Release: Roto v0.13.0

Roto
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We’re happy to announce Roto version 0.13.0! The highlights of this release are a formatter and limited support for dependencies.

As always you can find the release in the following places:

You can find the full list of changes below!

Meta

  • To open a PR, you must now check a few boxes to confirm that you’re adhering to our code of conduct and LLM policy.

Language

Breaking changes

Added

  • Added the exponentiation operator ** for integers and floats. Thanks, @sha90w! (#463)
  • Added the List.set method for updating values in a list. Thanks, @lazyeye! (#468)
  • There is now limited support for adding dependencies to scripts. Dependencies can be accessed with the dep keyword. For instance, to access a package called http, you can write dep.http. The pkg keyword always refers to the current package. (#469)
  • The standard library now lives under the std prefix. This is not a breaking change because the everything that was in the global scope previously is now reexported in the global scope. This means that, for example, i32 is now available both as i32 and std.i32. (#472)

Bug fixes

  • Roto no longer panics on x86 when a jump larger than 2 GiB is needed to call a function. Thanks, @glebpom! (#461)

Crate

Breaking changes

  • The MSRV is now 1.96.

  • The Package type is now called Blob. (#469)

  • The API is no longer exposed as a single module, but more structured to make it easier to navigate. (#469)

    • Values passed to scripts now live under the value module. For example: RotoString, Val, List and the Value trait.
    • Anything related to context now lives under runtime::context.
    • Registerable items now live under runtime::items.
    • Types related to loading scripts now live under load.

Added

  • Added an experimental formatter. We don’t recommend using this in production at this point but please send us feedback on it. This is available as the functions roto::fmt::fmt_path and roto::fmt::fmt_string. The CLI also has a new fmt subcommand. (#449)
  • Dependencies for a script can be added to the compilation with the Runtime::compile_with_deps method, provided that a dependency source has been defined. (#469)

Documentation

  • The API documentation for the crate no longer includes the content from the README.
  • The manual is now entirely written in Markdown instead of reST.