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Posted by Solidity Team on October 25, 2016

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...

Posted by Solidity Team on September 17, 2016

Bugfixes: Code Generator: Fix library functions being called from payable functions. Type Checker: Fixed a crash about invalid array types. Code Generator: Fixed a call gas bug that became visible after version 0.4.0 for calls where the output is larger than the input. A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible! Download the new version of Solidity here.

Posted by Solidity Team on September 9, 2016

This is a bugfix release that fixes an error when compiling libraries with the latest version 0.4.0. A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible! Download the new version of Solidity here.

Posted by Solidity Team on September 8, 2016

Note: Version 0.4.0 is unable to compile libraries. Please upgrade to 0.4.1. This release deliberately breaks backwards compatibility mostly to enforce some safety features. The most important change is that you have to explicitly specify if functions can receive ether via the payable modifier. Furthermore, more situations cause exceptions to be thrown. Minimal changes to be made for upgrade: Add payable to all functions that want to receive Ether (including the constructor and the fallback function). Change ` to ;` in modifiers. Add version pragma...

Posted by Christian Reitwiessner on September 1, 2016

This post was originally published on the Ethereum blog. Today, I am delighted to announce that Yoichi Hirai (@pirapira on github) is joining the Ethereum project as a formal verification engineer. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo on the topic of formalizing communicating parallel processes and created formal verification tools for Ethereum in his spare time. In his own words: I’m joining Ethereum as a formal verification engineer. My reasoning: formal verification makes sense as a profession only in a...

Posted by Solidity Team on August 10, 2016

This is the first release from the new "solidity-standalone" repository. It does not have dependencies to cpp-ethereum anymore and can be built just from the solidity github repository. Note that the optimizer was disabled in some situations which could lead to larger (but correcter) code. Features: Formal verification: Take external effects on a contract into account. Type Checker: Warning about unused return value of low-level calls and send. Output: Source location and node id as part of AST output Output: Source location mappings for bytecode Output: Formal...

Posted by Solidity Team on June 10, 2016

Features: Context-dependent path remappings (different modules can use the same library in different versions) Bugfixes: Type Checking: Dynamic return types were removed when fetching data from external calls, now they are replaced by an "unusable" type. Type Checking: Overrides by constructors were considered making a function non-abstract. A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible! Download the new version of Solidity here.

Posted by Christian Reitwiessner on June 10, 2016

This post was originally published on the Ethereum blog. Solidity was started in October 2014 when neither the Ethereum network nor the virtual machine had any real-world testing, the gas costs at that time were even drastically different from what they are now. Furthermore, some of the early design decisions were taken over from Serpent. During the last couple of months, examples and patterns that were initially considered best-practice were exposed to reality and some of them actually turned out to...

Posted by Solidity Team on May 31, 2016

This release contains no changes outside of the documentation. A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible! Download the new version of Solidity here.

Posted by Solidity Team on May 27, 2016

This release mainly makes libraries more flexible in that it allows internal functions to be called. Features Allow internal library functions to be called (by "inlining") Fractional/rational constants (only usable with fixed point types, which are still in progress) Inline assembly has access to internal functions (as jump labels) Running solc without arguments on a terminal will print help. Fixes Code Generation: Remove some non-determinism in code generation. Code Generation: Corrected usage of not / bnot / iszero in inline assembly Code Generation: Correctly clean bytesNN types before comparison A...