1.2-M1

1.2-M1

Language changes

• Array literals, which can be used in annotation arguments

Compiler

• KT-6884 KT-17910 Support default values for functional parameters in inline functions
• KT-15894 Change the way how singleton objects are initialized in order not to contradict JVM spec
• KT-17929 Illegal smart cast was allowed after assignment in try block

Standard Library

• KT-8823 MutableList.fill extension

• KT-9010 MutableList.shuffle and List.shuffled extensions

• KEEP-11 KT-9151 KT-10021 KT-11026
chunked and windowed: extension functions to support
  partitioning collections into blocks of the given size and
  taking a window of the given size and moving it along the collection with the given step.

  pairwise extension to get all subsequent pairs in collection

• KEEP-49 Additional operations and conversion extensions for BigInteger and BigDecimal

• KT-16447 Make kotlin.text.Regex class serializable

IDE

• KT-17164 Intention to convert *arrayOf() functions to array literals in annotations

JS

• Typed arrays are turned on by default

Previous releases

This release also includes the fixes and improvements from
1.1.3 release.