v1.1.9 - 2024-12-13

Release notes

Added

• aiken: Generate a default 'placeholder.ak' validator when using aiken new. See #1061 @waalge
• aiken-lang: New builtins unconstr_fields and unconstr_index. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Added builtins from Chang2 hardfork (except for writeBits). @MicroProofs, @KtorZ
  • Bitwise operations
  • Ripemd-160 hashing
• aiken-projects: The generated documentation may now include maths typesetting rendered using KaTex. See #1070 @adrian052.

  • (Linux & MacOS only) Both inline (delimited by single $ symbols) and blocks (delimited by doubled $$ symbols) are now parsed and rendered as SVG upon generating documentation. For example:

    $$
    g^{z} = g^{r +c \cdot x} = g^{r} g^{x \cdot c} = g^{r} (g^{x})^{c} = g^{r} u^{c}
    $$
    

    will display:

    $$ g^{z} = g^{r + c \cdot x} = g^{r} g^{x \cdot c} = g^{r} (g^{x})^{c} = g^{r} u^{c} $$

• uplc: New builtins from Chang2 hardfork added to the VM along with costing. @hadelive, @MicroProofs

Changed

• aiken: Fix aiken blueprint policy computing hashes as PlutusV1, instead of relying on the plutus version from the Blueprint. @KtorZ
• uplc: Parse tild in identifiers for UPLC nodes. @SupernaviX
• examples: Update "Hello, World!" source code tutorial to match website, now using MeshJS. @jinglescode
• examples: Update "Gift Card" source code tutorial to match website, now using Lucid-Evolution and Weld. @rvcas
• aiken-lang: Fixed a code gen crash when using records in when is expressions. @MicroProofs

Install aiken 1.1.9

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.9/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.9/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

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npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.9

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v1.1.7 - 2024-11-19

Release Notes

Changed

• aiken: Move JSON schema help for check under a new dedicated flag --show-json-schema. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix pattern-matching on list wildcard sometimes causing compiler crash following the new decision trees approach. @MicroProofs
• uplc, aiken, aiken-lang: Update internal dependencies to pallas-0.31.0. @KtorZ

Install aiken 1.1.7

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.7/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.7/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.7

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v1.1.6 - 2024-11-13

Release Notes

Added

• aiken: Optionally provide blueprint file location when using blueprint apply. @Riley-Kilgore
• aiken: Output test results as structured JSON when the target output is not a TTY terminal. @Riley-Kilgore, @KtorZ

Changed

• aiken: Fix validator selection for apply, address and policy commands. Parameters are also now correctly applied to all handlers of a given validator, instead of needing to be manually targetted one-by-one. @KtorZ
• aiken: Add more flexibility around the management of Plutus blueprint files for build, address, policy and apply commands. See #1055. @KtorZ
• aiken: Rename --filter_traces to --trace_filter for more consistency with --trace_level. An alias for --filter_traces still exists for backward compatibility. @KtorZ
• aiken-project: Fix aiken docs wrongly formatting list constants as tuples. See #1048. @KtorZ
• aiken-project: Fix aiken docs source linking crashing when generating docs for config modules. See #1044. @KtorZ
• aiken-project: Fix aiken docs generating very long lines for constants. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Leverage Decision Trees for compiling pattern matches to UPLC. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Rework optimization passes to safely reduce different kinds of patterns for each pass over the uplc. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Implement a looping mechanism to reduce uplc with deletion optimizations until term count remains the same. @MicroProofs

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.6

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.6/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.6/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.6

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v1.1.5 - 2024-10-19

Release Notes

Added

• N/A

Changed

• uplc: Fix costing of byteStringToInteger builtins. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Fix data-type reification from Void; somehow missing from known definition 🤦. @KtorZ

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.5

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.5/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

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npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.5

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aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v1.1.4 -2024-10-01

Release Notes

Added

• N/A

Changed

• aiken-project: Generate empty redeemer for else handler, to keep full compliance with the blueprint spec. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Forbid constants evaluating to generic or unbound functions. Same restrictions as for validators or any exported UPLC programs apply here. @KtorZ & @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Fix compiler crash on trace + expect as last expression of a clause. See #1029. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix redundant warning on introduced identifiers when destructuring validator params. @KtorZ
• aiken-lsp: Compile project using verbose tracing, to avoid having the language server complain about unused imports. @KtorZ
• uplc: Fix (again 😬) cost-models for PlutusV1 & PlutusV2. @MicroProofs

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.4

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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.4/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

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npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.4

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz	x64 MUSL Linux	checksum

v1.1.3 - 2024-09-20

Release Notes

Added

• N/A

Changed

• aiken-project: Fix documentation link-tree generation messing up with modules when re-inserting the same module. @KtorZ
• aiken-project: Provide intermediate feedback when looking for counterexamples during property tests. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix formatter adding extra unnecessary newlines after literal lists clause values or assignments. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix formatting of long multi-line if/is expressions. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix extraneous white-space added by the formatter after multiline alternative patterns. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix incorrect warning about unused variable when softcasting without explicit right-pattern. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix soft cast and hard cast on same type issues that lead to validator errors. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Bls constants are automatically converted to a hoisted compressed form with uncompress builtin call. @MicroProofs
• uplc: Fix cost-models for PlutusV1 & PlutusV2. @MicroProofs

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.3

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.3/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.3/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.3

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum

v1.1.2 - 2024-09-13

Release Notes

Added

• N/A

Changed

• aiken-lang: Fix issues with static recursive optimization. See #1009 @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Aiken IR now interns variables while building up to ensure uniqueness for local vars. @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Fix reification of Data (failing to reify) & PRNG (missing variants' arguments). @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Adjust reification of String to be shown as plain UTF-8 text strings (instead of hex-encoded byte array). @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix formatting of long if-condition over multiline. @KtorZ & @MicroProofs
• aiken-lang: Fix formatting of standalone logical binary chains (and & or) in functions. @KtorZ
• uplc: Fix script context generation failure on missing datum when evaluating transactions. @solidsnakedev

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.2

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powershell -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.2/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.2

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum

v1.1.1 - 2024-09-10

Release Notes

Added

• N/A

Changed

• aiken-lang: Fix validator's else handler generation. See #1015 @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix underflow in error message reported by the validator arity. See #1013 @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix list-pattern needlessly formatting over multiple lines. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix formatter on long alternative patterns spanning over multiple lines. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix needed parentheses under trace-if-false operator for todo, fail, unop & pipelines; removed when formatting. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Fix formatter removing curly braces around multi-line constants. It's fine to not have curly braces, but it's the Aiken signature after all. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: Improve LSP suggestion for module imports. @Riley-Kilgore

Removed

• N/A

Install aiken 1.1.1

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.1/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.1/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.1

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum

v1.1.0 - 2024-09-03

Release Notes

Added

• aiken-lang: also authorize (complete) patterns in function arguments list instead of only variable names. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: new syntax for soft casting otherwise known as if/is. See #959 or Control Flow - soft casting for more details. @rvcas

• aiken-lang: optimization: pre-evaluate constant arguments to lambdas when safe to do so. @MicroProofs

• aiken-lang: infer type when immediately possible during a patterned type-cast. See #969. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: add support for mk_cons and mk_pair_data builtins. See #964. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: pattern-matching on bytearrays is now available. See #989. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: conditional configuration and environment. See #937. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: warning on compiler version mismatch. See de870e2. @rvcas

• aiken-project: source links to generated documentation for types, constants and functions. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: comments containing Markdown section headings (#, ##, ### etc.) will now be preserved and rendered in generated documentation. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: modules starting with @hidden in their docs will be skipped from docs generation. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: preserve type-aliases as titles in blueprint generated schemas. @KtorZ

• uplc: support evaluation of Plutus V3 transactions, including new purposes introduced in Conway. @KtorZ

Changed

• aiken-lang: zero-arg functions are no longer evaluated at compile-time. However, constants can now hold any expression and are fully evaluated at compile-time. Use const whenever a zero-arg function was used, unless you do want to defer execution. @KtorZ @MicroProofs.

• aiken-lang: fix zero-arg builtins mk_nil_data and mk_nil_pair_data invokation. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: rename some builtins. @KtorZ

  old name	new name
  mk_nil_data	new_list
  mk_pair_data	new_pair
  mk_nil_pair_data	new_pairs

• aiken-lang: duplicate import lines are now automatically merged instead of raising a warning. However, imports can no longer appear anywhere in the file and must come as the first definitions. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: remove warning on discarded expect, allowing to keep 'side-effects' when necessary. See #967. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: allow expect as last (or only) expression in function body, when clauses and if branches. Such expressions unify with Void. See #1000. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: allow tests to return Void. Tests that return Void are treated the same as tests that return True. See #1000. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: rework traces to be (1) variadic, (2) generic in its arguments and (3) structured. @KtorZ

  In more details:

  1. Enables the trace keyword to take one, two or any argument really separated by comma after the first. For example:

     trace @"a classic trace"
     
     // ..
     
     trace @"condition_1": @"foo"
     
     // ...
     
     trace @"condition_2": @"foo", @"bar"
     

  2. Enables the trace keyword to not only take strings as arguments; but any
     data-type that is serialisable (i.e. that can be cast to Data). It is fundamentally identical to calling the cbor.diagnostic function from the standard lib; except that this is done and glued with the rest of the trace automatically.

     trace @"condition_1": [1, 2, 3]
     
     // ...
     
     let my_var = Some("foo")
     trace my_var
     

  3. Changes the behavior of the --trace-level compact mode to now:

  • remove trace-if-false (? operator) traces entirely in this mode;
  • only keep the label (first trace argument) and error when it isn't a string.

  See also #978.

• aiken-lang: rework formatter behaviour on long-lines, especially in the presence of binary operators. @KtorZ

• aiken-lang: provide better errors for unknown types used in cyclic type definitions. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: fix blueprint's apply truncating last character of outputs. See #987. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: provide better error (include input ref) when inputs are missing during transaction evaluation. See #974. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: module inhabitants are no longer alphabetically sorted when generating documentation. Instead, the order in which they are defined in the module is used. @KtorZ

• aiken-project: the sidebar links to modules within a package is now fully hierarchical and (hopefully) better-looking. @KtorZ

Removed

• aiken-lang: clause guards are no longer part of the language. See #886. @KtorZ.

Install aiken 1.1.0

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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.0/aiken-installer.sh | sh

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powershell -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.1.0/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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brew install aiken-lang/tap/aiken

Download aiken 1.1.0

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum

Additional acknowledgements

• @Riley-Kilgore for helping out with the LSP
• @jmhrpr, @rober-m, @hadelive for finding and/or fixing various small issues.

v1.0.29-alpha - 2024-06-06

Release Notes

Added

• aiken-lang: new LSP quickfix for 'use let' warning. @KtorZ

Changed

• aiken-lang: the keyword fail on property-based test semantic has changed and now consider a test to succeed only if every execution of the test failed (instead of just one). The previous behavior can be recovered by adding the keyword once after fail. @KtorZ

Fixed

• aiken-lang: fixed the number of 'after x tests' number reported on property test failure, which was off by one. @KtorZ
• aiken-lang: fixed parsing of single hex digits. @KtorZ

Install aiken 1.0.29-alpha

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powershell -c "irm https://github.com/aiken-lang/aiken/releases/download/v1.0.29-alpha/aiken-installer.ps1 | iex"

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npm install @aiken-lang/[email protected]

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Download aiken 1.0.29-alpha

File	Platform	Checksum
aiken-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz	Intel macOS	checksum
aiken-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.gz	x64 Windows	checksum
aiken-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz	x64 Linux	checksum