v1.1 - XXXX-XX-XX

Changes affecting backwards compatibility

The switch -d:nimBinaryStdFiles does not exist anymore. Instead stdin/stdout/stderr are binary files again. This change only affects Windows.
On Windows console applications the code-page is set at program startup to UTF-8. Use the new switch -d:nimDontSetUtf8CodePage to disable this feature.
The language definition and compiler are now stricter about gensym'ed symbols in hygienic templates. See the section in the manual for further details. Use the compiler switch --useVersion:0.19 for a transition period.

Breaking changes in the standard library

Breaking changes in the compiler

Library additions

encodings.getCurrentEncoding now distinguishes between the console's encoding and the OS's encoding. This distinction is only meaningful on Windows.
Added system.getOsFileHandle which is usually more useful than system.getFileHandle. This distinction is only meaningful on Windows.

Library changes

Added os.delEnv and nimscript.delEnv. (#11466)
Enable Oid usage in hashtables. (#11472)
Added unsafeColumnAt procs, that return unsafe cstring from InstantRow. (#11647)
Make public Sha1Digest and Sha1State types and newSha1State, update and finalize procedures from sha1 module. (#11694)
Added the std/monotimes module which implements monotonic timestamps.
Consistent error handling of two exec overloads. (#10967)

Language additions

Language changes

Tool changes

The Nim compiler now does not recompile the Nim project via nim c -r if no dependent Nim file changed. This feature can be overridden by the --forceBuild command line option.

Compiler changes

VM can now cast integer type arbitrarily. (#11459)

Bugfixes