Kotlin Blog

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.40, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2! This update:

• Allows platform modules in experimental multiplatform projects to have more than one expectedBy dependency;
• Enables support for crossinline suspend parameters in inline functions;
• @JvmDefault annotation that makes interface methods default in Java (experimental);
• Adds new inspections and intentions to the Kotlin IntelliJ plugin;
• Deprecates using short names of types brought into the scope through subtyping of companion objects, without qualifying or importing them;
• Fixes a lot of known issues in the compiler and the IDE plugin and provides performance improvements.

The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2017.1 until 2018.1, as well as with Android Studio 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 Canary.

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We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.30, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2. This update:

• Adds a new declaration in the standard library, which imitates the suspend modifier for lambda expressions
• Adds support for TestNG in kotlin.test
• Brings support for Android modules in multiplatform projects
• Introduces a new feature in kapt for reporting annotation processing errors along with proper links to the original Kotlin declarations
• Adds a lot of new inspections and intentions in the IntelliJ plugin and improves its performance
• Fixes bugs in the compiler and IntelliJ plugin

The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2017.1 until 2017.3 and 2018.1 EAP, as well as with Android Studio 3.0 and Android Studio 3.1 (Beta)

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We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.20, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2. This update:

• Adds support for Gradle build cache
• Improves incremental compilation for Android and mixed Kotlin/Java projects
• Provides IDE support for the new Kotlin style guide
• Adds inlay hints in the editor for implicit parameters and receivers of lambdas, as well as values returned from lambdas
• Supports development mode in JavaScript DCE Gradle task
• Introduces new inspections, performance improvements and bug fixes in the IntelliJ plugin

The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2017.1 until 2017.3, as well as with Android Studio 3.0 and 3.1 Canary.

The complete list of changes in this release can be found in the changelog.

We’d like to thank our external contributors whose pull requests were included in this release: Toshiaki Kameyama (with an impressive number of contributions – 46 commits!), Yoshinori Isogai, Kenji Tomita, Kirill Rakhman, Sergey Ryabov, Alexey Belkov, Michal Bendowski, AdamMc331, Andre Perkins, Andrey Mischenko, Artem Zinnatullin, Chris Povirk, Denis Vnukov, Dereck Bridie, Ilya Zorin, Jake Wharton, Joscha Alisch, Kartik Patodi, AJ Alt, Ramon Wirsch, Vladimir Kasatkin, Yusuke Hosonuma, a2kaido, scache.

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