Changelog
All notable changes to Solang
will be documented here.
v0.2.1 Rio
Added
- The Anchor IDL data structure is now generated for every Solana contract, although the actual IDL json file is not yet saved.
LucasSte
Changed
- The Solana target now utilizes eight byte Anchor discriminators for function dispatch instead
of the four byte Ethereum selectors. LucasSte
- The deployment of contracts on Solana now follows the same scheme as Anchor. seanyoung
- Compares between rational literals and integers are not allowed. seanyoung
- Overriding the function selector value is now done using the
@selector([1, 2, 3, 4])
syntax, and the old syntax selector=hex"12345678" has been removed.
msg.sender was not implemented correctly on Solana, and
has now been removed.
seanyoung- Solang now uses LLVM 14. LucasSte
Fixed
v0.2.0 Berlin
We are happy to release solang v0.2.0 codenamed Berlin today. Aside from
containing many small fixes and improvements, this release marks a milestone
towards maturing our Substrate compilation target: any regressions building up
since ink! v3.0 are fixed, most notably the metadata format (shoutout and many
thanks to external contributor extraymond) and
event topics. Furthermore, we are leaving ink! version 3 behind us, in favor
of introducing compatibility with the recent ink! 4 beta release and the latest
substrate contracts node v0.22.1.
Added
- Solana / breaking: The try-catch construct is no longer permitted on Solana, as it
never worked. Any CPI error will abort the transaction.
seanyoung
- Solana: Introduce new sub-command
solang idl which can be used for generating
a Solidity interface file from an Anchor IDL file. This can be used for calling
Anchor Contracts on Solana. seanyoung
- Substrate: Provide specific Substrate builtins via a "substrate" file. The
Hash type from ink! is the first ink! specific type made available for Solidity
contracts.
xermicus
- Substrate: Introduce the
--log-api-return-codes CLI flag, which changes the
emitted code to print return codes for seal API calls into the debug buffer.
xermicus
- Introduce function name mangling for overloaded functions and constructors, so
that they can be represented properly in the metadata.
xermicus
Changed
- The Solana target now uses Borsh encoding rather than eth abi
encoding. This is aimed at making Solang contracts Anchor compatible.
LucasSte
- Substrate / breaking: Supported node version is now pallet contracts
v0.22.1.
xermicus
- Substrate / breaking: Remove the deprecated
random builtin.
xermicus
Fixed
- Whenever possible, the parser does not give up after the first error.
salaheldinsoliman
- Constant expressions are checked for overflow.
salaheldinsoliman
- AddMod and MulMod were broken. This is now fixed.
LucasSte
- Substrate / breaking: Solang is now compatible with
ink! version 4 (beta).
xermicus
- Substrate: Switched ABI generation to use official
ink! crates, which fixes all
remaining metadata regressions.
extraymond and xermicus
- Substrate: Allow constructors to have a name, so that multiple constructors are
supported, like in
ink!.
xermicus
- All provided examples as well as most of the Solidity code snippets in our
documentation are now checked for succesful compilation on the Solang CI.
xermicus
- Substrate: Fix events with topics. The topic hashes generated by Solang
contracts are now exactly the same as those generated by
ink!.
xermicus
v0.1.13 Genoa
Changed
- Introduce sub-commands to the CLI. Now we have dedicated sub-commands for
compile, doc, shell-completion and the language-server, which makes
for a cleaner CLI.
seanyoung
- On Solana, emitted events are encoded with Borsh encoding following the Anchor
format.
LucasSte
- The ewasm target has been removed, since ewasm is not going to implemented on
Ethereum. The target has been reused for an new EVM target, which is not complete
yet.
seanyoung
- Substrate: Concrete contracts must now have at least one public function. A
public function is in a contract, if it has public or external functions, if
it has a receive or any fallback function or if it has public storage items
(those will yield public getters). This aligns solang up with
ink!.
xermicus
Added
- Solana v1.11 is now supported.
seanyoung
- On Solana, programs now use a custom heap implementation, just like on
Substrate. As result, it is now possible to
.push() and .pop() on
dynamic arrays in memory.
seanyoung
- Arithmetic overflow tests are implemented for all integer widths,
salaheldinsoliman
- Add an NFT example for Solana
LucasSte
- Add a wrapper for the Solana System Program
LucasSte
- The selector for functions can be overriden with the
selector=hex"abcd0123"
syntax.
seanyoung
- Shell completion is available using the
solang shell-completion subcommand.
xermicus
- Add support for the
create_program_address() and try_find_program_address()
system call on Solana
seanyoung
- Substrate: The
print() builtin is now supported and will write to the debug
buffer. Additionally, error messages from the require statements will now be
written to the debug buffer as well. The Substrate contracts pallet prints the
contents of the debug buffer to the console for RPC ("dry-run") calls in case
the runtime::contracts=debug log level is configured.
xermicus
Fixed
- DocComments
/** ... */ are now permitted anywhere.
seanyoung
- Function calls to contract functions via contract name are no longer possible,
except for functions of base contracts.
xermicus
v0.1.12 Cairo
Added
- Added spl-token integration for Solana
- Solang now generates code for inline assembly, including many Yul builtins
Changed
- The documentation has been re-arranged for readability.
- The solang parser can parse the same syntax as Ethereum Solidity 0.8.
Fixed
- Fixed many parser issues. Now solang-parser parses all files in the
Ethereum Solidity test suite. First run
git submodule update --init --recursive to fetch the test files, and
then run the test with cargo test --workspace.
v0.1.11 Nuremberg
Added
- Added support for Solidity user types
- Support
using syntax on file scope
- Support binding functions with
using
- Implemented parsing and semantic analysis of yul (code generation is to
follow)
- The language server uses the
--import and --importmap arguments
- On Solana, it is possible to set the accounts during CPI using the
accounts: call argument.
Fixed
- Fixed associativity of the power operator
- A huge amount of fixes improving compatibility with solc
v0.1.10 Barcelona
Added
- On Solana, the accounts that were passed into the transactions are listed in
the
tx.accounts builtin. There is also a builtin struct AccountInfo
- A new common subexpression elimination pass was added, thanks to
LucasSte
- A graphviz dot file can be generated from the ast, using
--emit ast-dot
- Many improvements to the solidity parser, and the parser has been spun out
in it's own create
solang-parser.
Changed
- Solang now uses LLVM 13.0, based on the Solana LLVM tree
- The ast datastructure has been simplified.
- Many bugfixes across the entire tree.
v0.1.9
Added
- Added support for solc import mapppings using
--importmap
- Added support for Events on Solana
msg.data, msg.sig, msg.value, block.number, and block.slot are
implemented for Solana- Implemented balance transfers using
.send() and .transfer() on Solana
- Implemented retrieving account balances on Solana
- Verify
ed25519 signatures with signatureVerify() on Solana
- Added support for Rational numbers
- The address type and value type can changed using
--address-length and
--value-length command line arguments (for Substrate only)
Changed
- Solana now requires v1.8.1 or later
- On Solana, the return data is now provided in the program log. As a result,
RPCs are now are now supported.
- On the solang command line, the target must be specified.
- The Solana instruction now includes a 64 bit value field
- Many fixes to the parser and resolver, so solidity compatibility is much
improved, thanks to sushi-shi.
Removed
- The Sawtooth Sabre target has been removed.
- The generic target has been removed.
v0.1.8
Added
- Added a strength reduce pass to eliminate 256/128 bit multiply, division,
and modulo where possible.
- Visual Studio Code extension can download the Solang binary from github
releases, so the user is not required to download it themselves
- The Solana target now has support for arrays and mapping in contract
storage
- The Solana target has support for the keccak256(), ripemd160(), and
sha256() builtin hash functions.
- The Solana target has support for the builtins this and block.timestamp.
- Implement abi.encodePacked() for the ethereum abi encoder
- The Solana target now compiles all contracts to a single
bundle.so BPF
program.
- Any unused variables, events, or contract variables are now detected and
warnings are given, thanks to LucasSte
- The
immutable attribute on contract storage variables is now supported.
- The
override attribute on public contract storage variables is now supported.
- The
unchecked {} code block is now parsed and supported. Math overflow still
is unsupported for types larger than 64 bit.
assembly {} blocks are now parsed and give a friendly error message.- Any variable use before it is given a value is now detected and results in
a undefined variable diagnostic, thanks to LucasSte
Changed
Fixed
- Fix a number of issues with parsing the uniswap v2 contracts
- ewasm: staticcall() and delegatecall() cannot take value argument
- Fixed array support in the ethereum abi encoder and decoder
- Fixed issues in arithmetic on non-power-of-2 types (e.g. uint112)
v0.1.7
Added
- Added a constant folding optimization pass to improve codegen. When variables fold
to constant values, they are visible in the hover in the extension
- For Substrate and Solana, address literals can specified with their base58 notation, e.g.
address foo = address"5GBWmgdFAMqm8ZgAHGobqDqX6tjLxJhv53ygjNtaaAn3sjeZ";
- Solana account storage implemented for
bytes, string, and structs
- Implemented
delete for Solana
Changed
- The Substrate target produces a single .contract file
- The Substrate target now uses the salt argument for seal_instantiate()
Fixed
- Libraries are allowed to have constant variables
- Fixed ethereum abi encoding/decoding of structs and enums
- Solana now returns an error if account data is not large enough
- Fixed storage bytes push() and pop()
- Ewasm uses precompiles for keccak hashing
- Various ewasm fixes for Hyperledger Burrow
v0.1.6
Added
- New Visual Studio Code extension developed under Hyperledger Mentorship
programme
- Added language server for use in vscode extension
- Implemented primitives types and operations for Solana
- Functions can be declared outside of contracts
- Constants can be declared outside of contracts
- String formatting using python style "..{}..".format(n)
v0.1.5
Added
- Function types are implemented
- An experimental Solana target has been added
- Binaries are generated for Mac
Changed
- The Substrate target requires Substrate 2.0
v0.1.4
Added
event can be declared and emitted with emit- Function modifiers have been implemented
- Tags in doc comments are parsed and resolved
- All major Solidity language features implemented, see our language status page:
https://solang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/status.html
v0.1.3
Added
import directives are supported- New
--importpath command line argument to specify directories to search for imports
- Contracts can have base contracts
- Contracts can be abstract
- Interfaces are supported
- Libraries are supported
- The
using library for type syntax is supported
Changed
- Solang now uses llvm 10.0 rather than llvm 8.0
- In line with Solidity 0.7.0, constructors no longer need a visibility argument