying to instantiate an abstract class.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: .delegatecall() should always return execution outcome.
• Code Generator: Provide "new account gas" for low-level callcode and delegatecall.
• Type Checker: Constructors must be implemented if declared.
• Type Checker: Disallow the .gas() modifier on ecrecover, sha256 and ripemd160.
• Type Checker: Do not mark overloaded functions as shadowing other functions.
• Type Checker: Internal library functions must be implemented if declared.

0.4.14 (2017-07-31)

Features:

• C API (jsonCompiler): Export the license method.
• Code Generator: Optimise the fallback function, by removing a useless jump.
• Inline Assembly: Show useful error message if trying to access calldata variables.
• Inline Assembly: Support variable declaration without initial value (defaults to 0).
• Metadata: Only include files which were used to compile the given contract.
• Type Checker: Disallow value transfers to contracts without a payable fallback function.
• Type Checker: Include types in explicit conversion error message.
• Type Checker: Raise proper error for arrays too large for ABI encoding.
• Type checker: Warn if using this in a constructor.
• Type checker: Warn when existing symbols, including builtins, are overwritten.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Properly clear return memory area for ecrecover.
• Type Checker: Fix crash for some assignment to non-lvalue.
• Type Checker: Fix invalid "specify storage keyword" warning for reference members of structs.
• Type Checker: Mark modifiers as internal.
• Type Checker: Re-allow multiple mentions of the same modifier per function.

0.4.13 (2017-07-06)

Features:

• Syntax Checker: Deprecated "throw" in favour of require(), assert() and revert().
• Type Checker: Warn if a local storage reference variable does not explicitly use the keyword storage.

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Correctly unregister modifier variables.
• Compiler Interface: Only output AST if analysis was successful.
• Error Output: Do not omit the error type.

0.4.12 (2017-07-03)

Features:

• Assembly: Add CREATE2 (EIP86), STATICCALL (EIP214), RETURNDATASIZE and RETURNDATACOPY (EIP211) instructions.
• Assembly: Display auxiliary data in the assembly output.
• Assembly: Renamed SHA3 to KECCAK256.
• AST: export all attributes to JSON format.
• C API (jsonCompiler): Use the Standard JSON I/O internally.
• Code Generator: Added the Whiskers template system.
• Inline Assembly: for and switch statements.
• Inline Assembly: Function definitions and function calls.
• Inline Assembly: Introduce keccak256 as an opcode. sha3 is still a valid alias.
• Inline Assembly: Present proper error message when not supplying enough arguments to a functional instruction.
• Inline Assembly: Warn when instructions shadow Solidity variables.
• Inline Assembly: Warn when using jumps.
• Remove obsolete Why3 output.
• Type Checker: Enforce strict UTF-8 validation.
• Type Checker: Warn about copies in storage that might overwrite unexpectedly.
• Type Checker: Warn about type inference from literal numbers.
• Static Analyzer: Warn about deprecation of callcode.

Bugfixes:

• Assembly: mark MLOAD to have side effects in the optimiser.
• Code Generator: Fix ABI encoding of empty literal string.
• Code Generator: Fix negative stack size checks.
• Code generator: Use REVERT instead of INVALID for generated input validation routines.
• Inline Assembly: Enforce function arguments when parsing functional instructions.
• Optimizer: Disallow optimizations involving MLOAD because it changes MSIZE.
• Static Analyzer: Unused variable warnings no longer issued for variables used inside inline assembly.
• Type Checker: Fix address literals not being treated as compile-time constants.
• Type Checker: Fixed crash concerning non-callable types.
• Type Checker: Fixed segfault with constant function parameters
• Type Checker: Disallow comparisons between mapping and non-internal function types.
• Type Checker: Disallow invoking the same modifier multiple times.
• Type Checker: Do not treat strings that look like addresses as addresses.
• Type Checker: Support valid, but incorrectly rejected UTF-8 sequences.

0.4.11 (2017-05-03)

Features:

• Implement the Standard JSON Input / Output API
• Support interface contracts.
• C API (jsonCompiler): Add the compileStandard() method to process a Standard JSON I/O.
• Commandline interface: Add the --standard-json parameter to process a Standard JSON I/O.
• Commandline interface: Support --allow-paths to define trusted import paths. Note: the path(s) of the supplied source file(s) is always trusted.
• Inline Assembly: Storage variable access using _slot and _offset suffixes.
• Inline Assembly: Disallow blocks with unbalanced stack.
• Static analyzer: Warn about statements without effects.
• Static analyzer: Warn about unused local variables, parameters, and return parameters.
• Syntax checker: issue deprecation warning for unary '+'

Bugfixes:

• Assembly output: Implement missing AssemblyItem types.
• Compiler interface: Fix a bug where source indexes could be inconsistent between Solidity compiled with different compilers (clang vs. gcc) or compiler settings. The bug was visible in AST and source mappings.
• Gas Estimator: Reflect the most recent fee schedule.
• Type system: Contract inheriting from base with unimplemented constructor should be abstract.
• Optimizer: Number representation bug in the constant optimizer fixed.

0.4.10 (2017-03-15)

Features:

• Add assert(condition), which throws if condition is false (meant for internal errors).
• Add require(condition), which throws if condition is false (meant for invalid input).
• Commandline interface: Do not overwrite files unless forced.
• Introduce .transfer(value) for sending Ether.
• Code generator: Support revert() to abort with rolling back, but not consuming all gas.
• Inline assembly: Support revert (EIP140) as an opcode.
• Parser: Support scientific notation in numbers (e.g. 2e8 and 200e-2).
• Type system: Support explicit conversion of external function to address.
• Type system: Warn if base of exponentiation is literal (result type might be unexpected).
• Type system: Warn if constant state variables are not compile-time constants.

Bugfixes:

• Commandline interface: Always escape filenames (replace /, : and . with _).
• Commandline interface: Do not try creating paths . and ...
• Commandline interface: Allow long library names.
• Parser: Disallow octal literals.
• Type system: Fix a crash caused by continuing on fatal errors in the code.
• Type system: Disallow compound assignment for tuples.
• Type system: Detect cyclic dependencies between constants.
• Type system: Disallow arrays with negative length.
• Type system: Fix a crash related to invalid binary operators.
• Type system: Disallow var declaration with empty tuple type.
• Type system: Correctly convert function argument types to pointers for member functions.
• Type system: Move privateness of constructor into AST itself.
• Inline assembly: Charge one stack slot for non-value types during analysis.
• Assembly output: Print source location before the operation it refers to instead of after.
• Optimizer: Stop trying to optimize tricky constants after a while.

0.4.9 (2017-01-31)

Features:

• Compiler interface: Contracts and libraries can be referenced with a file: prefix to make them unique.
• Compiler interface: Report source location for "stack too deep" errors.
• AST: Use deterministic node identifiers.
• Inline assembly: introduce invalid (EIP141) as an opcode.
• Type system: Introduce type identifier strings.
• Type checker: Warn about invalid checksum for addresses and deduce type from valid ones.
• Metadata: Do not include platform in the version number.
• Metadata: Add option to store sources as literal content.
• Code generator: Extract array utils into low-level functions.
• Code generator: Internal errors (array out of bounds, etc.) now cause a reversion by using an invalid instruction (0xfe - EIP141) instead of an invalid jump. Invalid jump is still kept for explicit throws.

Bugfixes:

• Code generator: Allow recursive structs.
• Inline assembly: Disallow variables named like opcodes.
• Type checker: Allow multiple events of the same name (but with different arities or argument types)
• Natspec parser: Fix error with @param parsing and whitespace.

0.4.8 (2017-01-13)

Features:

• Optimiser: Performance improvements.
• Output: Print assembly in new standardized Solidity assembly format.

Bugfixes:

• Remappings: Prefer longer context over longer prefix.
• Type checker, code generator: enable access to events of base contracts' names.
• Imports: import ".dir/a" is not a relative path. Relative paths begin with directory . or ...
• Type checker, disallow inheritances of different kinds (e.g. a function and a modifier) of members of the same name

0.4.7 (2016-12-15)

Features:

• Bitshift operators.
• Type checker: Warn when msg.value is used in non-payable function.
• Code generator: Inject the Swarm hash of a metadata file into the bytecode.
• Code generator: Replace expensive memcpy precompile by simple assembly loop.
• Optimizer: Some dead code elimination.

Bugfixes:

• Code generator: throw if calling the identity precompile failed during memory (array) copying.
• Type checker: string literals that are not valid UTF-8 cannot be converted to string type
• Code generator: any non-zero value given as a boolean argument is now converted into 1.
• AST Json Converter: replace VariableDefinitionStatement nodes with VariableDeclarationStatement
• AST Json Converter: fix the camel case in ElementaryTypeNameExpression
• AST Json Converter: replace public field with visibility in the function definition nodes

0.4.6 (2016-11-22)

Bugfixes:

• Optimizer: Knowledge about state was not correctly cleared for JUMPDESTs (introduced in 0.4.5)

0.4.5 (2016-11-21)

Features:

• Function types
• Do-while loops: support for a do <block> while (<expr>); control structure
• Inline assembly: support invalidJumpLabel as a jump label.
• Type checker: now more eagerly searches for a common type of an inline array with mixed types
• Code generator: generates a runtime error when an out-of-range value is converted into an enum type.

Bugfixes:

• Inline assembly: calculate stack height warning correctly even when local variables are used.
• Code generator: check for value transfer in non-payable constructors.
• Parser: disallow empty enum definitions.
• Type checker: disallow conversion between different enum types.
• Interface JSON: do not include trailing new line.

0.4.4 (2016-10-31)

Bugfixes:

• Type checker: forbid signed exponential that led to an incorrect use of EXP opcode.
• Code generator: properly clean higher order bytes before storing in storage.

0.4.3 (2016-10-25)

Features:

• Inline assembly: support both suicide and selfdestruct opcodes (note: suicide is deprecated).
• Inline assembly: issue warning if stack is not balanced after block.
• Include keccak256() as an alias to sha3().
• Support shifting constant numbers.

Bugfixes:

• Commandline interface: Disallow unknown options in solc.
• Name resolver: Allow inheritance of enum definitions.
• Type checker: Proper type checking for bound functions.
• Type checker: fixed crash related to invalid fixed point constants
• Type checker: fixed crash related to invalid literal numbers.
• Type checker: super.x does not look up x in the current contract.
• Code generator: expect zero stack increase after super as an expression.
• Code generator: fix an internal compiler error for L.Foo for enum Foo defined in library L.
• Code generator: allow inheritance of enum definitions.
• Inline assembly: support the address opcode.
• Inline assembly: fix parsing of assignment after a label.
• Inline assembly: external variables of unsupported type (such as this, super, etc.) are properly detected as unusable.
• Inline assembly: support variables within modifiers.
• Optimizer: fix related to stale knowledge about SHA3 operations

0.4.2 (2016-09-17)

Bugfixes:

• Code Generator: Fix library functions being called from payable functions.
• Type Checker: Fixed a crash about invalid array types.
• Code Generator: Fixed a call gas bug that became visible after version 0.4.0 for calls where the output is larger than the input.

0.4.1 (2016-09-09)

• Build System: Fixes to allow library compilation.

0.4.0 (2016-09-08)

This release deliberately breaks backwards compatibility mostly to enforce some safety features. The most important change is that you have to explicitly specify if functions can receive ether via the payable modifier. Furthermore, more situations cause exceptions to be thrown.

Minimal changes to be made for upgrade:

• Add payable to all functions that want to receive Ether (including the constructor and the fallback function).
• Change _ to _; in modifiers.
• Add version pragma to each file: pragma solidity ^0.4.0;

Breaking Changes:

• Source files have to specify the compiler version they are compatible with using e.g. pragma solidity ^0.4.0; or pragma solidity >=0.4.0 <0.4.8;
• Functions that want to receive Ether have to specify the new payable modifier (otherwise they throw).
• Contracts that want to receive Ether with a plain "send" have to implement a fallback function with the payable modifier. Contracts now throw if no payable fallback function is defined and no function matches the signature.
• Failing contract creation through "new" throws.
• Division / modulus by zero throws.
• Function call throws if target contract does not have code
• Modifiers are required to contain _ (use if (false) _ as a workaround if needed).
• Modifiers: return does not skip part in modifier after _.
• Placeholder statement _ in modifier now requires explicit ;.
• ecrecover now returns zero if the input is malformed (it previously returned garbage).
• The constant keyword cannot be used for constructors or the fallback function.
• Removed --interface (Solidity interface) output option
• JSON AST: General cleanup, renamed many nodes to match their C++ names.
• JSON output: srcmap-runtime renamed to srcmapRuntime.
• Moved (and reworked) standard library contracts from inside the compiler to github.com/ethereum/solidity/std (import "std"; or import owned; do not work anymore).
• Confusing and undocumented keyword after was removed.
• New reserved words: abstract, hex, interface, payable, pure, static, view.

Features:

• Hexadecimal string literals: hex"ab1248fe"
• Internal: Inline assembly usable by the code generator.
• Commandline interface: Using - as filename allows reading from stdin.
• Interface JSON: Fallback function is now part of the ABI.
• Interface: Version string now semver compatible.
• Code generator: Do not provide "new account gas" if we know the called account exists.

Bugfixes:

• JSON AST: Nodes were added at wrong parent
• Why3 translator: Crash fix for exponentiation
• Commandline Interface: linking libraries with underscores in their name.
• Type Checker: Fallback function cannot return data anymore.
• Code Generator: Fix crash when sha3() was used on unsupported types.
• Code Generator: Manually set gas stipend for .send(0).

Lots of changes to the documentation mainly by voluntary external contributors.

0.3.6 (2016-08-10)

Features:

• Formal verification: Take external effects on a contract into account.
• Type Checker: Warning about unused return value of low-level calls and send.
• Output: Source location and node id as part of AST output
• Output: Source location mappings for bytecode
• Output: Formal verification as part of json compiler output.

Bugfixes:

• Commandline Interface: Do not crash if input is taken from stdin.
• Scanner: Correctly support unicode escape codes in strings.
• JSON output: Fix error about relative / absolute source file names.
• JSON output: Fix error about invalid utf8 strings.
• Code Generator: Dynamic allocation of empty array caused infinite loop.
• Code Generator: Correctly calculate gas requirements for memcpy precompile.
• Optimizer: Clear known state if two code paths are joined.

0.3.5 (2016-06-10)

Features:

• Context-dependent path remappings (different modules can use the same library in different versions)

Bugfixes:

• Type Checking: Dynamic return types were removed when fetching data from external calls, now they are replaced by an "unusable" type.
• Type Checking: Overrides by constructors were considered making a function non-abstract.

0.3.4 (2016-05-31)

No change outside documentation.

0.3.3 (2016-05-27)

• Allow internal library functions to be called (by "inlining")
• Fractional/rational constants (only usable with fixed point types, which are still in progress)
• Inline assembly has access to internal functions (as jump labels)
• Running solc without arguments on a terminal will print help.
• Bugfix: Remove some non-determinism in code generation.
• Bugfix: Corrected usage of not / bnot / iszero in inline assembly
• Bugfix: Correctly clean bytesNN types before comparison

0.3.2 (2016-04-18)

• Bugfix: Inline assembly parser: byte opcode was unusable
• Bugfix: Error reporting: tokens for variably-sized types were not converted to string properly
• Bugfix: Dynamic arrays of structs were not deleted correctly.
• Bugfix: Static arrays in constructor parameter list were not decoded correctly.

0.3.1 (2016-03-31)

• Inline assembly
• Bugfix: Code generation: array access with narrow types did not clean higher order bits
• Bugfix: Error reporting: error reporting with unknown source location caused a crash

0.3.0 (2016-03-11)

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Added new keywords assembly, foreign, fixed, ufixed, fixedNxM, ufixedNxM (for various values of M and N), timestamp
• Number constant division does not round to integer, but to a fixed point type (e.g. 1 / 2 != 1, but 1 / 2 == 0.5).
• Library calls now default to use DELEGATECALL (e.g. called library functions see the same value as the calling function for msg.value and msg.sender).
• <address>.delegatecall as a low-level calling interface

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug in the optimizer that resulted in comparisons being wrong.

0.2.2 (2016-02-17)

• Index access for types bytes1, ..., bytes32 (only read access for now).
• Bugfix: Type checker crash for wrong number of base constructor parameters.

0.2.1 (2016-01-30)

• Inline arrays, i.e. var y = [1,x,f()]; if there is a common type for 1, x and f(). Note that the result is always a fixed-length memory array and conversion to dynamic-length memory arrays is not yet possible.
• Import similar to ECMAScript6 import (import "abc.sol" as d and import {x, y} from "abc.sol").
• Commandline compiler solc automatically resolves missing imports and allows for "include directories".
• Conditional: x ? y : z
• Bugfix: Fixed several bugs where the optimizer generated invalid code.
• Bugfix: Enums and structs were not accessible to other contracts.
• Bugfix: Fixed segfault connected to function parameter types, appeared during gas estimation.
• Bugfix: Type checker crash for wrong number of base constructor parameters.
• Bugfix: Allow function overloads with different array types.
• Bugfix: Allow assignments of type (x) = 7.
• Bugfix: Type uint176 was not available.
• Bugfix: Fixed crash during type checking concerning constructor calls.
• Bugfix: Fixed crash during code generation concerning invalid accessors for struct types.
• Bugfix: Fixed crash during code generating concerning computing a hash of a struct type.

0.2.0 (2015-12-02)

• Breaking Change: new ContractName.value(10)() has to be written as (new ContractName).value(10)()
• Added selfdestruct as an alias for suicide.
• Allocation of memory arrays using new.
• Binding library functions to types via using x for y
• addmod and mulmod (modular addition and modular multiplication with arbitrary intermediate precision)
• Bugfix: Constructor arguments of fixed array type were not read correctly.
• Bugfix: Memory allocation of structs containing arrays or strings.
• Bugfix: Data location for explicit memory parameters in libraries was set to storage.

0.1.7 (2015-11-17)

• Improved error messages for unexpected tokens.
• Proof-of-concept transcompilation to why3 for formal verification of contracts.
• Bugfix: Arrays (also strings) as indexed parameters of events.
• Bugfix: Writing to elements of bytes or string overwrite others.
• Bugfix: "Successor block not found" on Windows.
• Bugfix: Using string literals in tuples.
• Bugfix: Cope with invalid commit hash in version for libraries.
• Bugfix: Some test framework fixes on windows.

0.1.6 (2015-10-16)

• .push() for dynamic storage arrays.
• Tuple expressions ((1,2,3) or return (1,2,3);)
• Declaration and assignment of multiple variables (var (x,y,) = (1,2,3,4,5); or var (x,y) = f();)
• Destructuring assignment ((x,y,) = (1,2,3))
• Bugfix: Internal error about usage of library function with invalid types.
• Bugfix: Correctly parse Library.structType a at statement level.
• Bugfix: Correctly report source locations of parenthesized expressions (as part of "tuple" story).

0.1.5 (2015-10-07)

• Breaking change in storage encoding: Encode short byte arrays and strings together with their length in storage.
• Report warnings
• Allow storage reference types for public library functions.
• Access to types declared in other contracts and libraries via ..
• Version stamp at beginning of runtime bytecode of libraries.
• Bugfix: Problem with initialized string state variables and dynamic data in constructor.
• Bugfix: Resolve dependencies concerning new automatically.
• Bugfix: Allow four indexed arguments for anonymous events.
• Bugfix: Detect too large integer constants in functions that accept arbitrary parameters.

0.1.4 (2015-09-30)

• Bugfix: Returning fixed-size arrays.
• Bugfix: combined-json output of solc.
• Bugfix: Accessing fixed-size array return values.
• Bugfix: Disallow assignment from literal strings to storage pointers.
• Refactoring: Move type checking into its own module.

0.1.3 (2015-09-25)

• throw statement.
• Libraries that contain functions which are called via CALLCODE.
• Linker stage for compiler to insert other contract's addresses (used for libraries).
• Compiler option to output runtime part of contracts.
• Compile-time out of bounds check for access to fixed-size arrays by integer constants.
• Version string includes libevmasm/libethereum's version (contains the optimizer).
• Bugfix: Accessors for constant public state variables.
• Bugfix: Propagate exceptions in clone contracts.
• Bugfix: Empty single-line comments are now treated properly.
• Bugfix: Properly check the number of indexed arguments for events.
• Bugfix: Strings in struct constructors.

0.1.2 (2015-08-20)

• Improved commandline interface.
• Explicit conversion between bytes and string.
• Bugfix: Value transfer used in clone contracts.
• Bugfix: Problem with strings as mapping keys.
• Bugfix: Prevent usage of some operators.

0.1.1 (2015-08-04)

• Strings can be used as mapping keys.
• Clone contracts.
• Mapping members are skipped for structs in memory.
• Use only a single stack slot for storage references.
• Improved error message for wrong argument count. (#2456)
• Bugfix: Fix comparison between bytesXX types. (#2087)
• Bugfix: Do not allow floats for integer literals. (#2078)
• Bugfix: Some problem with many local variables. (#2478)
• Bugfix: Correctly initialise string and bytes state variables.
• Bugfix: Correctly compute gas requirements for callcode.

0.1.0 (2015-07-10)