Dear Motokoders,
a fresh Motoko release is available via the latest dfx beta:
$ dfxvm default 0.26.1-beta.1
$ dfx cache install
$(dfx cache show)/moc --version
Motoko compiler 0.14.8 (source rfs7jcpa-8l1n9bax-azlf9hwm-qbaqv832)
This will conclude the beta phase of the enhanced orthogonal persistency development, and add random-access indexing of Blobs. It also features some pretty substantial parser (error correction) and type checker (speed) improvements, by contribution of Serokell. Thank you guys!
In further news, the generated Candid now contains less silly type synonyms and preserves named function arguments, thus should compile to much more palatable JS/TS, you name it.
For the curious, here are the release notes for the few past releases too.
Have fun, and feel free to report errors, bugs or strange behaviour via the issues page (or here)!
Cheers,
Gabor (for the Languages Team)