• Introduction of enum module
• Introduction of sha3 module
• Introduction of threads module
• Updates to http module
• Introduction of root module variable just like file.
• Introduction of io.BytesIO.
• Updates to module documentations.
• Exposed multiple new string, list, dictionary, bytes, and range methods.
• json.encode now escapes non-ASCII characters.
• Critical bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Dev by @mcfriend99 in #199
• Dev by @mcfriend99 in #200

Full Changelog: v0.0.86...v0.0.87

Version 0.0.86 comes with lots of updates and bug fixes as well as a few breaking changes to the language.

• Complete change of error handling in Blade.
• Nyssa now comes prepackages with built-in support for unit testing.
• Introduces standard image processing module - imagine.
• Updated http module (curl dependency dropped).
• Introduces standard mail module - mail.
• Introduces standard markdown module with 100% compatibility with Commonmark and Github markdowns.
• Introduces standard templating module templates.
• Introduces standard html module.
• Stack limitation dropped. Stacks are now limited by machine resources.
• Updated ssl module.
• Updated json module with critical fixes to align with standard specifications.
• Updated clib module now includes callback function support.
• Updated ast module with multiple bug fixes.

And many more bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Updated Blade README to reflect the new goals of the language by @mcfriend99 in #173
• 167 create builtin html lib by @mcfriend99 in #174
• Fix typo in README.md by @HorridModz in #175
• 168 create markdown lib by @mcfriend99 in #176
• 172 merge wire into blade by @mcfriend99 in #177
• Odyssey by @mcfriend99 in #178
• 165 merge nyssa into blade by @mcfriend99 in #179
• 180 merge qi into blade by @mcfriend99 in #181
• 183 create built in mail library for blade by @mcfriend99 in #185
• Odyssey to Dev by @mcfriend99 in #186
• New dev by @mcfriend99 in #190
• Dev by @mcfriend99 in #191
• Dev by @mcfriend99 in #192
• Dev by @mcfriend99 in #194

New Contributors

• @HorridModz made their first contribution in #175

Full Changelog: v0.0.85...v0.0.86

• Reimplemented utf8 for better string lower and upper casing as well as other functions.
• Fixed dictionary duplicate entries possibility bug.
• ast module updated to reflect new language changes.
• Major bug fixes and optimization.
• Fixed file() crash when created with invalid path.
• Add support for positional arguments in args module.
• Updated value_to_string() C API to return Blade string object instead of char*.
• Removed the Blade -j switch due to its performance impact in favor of the DEBUG_STACK compile flag.
• Minor GC updates.
• Fixed missing H format for date.format().
• Minor updates to the socket and http module.
• Major memory leak fixes.
• Minor optimization in string.join().

• Fixed occasional gc error on concatenate.
• Fixed issue #157
• Fixed crash on string split with named parameters
• Fixed structs in clib, and extended struct and reflect library with new capabilities
• Fix clib crash with some libraries when optimized in release mode
• Introduced warning flag to Blade interpreter
• Changed rand() implementation to use Mersenne Twister algorithm.
• Fix wrong named pattern key length (#153).
• Minor updates and build fixes for zlib
• Fixed critical clib issues with passing nil to functions expecting a pointer
• Syntax update: Allow lists to end with a comma
• Syntax update: dictionary can now infer value from same variable as name. e.g. {egg} becomes {egg: egg}
• Syntax update: NEW in v0.0.84, dictionaries can declare extra methods as part of their entries.
• Added more reflect functions and fixed few clib bug
• Memory leak fixes for #159
• Fixed pointer get and set index in clib as well as number pointers in reflect.get_ptr()
• Fixed global space pollution on import * from modules

1. introducing new anonymous syntax (See documentation)
2. TLSServer separation from http module

• Fixed method override for to_list builtin function.
• Updates to ast module ParseResult
• Fixed linux autoinstall failure when updating on Linux
• Added utf-8 support for strings functions is_lower(), is_upper(), lower() and upper().
• string.ascii() now takes an optional boolean argument that can be used to toggle on or off.
• added more get metadata, set_global() and run_script() to reflect module.
• Fix error on method overrides when not supported.

• Fixed convert.hex_to_bytes() missing trailing byte when less than A.
• socket module now export a default function.
• Fixed multiple try...catch… bugs
• Added Blade option -c that allows users to quickly run a short snippet without the REPL or file.
• Blade option -d no longer exit.
• Added Blade option -e to replace the former -d.
• OP_DIE now discards local
• Significant fixes in ssl module.

• Fixed frozen zlib on buffer error and return truncated files for bad zip file entries.
• Fixed broken import in REPL.
• Fixed package import failure when package is imported from another directory.
• Updates to zlib module.
• Added os.current_file() function.
• Fixed broken newlines in json encoder.
• Added os.exe_path constant.
• Fixed hash.sha1 build warning on windows.
• Fixed failing Windows OS builds.
• Updated documentations.

• Fixed Blade hanging for rand(x, y) on Windows.

• Bug fixes in http module
• Fix bug where windows fail to import ssl module due to WinLibs Mingw64 build bug.