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Functional Roundup for April 12, 2017

Functional Roundup for April 12, 2017

Here are some of the latest updates, projects, talks, articles, and events in the Functional Programming community:


sbt 0.13.15 released

The sbt team has unveiled the latest technology preview for sbt 1.0 with v0.13.15.

The release features a variety of improvements, bug fixes, and removes the Maven version range. Some of the highlights include:

  • Preliminary JDK 9 support
  • Adds “local-preloaded” repository for offline installation
  • Automatically sets scalaCompilerBridgeSource correctly, reducing the boilerplate needed to make a dotty project (when sbt detects projects being compiled with dotty)
  • Fixes .triggeredBy/.storeAs/etc not working when using := and .valuemacros

The changes are thanks to a total of eleven contributors including Eugene Yokota, Dale Wijnand, Lars Hupel, Guillaume Martes, Jason Zaugg, and more.

That’s just a small sampling. You can read the full release notes here: sbt 0.13.15 release.


Scala IDE 4.6.0-RC1

On April 6th, the latest release candidate for Scala IDE made itself known. There are quite a few changes, fixes for compilation errors, and updates for some dependencies.

According to the release, a few changes include:

  • Modifies wrong object descriptor
  • Prepares Scala IDE to run with Scala 2.12.1
  • Adds sourceLevel property to preferences
  • Adapts Scala refactoring config

Scala IDE 4.6.0-RC1 is fully compatible with Scala 2.12.

Updates are thanks to Wieslaw Popielarski, Simon Schäfer, Matthias Langer, and Sam Halliday.

View the full change log here: Scala IDE 4.6.0-RC-1 is out.


http4s V0.17.0-M1 release

https4s dropped a handful of releases on us this week including v0.16.0-M1, v0.15.8, and v0.17.0-M1 so clearly there are quite a few changes.

According to the changelog, the releases feature of variety of changes including:

V.0.17.0-M1:

  • All scalaz types and typeclasses have been replaced by the cats equivalents
  • scalaz.concurrent.Task replaced by fs2.Task
  • scalaz.stream.Process replaced by fs2.Stream

V.0.16.0-M1:

  • Upgrades dependencies for various modules like: circe-0.7.1, scalacheck-1.13.5, json4s-3.5.1 and more
  • Adds a WebjarService for serving files out of web jars.
  • Eliminates Fallthrough typeclass. An HttpService now returns MaybeResponse, which can be a Response or Pass. There is a Semigroup[MaybeResponse] instance that allows HttpServices to be chained as a semigroup. service orElse anotherService is deprecated in favor of service |+| anotherService.

V.0.15.8:

  • Cache charset lookups to avoid synchronization
  • Strip fragment from request target in blaze-client

That’s just a small selection of what’s going on in these updates. View the full change log here: http4s changelog.


 

Additional great content and news:


Suggested information to digest this week:

The functional programming community has no shortage of excellent conferences, talks, and articles. Here are just a few that were released that we recommend checking out if you missed them the first time:

Herdy Handoko:

Herdy Handoko presented Dotty: A next generation Scala compiler at the Singapore Scala Meetup. Check out the slides here:

 


Alexander Solovyov:

Roman Podoliaka presented Debugging of Python with gdb at PyCon Ukraine 2017. Check out the slides here:

 


Upcoming Events:

Scala Days: Chicago

  • April 19-21, 2017
  • Swisshotel - Chicago, IL

PTJUG & GDGLX Session #10

  • May 9, 2017
  • Universidade de Lisboa - Lisbon, Portugal

LX Scala

  • May 12, 2017
  • Microsoft Headquarters - Lisbon, Portugal

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