v2.1.24: Last release for Julia 1.6 through 1.9

Summary

This will be the last release for Julia 1.6 through 1.9.

What's Changed: CI (Continuous Integration)

• CI: Always run tests with code coverage enabled (remove the coverage-disabled CI jobs) by @KristofferC in #1006
• CI: Reduce number of CI jobs (don't run on Julia 1.9; don't run 32-bit on Julia 1.6) by @DilumAluthge in #1007
• CI: Don't run the test suite on tags (but do build the docs on tags) by @DilumAluthge in #1009
• CI: Fix some typos introduced in #1009 by @DilumAluthge in #1010
• Bump version from 2.1.23 to 2.1.24 by @DilumAluthge in #1011

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v2.1.23: Fix building of fresh (non-incremental) sysimages on Julia master (1.12)

Summary

This release fixes building of fresh (non-incremental) sysimages on Julia master (1.12).

The bug in question was #989, and the bugfix PR was #1002.

What's Changed

• Fix building fresh (non-incremental) sysimages on Julia nightly (Julia 1.12) by @KristofferC in #1002
• Bump version from 2.1.22 to 2.1.23 by @DilumAluthge in #1004

CI (continuous integration)

• CI: Add the pre version, but keep it commented out for now (since there's not currently a prerelease available) by @DilumAluthge in #993

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v2.1.22: Fix non-incremental sysimage builds on Julia 1.11

Summary

The purpose of this release is to fix non-incremental sysimage builds on Julia 1.11.

The bug in question was #976, and the bugfix PR was #987.

What's Changed

• Do not put project stdlibs into the base (non-incremental) sysimage by @KristofferC in #987
• Bump version number from 2.1.21 to 2.1.22 by @DilumAluthge in #992

CI (Continuous Integration)

• CI: Run the build-mylib job on both LTS (1.10) and stable (currently 1.11) by @DilumAluthge in #985

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v2.1.21: Changes to the PackageCompiler testsuite

Summary

The purpose of this release is to get some recent testsuite changes (specifically, #984) into PkgEval.

What's Changed

• Test suite: When skipping tests, skip them ONLY in GitHub Actions CI; do NOT skip them in other CI (such as PkgEval) by @DilumAluthge in #984
• Bump version number from 2.1.20 to 2.1.21 by @DilumAluthge in #986

CI (Continuous Integration)

• Resume CI on Julia 1.9, but only 64-bit (skip 32-bit); also, skip the LLVMExtra_jll-related tests on Julia 1.9 by @DilumAluthge in #979
• CI: Run a single job on Julia nightly (but skip the incremental=false tests on Julia 1.12) by @DilumAluthge in #982
• CI: Test both incremental={true,false} on "slow CI"; also, stop considering Apple Silicon macOS as "slow CI" by @DilumAluthge in #983

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v2.1.20: Fix `embedding_wrapper.c` for Julia 1.11

Summary

This release fixes embedding_wrapper.c for Julia 1.11.

What's Changed

• Fix embedding_wrapper.c for Julia 1.11; also, run CI on 1.11, but skip the incremental=false tests on 1.11 by @ufechner7 in #954
• Bump version from 2.1.19 to 2.1.20 by @DilumAluthge in #977

CI (Continuous Integration)

• CI: Resume testing 32-bit Julia on Windows for Julia 1.6 and 1.10, but keep 1.9 disabled for now by @DilumAluthge in #968
• CI: Use julia-actions/cache in the build-mylib job by @DilumAluthge in #971
• Run macOS CI on both Intel and Apple Silicon by @DilumAluthge in #970

New Contributors

• @ufechner7 made their first contribution in #954

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v2.1.19: Fix the "system image file fails consistency check" bug seen on macOS

Summary

This release fixes the "system image file fails consistency check" bug seen on macOS (#738).

What's Changed

• Change naming convention of object files to follow what Base Julia does; also, start testing on macOS again (but only Intel macOS) by @gbaraldi in #930
• Bump version from 2.1.18 to 2.1.19 by @DilumAluthge in #969

CI (Continuous Integration)

• Fix CI, and temporarily disable some CI jobs, and use the HelloWorldC artifact (instead of the fooifier artifact) by @DilumAluthge in #965
• More CI tweaks, and temporarily disable some more CI jobs by @DilumAluthge in #966

New Contributors

• @gbaraldi made their first contribution in #930

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v2.1.18

PackageCompiler v2.1.18

Diff since v2.1.17

Merged pull requests:

• update required C++ standard (#638) (@KristofferC)
• Add import_to_main flag for Main module package name conflicts resolution (#807) (@krynju)
• Add compat for Libdl to "<0.0.1, 1" (#894) (@ashutosh-b-b)
• Fix git-tree-sha1 in Artifacts.toml (#915) (@nhz2)
• fix lurking bug in _collect_artifacts (#919) (@sjkelly)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 + pass CODECOV_TOKEN (#922) (@sloede)
• Bump julia-actions/setup-julia from 1 to 2 (#934) (@dependabot[bot])
• Make implicit function definition (in julia_init.c) an error (#936) (@topolarity)
• Check the Julia release banner with and without the slash (#938) (@DilumAluthge)
• Bump julia-actions/cache from 1 to 2 (#944) (@dependabot[bot])
• use Base.julia_exename(), fixes #664 (#947) (@sjkelly)
• remove unofficial build warning (#948) (@sjkelly)
• Update Project.toml (#949) (@sjkelly)
• fix typo (#952) (@spaette)

Closed issues:

• Julia in debug build fails during create_app (#664)
• package(s) MyPackage not in project (#667)
• [BUG] "Could not load library" Error and Suspected Julia Installation Breakage (#676)
• Segmentation fault (#744)
• Incremental sysimage build doesn't support packages with same name but different uuid (#768)
• incremental = false mode causes Pkg.precompile to overload all threads when multithreading (#778)
• High memory usage of compilation (windows) (#854)
• GPUCompiler problems. (#896)
• Sysimage with Plots.jl breaks loading some shared libraries in R (via RCall.jl) (#926)
• Compiled app errors when loading depencies (#927)
• Building "examples/MyLib" fails on macOS (#928)
• Error occurred while compiling code that includes using LoopVectorization (#939)
• Zarr and DimensionalData in same package will not compile on macOS (#941)
• Failed consistency check when trying to relocate compiled app (MacOS) (#943)
• Error for compiled executable program ran in another machine (#945)

v2.1.17

PackageCompiler v2.1.17

Diff since v2.1.16

Merged pull requests:

• remove more file paths and docs with --strip-metadata (#909) (@JeffBezanson)
• add an env variable needed on 1.10 when creating the base sysimage (#912) (@KristofferC)
• bump version (#913) (@KristofferC)

Closed issues:

• UndefRefError in docker image (#898)
• Package Compiler Fails on Julia v1.10 (#911)

v2.1.16

PackageCompiler v2.1.16

Diff since v2.1.15

Merged pull requests:

• clear more state before serializing sysimage (#899) (@KristofferC)
• skip testing on 1.8 (#901) (@KristofferC)
• only bundle stdlibs in sysimage when filter_stdlibs=false (#902) (@KristofferC)
• use isdebugbuild() rather than ccalling into libjulia directly (#903) (@sjkelly)
• move -O2 flag into cflags() (#904) (@sjkelly)
• Add base_sysimage keyword to create_library (#905) (@ashutosh-b-b)
• create a proper sysimage for the base sysimage (#906) (@KristofferC)
• set version to 2.1.16 (#907) (@KristofferC)

Closed issues:

• precompilation is very slow with incremental=false (#783)

v2.1.15

PackageCompiler v2.1.15

Diff since v2.1.14

Merged pull requests:

• Update LazyArtifacts compat to include <0.0.1 (#890) (@sharanry)
• set version to 2.1.15 (#893) (@KristofferC)