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Solidity 0.4.8 Release Announcement

Posted by Solidity Team on January 13, 2017

Releases

Features:

  • Optimiser: Performance improvements.
  • Output: Print assembly in new standardized Solidity assembly format.

Bugfixes:

  • Remappings: Prefer longer context over longer prefix.
  • Type checker, code generator: enable access to events of base contracts' names.
  • Imports: import ".dir/a" is not a relative path. Relative paths begin with directory . or ...
  • Type checker: disallow inheritances of different kinds (e.g. a function and a modifier) of members of the same name

A big thank you to all contributors who helped make this release possible!

Download the new version of Solidity here.

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