Scala 2.12.20
This release improves compatibility:
- Support JDK 23 in optimizer (via upgrade to patched ASM 9.7.0) (#10747 by @Philippus)
- Bump scala-xml dependency to 2.3.0 (was 2.2.0) (#10782)
and compiler profiling:
For complete 2.12.20 change lists, see all merged PRs and all closed bugs.
Compatibility
As usual for our minor releases, Scala 2.12.20 is binary-compatible with the whole Scala 2.12 series.
Contributors
A big thank you to everyone who's helped improve Scala by reporting bugs, improving our documentation, spreading kindness in discussions around Scala, and submitting and reviewing pull requests! You are all magnificent.
This release was brought to you by 8 contributors, according to git shortlog -sn --no-merges @ ^v2.12.19
. Thank you Scala Steward, Seth Tisue, Lukas Rytz, A. P. Marki, Hamza Remmal, Philippus Baalman, Stefan Zeiger, nbauma109.
Thanks to Lightbend for their continued sponsorship of the Scala 2 team’s efforts. Lightbend offers commercial support for Scala 2.
Scala 2.12 notes
The release notes for Scala 2.12.0 have important information applicable to the whole 2.12 series.
Obtaining Scala
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- Bump the
scalaVersion
setting in your sbt project - Bump the
using scala
setting in your Scala CLI project - Download a distribution from scala-lang.org
- Obtain JARs via Maven Central