This is a real bugfix release as you can see from the changelog below. The most important fix concerns the optimizer which generated invalid code connected to the SHA3 opcode in certain situations.
Features:
- Inline assembly: support both suicide and selfdestruct opcodes (note: suicide is deprecated).
- Inline assembly: issue warning if stack is not balanced after block.
- Include keccak256() as an alias to sha3().
- Support shifting constant numbers.
Bugfixes:
- Commandline interface: Disallow unknown options in solc.
- Name resolver: Allow inheritance of enum definitions.
- Type checker: Proper type checking for bound functions.
- Type checker: fixed crash related to invalid fixed point constants
- Type checker: fixed crash related to invalid literal numbers.
- Type checker: super.x does not look up x in the current contract.
- Code generator: expect zero stack increase after super as an expression.
- Code generator: fix an internal compiler error for L.Foo for enum Foo defined in library L.
- Code generator: allow inheritance of enum definitions.
- Inline assembly: support the address opcode.
- Inline assembly: fix parsing of assignment after a label.
- Inline assembly: external variables of unsupported type (such as this, super, etc.) are properly detected as unusable.
- Inline assembly: support variables within modifiers.
- Optimizer: fix related to stale knowledge about SHA3 operations
A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible!
Download the new version of Solidity here.