## What's Changed?
This week we have an update with an implementation for one of the RFCs
we had approved before, an improvement of the new type solver and a
small Lua 5.1 C API compatibility improvement.
* `@deprecated` attribute can now have a custom suggestion for a
replacement and a reason message as described in [deprecated attribute
parameters
RFC](https://rfcs.luau.org/syntax-attribute-functions-deprecated.html)
For example:
```luau
@[deprecated {reason = "foo suffers from performance issues", use = "bar"}]
local function foo()
...
end
-- Function 'foo' is deprecated, use 'bar' instead. foo suffers from performance issues
foo()
```
* `lua_cpcall` C API function has been restored both for compatibility
with Lua 5.1 and as a safe way to enter protected call environment to
work with Luau C API functions that may error
Instead of
```
if (!lua_checkstack(L, 2))
return -1;
lua_pushcfunction(L, test, nullptr);
lua_pushlightuserdata(L, context);
int status = lua_pcall(L, 1, 0, 0);
```
you can simply do
```
int status = lua_cpcall(L, test, context);
```
* In Luau CLI, required module return values can now have any type
## New Type Solver
- Additional improvements on type refinements used with external types
should fix some reported false positive errors where types refined to
`never`
- Fixed an issue in recursive refinement types in a form of `t1 where t1
= refine<t1, _>` getting 'stuck'
- Fixed an issue in subtyping of generic functions, it is now possible
to assign `<T>(T, (T) -> T) -> T` to `(number, <X>(X) -> X) -> number`
- Fixed an ICE caused by recursive types (Fixes#1686)
- Added additional iteration and recursion limits to stop the type
solver before system resources are used up
## Internal Contributors
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Annie Tang <annietang@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ariel Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein <hgoldstein@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ilya Rezvov <irezvov@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Sora Kanosue <skanosue@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
## General
This week has been spent mostly on fixing bugs in incremental
autocomplete as well as making the new Type Solver more stable.
- Fixes a bug where registered "require" aliases were case-sensitive
instead of case-insensitive.
### New Type Solver
- Adjust literal sub typing logic to account for unreduced type
functions
- Implement a number of subtyping stack utilization improvements
- Emit a single error if an internal type escapes a module's interface
- Checked function errors in the New Non Strict warn about incorrect
argument use with one-indexed positions, e.g. `argument #1 was used
incorrectly` instead of `argument #0 was used incorrectly`.
- Improvements to type function reduction that let us progress further
while reducing
- Augment the generalization system to not emit duplicate constraints.
- Fix a bug where we didn't seal tables in modules that failed to
complete typechecking.
### Fragment Autocomplete
- Provide richer autocomplete suggestions inside of for loops
- Provide richer autocomplete suggestions inside of interpolated string
expressions
- Improve the quality of error messages when typing out interpolated
strings.
### Compiler
- Fixes REX encoding of extended byte registers for the x86 assembly
code generation.
- Fixes for table shape constant data encoding
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Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ariel Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein <hgoldstein@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Sora Kanosue <skanosue@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Varun Saini <vsaini@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>