v6.4.1

What's New

• [FR] Customize metadata generation to avoid adding unnecessary unused JS wrappers (#1485)
• Provide verbose metadata filtering output (#1583)
• Upgrade v8 to 8.0.426.16 (#1579)
• Upgrade android gradle plugin to the latest 3.5.3 version (#1564)

Bug Fixes

• Using Android KTX is causing NativeScript app to crash (#1571)
• SBG generating conflicting class definitions (#1569)
• WebAssembly won't initialize without the debugger (#1558)
• Clean up allocations from finalized object links (#1566)
• Fix Kotlin Object issue (#1562)

v6.3.1

Bug Fixes

• Kotlin enum values not visible at runtime (#1560)
• Code cache breaks HMR (#1554)
• Worker memory leak in android (#1550)

v6.3.0

What's New

• Upgrade v8 to 7.8.279.19 (#1526)
• Restrict Kotlin internal modifier from metadata (#1551)
• Restrict Kotlin properties with non-public type (#1552)

Bug Fixes

• Android 9: signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR) in libNativeScript.so (#1413)

v6.2.0

What's New

• Add Kotlin extension functions support (#1515)
• update dts generator to the latest version (#1506)
• Unify exceptions information in try/catch and __onUncaughtError (#1445)
• Interop between JS Objects and JSONObjects (#1500)
• Collect build analytics (#1501)
• expose the NDK revision used to build the V8 and the Runtime (#1498)
• Upgrade android gradle plugin to the latest 3.5.1 version (#1502)
• support snapshot libs out of the box (#1496)
• Upgrade v8 to 7.7.299.11 (#1478)

Bug Fixes

• Console.log in worker makes chrome debugging crash (#1511)
• fix searching for merge assets folder on windows (#1503)
• Background job with WorkManager (#1488)
• Deprecated API used in the ErrorActivity is crashing the app (when latest support library is used) (#1494)

v6.1.2

Bug Fixes

• UI freezes with tns-android 6.1.0 (Android only) (#1479)

v6.1.1

Bug Fixes

• When using kotlin sometimes the metadata is not existing in the result apk (#1476)

v6.1.0

What's New

• Runtime Binding Generator depends on deprecated APIs #1441)
• The runtime depends on accessing a hidden value field (#1458)
• Upgrade v8 to 7.6.303.28 (#1439)
• Unify JS stack trace when exception is thrown #1443
• Update androidSdk, targetSdk and build tools to 29 (#1452)
• Upgrade android gradle plugin to the latest 3.5.0 version (#1456)
• Add initial Kotlin support (#1459)
• Add support for user defined gradle.properties (#1463)

Bug Fixes

• SIGSEGV in libNativeScript.so on callback from java with console.log when displaying an object. #1366

v6.0.2

What's New

• Include x86_64 architecture

v6.0.1

Bug Fixes

• Arabic and Kurdish characters show as gibberish in console.log() (#1302)
• IntentService extending fails at runtime when service is started (#1426)
• SBG may fail when parsing big JS files (#1430)
• Upgrade android gradle plugin to the latest 3.4.2 version (#1425)

v6.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Exception information in onDiscarderError and onUnhandledError is changed so that message contains the exception message and stackTrace contains only the stackTrace. In the previous implementation stackTrace contained some additional details (including the exception message) and the message was something like:

  The application crashed because of an uncaught exception. You can look at "stackTrace" or "nativeException" for more detailed information about the exception.
  

• The built-in JSON.stringify method is used for cross workers communication. Circular object references are no longer supported and attempting to send such object will throw an exception.

What's New

• Use the built-in JSON.stringify for cross workers communication (#1411)
• Enable AndroidX and Jetifier(#1370)
• Upgrade v8 to 7.5.288.22(#1387)
• Upgrade android gradle plugin to the latest 3.4.1 version(#1390)
• Remove printStackTrace method calls from the source code(#1359)

Bug Fixes

• Improve package.json parsing in SBG (#1407)
• Improve error message in SBG class parsing (#1401)
• java.lang.NullPointerException in Metadata generator(#13795)
• Buffer() is deprecated(#1392)
• Warnings when building android(#1396)
• No JS stack on discardedError and unhandledError(#1354)