# General
* Internally rename `ClassType` to `ExternType`. In definition files,
the syntax to define these types has changed to `declare extern type Foo
with prop: type end`
* Add `luarequire_registermodule` to Luau.Require
* Support yieldable Luau C functions calling other functions
* Store return types as `AstTypePack*` on Ast nodes
## New Solver
* Improve the logic that determines constraint dispatch ordering
* Fix a crash in the type solver that arose when using multi-return
functions with `string.format`
* Fix https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/issues/1736
* Initial steps toward rethinking function generalization:
* Instead of generalizing every type in a function all at once, we will
instead generalize individual type variables once their bounds have been
fully resolved. This will make it possible to properly interleave type
function reduction and generalization.
* Magic functions are no longer considered magical in cases where they
are not explicitly called by the code.
* The most prominent example of this is in `for..in` loops where the
function call is part of the desugaring process.
* Almost all magic functions work by directly inspecting the AST, so
they can't work without an AST fragment anyway.
* Further, none of the magic functions we have are usefully used in this
way.
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We have lots of new changes for you!
# What's Changed
## General
- We updated Luau's license year to 2025!
- We fixed a bug where large amounts of errors were being printed when
deep intersections of unions error.
## Require-by-String
This release introduces the `Luau.Require` library, which exposes the
runtime semantics of require-by-string, including support for the new
`@self` alias described in [this
RFC](https://github.com/luau-lang/rfcs/pull/109).
The library operates on a virtualized filesystem, allowing consumers to
specify navigation rules without assuming a filesystem context.
Documentation in `Require.h` explains how to enable the library, and the
`setupState` function in Repl.cpp demonstrates how we've integrated it
into the luau CLI tool. Note that the interface in `Require.h` is
written in C, which enables any application written in a language with a
C foreign-function interface to link against this library and enable
require-by-string. This makes it straightforward for any application
embedding Luau to support require-by-string, provided that it defines or
operates within an environment resembling a virtual filesystem.
The core navigation semantics of require-by-string have additionally
been pulled into the `Luau.RequireNavigator` library. While
`Luau.Require` internally depends on `Luau.RequireNavigator`, the latter
does not depend on the Luau VM. This library provides an interface for
inspecting require-by-string's navigation behavior and therefore serves
as a useful dependency for static tooling. Documentation for
`Luau.RequireNavigator` is available in `RequireNavigator.h`.
## Autocomplete
- We fixed a memory leak in fragment autocomplete!
## New Solver And Old Solver
- We've found a infinite iteration error over a type pack. We added a
way to detect this error and throw an `InternalCompileError` instead.
- We fix `table.freeze` not accounting for the first argument not
getting type stated. We fall back to regular inference instead.
- We fix a crash in the old solver with `length_error`.
- We fix a crash in the new solver stemming from generalization
reentrancy. Now we correctly generalize interior free types that do not
appear in a function signature.
- We fix a nil refinement. (Fixes
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/issues/1687 and
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/issues/1451)
### 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
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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
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## What's Changed
General performance improvements and bug fixes. `lua_clonetable` was
added too.
### General
## Runtime
- Improvements were made to Luau's performance, including a
`lua_clonetable` function and optimizations to string caching. Buffer
read/write operations were optimized for big-endian machines.
## New Solver
- Crashes related to duplicate keys in table literals, fragment AC
crashes, and potential hash collisions in the StringCache.
- We now handle user-defined type functions as opaque and track interior
free table types.
## Require By String
- Require-by-string path resolution was simplified.
**Full Changelog**:
https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/compare/0.658...0.659
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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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This PR refactors the CLI folder to use the same project split between
include and src directories that we have for all the other artifacts in
luau. It also includes the require-by-string implementation we already
have as a feature of `Luau.CLI.lib`. Both of these changes are targeted
at making it easier for embedding projects to setup an effective
equivalent to the standalone `luau` executable with whatever runtime
libraries they need attached and without having to unnecessarily
duplicate code from luau itself.
