Highlights of the release

• Warn a standard interpolator used toString on a reference type with -Wtostring-interpolated #20578
• Unblock Scala 3 on Android #22632
• Implement :jar (deprecate :require) in REPL #22343
• Linting rework: In selector check, prefix of reference must match import qualifier #20894
• Add REPL flag to quit after evaluating init script #22636
• Warn if implicit default shadows given with -Wrecurse-with-default #23559

Other changes and fixes

Annotations

• Approximate annotated types in wildApprox #22893
• Fix copy of annotation on @main methods #22582

Coverage

• Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23722

CI

• Disable Cats flaky tests #23007
• Switch releasing to Sontype Central instead of legacy Sonatype OSS #23290
• Revert dubious retry in vulpix #21801

Developer Experience

• Add support for running the test sub-command with the bisect script #22796

Documentation

• Improve the usage of inclusive language #22360
• Update indentation.md to fix a typo #23505

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Add regression test for #23616 #23623
• Disallow context function types as value-class parameters to avoid crashes #23015
• Handle type aliases in contextFunctionResultTypeAfter #21517
• Align erasure of Array[Nothing] and Array[Null] with Scala 2 #22517

Experimental: Erased definitions

• Erased fields are not nullable #23311

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532
• Try extensions for arguments with type mismatch error #23212

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432

Lambda Lift

• Fix: treat static vals as enclosures in lambdalift #22452
• Fix: record calls to constructors in lambdaLift #22487

Linting

• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Nowarn receiver of extension taking params #23351
• Dealias when looking into imports #22889
• Revert unconditional lint of Inlined expansion #22815
• Warn unused member of anonymous class #22729
• No warning for parameter of overriding method #22757
• Lazy val def member is pattern var #22750
• Ignore params to default arg getters #22749
• Restore resolving prefixes of implicit Ident #22751
• Exclude synthetic this.m, Any.m from import lookup #22695
• Nowarn public implicit val class params #22664
• Don't warn retainedBody #22510
• Suppress spurious Suppression #22383
• Handle Typeable #22663
• CheckUnused checks span.exists before testing its parts #22504
• Process Export for unused check #22984
• Enclosing package p.q not visible as q #23069
• Remove premature caching of lookups for unused lint #22982
• Improve checking LHS of Assign #22977
• Improve Unit ascription escape hatch #23147
• Mention extension in unused param warning #23132
• Dealias for unused param check #23256
• Take inferred or explicit refinement result for unused check #23325
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Handle NoType in TypeComparer.disjointnessBoundary #21520
• Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Metaprogramming

• Add a check for correct Array shape in quotes.reflect.ClassOfConstant #22033

Opaque Types

• Fix stack overflow errors when generating opaque type proxies #22479

Optional Braces

• Correctly detect colon lambda eol indent for optional brace of argument #22477

Overloading

• Fail compilation if multiple conflicting top-level private defs/vals are in the same package #22759

Parser

• Allow observing an indent after conditional #22611
• No outdent at eof #22435
• Fix annotations not expected in the middle of an array type by java parser #22391
• Fix incorrect warning with -no-indent #23216

Pattern Matching

• Fix issue in lazy symbol completion or bug in nested classfile parser #23634
• Fix existing GADT constraints with introduced pattern-bound symbols #22928
• Avoid crash in uninhab check in Space #22601

Pickling

• Try to handle SkolemTypes in SingletonTypeTree during pickling #23236

Presentation Compiler

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Fix: Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640
• Completions for requests just before string #22894
• Add enum type param support in sourceSymbol #18603
• Use untpd.Tree instead of tpd.Tree for SelectionRangeProvider #22702
• Fix: handle multiple params lists in for infer type #23197
• Fix completion mode filtering + optimize scopeCompletions #23172
• Add selection ranges for more names #23257
• Add inlay hints for by-name parameters #23283
• Add jpath to VirtualFile (for pc) #23203
• Add X-Ray Inlay Hints #23891
• Add using to completions when applicable #23647
• Do not add [] after derives #23811

Quotes

• Fix issue with static this references erroring in quoted code #22618
• Skip splice level checking for symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464

REPL

• REPL: JLine 3.29.0 (was 3.27.1) #22679
• REPL: emit warning for the :sh command #22694

Reflection

• Fix regression: do not approximate prefixes when using memberType in reflect API #22448
• Forbid StringConstant(null) #23064
• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Register nowarn when inlining #22682
• Filter help renders box border #22434
• Fix incorrect warning on type ascription for backquoted identifiers #23088
  ...

Contributors

• @main

Highlights of the release

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.9.1 (was v1.9.0) #23962
• Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23722

Other changes and fixes

Context Functions

• Explain no expansion of ContextFunction0 #23844

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix #23737: Update superCallContext to include dummy capture parameters in scope #23740
• Fix separation checking for function results #23927
• Simple enhancement for pattern matching with capturing types #23524
• Don't check bounds in match type cases at CC #23738

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add warnings for inferred flexible types in public methods and fields #23880

Exports

• Refine isEffectivelyFinal to avoid no-owner crash #23675

Implicits

• Fix LiftToAnchors for higher-kinded type applications #23672
• Fix implicit scope liftToAnchors for parameter lower bounds #23679

Linting

• Invent given pattern name in for comprehension #23121
• Unused var message mentions unread or unset #23719
• Lint function arrow intended context function #23847

Match Types

• Fix derivesFrom false negative in provablyDisjointClasses #23834

Parser

• Improve message for nested package missing braces #23816
• Fix: allow postfix setters under language.postfixOps #23775

Pattern Matching

• Fix: do not transform Ident to This in PostTyper anymore #23899
• Call inhabited for AppliedType recursively #23964
• Fix false unreachable case warning #23800
• Add subtype-based fallback in inferPrefixMap and recalculate constraints after application #23771

Presentation Compiler

• Additional completions for using clause #23647
• Completions - do not add [] for ... derives TC@@ #23811
• Improve symbol order in completions provided by the presentation compiler #23888
• Porting XRayModeHints #23891
• Go to definition and hover for named args in pattern match #23956

Reporting

• Do not discard amended format when f-interpolator warns #23697
• Mention named givens in double def explainer #23833
• Compute the right span for abstract error messages #23853
• Add quick fix to add .nn #23598
• Add addendum to private val parameter variance error message #23876

Scaladoc

• Indicate optional parameters with = ... #23676
• Scaladoc Support for Capture & Separation Checking #23607
• Capture Calcuclus: don't eagerly drop caps on parameters #23759

SemanticDB

• Add context parameters to SemanticDB synthetics #23381
• Include synthetic apply in semanticdb #23629

Tuples

• Fix: make vals created in desugaring of n-ary lambdas non-synthetic #23896

Typer

• Prevent crash in SAM conversion with mismatched arity #23877
• Handle assertion error in TyperState #23665
• Correctly require a ClassTag when building a multidimensional Array #23902
• Make isExactlyNothing and isExactlyAny work for And/OrTypes #24016

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3..3.7.4-RC1 these are:

 12 Som Snytt
 11 noti0na1
 11 Wojciech Mazur
 6 Martin Odersky
 5 Eugene Flesselle
 4 Hamza Remmal
 4 Natsu Kagami
 4 Seyon Sivatharan
 3 Oliver Bračevac
 3 Yoonjae Jeon
 3 dependabot[bot]
 2 Jan Chyb
 2 Katarzyna Marek
 2 Matt Bovel
 1 HarrisL2
 1 Kacper Korban
 1 Martin Duhem
 1 Paweł Perłakowski
 1 Piotr Chabelski
 1 Tomasz Godzik
 1 Vadim Chelyshov
 1 Yichen Xu
 1 Zieliński Patryk
 1 aherlihy
 1 katrinafyi
 1 vder
 1 zielinsky

Backported fixes

• Backport: Make coverage more similar to the one in Scala 2 #23955
• Backport: latest Scala Presentation Improvements to 3.3.7 #23945. This includes X-Ray Inlay Hints, using completions, do not add [] after derives.
• Revert: "Check exhaustivity of any case class" to 3.3 LTS #23943

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.3.7-RC1..3.3.7-RC2 these are:

 2 Tomasz Godzik
 1 Jan Chyb
 1 Vadim Chelyshov
 1 Zieliński Patryk
 1 vder

Release highlights

• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559
• Standardize on -Vprint:... (still support -Xprint:... as alias) #22828

Other changes and fixes

Desugaring

• Optimize simple tuple extraction #23373

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Replace erased class modifiers with Erased base traits #23447
• Bring back part of PruneErasedDefs #23466

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix parsing crash for update in later phases #23390
• Implement boxing for singleton type arguments #23418
• Expand Capability types also in arguments of Capability classes #23427
• Adjustments to the capability trilogy #23428
• Set context owner to the method for paramsToCap #23436
• Flatten nested capture sets in retainedElementsRaw #23571
• Fix well-formed test for capabilities #23393
• Add restricted capabilities x.only[C] #23485
• Rely on hidden sets for use checking #23580

Experimental: Separation Checking

• Make separation checking controlled by language import #23560

Experimental: Erased Definitions

• Refactorings and fixes to erased definition handling #23404

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add quick fix to remove unnecessary .nn #23461
• Add stableNull annotation to force tracking mutable fields #23528

Experimental: Global Initialization

• Rewrite resolveThis in global init checker #23282
• Fix errors in the global initialization checker when compiling bootstrapped dotty #23429
• Fix error in product-sequence match in global init checker #23480

Experimental: Into

• Fix isConversionTargetType test #23401

Experimental: Modularity

• Refinements to skolemizaton #23513

Experimental: Unroll

• Enable UnrollDefinitions phase in REPL frontend phases #23433

Extension Methods

• Avoid forcing extension on check of local select #23439

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432
• Fail not inlined inline method calls early #22925
• Fix inline export forwarder generation regression #23126

Linting

• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497
• Add suppression if nowarn differs #23652

Match Types

• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Named Tuples

• Skip bypassing unapply for scala 2 case classes to allow for single-element named tuple in unapply #23603

Parser

• Enforce -new-syntax under -language:future #23443
• Disallow Scala 2 implicits under -source:future #23472

Pattern Matching

• Fix problems in checking that a constructor is uninhabited for exhaustive match checking #23403

Pickling

• Don't force annotation unpickling when testing for SilentIntoAnnot #23506
• Drop invalid assumption from TastyUnpickler #23353

Printer

• Print update modifier when printing update method definitions #23392

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Add line number magic comment support #23549

Presentation Compiler

• Port Inlay hints for name parameters #23375
• Fix: Simplify infer type for apply #23434
• Fix: Inconsistent annotation tooltips #23454
• Fix adjust type when already exists #23455
• Exclude named parameters inlay hints for java defined #23462
• Fix: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in presentation compiler's hasColon method #23498
• Add InferredMethodProvider for automatic method signature generation #23563
• Fix completions for Quotes #23619
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Fix issue with pc breaking in requiredMethod on newly overloaded valueOf #23708
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640

Quotes

• Skip splice level checking for <refinement> symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464
• Emit an error for quoted pattern type variable after new #23618
• Fix issue with certain polyfunctions not properly matching in macros #23614
• Check PCP of constructor calls on the type #7531

Reflection

• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470
• Suppress warnings in comprehensions with 22+ binds #23590
• Unhelpful error message when trying to use named extraction, when not matching case class or named tuple #23354
• Improve error message for conflicting definitions #23453
• -Yprofile-trace properly report macro splicing source #23488
• -Yprofile-trace profiles all inline calls #23490

Rewrites

• Patch empty implicit parens on error recovery #22835
• Rewrite underscore with optional space #23525

Runner

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.9.0 (was v1.8.4) #23702

Scaladoc

• Scaladoc: fixes and improvements to context bounds and extension methods #22156
• Encode path of class #23503

SemanticDB

• Bugfix: Also save infos in semanticdb #23587

Transform

• Handle multiple type parameter lists in value class methods #23516
• Check path of module prefix for tailrec #23491

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types in var args seq literals and classOf instances #23465

Typer

• Fix #22922: Add TypeParamRef handling in isSingletonBounded #23501
• Fix this references everywhere in dependent function types #23514
• Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix #23531
• Support cleanup actions in class completers #23515
• Fix regressions in asSeenFrom introduced in 3.7 #23438
• Use correct owner in eta expansion #7564
• Fix irrefutability checking in for with untupling #23273
• Fix missing members reporting for var setter...

Backported changes

• Update scala-cli to 1.9.0 (was 1.8.5) #23861

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3-RC2..3.7.3-RC3 these are:

 3 Wojciech Mazur

Highlights of the release

• Warn if interpolator uses toString #20578
• Fixes #15736 blocking Scala 3 on Android #22632
• Implement :jar (deprecate :require) #22343
• In selector check, prefix of reference must match import qualifier #20894
• Fix #21242: Add REPL flag to quit after evaluating init script #22636
• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559

Other changes and fixes

Annotations

• Approximate annotated types in wildApprox #22893
• Fix copy of annotation on @main methods #22582

CI

• Disable Cats flaky tests #23007

Developer Experience

• Add support for running the test sub-command with the bisect script #22796

Documentation

• Improve the usage of inclusive language #22360
• Update indentation.md to fix a typo #23505

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Add regression test for #23616 #23623
• Disallow context function types as value-class parameters #23015
• Handle type aliases in contextFunctionResultTypeAfter #21517
• Align erasure of Array[Nothing] and Array[Null] with Scala 2 #22517

Experimental: Erased definitions

• Erased fields are not nullable #23311

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532
• Fix #20335: Try extensions for arguments with type mismatch error #23212

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432

Lambda Lift

• Fix: treat static vals as enclosures in lambdalift #22452
• Fix: record calls to constructors in lambdaLift #22487

Linting

• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Nowarn receiver of extension taking params #23351
• Dealias when looking into imports #22889
• Revert unconditional lint of Inlined expansion #22815
• Warn unused member of anonymous class #22729
• No warning for parameter of overriding method #22757
• Lazy val def member is pattern var #22750
• Ignore params to default arg getters #22749
• Restore resolving prefixes of implicit Ident #22751
• Exclude synthetic this.m, Any.m from import lookup #22695
• Nowarn public implicit val class params #22664
• Don't warn retainedBody #22510
• Suppress spurious Suppression #22383
• Handle Typeable #22663
• CheckUnused checks span.exists before testing its parts #22504
• Process Export for unused check #22984
• Enclosing package p.q not visible as q #23069
• Remove premature caching of lookups for unused lint #22982
• Improve checking LHS of Assign #22977
• Improve Unit ascription escape hatch #23147
• Mention extension in unused param warning #23132
• Dealias for unused param check #23256
• Take inferred or explicit refinement result for unused check #23325
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Handle NoType in TypeComparer.disjointnessBoundary #21520
• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Metaprogramming

• Add a check for correct Array shape in quotes.reflect.ClassOfConstant #22033

Opaque Types

• Fix stack overflow errors when generating opaque type proxies #22479

Optional Braces

• Correctly detect colon lambda eol indent for optional brace of argument #22477

Overloading

• Fail compilation if multiple conflicting top-level private defs/vals are in the same package #22759

Parser

• Allow observing an indent after conditional #22611
• No outdent at eof #22435
• Fix annotations being not expected in the middle of an array type by java parser #22391
• Fix incorrect warning with -no-indent #23216

Pattern Matching

• Fix issue in lazy symbol completion or bug in nested classfile parser #23634
• Fix existing GADT constraints with introduced pattern-bound symbols #22928
• Avoid crash in uninhab check in Space #22601

Pickling

• Try to handle SkolemTypes in SingletonTypeTree during pickling #23236

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581

Presentation Compiler

• Fix: Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640
• Completions for requests just before string #22894
• Add enum type param support in sourceSymbol #18603
• Use untpd.Tree instead of tpd.Tree for SelectionRangeProvider #22702
• Fix: handle multiple params lists in for infer type #23197
• Fix completion mode filtering + optimize scopeCompletions #23172
• Add selection ranges for more names #23257
• Add inlay hints for by-name parameters #23283
• Add jpath to VirtualFile (for pc) #23203

Quotes

• Fix issue with static this references erroring in quoted code #22618
• Skip splice level checking for symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464

REPL

• REPL: JLine 3.29.0 (was 3.27.1) #22679
• Repl: emit warning for the :sh command #22694

Reflection

• Fix regression: do not approximate prefixes when using memberType in reflect API #22448
• Forbid StringConstant(null) #23064
• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Register nowarn when inlining #22682
• Filter help renders box border #22434
• Fix incorrect warning on type ascription for backquoted identifiers #23088
• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470

Scaladoc

• Encode path of class #23503

Settings

• Chore: filter allowed source versions by import and by settings #23215

Testing framework

• Revert dubious retry in vulpix #21801

Transform

• Check only stable qual for import prefix #22633
• Warn trivial recursion with module prefix #23278

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types ...

Contributors

• @main

Backported chnages

• Warn if implicit default shadows given #23559
• Bump Scala CLI to v1.8.5 (was v1.8.4) #23702
• Fix issue with pc breaking in requiredMethod on newly overloaded valueOf #23708
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641
• Add suppression if nowarn differs #23652
• Fix match type bounds checking problem #23695
• Generalize "Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix" #23628
• More careful ClassTag instantiation #23659
• Use more context for implicit search only if no default argument #23664
• Fix extracting refinements from intersection types in dynamic select hovers #23640

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.3-RC1..3.7.3-RC2 these are:

 5 Martin Odersky
 4 Som Snytt
 2 Wojciech Mazur
 1 Guillaume Martres
 1 Jan Chyb
 1 Kacper Korban
 1 Piotr Chabelski
 1 aherlihy

Changes and fixes

Desugaring

• Fix #23224: Optimize simple tuple extraction #23373

Enums

• Make hashcode of enum items stable #23218

Erasure

• Replace erased class modifiers with Erased base traits #23447
• Bring back part of PruneErasedDefs #23466

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Fix parsing crash for update in later phases #23390
• Implement boxing for singleton type arguments #23418
• Expand Capability types also in arguments of Capability classes #23427
• Adjustments to the capability trilogy #23428
• Set context owner to the method for paramsToCap #23436
• Flatten nested capture sets in retainedElementsRaw #23571
• Fix well-formed test for capabilities #23393
• Add restricted capabilities x.only[C] #23485
• Rely on hidden sets for use checking #23580

Experimental: Seperation Checking

• Make separation checking controlled by language import #23560

Experimental: Erased Definitions

• Refactorings and fixes to erased definition handling #23404

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Add quick fix to remove unnecessary .nn #23461
• Add stableNull annotation to force tracking mutable fields #23528

Experimental: Global Initialization

• Rewrite resolveThis in global init checker #23282
• Fix errors in the global initialization checker when compiling bootstrapped dotty #23429
• Fix error in product-sequence match in global init checker #23480

Experimental: Into

• Fix isConversionTargetType test #23401

Experimental: Modularity

• Refinements to skolemizaton #23513

Experimental: Unroll

• Enable UnrollDefinitions phase in REPL frontend phases #23433

Extension Methods

• Avoid forcing extension on check of local select #23439

Implicits

• Refine implicit search fallbacks for better ClassTag handling #23532

Inline

• Fix Symbol.info remapping in TreeTypeMap #23432
• Fail not inlined inline method calls early #22925
• Fix inline export forwarder generation regression #23126

Linting

• Consider setter of effectively private var #23211
• Add accessible check for import usage #23348
• Check OrType in interpolated toString lint #23365
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Match Types

• Fix: #23261 Distinguish 0.0 and -0.0 in ConstantType match types #23265

Named Tuples

• Skip bypassing unapply for scala 2 case classes to allow for single-element named tuple in unapply #23603

Parser

• Enforce -new-syntax under -language:future #23443
• Disallow Scala 2 implicits under -source:future #23472

Pattern Matching

• Fix problems in checking that a constructor is uninhabited for exhaustive match checking #23403

Pickling

• Don't force annotation unpickling when testing for SilentIntoAnnot #23506
• Drop invalid assumption from TastyUnpickler #23353

Printer

• Print update modifier when printing update method definitions #23392

Positions

• Compare span points in pathTo to determine best span #23581
• Add line number magic comment support #23549

Presentation Compiler

• Port Inlay hints for name parameters #23375
• Fix: Simplify infer type for apply #23434
• Fix: Inconsistent annotation tooltips #23454
• Fix adjust type when already exists #23455
• Exclude named parameters inlay hints for java defined #23462
• Fix: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in presentation compiler's hasColon method #23498
• Add InferredMethodProvider for automatic method signature generation #23563
• Fix completions for Quotes #23619
• Handle default arguments in named parameters for inlay hints #23641

Quotes

• Skip splice level checking for <refinement> symbols #22782
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464
• Emit an error for quoted pattern type variable after new #23618
• Fix issue with certain polyfunctions not properly matching in macros #23614
• Check PCP of constructor calls on the type #7531

Reflection

• Quotes reflect: sort the typeMembers output list and filter out non-members #22876

Reporting

• Add an explainer to the DoubleDefinition error #23470
• Suppress warnings in comprehensions with 22+ binds #23590
• Unhelpful error message when trying to use named extraction, when not matching case class or named tuple #23354
• Improve error message for conflicting definitions #23453
• -Yprofile-trace properly report macro splicing source #23488
• -Yprofile-trace profiles all inline calls #23490

Rewrites

• Patch empty implicit parens on error recovery #22835
• Rewrite underscore with optional space #23525

Scaladoc

• Scaladoc: fixes and improvements to context bounds and extension methods #22156
• Encode path of class #23503

SemanticDB

• Bugfix: Also save infos in semanticdb #23587

Settings

• Standardize on -Vprint:... (still support -Xprint:... as alias) #22828

Transform

• Handle multiple type parameter lists in value class methods #23516
• Check path of module prefix for tailrec #23491

Tuples

• Normalize tuple types in var args seq literals and classOf instances #23465

Typer

• Fix #22922: Add TypeParamRef handling in isSingletonBounded #23501
• Fix this references everywhere in dependent function types #23514
• Don't approximate a type using Nothing as prefix #23531
• Support cleanup actions in class completers #23515
• Fix regressions in asSeenFrom introduced in 3.7 #23438
• Use correct owner in eta expansion #7564
• Fix irrefutability checking in for with untupling #23273
• Fix missing members reporting for var setters #23476
• Guard against invalid prefixes in argForParam #23508
• Add missing case to TypeComparer #23550

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.2..3.7.3-RC1 these are:

 80 Martin Odersky
 56 Hamza Remmal
 22 Wojciech Mazur
 20 noti0na1
 18 Yichen Xu
 16 Som Snytt
 14 Jan Chyb
 9 Matt Bovel
 7 EnzeXing
 6 Guillaume Martres
 5 Sébastien Doeraene
 5 aherlihy
 ...

Highlights of the release

• Add an -Yimplicit-to-given flag for rewrites to easily test changes in the ecosystem #22580
  This experimental flag when used in conjunction with --rewrite allows to migrate most of implicit definitions as given. It aims to ease with migration to new syntax, or testing how it would affect your code base.

• Bump Scala CLI to v1.8.4 (was v1.8.0) #23538

  • Support for URLs in using file directives
  • Better support for the REPL with JDK 24+
  • experimental publish support for the Sonatype Central Portal
  • See full Scala CLI changelog

• Implement applied constructor types #22543
  It introduces new syntax allowing for easier definition of tracked parameters under -language:experimental.modularity
  You can read more about this experimental feature in the Modularity Improvements proposal documentation.

Other changes and fixes

Documentation

• Mark AnyRef::eq and AnyRef::ne as infix instead of special casing when emitting the warning #23252
• Mark eq and ne in Predef as infix #23255

Experimental: Capture Checking

• Allow caps in result types of functions to be mapped to reaches #23275
• Adapt types according to read-only status #23332
• Rename mut to update #23335
• Change retains annotation from using term arguments to using type arguments #22909
• New Syntax for Capture Variables and Explicit Capture Polymorphism v3 #23063
• Fix #23223: Add handling for classes deriving from Capability during Setup #23248
• Copy @use and @consume annotations to parameter types #23324
• Fix handling of @use and @consume in class parameters #23342
• Some usability improvements relating to errors #23370
• Loosen the "does not match previously inferred" criterion #23067
• Use level checking for Fresh instances #23101
• Ensure all capture variables carry the attachment #23162
• Cache ResultCaps #23198
• Move separation checking to -source:3.8 #23249
• Refactorings for CC error reporting #23260
• Standardize on log-based undo #23357
• Flag nonsensical capturing types with pure parents as errors #23367

Experimental: Erased Definitions

• Erased fields are not nullable #23311

Experimental: Explicit Nulls

• Relax comparison between Null and reference types in explicit nulls #23308
• Warn about unnecessary uses of .nn #23327

Experimental: Global Initialization

• Modified abstract domain in global initialization checker #23138

Experimental: Into Modifier

• Change into scheme to be fully type-based #23014

Experimental: Modularity

• Implement applied constructor types #22543

Implicits

• Try extensions for arguments with type mismatch error #23212

Linting

• Improve checking LHS of Assign #22977
• Remove premature caching of lookups for unused lint #22982
• Enclosing package p.q not visible as q #23069
• Mention extension in unused param warning #23132
• Improve Unit ascription escape hatch #23147
• Dealias for unused param check #23256
• Take inferred or explicit refinement result for unused check #23325
• Nowarn receiver of extension taking params #23351
• Improved edit span for import #23083
• Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused #23497

Parser

• Fix incorrect warning with -no-indent #23216
• Patvar: adjust caret in error message #23115
• Disallow empty parameter clauses in extension definition #23143

Pattern Matching

• Improve GADT reasoning for pattern alternatives #23205

Pickling

• Try to handle SkolemTypes in SingletonTypeTree during pickling #23236
• Avoid creating constructors where not warranted #23178

Presentation Compiler

• Use untpd.Tree instead of tpd.Tree for SelectionRangeProvider #22702
• Fix completion mode filtering + optimize scopeCompletions #23172
• Handle multiple params lists in for infer type #23197
• Add jpath to VirtualFile (for pc) #23203
• Add selection ranges for more names #23257
• Add inlay hints for by-name parameters #23283
• Implement code action 'convert to named lambda parameters' #22799
• Improve completions when a lot of exports are present #23414
• Buffix: Make PC actions work for re-exported symbols #22722
• Bugfix: Fix enumeration issues when Value is imported #23124
• Bugfix: Check in the collector for empty arrays #23341
• Bugfix: Don't check scope members if not needed #23384
• Improvement: Don't dealias named tuples for type hints #23013
• Improvement: Simplify match types when possible #23146
• Improvement: Improve efficiency of completions #23355
• Improvement: Cache compilation on . and don't add CURSOR #23356

Private Options

• Add scala.language.2.13 #23219

Rewrites

• Remove empty parentheses when rewriting implicits to givens #23339

Quotes

• Preserve implicits in Quotes context #23263
• Don't StackOverflow when printing RecursiveType structure. #22859

Reflection

• Forbid StringConstant(null) #23064

Reporting

• Fix incorrect warning on type ascription for backquoted identifiers #23088
• Improve position of deprecation #23052
• Have a better error message when context bounds are not allowed #23190
• Avoid false warning when synthesising deferred givens #23087
• Fix insufficient number width allocated when using -print-lines #23336

SemanticDB

• Fix SemantiDB production of method signature with shadowed parameters #23161
• Check if symbol exists before calling methods on it #23376

Settings

• Filter allowed source versions by import and by settings #23215

Tooling

• Suggest to add using as a code action #23079

Transform

• Warn trivial recursion with module prefix #23278
• Partial function synthesis changesOwner of selector #23337
• Check path of module prefix for tailrec #23491
• Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs #23464

Typer

• Compare TypeVar and TypeParamRef in mergeRefinedOrApplied #23045
• Revert recent changes to opaque type proxy generation #23059
• Only keep denotation for methods in IntegrateMa...

Backported chnages

• Backport "Bump Scala CLI to v1.8.4 (was v1.8.1)" to 3.7.2 #23547
• Backport "Use result of lambda type of implicit in CheckUnused" to 3.7.2 #23545
• Backport "Check path of module prefix for tailrec" to 3.7.2 #23544
• Backport "Fix stale top level synthetic package object being used in later runs" to 3.7.2 #23543
• Backport "Improve completions when a lot of exports are present" to 3.7.2 #23542
• Backport "Fix regressions in asSeenFrom introduced in 3.7" #23442

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.7.2-RC1..3.7.2-RC2 these are:

 11 Wojciech Mazur
 1 Guillaume Martres
 1 Tomasz Godzik