Apache Royale

Apache Royale v0.9.10 released!

by Yishay Weiss on May 31, 2023

The Apache Royale community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Royale 0.9.10.

The Apache Royale project is the next generation of the Apache Flex SDK. It lets developers use MXML and ActionScript 3 to generate HTML/JS/CSS applications which can run natively in browsers. The cross-compiled code can also run on platforms like Electron or Apache Cordova (Adobe PhoneGap) to build mobile applications.

This release should be considered 'beta' quality, although we're very close to a 1.0 release and we have many applications in production at this point. The purpose of this release is to continue to gather feedback about Royale's features and the project's implementation strategies, and to recruit new contributors. We hope to grow the code base into an SDK and tool chain that delivers the highest productivity when developing applications that can run on many platforms. Beta releases, however, may not handle all production needs.

Changes in 0.9.10:

Apache Royale Framework 0.9.10

  • RoyaleUnit
    • Added BDD-style expect() method for natural language assertions
    • Added a number of new asserts, including checks for NaN, less than, greater than, less or equal, greater or equal, within range, is of type, throws exception, and matches regular expression.
  • MXRoyale
    • Various bug fixes
  • Jewel
    • Various bug fixes
  • Dozens of bugs reported, investigated, and squashed. For details of closed bug reports see GitHub Issues list.

Apache Royale Compiler 0.9.10

  • aslint is a new command line code linter for ActionScript and MXML, with a programmatic API for use in editors and IDEs.
  • compiler: Added --watch compiler option that keeps compiler active and incrementally compiles when changes to .as and .mxml files are detected. You may exit with Ctrl+C.
  • compiler: Added support for ?? null coalescing operator to ActionScript.
  • compiler: Added support for ?. null conditional operator to ActionScript.
  • compiler: Added support for @"" verbatim strings to ActionScript.
  • compiler: Fix JS output for chained Date setter initialization, like date.minutes = date.seconds = 0.
  • compiler: Fix <![CDATA[]]> handling in MXML for properties with [CollapseWhiteSpace] metadata.
  • royaleunit-ant-tasks: The <royaleunit> Ant Task can now use Playwright to run headless tests in HTML/JS. Set the player to chromium, webkit, or firefox.
  • royaleunit-ant-tasks: Added a new commandArgs attribute to the <royaleunit> Ant Task. It may be used to pass extra command line arguments to the executable specified in the command attribute.
  • formatter: Can load configuration options with -load-config+=path/to/file.xml, similar to compiler.
  • formatter: If a file named asformat-config.xml appears in the current working directory, automatically load it with -load-config. To disable this behavior, use -skip-local-config-file=true.
  • formatter: Fix issue where more than one new line might appear at the end of a file.
  • formatter: Fix indentation between opening and closing parentheses/brackets on separate lines.
  • formatter: Fix detection of Script elements in MXML when line endings are CRLF.
  • formatter: Fix exception when file starts with UTF BOM character.
  • formatter: Fix issue where ternary operator inside if condition was formatted incorrectly.
  • formatter: Fix missing formatting for finally block.
  • formatter: If a case or default clause in a switch contains only a block, indent is not increased.
  • formatter: If formatting is skipped because compiler errors are found, display those compiler errors.

For additional information on recent issues that have been closed, see Github Issues List

You can download a binary distribution, the source code or browse our GitHub repositories. If you're a NPM user you can check Apache Royale at NPM.

As well, you can help us filing bug reports for issues you encounter in the framework or compiler.

For questions about how to use Royale, send email to mailto:users@royale.apache.org. For questions and feedback on the development of the source code in the release, send email to dev@royale.apache.org.

Enjoy! 🙂