After a very auspicious release last week, we have a new bevy of changes
for you!
## What's Changed
### Deprecated Attribute
This release includes an implementation of the `@deprecated` attribute
proposed in [this
RFC](https://rfcs.luau.org/syntax-attribute-functions-deprecated.html).
It relies on the new type solver to propagate deprecation information
from function and method AST nodes to the corresponding type objects.
These objects are queried by a linter pass when it encounters local,
global, or indexed variables, to issue deprecation warnings. Uses of
deprecated functions and methods in recursion are ignored. To support
deprecation of class methods, the parser has been extended to allow
attribute declarations on class methods. The implementation does not
support parameters, so it is not currently possible for users to
customize deprecation messages.
### General
- Add a limit for normalization of function types.
### New Type Solver
- Fix type checker to accept numbers as concat operands (Fixes#1671).
- Fix user-defined type functions failing when used inside type
aliases/nested calls (Fixes#1738, Fixes#1679).
- Improve constraint generation for overloaded functions (in part thanks
to @vvatheus in #1694).
- Improve type inference for indexers on table literals, especially when
passing table literals directly as a function call argument.
- Equate regular error type and intersection with a negation of an error
type.
- Avoid swapping types in 2-part union when RHS is optional.
- Use simplification when doing `~nil` refinements.
- `len<>` now works on metatables without `__len` function.
### AST
- Retain source information for `AstTypeUnion` and
`AstTypeIntersection`.
### Transpiler
- Print attributes on functions.
### Parser
- Allow types in indexers to begin with string literals by @jackdotink
in #1750.
### Autocomplete
- Evaluate user-defined type functions in ill-formed source code to
provide autocomplete.
- Fix the start location of functions that have attributes.
- Implement better fragment selection.
### Internal Contributors
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**Full Changelog**:
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/compare/0.666...0.667
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Hello all! Another week, another Luau release!
# Change to `lua_setuserdatametatable`
This release fixes#1710: `lua_setuserdatametatable` is being changed so
that it _only_ operates on the top of the stack: the `idx` parameter is
being removed. Prior to this, `lua_setuserdatametable` would set the
metatable of the value in the stack at `idx`, but _always_ pop the top
of the stack. The old behavior is available in this release as
`lua_setuserdatametatable_DEPRECATED`.
# General
This release exposes a generalized implementation of require-by-string's
autocomplete logic. `FileResolver` can now be optionally constructed
with a `RequireSuggester`, which provides an interface for converting a
given module to a `RequireNode`. Consumers of this new API implement a
`RequireNode` to define how modules are represented in their embedded
context, and the new API manages the logic specific to
require-by-string, including providing suggestions for require aliases.
This enhancement moves toward integrating require-by-string's semantics
into the language itself, rather than merely providing a specification
for community members to implement themselves.
# New Type Solver
* Fixed a source of potential `Luau::follow detected a Type cycle`
internal compiler exceptions when assigning a global to itself.
* Fixed an issue whereby `*no-refine*` (a type which should not be
visible at the end of type checking) was not being properly elided,
causing inference of class-like tables to become unreadable / induce
crashes in autocomplete.
* Fixed a case of incomplete constraint solving when performing basic
math in a loop
# Fragment Autocomplete
* Fixed several crashes related to not properly filling in scope
information for the fragments
* Fixed a source of memory corruption by isolating the return type of a
fragment when it is type checked.
* Improved performance by opting not to clone persistent types for the
fragment (e.g.: built in types)
# Internal Contributors
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As always, a weekly Luau update!
This week we have further improvements to new type solver, fixing a few
of the popular issues reported. The fragment autocomplete is even more
stable and we believe it's ready for broader use.
Aside from that we have a few general fixes/improvements:
* Fixed data race when multi-threaded typechecking is used, appearing as
a random crash at the end of typechecking
* AST data is now available from `Luau::Module`
## New Type Solver
* Fixed type refinements made by function calls which could attach `nil`
as an option of a type before (Fixes#1528)
* Improved bidirectional typechecking in tables (Fixes#1596)
* Fixed normalization of negated types
* `getmetatable()` on `any` type should no longer report an error
## Fragment Autocomplete
* Fixed auto-complete suggestions being provided inside multiline
comments
* Fixed an assertion failure that could happen when old type solver was
used
* Fixed issues with missing suggestions when multiple statements are on
the same line
* Fixed memory safety issues
## Internal Contributors
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein <hgoldstein@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
Hey folks, another week means another Luau release! This one features a
number of bug fixes in the New Type Solver including improvements to
user-defined type functions and a bunch of work to untangle some of the
outstanding issues we've been seeing with constraint solving not
completing in real world use. We're also continuing to make progress on
crashes and other problems that affect the stability of fragment
autocomplete, as we work towards delivering consistent, low-latency
autocomplete for any editor environment.
## New Type Solver
- Fix a bug in user-defined type functions where `print` would
incorrectly insert `\1` a number of times.
- Fix a bug where attempting to refine an optional generic with a type
test will cause a false positive type error (fixes#1666)
- Fix a bug where the `refine` type family would not skip over
`*no-refine*` discriminants (partial resolution for #1424)
- Fix a constraint solving bug where recursive function calls would
consistently produce cyclic constraints leading to incomplete or
inaccurate type inference.
- Implement `readparent` and `writeparent` for class types in
user-defined type functions, replacing the incorrectly included `parent`
method.
- Add initial groundwork (under a debug flag) for eager free type
generalization, moving us towards further improvements to constraint
solving incomplete errors.
## Fragment Autocomplete
- Ease up some assertions to improve stability of mixed-mode use of the
two type solvers (i.e. using Fragment Autocomplete on a type graph
originally produced by the old type solver)
- Resolve a bug with type compatibility checks causing internal compiler
errors in autocomplete.
## Lexer and Parser
- Improve the accuracy of the roundtrippable AST parsing mode by
correctly placing closing parentheses on type groupings.
- Add a getter for `offset` in the Lexer by @aduermael in #1688
- Add a second entry point to the parser to parse an expression,
`parseExpr`
## Internal Contributors
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ariel Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein <hgoldstein@roblox.com>
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Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
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Co-authored-by: Menarul Alam <malam@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
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## What's Changed
### General
- Allow types of tables to diverge after using `table.clone` (fixes
#1617).
- Allow 2-argument vector.create in Luau.
- Fix a crash when suggesting autocomplete after encountering parsing
errors.
- Add lua_tolstringatom C API which returns the string length (whether
or not the atom exists) and which extends the existing lua_tostringatom
function the same way lua_tolstring/lua_tostring do.
- Luau now retains the DFGs of typechecked modules.
### Magic Functions Migration Note
We've made a change to the API used to define magic functions.
Previously, we had a set of function pointers on each `FunctionType`
that would be invoked by the type inference engine at the correct point.
The problem we'd run into is that they were all `std::function`s, we'd
grown quite a few of them, and Luau allocates tens of thousands of types
as it performs type inference. This adds up to a large amount of memory
for data that isn't used by 99% of types.
To slim things down a bit, we've replaced all of those `std::function`s
with a single `shared_ptr` to a new interface called `MagicFunction`.
This slims down the memory footprint of each type by about 50 bytes.
The virtual methods of `MagicFunction` have roughly 1:1 correspondence
with the old interface, so updating things should not be too difficult:
* `FunctionType::magicFunction` is now `MagicFunction::handleOldSolver`
* `FunctionType::dcrMagicFunction` is now `MagicFunction::infer`
* `FunctionType::dcrMagicRefinement` is now `MagicFunction::refine`
* `FunctionType::dcrMagicTypeCheck` is now `MagicFunction::typeCheck`
**Full Changelog**:
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/compare/0.657...0.658
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# General
All code has been re-formatted by `clang-format`; this is not
mechanically enforced, so Luau may go out-of-sync over the course of the
year.
# New Solver
* Track free types interior to a block of code on `Scope`, which should
reduce the number of free types that remain un-generalized after type
checking is complete (e.g.: less errors like `'a <: number is
incompatible with number`).
# Autocomplete
* Fragment autocomplete now does *not* provide suggestions within
comments (matching non-fragment autocomplete behavior).
* Autocomplete now respects iteration and recursion limits (some hangs
will now early exit with a "unification too complex error," some crashes
will now become internal complier exceptions).
# Runtime
* Add a limit to how many Luau codegen slot nodes addresses can be in
use at the same time (fixes#1605, fixes#1558).
* Added constant folding for vector arithmetic (fixes#1553).
* Added support for `buffer.readbits` and `buffer.writebits` (see:
https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/pull/18).
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## What's new?
* Add support for mixed-mode type checking, which allows modules checked
in the old type solver to be checked and autocompleted by the new one.
* Generalize `RequireResolver` to support require-by-string semantics in
`luau-analyze`.
* Fix a bug in incremental autocomplete where `DefId`s associated with
index expressions were not correctly picked up.
* Fix a bug that prevented "complex" types in generic parameters (for
example, `local x: X<(() -> ())?>`).
### Issues fixed
* #1507
* #1518
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Co-authored-by: Varun Saini <vsaini@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
### What's New?
* Fragment Autocomplete: a new API allows for type checking a small
fragment of code against an existing file, significantly speeding up
autocomplete performance in large files.
### New Solver
* E-Graphs have landed: this is an ongoing approach to make the new type
solver simplify types in a more consistent and principled manner, based
on similar work (see: https://egraphs-good.github.io/).
* Adds support for exporting / local user type functions (previously
they were always exported).
* Fixes a set of bugs in which the new solver will fail to complete
inference for simple expressions with just literals and operators.
### General Updates
* Requiring a path with a ".lua" or ".luau" extension will now have a
bespoke error suggesting to remove said extension.
* Fixes a bug in which whether two `Luau::Symbol`s are equal depends on
whether the new solver is enabled.
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## What's new
* Added `math.map` function to the standard library, based on
https://rfcs.luau-lang.org/function-math-map.html
* `FileResolver` can provide an implementation of
`getRequireSuggestions` to provide auto-complete suggestions for
require-by-string
## New Solver
* In user-defined type functions, `readproperty` and `writeproperty`
will return `nil` instead of erroring if property is not found
* Fixed incorrect scope of variadic arguments in the data-flow graph
* Fixed multiple assertion failures
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In this update, we continue to improve the overall stability of the new
type solver. We're also shipping some early bits of two new features,
one of the language and one of the analysis API: user-defined type
functions and an incremental typechecking API.
If you use the new solver and want to use all new fixes included in this
release, you have to reference an additional Luau flag:
```c++
LUAU_DYNAMIC_FASTINT(LuauTypeSolverRelease)
```
And set its value to `645`:
```c++
DFInt::LuauTypeSolverRelease.value = 645; // Or a higher value for future updates
```
## New Solver
* Fix a crash where scopes are incorrectly accessed cross-module after
they've been deallocated by appropriately zeroing out associated scope
pointers for free types, generic types, table types, etc.
* Fix a crash where we were incorrectly caching results for bound types
in generalization.
* Eliminated some unnecessary intermediate allocations in the constraint
solver and type function infrastructure.
* Built some initial groundwork for an incremental typecheck API for use
by language servers.
* Built an initial technical preview for [user-defined type
functions](https://rfcs.luau-lang.org/user-defined-type-functions.html),
more work still to come (including calling type functions from other
type functions), but adventurous folks wanting to experiment with it can
try it out by enabling `FFlag::LuauUserDefinedTypeFunctionsSyntax` and
`FFlag::LuauUserDefinedTypeFunction` in their local environment. Special
thanks to @joonyoo181 who built up all the initial infrastructure for
this during his internship!
## Miscellaneous changes
* Fix a compilation error on Ubuntu (fixes#1437)
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