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sbt 1.10.0-RC2

Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.10.0-RC2. This is the tenth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.

The headline features of sbt 1.10.0 are:

How to upgrade

The sbt version used for your build is upgraded by putting the following in project/build.properties:

sbt.version=1.10.0-RC2

This mechanism allows that sbt 1.10.0-RC2 is used only for the builds that you want.

Changes since sbt 1.10.0-RC1

Changes with compatibility implications

SIP-51 Support for Scala 2.13 Evolution

Modern Scala 2.x has kept both forward and backward binary compatibility so a library compiled using Scala 2.13.12 can be used by an application compiled with Scala 2.13.11 etc, and vice versa. The forward compatibility restricts Scala 2.x from evolving during the patch releases, so in SIP-51 Lukas Rytz at Lightbend Scala Team proposed:

I propose to drop the forwards binary compatibility requirement that build tools enforce on the Scala 2.13 standard library. This will allow implementing performance optimizations of collection operations that are currently not possible. It also unblocks adding new classes and new members to existing classes in the standard library.

Lukas has also contributed changes to sbt 1.10.0 to enforce stricter scalaVersion. Starting sbt 1.10.0, when a Scala 2.13.x patch version newer than scalaVersion is found, it will fail the build as follows:

sbt:foo> run
[error] stack trace is suppressed; run last scalaInstance for the full output
[error] (scalaInstance) expected `foo/scalaVersion` to be "2.13.10" or later,
[error] but found "2.13.5"; upgrade scalaVerion to fix the build.
[error]
[error] to support backwards-only binary compatibility (SIP-51),
[error] the Scala 2.13 compiler cannot be older than scala-library on the
[error] dependency classpath.
[error] see `foo/evicted` to know why scala-library 2.13.10 is getting pulled in.

When you see the error message like above, you can fix this by updating the Scala version to the suggested version (e.g. 2.13.10):

ThisBuild / scalaVersion := "2.13.10"

Side note: Old timers might know that sbt 0.13.0 also introduced the idea of scala-library as a normal dependency. This created various confusions as developers expected scalaVersion, compiler version, and scala-library version as expected to align. With the hindsight, sbt 1.10.0 will continue to respect scalaVersion to be the source-of-truth, but will reject bad ones at build time.

This was contributed by Lukas Rytz in #7480.

Zinc fixes

ConsistentAnalysisFormat: new Zinc Analysis serialization

sbt 1.10.0 adds a new Zinc serialization format that is faster and repeatable, unlike the current Protobuf-based serialization. Benchmark data based on scala-library + reflect + compiler:

Write time Read time File size
sbt Text 1002 ms 791 ms ~ 7102 kB
sbt Binary 654 ms 277 ms ~ 6182 kB
ConsistentBinary 157 ms 100 ms 3097 kB

Since Zinc Analysis is internal to sbt, sbt 1.10.0 will enable this format by default. The following setting can be used to opt-out:

Global / enableConsistentCompileAnalysis := false

This was contributed by Stefan Zeiger at Databricks in zinc#1326.

New CommandProgress API

sbt 1.10.0 adds a new CommandProgress API.

This was contributed by Iulian Dragos at Gradle Inc in #7350.

Other updates

Participation

sbt 1.10.0-RC2 was brought to you by 23 contributors and two good bots: Jerry Tan (friendseeker), Scala Steward, Eugene Yokota (eed3si9n), Kenji Yoshida (xuwei-k), Lukas Rytz, Adrien Piquerez, Iulian Dragos, Dale Wijnand, Domantas Petrauskas, dependabot[bot], Martin Duhem, Heikki Vesalainen, Aleksandra Zdrojowa, Matthias Kurz, Regis Kuckaertz, Seth Tisue, Stefan Zeiger, Alex Zolotko, Hagai Ovadia, Jakub Kozłowski, Michel Davit, Minkyu Lee, Philippus Baalman, Roberto Tyley, Tammo Steffens. Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who’s helped improve sbt and Zinc by using them, reporting bugs, improving our documentation, porting builds, porting plugins, and submitting and reviewing pull requests.

For anyone interested in helping sbt, there are many avenues for you to help, depending on your interest. If you’re interested, Contributing, “help wanted”, “good first issue”, and Discussions are good starting points.

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