solidity/Changelog.md

0.4.14 (unreleased)

Features:

• C API (jsonCompiler): Export the license method.
• Inline Assembly: Show useful error message if trying to access calldata variables.
• Inline Assembly: Support variable declaration without initial value (defaults to 0).
• 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.

Bugfixes:

• Type Checker: Fix invalid "specify storage keyword" warning for reference members of structs.
• Type Checker: Mark modifiers as internal.

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 paramater 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)