Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.9.0. This is the nineth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the tree-sitter-scala project, I am happy to announce tree-sitter-scala 0.20.0. The first two segment of the version number comes from the tree-sitter-cli that was used to generate the parser, and the last segment is our actual version number.
About tree-sitter-scala
tree-sitter-scala is a Scala parser in C language, generated using Tree-sitter CLI, and conforming to the Tree-sitter API. Tree-sitter parsers are generally fast, incremental, and robust (ok with partial errors).
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.9.0-RC2. This is the nineth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I’m happy to announce sbt 1.8.3 patch release fixing a security vulnerability. Full release note is here - https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/tag/v1.8.3
A two-day virtual/Tokyo hybrid ScalaMatsuri took place this weekend. Thanks to all the presenters, sponsors, and participants.
Lots of bumps and mishaps for sure, but hopefully it was a successful conference. I join as one of 16 ScalaMatsuri organizers, and also gave a talk and an open-mic session as well.
idea 3-A: limit dependency configuration to Compile and Test
Here are some more ideas to simplify sbt.
sbt generally allows creating of custom dependency configuration, but it doesn’t work well. For the most part, anything that requires custom configuration should likely be handled using separate subproject instead.
problem space
Dependency configuration, such as Compile, Test etc, is a notion directly imported from Apache Ivy’s configuration, which allows custom configurations and extends-relationship among them. The shift in sbt 0.9 embraced configuration and enabled code reuse via inConfig(...)(...). However, generally the custom configuration often requires reimplementation of all tasks, and thus the complete knowledge of the internals.
There are various technical decisions around sbt and Zinc that impact the Scala ecosystem, but currently the process of adding new features or changes to existing feature is not well defined. For the most part, the contributors like Scala Center and I come up with ideas and execute them.
RFC process
At the Tooling Summit in Lausanne this week, Iulian Dragos suggested we adopt “a lightweight process based on RFC (request for comments) docs that can serve as a design document.” In general, it would be a good idea to capture motivations and design intent of major changes.
Extending the idea of cached compilation in sbt 1.4.0, we should generalize the mechanism so any task can participate in the remote caching.
Here are some more concrete ideas for caching.
problem space
To summarize the general problem space, currently setting up disk caching for tasks is a manual work, so it’s under-utilized. Remote caching is limited to cached compilation.
It’s spring time, and spring makes us hopeful. I’ll be attending Tooling Summit next week, so I think this would be a good time to gather my toughts around sbt 2.
Bazel generally prefers monoversioning, in which all targets in the monorepo uses the same version given any library (JUnit or Pandas). Monoversioning greatly reduces the version conflict concerns within the monorepo, and in return enables better code reuse. In practice, monoversioning has a drawback of tying everyone at the hip. If service A, B, C, D, etc are all using Big Framework 1.1, it becomes costly to migrate all to Big Framework 1.2 if there might be a regression. Years would go by, and Big Framework 2.0 might come out, and again, it would be too risky.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I’m happy to announce sbt 1.8.2 patch release fixing a few regressions found in sbt 1.8.1. Full release note is here - https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/tag/v1.8.2
The economic cycle seems to come and go like a slow tide, and
sometimes the tech companies also get caught in the middle.
Fortunately, Scala seems to be used by some of the leading companies,
and although I’ve started using Scala and have been contributing the community
mostly for the pure joy of it, time and time again when I was in a bind
the Scala community has helped me back by giving me encouragements and career opportunities. I resigned Twitter about a month ago, but I will be more than ok :)
I was a Staff Engineer at Twitter’s Build/Bazel Migration team. After two incredible years, November 17 was my last day (I took the voluntary separation offer and resigned, not that it matters). Twitter has been a special place to work for, for its culture of excellence, diversity, and outpouring of care for all the people that made Flock the Flock. I am grateful that I got the opportunity to experience that firsthand, and be part of it.
Here’s a quick retrospective on my last two years. Info available here are based on publicly available talks and data. Just from our team 10+ members left Twitter after the buyout, so I’ve sprinkled this post with links to their LinkedIn profiles both current and former.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.8.0. This is the eighth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.8.0-RC1. This is the eighth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
Highlights
sbt 1.8.0 is a small release focused on upgrading scala-xml to 2.x. In theory this breaks the binary compatibility in the plugin ecosystem, but in practice there’s already a mixture of both 1.x and 2.x.
If you encounter a conflict in plugins, try putting the following in project/plugins.sbt:
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.7.0. This is the seventh feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
sbt is simple, in a sense that it has a few concepts like settings and tasks, and it achieves a wide variety of things. An idea popped into my head today that could simplify sbt further. I don’t have an implementation on this yet.
In the context of sbt, Bazel, and likely many other build tools, the term test could encompass various levels,
and it’s useful to disamgibuate this, especially when we want to configure pre- and post-hooks and parallel execution.
In other words, what do we mean when we say “test”?
There are four levels to test:
test command
test modules
test class
test method/expression
test as commandline interface
The top-most level is the test command that the build tools provide to the users.
sbt 1.6.1 updates log4j 2 to 2.17.1, which fixes a remote code execution vulnerability when attacker controls configuration (CVE-2021-44832) #6765 by @eed3si9n
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.6.0. This is the sixth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
Hi everyone. On behalf of the sbt project, I am happy to announce sbt 1.6.0-RC2. This is the sixth feature release of sbt 1.x, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1.x is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work throughout the 1.x series. Please try it out, and report any issues you might come across.
If no serious issues are found by Saturday, December 25th 2021, 1.6.0-RC2 will become 1.6.0 final.
If no serious issues are found by Saturday, December 11th 2021, 1.6.0-RC1 will become 1.6.0 final.
I’m hacking on a small project called sudori, an experimental sbt. The initial goal is to port the macro to Scala 3. It’s an exercise to take the macro apart and see if we can build it from the ground up. This an advanced area of Scala 2 and 3, and I’m finding my way around by trial and error. This is part 3.
It’s been a while since I wrote part 2, but in between I’ve written intro to Scala 3 macros, which is sort of a sudori prequel.
Starlark is a dialect of Python, originally designed as a configuration language for the Bazel build tool. Currently there are implementations in Go, Java, and Rust. As far as I know, the main Java implementation of Starlark has only been available as Bazel’s source repo on GitHub.
Since it would be convenient to have a binary distribution, I’ve forked the repo, and published it as "com.eed3si9n.starlark" % "starlark" % "4.2.1" (com.eed3si9n.starlark:starlark:4.2.1) on Maven Central. The code is the same as Bazel 4.2.1.
Macro is a fun and powerful tool, but overuse of the macro could cause harm as well. Please enjoy macros responsibly.
What is macro? A common explanation given is that a macro is a program that is able to take code as an input and output code. While it’s true, it might not immediately make sense since Scala programmers are often familiar with higher-order functions like (map {...}) and by-name parameter, which on the surface it might seem like it is passing a block of code around.
Jar Jar Abrams 1.8.0 and sbt-assembly 1.1.0 are released.
Jar Jar Abrams is an experimental extension to Jar Jar Links, intended to shade Scala libraries. Thus far we have been using Pants team’s fork of Jar Jar Links, but now that it’s been abandaned, Eric Peters has in-sourced it to jarjar-abrams repo so we can patch it.
Our jarjar fork is released under com.eed3si9n.jarjar organization name and package name.
