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
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>
Co-authored-by: Sora Kanosue <skanosue@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Talha Pathan <tpathan@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>
**Full Changelog**:
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/compare/0.666...0.667
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Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein <hgoldstein@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Varun Saini <61795485+vrn-sn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Menarul Alam <malam@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Ariel Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
# What's Changed
* Add a compiler hint to improve Luau memory allocation inlining
### New Type Solver
* Added a system for recommending explicit type annotations to users in
cases where we've inferred complex generic types with type families.
* Marked string library functions as `@checked` for use in new
non-strict mode.
* Fixed a bug with new non-strict mode where we would incorrectly report
arity mismatches when missing optional arguments.
* Implement an occurs check for unifications that would produce
self-recursive types.
* Fix bug where overload resolution would fail when applied to
non-overloaded functions.
* Fix bug that caused the subtyping to report an error whenever a
generic was instantiated in an invariant context.
* Fix crash caused by `SetPropConstraint` not blocking properly.
### Native Code Generation
* Implement optimization to eliminate dead stores
* Optimize vector ops for X64 when the source is computed (thanks,
@zeux!)
* Use more efficient lowering for UNM_* (thanks, @zeux!)
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### Internal Contributors
Co-authored-by: Aaron Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <amccord@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: David Cope <dcope@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Lily Brown <lbrown@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
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Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <amccord@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: David Cope <dcope@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Lily Brown <lbrown@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
- Implemented [Require by String with Relative
Paths](https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/blob/master/docs/new-require-by-string-semantics.md)
RFC
- Implemented [Require by String with
Aliases](https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/blob/master/docs/require-by-string-aliases.md)
RFC with support for `paths` and `alias` arrays in .luarc
- Added SUBRK and DIVRK bytecode instructions to speed up
constant-number and constant/number operations
- Added `--vector-lib`, `--vector-ctor` and `--vector-type` options to
luau-compile to support code with vectors
New Solver
- Correctness fixes to subtyping
- Improvements to dataflow analysis
Native Code Generation
- Added bytecode analysis pass to predict type tags used in operations
- Fixed rare cases of numerical loops being generated without an
interrupt instruction
- Restored optimization data propagation into the linear block
- Duplicate buffer length checks are optimized away
Miscellaneous
- Small performance improvements to new non-strict mode
- Introduced more scripts for fuzzing Luau and processing the results,
including fuzzer build support for CMake
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <amccord@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: David Cope <dcope@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Lily Brown <lbrown@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay <vvijay@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
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Co-authored-by: Aaron Weiss <aaronweiss@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <amccord@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen <afriesen@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Aviral Goel <agoel@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: David Cope <dcope@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Lily Brown <lbrown@roblox.com>
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov <vegorov@roblox.com>
