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19.0.2

(2019-06-13)

This is a bug fix release for 19.0 and we recommend upgrading for all 19.0.x users.

Java

  • Improved compilation performance of scheduler phase.
  • Support retrieving annotations from class initializers (see 1320).
  • Fixed problems related to the freetype library: 1269, 1270, 1305.
  • Fixed Version string reporting (it was missing 64-Bit in the string).

Native image

  • Fixed IllegalArgumentException: Cannot create Method for class initializer (see 1320).
  • Fixed an issue when the build would loop forever if META-INF/native-image/native-image.properties contains --force-fallback.
  • Fixed the issue where fallback image generation would not respect the --no-server argument.
  • Fix native-image-agent=restrict configuration detection.
  • Added -agentlib:native-image-agent=build configuration option.

LLVM interpreter

Allow LLVM interpreter Context to run without allowIO(true).

19.0.0

(2019-05-09)

Early Adopter Windows Support

The early adopter builds for Windows are available for GraalVM. These include the JDK with the GraalVM compiler enabled, the Native Image capabilities, GraalVM’s JavaScript engine and the developer tools: Chrome inspector based debugger, Profiler etc.. Currently there is no gu utility or the ability to add support for the other GraalVM languages.

Java

Native Image

Native Image was extracted from the base GraalVM distribution. Currently it is available as an early adopter plugin. To install it, run: gu install native-image. After this additional step, the native-image executable will be in the bin directory, as for the previous releases.

There was a change in how classes are initialized in a native-image. Now, we initialize application classes at run time by default. The policy for initialization is as follows:

  • All JDK classes are initialized at build time.
  • We prove the safety of application static initializers after the analysis and initialize the safe classes.
  • We provide the following flags to control class initialization in a fine-grained way: --initialize-at-build-time and --initialize-at-run-time.

The performance and startup impact of this change is negligible on all benchmarks that we have.

This change was made to improve user experience: there is no need to write substitutions and to deal with instances of unsupported classes ending up in the image heap. Their applications, given the right configuration for reflection, proxies, etc., should work without performance degradation.

To allow framework authors and end users to keep the startup time at minimum we improved functionality of --initialize-at-build-time and --initialize-at-run-time. These flags allow to specify a policy for whole packages or individual classes. For example, if we have classes p.C1, p.C2, … , p.Cn, we can eagerly initialize this package with --initalize-at-build-time=p. If we want to delay one of the classes in package p we can simply add --initialize-at-run-time=p.C1.

The whole class hierarchy can be initialized at build time by simply passing --initalize-at-build-time on the command line.

We also introduced the flag -H:+PrintClassInitialization which allows you to track what class initialization does during the image build. This flag will help you configure the build to work as intended.

What should I do if I am a library author?

  1. To get your tests back in check you can use --intialize-at-build-time which will revert to the previous behaviour.
  2. Then use the flag -H:+PrintClassInitialization to see when classes get initialized. Based on this output you can make the proper configuration.
  3. Configure your native-image.properties by passing --intialize-at-build-time=<csv-of-classes-or-packages> to it.
  4. Submit a pull request to the downstream libraries with the configuration you believe works well. That way your native-image.properties will be concerned only with the classes from your framework.
  5. There is a known issue with lambdas being initialized at build time. If your lambda inherits an interface with a default method and static fields, those fields will get pulled into the image. We will provide a fix to this bug in the next two weeks.

JavaScript

  • Fixed various bugs that address compilation problems.

R

  • Fixed a fatal error on Linux platforms when sending SIGINT during long computations.
  • Fixed issues with the installation to protected locations: the default Renviron file sets the R_LIBS_USER to a directory inside the current user’s home. Users still have to create this directory manually. Alternatively, the configure_fastr script creates the directory, but for the current user only.
  • Implemented missing C API: S_realloc.

Ruby

  • Various bug fixes. Most notably fixes around OpenSSL C extension compilation.
  • Renamed methods in the TruffleRuby object.

Ideal Graph Visualizer (IGV)

  • Fixed the issue with the ASTs and call trees not showing up.

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