V Programming Language Files

V 0.4.11

19 Jun 2025

Improvements in the language

• Support a new CPU architecture s390x (#24107)
• Add initial support for ppc64le (#24287)
• Add initial support for loongarch64 (#24343)
• Support js"string literal" for JavaScript strings (#24653)
• VLS mode in the parser for the new language server in pure V

Breaking changes

• Remove deprecations made before 2024-11-06
• Add a deprecation note for any arg, prevent any from being used as map key,value or array type (#24277)

Checker improvements/fixes

• Fix chan element type validation with inexistent type (fix [#23978]) (#24008)
• Do not allow auto (de)reference in PrefixExpr *
• Fix check for pushing on an unwrapped option array (fix [#24073]) (#24093)
• Fix wrong type hint on predicate arg type mismatch (fix [#24122]) (#24123)
• Fix array generic return checking (fix [#24104]) (#24214)
• Fix stack var outside usage when var is a mutable param (#24249)
• Fix codegen for multi return with array fixed (fix [#24280]) (#24282)
• Check anon struct field valid case (partial fix of [#24284]) (#24286)
• Add check for recursive array init on struct (fix [#21195]) (#24278)
• Fix inherited var turning in auto heap (fix [#24306]) (#24312)
• Remove redundant callexpr c.expr(mut node.left) rechecks for ast.CallExpr (fix [#24353]) (#24380)
• Do not allow &u8(0), force nil like we do with &Type(0)
• Relax the new warning, allow for pub const pname = &char(C.SDL_POINTER) to fix the clean compilation of code using vlang/sdl3
• Fix for with mut generic value (fix [#24360]) (#24426)
• Add check for decomposing to interface (fix [#24441]) (#24453)
• Fix generic option array arg passing to []T (fix [#24423]) (#24457)
• Fix resolver for returning struct generic (fix [#24493]) (#24506)
• Reallow passing closures as voidptr parameters with no warning, to enable convenient interfacing with C libs
• Disallow invalid expr for filter, count, any, all (fix [#24508]) (#24540)
• Replace warning by notice for UTF8 strings validation (fix [#24538]) (#24543)
• Revise logic for reporting import conflicts with module names (#24539)
• Fix struct update expr checking, when an alias is used (fix [#24581]) (#24582)
• Fix fn var resolver (fix [#24525]) (#24542)
• Fix checking for int to array of interface (fix [#24624]) (#24625)
• Cycle through all ast.ParExpr first in prefix_expr (fix [#24584]) (#24588)
• Move arr << logic to check_append()
• Fix mutable const bug (fix [#14916])
• Allow for calling main() inside _test.v files
• Fix missing type bounding to match expr on or{} expr (fix [#24656]) (#24658)
• Add error for if mut x != none {, when x is an immutable option (fix [#24692]) (#24694)
• Fix compound selector smartcasting/option unwrapping (fix [#24662]) (#24712)
• Fix mutable option (fix [#18818]) (fix [#24622]) (fix [#24101]) (#19100)

Parser improvements

• Fix parse_cflag() support other flags between allowed_flags (fix [#24121]) (#24146)
• Minimise allocations done for the common case in find_struct_field
• Fix orm generic struct table type parsing (fix [#24049]) (#24149)
• Fix mutiple imports at one line (#24241)
• Fix range expr precedence on compound logical and operator (fix [#24252]) (#24275)
• Fix invalid field name checking (fix [#24279]) (#24283)
• Fix wrong string parsing (fix [#24297]) (#24298)
• Fix panic for struct Abc { pub mut: } (fix [#24404]) (#24403)
• Allow mut static counter := 0 inside unsafe {} blocks (prepare for removing a -translated mode quirk)
• Fix duplicate mod imports (fix [#24552]) (#24559)
• Reduce memory usage of ast.ScopeObject and ast.Ident instances (#24704)

Comptime

• Support $if T is $pointer { and $if T is $voidptr {, to make it easier to implement a pure V dump(), without cgen specific code (#24628)
• i32 is now $int too (fix [#24346]) (#24378)
• Fix $dbg with @[heap] structs (fix [#23979]) (#23989)
• Check invalid comptime field name assignment (fix [#24415]) (#24421)
• Enable s390x + docs (#24114)

Compiler internals

• Remove closure usage from the compiler frontend (simplify bootstrapping/porting on more exotic platforms)
• markused: support orm or expr (fix [#24040]) (#24059)
• markused: fix for gated index range on string (fix [#24187]) (#24200)
• v.util.version: fix output for V full version when VCURRENTHASH not defined (#24264)
• markused: fix generic method call mark (fix [#24395]) (#24399)
• v.pref: add get_build_facts_and_defines/0 and set_build_flags_and_defines/2
• v.util.version: fix output for V full version (followup on issue [#24263] and PR [#24264]) (#24478)
• v.util: use internal diff (#24495)
• v.pref: prevent overriding backend (fix [#21758]) (#24526)
• markused: fix for generic ptr receiver on method call (fix [#24555]) (#24558)
• markused: fix x := t.wait(), when t := go fn () string { (fix [#24577]) (#24580)
• markused: fix printing smartcasted interface values (fix [#24579]) (#24583)
• pref: avoid changing the backend with .js.v when -backend has already been used (fix [#7840]) (#24654)
• Remove dump() calls inside the compiler itself (make bootstrapping of dump() implemented before cgen easier)

Standard library

• builtin: string.index_after() ?int
• cli: account for initial indent on subcommands (#23985)
• Remove strings.Builder.clear(), fix array.clear() not working in the JS backend (#23992)
• gg: make draw_rect_empty/5 draw more exact borders, independent of the device, and fitting the draw_rect_filled/5 shapes (#24024)
• sync: fix a helgrind false positive, for a data race, on PoolProcessor (#24023)
• sync.pool: restore the parallel operation (surrounding the cb call in process_in_thread in a lock in 1b52538, effectively disabled parallelism)
• x.crypto.chacha20: change internal cipher to support a 64 bit counter (related to [#23904]) (#24039)
• os: fix swap_bytes_u64 (#24033)
• x.crypto.chacha20: fix xor_key_stream failing after a while (fix [#24043]) (#24046)
• crypto.sha3: be big-endian friendly (#24045)
• x.crypto.chacha20: makes the underlying cipher routine aware of the 64-bit counter (#24050)
• x.crypto.chacha20: enable support for 64-bit counter (fix [#23904]) (#24053)
• x.crypto.slhdsa: add a SLH-DSA implementation, a stateless hash-based DSA, a post quantum cryptographic module (#24086)
• encoding.binary: add encode_binary()/decode_binary() generic functions (#24106)
• crypto.rc4: change the return type of new_cipher to be !&Cipher (#24113)
• crypto: add a crypto.ripemd160 module (#24119)
• encoding.iconv: fix iconv on termux (fix [#23597]) (#24147)
• sync: remove the call to C.pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared (not needed, since it is the default on POSIX) (#24166)
• pkgconfig, termios: Support NetBSD (#24176)
• encoding.binary: fix serialize map struct (fix [#24190]) (#24192)
• builtin,v.gen.wasm: support -b wasm -d no_imports (#24188)
• datatypes: add a Set.array/0 method to help get all the elements from a set as an array (#24206)
• json: fix option time (fix [#24242]) (fix [#24175]) (#24243)
• log: add local time / utc time selection support (#24268)
• json: link with libm (fix [#24272]) (#24273)
• rand: add uuid_v7(), session function, simplify uuid_v4() (#24313)
• toml: fix handling of multiline string with CRLF (fix [#24321]) (#24322)
• toml: fix crlf escape check (fix [#24328]) (#24329)
• x.json2: add u16(),u32() (fix [#24337]) (#24342)
• rand: fix uuid_v7 seperator (#24348)
• rand: check the separators for the generated UUIDs in random_identifiers_test.v
• builtin: add string.is_identifier() (#24350)
• x.crypto.chacha20: add a check counter overflow to set_counter for standard mode (#24365)
• comptime: fix $if var.return_type == 1 { (fix [#24391]) (#24393)
• comptime: enable ppc64le, add docs (#24433)
• toml: add compile error when passing encode/1 types of T != struct (fix [#24435]) (#24443)
• sync.stdatomic: workaround for libatomic.a indirect symbols tcc bug (fix [#23924]) (#24472)
• math.big: fix the + operator for big.Integer for negative numbers, add test (#24487)
• math.big: respect the sign of the dividend in % operator, add test (#24489)
• os: add note for the availability of the debugger_present implementation (#24492)
• term: add writeln_color() (#24463)
• math.big: add missing assert for test_multiply_karatsuba_02 (#24534)
• builtin: fix mix prod and debug ucrt lib (#24498)
• math.big: fix Karatsuba's add_in_place() function, add carry handler on exit (#24541)
• math: add exp_decay to interpolation.v (#24545)
• math.big: optimize divide_array_by_digit() (#24566)
• sync.stdatomic: add atomic types (#24561)
• sync.stdatomic: turn panic() in new_atomicT into a $compile_error() (#24573)
• sync: add condition support (#24574)
• builtin: flush stdout on panic (#24606)
• Document the behaviour of % for negative numbers; in V: -10 % 7 == -3 (#24604)
• math.big: remove unnecessary casting from Integer.is_power_of_2/0 (#24614)
• math.big: make is_power_of_2() be false for negatives (it now matches Julia's ispow2/1) (#24619)
• vlib: vanilla_http_server (#24202)
• os: support dotfiles := os.walk_ext('.', '', hidden: true) (#24617)
• builtin: remove playground related code (the current playground uses a container/sandbox) (#24632)
• comptime: fix T.indirections comparison (fix [#24630]) (#24636)
• math.big: add test for radix_str() and integer_from_radix() (#24644)
• runtime: make free_memory() and total_memory() return Result types to allow for reporting errors (#24651)
• math.big: improve the performance of radix_str() ~9 times (#24666)
• math.big: speed up ~10x integer_from_radix() (#24674)
• sync.stdatomic: fix bug with add() and sub() returning the new values, add voidptr support, add swap() and compare_and_swap() (#24685)
• sync.stdatomic: add atomic_thread_fence(), cpu_relax() (#24690)
• v: support @DIR (as a comptime equivalent to os.dir(@FILE)) at runtime) (#24742)
• thirdparty: print the glGetError() code on failure too in sokol_gfx.h, to make diagnostic easier
• builtin: make array.ensure_cap/1 public
• os.font: fixes for -os android
• vlib: add a pool module (#24661)
• zstd: make the api more V like
• szip: fix panic on empty files (#24335)

Web

• net: add read_ptr/2 (from read/1) to UdpConn for consistency with TcpConn (#24000)
• net: make close/0, select/2 and remote/0 methods of UdpSocket pub (#24004)
• Fix $dbg on function that uses veb comptimecall (fix [#23999]) (#24088)
• veb: allow route methods, that are tagged with @[unsafe]
• veb: support -d veb_max_read_bytes=16384, -d veb_max_write_bytes=16384, -d veb_default_port=1234, -d veb_max_http_post_size_bytes=8388608
• net.http: support v -http -d http_folder=vlib/_docs (allow customizing the folder, port, and index file through CLI arguments to v -http)
• thirdparty: upgrade to mbedtls v3.6.3.1, add a .patch file with the local changes (#24602)
• veb: fix handling of default CorsOptions.allowed_headers (#24703)

ORM

• orm: fix default value quote (fix [#24052]) (#24057)
• orm: fix type alias not supported in table columns (fix [#15478]) (#24062)
• orm: fix gen sql complex where (fix [#24136]) (#24138)
• orm: skip orm_complex_where_test.v for sanitize-memory-clang too
• orm: add function call based builder API for dynamic queries (fix [#24178]) (#24196)
• orm: set default value for require field if database value is null (fix [#24221]) (#24222)
• orm: fix option field with default null value (fix [#24222]) (#24228)
• orm: add or_where() method to the builder (fix [#24244]) (#24250)
• orm: add IN and NOT IN (#24634)
• orm: add in and not in to orm_func (fix [#24639]) (#24642)
• breaking,orm: add table attrs; add table/field comment support for mysql and pg (#24744)

Database drivers

• db.mysql: use mysql datatype for alloc string_binds_map, not orm's (#24126)
• db.mysql: fix handling of nullable timestamp (fix [#24120]) (#24125)
• db.mysql: add null result support (fix [#24130]) (#24131)
• db.mysql: use hardcoded const declare (fix [#22086]) (#24162)
• db: connection pool (#24161)
• db: mysql,pg,sqlite add transaction support (fix [#24290]) (#24352)
• db.pg: fix incompatible fn signature (#24549)
• db: add redis (#24730)

Native backend

• native: use builtin exit function (#24578)
• native: improve string support (#24600)
• native: implement for in string for amd64 (#24613)
• native: support nested structs, improve support for right expr of IndexExpr (#24627)
• native: leave only the unique paths in g.linker_include_paths, before doing lookups
• native: support C constants (#24660)
• native: add a temporary special case for C.EOF (#24724)

C backend

• Fix parallel cached_type_to_str access (fix [#23980]) (#23998)
• Fix codegen to make mutable sumtype working (fix [#23982], part 1, needed for bootstrapping) (#23988)
• Fix arm64 asm operand position; fix arm64 asm imm; support arm64 dot instruction (#24017)
• Fix mutable ptr sumtype (#24021)
• Fix asm comments of arm32 (#24025)
• Allow asserts inside fns, called in const/global initialization, in test files (fix [#24029]) (#24031)
• Fix codegen for option return unwrapping on last statement (fix [#24026]) (#24030)
• Fix match option with case non option (fix [#24047]) (fix [#24048]) (#24051)
• Support measuring programs, that use multiple threads in the new profiler column (turn prof_measured_time into a thread local, for the supported C compilers) (#24061)
• Fix @[keep_args_alive] with ptr (fix [#23973]) (#24058)
• Remove unused macro V64_PRINTFORMAT
• Fix option array push on unwrapped array (fix [#24073]) (#24079)
• Fix nested array support for the orm (fix [#19327]) (#24080)
• Fix x in [...]! operator with fixed arrays (fix [#24082]) (#24083)
• Fix codegen for comptime multiline attr (fix [#23964]) (#24087)
• Fix codegen for selector with embed field option (fix [#24084]) (#24085)
• Fix generic result return (fix [#24097]) (#24100)
• Fix showing the expression, as literal value, in case of assert s[x..y] == "literal" (fix [#24103]) (#24105)
• Fix codegen for option unwrapped var passed to generic option type (fix [#23972]) (#24096)
• Fix selector option unwrapping on infix (fix [#24108]) (#24115)
• Sort the paths, used in coutput_test.v
• Skip emitting mman.h and pthreads related code, for freestanding builds (#24118)
• Add s390x assembly support + test (#24129)
• Parser,checker,cgen: fix wrong auto heap deref of auto index loop var (fix [#24117]) (#24124)
• Fix non-voidptr to voidptr on -cstrict + notice about such usage (fix [#24139]) (#24143)
• Fix multi return with option type (#24144)
• Remove obfuscation (strip should be used instead); temporary fix for usecache + toml
• Fix zero left padding (fix [#24199]) (#24201)
• Fix variadic sumtype args passing (fix [#24150]) (#24207)
• Fix codegen for const to c string (fix [#24235]) (#24248)
• Fix codegen for fixed array init with init using structinit (#24269)
• Fix missing braces for const init with castexpr from option unwrapping expr (#24276)
• Fix codegen for index expr on for loop with branchstmt (fix [#22760]) (#24289)
• Fix codegen for assigning fixed array on defer var (fix [#24300]) (#24305)
• Fix codegen for multi return with aliased fixed array (fix [#24280]) (#24295)
• Fix codegen for nested selector unwrapping on lhs (fix [#24292]) (#24293)
• Add ppc64le assembly support + test (#24299)
• Fix s390x closure thunk (use floating point register) (#24258)
• Fix riscv64 closure thunk (use floating point register) (#24315)
• Fix codegen for writing on unwrapped selector (fix [#24316]) (#24323)
• Fix codegen for thread.call() on var auto heap (fix [#24326]) (#24327)
• Fix codegen for handling multiple return result type on call (fix [#24341]) (#24344)
• Fix codegen for nested selector option ptr (fix [#24339]) (#24345)
• Fix arm64 closure + remove stub in test (#24332)
• Workaround tcc aarch64 bug (fix [#24331]) (#24354)
• Fix riscv32 closure (#24355)
• Fix codegen for anon option fn struct field init (fix [#24392]) (#24400)
• Fix if mut var != none { for optional interface values (fix [#24351]) (#24410)
• Fix interface unsafe {nil} comparison and initialization (fix [#24374]) (#24411)
• Ast,cgen,parser,pref: support loongarch64 inline assembly, add test (#24440)
• Fix array init with interface element type (fix [#24442]) (#24454)
• Fix const declaration dependant mapping when using update_expr (fix [#24437]) (#24455)
• Fix comptimecall with map receiver (fix [#24448]) (#24449)
• Fix assign from for mut var in arr { to pointer (fix [#24432]) (#24456)
• Workaround tcc aarch64 fn call bug (fix [#24473]) (#24477)
• Workaround tcc aarch64 spawn call bug (fix [#24482]) (#24483)
• Fix map of fixed array value in if guard (fix [#24488]) (#24496)
• Fix codegen for assigning nil or 0 to option ptr field (fix [#24447]) (fix [#24500]) (#24502)
• Fix codegen for array of option element auto eq a == [?int(none)] (#24504)
• Fix codegen inconsistency handling nil param to arg expecting ptr (fix [#24491]) (#24503)
• Fix pattern generated by const_init_or_block.vv in vlib/v/gen/c/coutput_test.v, when VFLAGS=-no-parallel is used
• Fix tmp var redeclaration on const inited later (fix [#24521]) (fix [#24517]) (#24524)
• Fix generic name handling for struct generic (fix [#24530]) (#24565)
• Fix initialize error object in or_block (fix [#24529]) (#24576)
• Improve the readability of switch() { statements, generated by match() { ones (#24618)
• Reduce v.c size by ~4% by removing comments and using shorter literals
• Fix enumval str() call on stringinterliteral (fix [#24702]) (#24705)

JavaScript backend

• Fix array type checking in sum type match expressions (fix [#24237] ) (#24259)
• js: fix callbacks in structure parameters (fix [#24260]) (#24324)
• Fix array initialization with "index" and "it" (fix [#24397]) (#24429)
• Cannot assign unsafe nil values (fix [#24407], [#24436]) (#24458)
• Fix alias type initalization (fix [#24475]) (#24480)
• Fix casting (fix [#24512]) (#24519)
• Alias types are not properly resolved (fix [#24486]) (fix [#24507]) (#24514)
• Implement Map.keys() and Map.values() methods (fix [#24209]) (#24608)
• Fix string.runes method (fix [#20500]) (#24609)
• Fix direct map key access and map.len (fix [#24616], fix [#24605]) (#24620)
• Fix map to string fails on rune keys (fix [#24637]) (#24638)
• Fix maps being always constructed using string keys (fix [#24607]) (fix [#24671]) (#24673)
• Fix slightly incorrect JS (esbuild was broken on master) (fix [#23711]) (#24676)

vfmt

• Convert "hello".str => c"hello" (fix [#24635]) (#24652)

Tools

• Let test_os_process.v use unbuffer_stdout() to make the output more reliable
• os,tools: make easier analyzing process_test.v failures on the CI
• ci: fix build conditions that had sanitize-memory-clang? instead of sanitize-memory-clang
• ci: skip running the s390 CI job for simple doc/yml changes (#24160)
• ci: fix shell script issues reported by actionlint (#24168)
• Remove the src subdir from projects, created by v new (#24236)
• Add support for // vtest build: !os_id_ubuntu? tags in the _test.v files, detected by v test
• ci: fix v -o v2 -usecache cmd/v after ad5b829
• Fix vrepl for import mod { f } (#24340)
• ci: debug hub_docker_ci.yml issue (try 1, disable cache, run linters)
• ci: debug hub_docker_ci.yml issue (try 2, add concurrency group, add a persistent single builder gh-builder)
• ci: debug hub_docker_ci.yml issue (try 3, restore the cache-from:/cache-to: lines)
• ci: fix hub_docker_ci.yml issue - comment out the cache-from:/cache-to: lines again
• Support vreduce timeout, vreduce custom run command (#24359)
• Rewrite v timeout, support killing the child process on timeout by default (#24367)
• Use breadth first search in vreduce (#24369)
• Vreduce fix var names (#24373)
• Fix v timeout 2 sleep 5
• Fix ./v -d network test cmd/tools/vpm
• ci: reduce false positives for cover_test.v and vdoc_test.v
• Save the modified content more frequently in v reduce, fix timeout leaks (#24405)
• Reduce padding for v doc produced html nodes too
• ci: reduce the noise in check annotations for github PR reviews, due to the new warning in option_test.c.v
• Improve show_ancient_deprecations.v, by ignoring false positives for deprecation tags in // comments
• Check for Git repository in v doctor (packaged V versions often lack a .git/ folder) (fix [#24419]) (#24420)
• vlib,tools: add an arrays.diff module, implement a simple platform independent tool v diff file1.txt file2.txt using it (#24428)
• ci: bump creyD/prettier_action from 4.3 to 4.5 (#24439)
• ci: use v retry to reduce the false positives for retrieving the dependencies for vinix too
• ci: show hg version too, to ease the diagnosing of install_version_test.v failures
• Let cmd/tools/vpm/install_test.v use a .hg/hgrc file too
• repl: fix typeof(a) with warning (fix [#24499]) (#24515)
• Make v doctor show CFLAGS and LDFLAGS too (if set)
• Make v search ui work again through the vpm site (fix [#23966]) (#24535)
• ci: fix unused var warning in cmd/tools/vpm/common.v
• ci: prevent future changes to cmd/tools/vpm/common.v, that introduce warnings/notices to pass in PRs
• x.benchmark: align the output of BenchmarkResult.print/0
• Ease diagnosing CI failures of vtimeout_test.v
• ci: make sure that only one copy of native_test.v is executed at once, when run through v test vlib (fix [#24505])
• Ignore .db and .sqlite files by default in v watch (such DB files are very likely to change during prototyping)
• .gitignore: ignore .db and .sesskey files as well
• ci: bump creyD/prettier_action from 4.5 to 4.6 (#24687)
• Make v doc -f md module output useful by default (#24737)
• ci: fix native_backend_ci.yml concurrency group setting (prevent jobs for different commits on master to cancel each other)
• Fix overflow detected in the sanitized runs on the CI (#24064)
• ci: reduce code duplication in linux_ci.vsh

Operating System support

• os: implement Process.is_pending() on windows (fix [#23990]) (#23993)
• os: support .set_environment() on windows too (fix [#10628]) (#23996)
• thirdparty: update thirdparty-linux-amd64_tcc.sh, to also record its own full invocation command, and commit the changes automatically
• thirdparty: add thirdparty/build_scripts/thirdparty-freebsd-amd64_tcc.sh
• ci: reduce false positives for slow runs of the gcc-windows job
• gg: fix screen_size() on macos with multiple displays
• ci: add riscv64_linux_ci.yml (based on QEMU) as well (#24181)
• ci: use apt update before apt install in cross_ci.yml, to make the linux job more robust
• thirdparty: add thirdparty/build_scripts/thirdparty-macos-arm64_tcc.sh for compiling tcc on macos (first draft)
• Simplify the implementation of get_linux_os_name in v doctor
• os.filelock: compile without warnings with gcc on windows
• ci: use windows-2025 for the gcc-windows job (since it has gcc 14.2.0) (#24304)
• ci: skip option_ptr_unwrap_test.v on windows with msvc (#24320)
• os: fix windows rmdir GetLastError() (fix [#24356]) (#24357)
• Enable windows tcc_backtrace() support (#24377)
• ci: reduce false positives for init_global_test.v on windows (retry it 2 times)
• ci: reduce false positives for orm_func_test.v on windows (retry it 2 times)
• os: force using C.CREATE_NO_WINDOW on windows in os.raw_execute/1 (fix [#24390]) (#24418)
• Fix v doctor output on FreeBSD ; do not run ldd to get the glibc version (#24427)
• runtime: improve free_memory implementation for OpenBSD, by getting the stats from its UVM system (#24431)
• runtime: fix cast error in free_memory implementation for OpenBSD (#24445)
• Use a .hg/hgrc file for install_version_test.v (workaround windows failure)
• os: add debugger_present implementation for OpenBSD (fix [#23603]) (#24490)
• veb: reduce veb_max_write_bytes from 16KB to 2KB (fix sending large dynamic responses from veb on macos/freebsd) (fix [#24523]) (#24522)
• os: fix os.File's tell/0 method for windows (fix [#24217]) (#24218)
• net.openssl: replace SSL_get1_peer_certificate by SSL_get_peer_certificate for OpenBSD (#24556)
• net.mbedtls: disable AES-NI on OpenBSD with tcc (fix [#22239]) (#24560)
• net.mbedtls: enable MBEDTLS_THREADING_C and MBEDTLS_THREADING_PTHREAD on OpenBSD (#24572)
• thirdparty: add thirdparty/build_scripts/thirdparty-openbsd-amd64_tcc.sh for compiling tcc on OpenBSD (#24592)
• v.builder: enable -fwrap for C compilation on OpenBSD too (#24585)
• v.pkgconfig: add the default /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig for MacPorts on macos (#24626)
• sync: increase retries for vlib/sync/select_close_test.v to 3, to reduce CI false positives in the gcc-windows job
• ci: remove script to build tcc on FreeBSD (obsoleted by thirdparty/build_scripts/thirdparty-freebsd-amd64_tcc.sh) (#24681)
• encoding.iconv: add path for iconv library on FreeBSD (#24682)
• native: skip linux.vv too, for the sanitized jobs (similar to libc.vv)
• ci: migrate from windows-2019 runner to windows-2025 runner in most jobs (github deprecated the 2019 runner) (#24672)
• runtime: fix -cstrict compilation (use usize() cast in free_memory) on OpenBSD (#24696)
• Remove specific case for FreeBSD in cmd/tools/vtest_test.v (#24707)
• docs: add section in README for compilation on FreeBSD (#24706)
• thirdparty: add script to build libgc on FreeBSD/amd64 (#24717)
• builtin: use local static libgc for FreeBSD with tcc (fix [#24710]) (fix [#24683]) (#24720)
• ci: update and improve FreeBSD CI (#24726)
• ci: add CI for OpenBSD (#24732)
• gg: fix .char event handling for backspace, delete, tab and enter for linux/x11 (send appropriate .char codes to the apps, similar to macos)
• Add aarch64 atomics support in thirdparty/stdatomic/nix/atomic.h (fix [#24294]) (#24296)
• v.trace_calls: now musl has gettid(), there is no need for the shim on newer Alpine etc (#24245)

Examples

• Fix v -os wasm32_emscripten -o ms.html examples/gg/minesweeper.v (use os.asset to load the font, avoid the implicit closures for the frame/event callbacks)'
• Update rotating_textured_quad.v with instructions on how to compile/run it with emscripten and a browser
• Add a small examples/gg/bouncing_balls.v simulation of falling balls
• Fetch 30 stories instead of 10 in examples/news_fetcher.v
• Add sync_pool.v for easier testing/diagnosing issues with the sync.pool implementation on different platforms
• Add a -profile report column, to show only the func time, excluding the accumulated children calls time (usable through ./v -profile - run a.v |sort -nk3 for example) (#24056)
• doc: improve Shared and Channels's topics, add more examples (#24155)
• orm: fix option type, convert from int to i8, add examples, etc (fix [#24211]) (#24213)
• Fix optional callback parameter and improve examples (fix [#24325]) (#24336)
• Reduce padding for code examples, to fit more examples on the same screen without scrolling
• Cleanup unsafe{} blocks that are not needed anymore in examples/sokol/08_sdf/sdf.v
• Show the number of pushes in sokoban too
• os.asset: add read_text/2 too, use it to simplify the sokoban example
• Support directly loading sokoban level files by path
• Add more Sokoban levels
• Support boxoban style collections of levels files (from https://github.com/google-deepmind/boxoban-levels/)
• Add a simple sudoku solver
• Add primes.v, that shows how to get command line arguments, and use loops and functions
• Add a small memory game (#24643)
• Cleanup memory.v (reduce it to 135 lines)
• builtin,os: enable no warnings for gg programs like v -gc boehm_leak -cg -keepc run examples/gg/minimal.v (part 1 - before the gg loop) (#24749)