Kotlin 1.1.50 is out

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Dmitry Jemerov

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.50, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update:

  • Introduces a new versioning scheme: 1.1.5x instead of 1.1.5-x
  • Improves support for JSR-305 annotations (nullability problems can be reported as warnings, checks work when JSR-305 classes are not on the classpath)
  • Improves generated bytecode performance
  • Enables primitive array to TypedArray translation, adds source maps support to the dead code elimination tool and makes other improvements for the JS backend
  • Fixes lots of bugs in the compiler and IDE
  • Introduces new inspections, performance improvements and bugfixes in the IntelliJ plugin
  • Supports extension points for preview of the Kotlin serialization plugin

The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2016.3 until 2017.3, as well as with Android Studio 2.3 and 3.0.

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

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KotlinConf – New Workshop and Community Event by JetBrains and Realm

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Robert Demmer

KotlinConf is just around the corner, and if you haven’t checked out the great speaker line-up and sessions, you might want to do that now! We’ve got two days jam-packed with content around Kotlin, whether you’re doing mobile, desktop, server-side or web front-end development, there are lots of talks for you.

And we are now making KotlinConf even more exciting with a dedicated workshop day! We’ve partnered up with Realm to offer an Introduction to Kotlin full-day workshop on November 1st, followed by a Kotlin Talk Building Libraries for Kotlin, and dinner, hosted by Realm!

The full day workshop and evening event will be held at Realm offices at 148 Townsend Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107 (see on map).

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Kotlin 1.1.4 is out

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Dmitry Jemerov

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.4, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update:

  • Fixes a major performance regression in the IntelliJ IDEA plugin
  • Adds support for package-default nullability annotations
  • Improves Java 9 support
  • Adds initial, experimental support for generating Android Parcelable implementations using the @Parcelize annotation
  • Adds a tool for JavaScript dead code elimination, improves sourcemap support for JS debugging and JS unit testing support
  • Generates more efficient bytecode
  • Adds many new features to the IntelliJ IDEA plugin

The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2016.2 until 2017.2, as well as with Android Studio 2.3 and 3.0 Beta.

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

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Kotlin 1.2 M2 is out

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Alexey Sedunov

We’re happy to announce the second milestone release for Kotlin 1.2. The primary focus of this release is concerned with stability and bugfixes in Kotlin compiler and tooling as well as improvements of Kotlin standard library. It also includes many of the tooling features available in the upcoming release of Kotlin 1.1.4.

We appreciate your feedback regarding the new features or any problems that you may run into with this release.

The complete changelog since 1.2 M1 can be found here with some major changes listed below.

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Kotlin Workshop Material for you to use

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Hadi Hariri

We’ve just pushed major updates to a new repository we created that contains material for a Kotlin Workshop. In addition to code samples covering all major Kotlin topics, it has presentation slides, as well as exercises and questions for students to complete.

This is material that myself and others at JetBrains are using for Kotlin workshops that we’re delivering. It is divided up into Introduction and Advanced and usually pans across two days. We’ve licensed it under Creative Commons and you are welcome to use it for yourselves to learn Kotlin and/or deliver your own workshop. And of course, being open source, contributions are more than welcome!

Kotlin Workshop Material

Reminder of upcoming workshops

As a reminder, if you’re interested in attending some of the upcoming workshops, myself and Svetlana will be delivering a few in the coming months:

Hope to see some of you there!

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KotlinConf – Speaker List Announced

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Hadi Hariri

Is it November yet?

KotlinConf 2017 is a little more than 100 days away and we are super excited to announce our 48 awesome speakers! We are thrilled to have such a wonderful group of people and companies representing the Kotlin community.

KotlinConf

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Early access program for Kotlin 1.2 has been started

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Ilya Gorbunov

We’re excited to announce the start of the early access program for Kotlin 1.2: today its first milestone release 1.2-M1 is out.

This release enables by default new language features that were previously available in 1.1.x releases under experimental 1.2 language version setting. Also in the standard library you can preview the new API.

The complete though not so big list of changes in this release can be found in the changelog.

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Kotlin 1.1.3 is out

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Dmitry Jemerov

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.3, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. The update brings a number of new IDE features, performance improvements in the compiler and IDE, efficiency improvements for generated bytecode, and lots of bugfixes. The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2016.2 until 2017.2, as well as with Android Studio 2.3 and 3.0 Canary.

Note: There is an issue with Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4 which prevents correct loading of Kotlin plugin updates, so you won’t be able to install this update into Canary 4. Kotlin 1.1.3 will be bundled into Android Studio 3.0 Canary 5.

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

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Kotlin/Native v0.3 is out

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Nikolay Igotti

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin/Native v0.3. We are going to the new lands! With the release of version v0.3 Windows is supported as both a compilation host and execution target, and Google Android devices as an execution target with native activities. So Windows API ‘Hello World’ may look as easy as:

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Kotlin Future Features Survey Results

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Andrey Breslav

With all the exciting recent events, we had to postpone the publication of the Future Features Survey results. Sorry about that. Better late than never, this blog post summarizes what we learned from the survey.

To recap, the Future Features Survey ran in April and got about 850 replies. We would like to thank everyone who took part in the survey!

Survey results

The raw (anonymized) data for the survey are available here.

The questions asked were:

  • The most expected feature 1, The most expected feature 2, The most expected feature 3
  • Nominate one feature that you would like to be banned (optional)

You can see the list of proposed features here.

We received a total of 852 responses (a few of them blank). Most people used up all three slots for positive feature nomination, and some 300+ people skipped the negative nomination.

Here’s the summary chart of all results (sorted by nominations in favour of a feature):

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