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June 04, 2008

Vala 0.3.3 Released

Posted: 2008-06-04 06:18:23
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Vala 0.3.3 has been released. Vala "aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C." It offers features such as: interfaces, properties, lambda expressions, local variable type inference, and more.

This release includes: support for overriding default method handlers of signals, support for dynamic access to properties and signals of GObjects, experimental support for nullable value types, improved support for classes not inheriting from GLib.Object, support for verbatim strings, support for arrays of arrays, documentation updates, new and updated library bindings, performance enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes.