# Tuesday, July 7, 2015
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New Development Snapshot

Final 8.1 development snapshot. Release candidate 0 will be next (after .NET 4.6 RTM).

Changes:

  • Updated HOWTO reference to OpenJDK 8u45.
  • Extract Windows version from kernel32.dll to avoid version lie. Idea stolen from OpenJDK.
  • Moved unused field removal optimization to a later stage in the compilation.
  • Made field removal optimization check more strict to only remove final fields and not remove fields that have annotations.
  • Added support for automatically passing in fields to "native" methods.
  • Various minor clean ups.
  • Added FieldWrapper.IsSerialVersionUID property to properly (and consistently) detect serialVersionUID fields.
  • Improved side effect free static initializer detection.
  • Improved -removeassertions ikvmc optimization to remove more code (esp. allow otherwise empty static initializers to be optimized away).

Binaries available here: ikvmbin-8.1.5666.zip

Tuesday, July 7, 2015 9:14:15 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [1]