Your shiny new Scala build tool! Confused by SBT? Frustrated by Maven? Perplexed by Gradle? Give Mill a try!
- Documentation
- How to build and test
- Project Layout
- Project Maintenance
- Changelog
- 0.11.0-M6 - 2023-03-09
- 0.11.0-M5 - 2023-03-09
- 0.11.0-M4 - 2023-02-10
- 0.11.0-M3 - 2023-01-23
- 0.11.0-M2 - 2023-01-13
- 0.11.0-M1 - 2022-12-17
- 0.10.11 - 2023-01-24
- 0.10.10 - 2022-12-06
- 0.10.9 - 2022-11-10
- 0.10.8 - 2022-10-10
- 0.10.7 - 2022-08-24
- 0.10.6 - 2022-08-24
- 0.10.5 - 2022-07-01
- 0.10.4 - 2022-05-06
- 0.10.3 - 2022-04-11
- 0.10.2 - 2022-03-18
- 0.10.1 - 2022-03-08
- 0.10.0 - 2022-01-14
- 0.10.0-M5 - 2021-12-18
- 0.10.0-M4 - 2021-11-08
- 0.10.0-M3 - 2021-09-29
- 0.10.0-M2 - 2021-09-17
- 0.9.12 - 2022-01-07
- 0.9.11 - 2021-12-15
- 0.9.10 - 2021-11-13
- 0.9.9 - 2021-07-15
- 0.9.8 - 2021-05-27
- 0.9.7 - 2021-05-14
- 0.9.6 - 2021-04-03
- 0.9.5 - 2021-01-26
- 0.9.4 - 2020-12-21
- 0.9.3 - 2020-11-26
- Older releases
If you want to use Mill in your own projects, check out our documentation:
Here is some quick example, so that you can imagine how it looks:
import mill._, scalalib._
object foo extends ScalaModule {
def scalaVersion = "3.2.1"
}
object bar extends ScalaModule {
def moduleDeps = Seq(foo)
def scalaVersion = "3.2.1"
}
If you use Mill and like it, you will probably enjoy the following book by the Author:
Hands-on Scala has a Chapter 10: Static Build Pipelines dedicated to Mill, but rest of the book introduces other libraries and tools in a similar style. Hands-on Scala is a great way to level up your skills in Scala in general and Mill in particular
The remainder of this readme is developer-documentation targeted at people who wish to work on Mill’s own codebase. The developer docs assume you have read through the user-facing documentation linked above. It’s also worth spending a few minutes reading the following blog posts to get a sense of Mill’s design & motivation:
Mill is profiled using the JProfiler Java Profiler, by courtesy of EJ Technologies.
Mill is built using Mill. To begin, first download & install Mill as described in the documentation above. As Mill is under active development, stable releases may not be able to build the current development branch of Mill. It is recommended to install the latest unstable release manually.
If you are using IntelliJ IDEA to edit Mill’s Scala code, you can create the IntelliJ project files via:
./mill mill.scalalib.GenIdea/idea
To run test suites:
./mill main.test
./mill scalalib.test
./mill scalajslib.test
./mill integration.test
To manually test Mill on a small build, you can use the scratch
folder:
./mill -i dev.run scratch -w resolve _
This runs the task resolve _
with your current checkout of Mill on the trivial build defined in
scratch/build.sc
. You can modify that build file to add additional modules,
files, etc. and see how it behaves.
More generally, you can use:
./mill -i dev.run [target-dir] [...args]
To create run your current checkout of Mill in the given target-dir
with the
given args
. This is useful e.g. to test a modified version of Mill on some
other project’s Mill build.
You can also create a launcher-script to let you run the current checkout of Mill without the bootstrap Mill process present:
./mill dev.launcher
This creates the out/dev/launcher.dest/run
launcher script, which you can then
use to run your current checkout of Mill where-ever you’d like. Note that this
script relies on the compiled code already present in the Mill out/
folder,
and thus isn’t suitable for testing on Mill’s own Mill build since you would be
over-writing the compiled code at the same time as the launcher script is using
it.
You can also run your current checkout of Mill on the build in your scratch/
folder without the bootstrap Mill process being present via:
./mill dev.launcher && (cd scratch && ../out/dev/launcher.dest/run -w show thingy)
To test bootstrapping of Mill’s own Mill build using a version of Mill built from your checkout, you can run
./mill installLocal
This creates a standalone assembly at target/mill-release
you can use, which
references jars published locally in your ~/.ivy2/local
cache. You can then
use this standalone assembly to build & re-build your current Mill checkout
without worrying about stomping over compiled code that the assembly is using.
This assembly is design to work on bash, bash-like shells and Windows Cmd.
If you have another default shell like zsh or fish, you probably need to invoke it
with sh ~/mill-release
or prepend the file with a proper shebang.
If you want to install into a different location or a different Ivy repository, you can set it’s optional parameters
/tmp
$ ./mill inspect installLocal
[1/1] inspect
installLocal(build.sc:865)
Build and install Mill locally.
@param binFile The location where the Mill binary should be installed
@param ivyRepo The local Ivy repository where Mill modules should be published to
...
$ ./mill installLocal --binFile /tmp/mill --ivyRepo /tmp/millRepo
...
Published 44 modules and installed /tmp/mill
The Mill project is organized roughly as follows:
-
core
,main
,main.client
,scalalib
,scalajslib
.
These are general lightweight and dependency-free: mostly configuration & wiring of a Mill build and without the heavy lifting.
Heavy lifting is delegated to the worker modules (described below), which the core modules resolve from Maven Central (or from the local filesystem in dev) and load into isolated classloaders.
-
scalalib.worker
,scalajslib.worker[0.6]
,scalajslib.worker[1.0]
These modules are where the heavy-lifting happens, and include heavy dependencies like the Scala compiler, Scala.js optimizer, etc.. Rather than being bundled in the main assembly & classpath, these are resolved separately from Maven Central (or from the local filesystem in dev) and kept in isolated classloaders.
This allows a single Mill build to use multiple versions of e.g. the Scala.js optimizer without classpath conflicts.
-
contrib/bloop/
,contrib/flyway/
,contrib/scoverage/
, etc.
These are modules that help integrate Mill with the wide variety of different tools and utilities available in the JVM ecosystem.
These modules are not as stringently reviewed as the main Mill core/worker codebase, and are primarily maintained by their individual contributors. These are maintained as part of the primary Mill Github repo for easy testing/updating as the core Mill APIs evolve, ensuring that they are always tested and passing against the corresponding version of Mill.
-
Changes to the main branch need a pull request. Exceptions are preparation commits for releases, which are meant to be pushed with tags in one go
-
Merged pull request (and closed issues) need to be assigned to a Milestone
-
Pull requests are typically merged via "Squash and merge", so we get a linear and useful history
-
Larger pull request, where it makes sense to keep single commits, or with multiple authors may be committed via merge commits.
-
The title should be meaningful and may contain the pull request number in parentheses (typically automatically generated on GitHub)
-
The description should contain additional required details, which typically reflect the content of the first PR comment
-
A full link to the pull request should be added via a line:
Pull request: <link>
-
If the PR has multiple authors but is merged as merge commit, those authors should be included via a line for each co-author:
Co-authored-by: <author>
-
If the message contains links to other issues or pull requests, you should use full URLs to reference them
This release is binary incompatible to 0.11.0-M5.
Changes since 0.11.0-M5:
-
main
: Re-added missing--color
andpredef
cli arguments.
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M6 and the list of commits.
This release is binary incompatible to 0.11.0-M4.
Changes since 0.11.0-M4:
-
Cross
is no longer adding the cross parameters to themillSourcePath
.You should review your cross modules setups to avoid build issues like incorrect source paths or missing files.
CrossScalaModule
is not affected by this change. -
API refactorings:
PathRef
, movedJarManifest
tomill.main
-
No longer inherit the Ammonite CLI config
-
scalalib
: Fixed loosing customizedmapDependencies
whenScalaModule
get mixed in after -
scalalib
: NewTestModule.Weaver
-
scalajslib
: NewJsEnvConfig.Selenium
-
testrunner
: Fixed concurrency issue with test event reporting -
Updated dependencies: ammonite 3.0.0-M0-3, coursier 2.1.0-RC6, jarajar-abrams-core 1.8.2, lambdatest 0.8.0, log4j-core 2.20.0, os-lib 0.9.1, scoverage 2.0.8, semanticdb-scalac 4.7.5, trees 4.7.5
-
Documentation updates
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M5 and the list of commits.
This release is binary incompatible to 0.11.0-M3.
Changes since 0.11.0-M3:
-
scalalib
: New configuration targetzincReportCachedProblems
which, whentrue
, enables reporting of all found problems, even for files which were not re-compiled -
scalalib
: Improved SemanticDB support for Java and Scala -
scalalib
: Mitigate another coursier download issue -
scalajslib
: Fetch more tooling dependencies inprepareOffline
-
scalanativelib
: Fetch more tooling dependencies inprepareOffline
-
scalanativelib
: Updated tools to version 0.4.10 -
bsp
: Improved support for themill-build
module which should improve the editing experience forbuild.sc
and other build files -
Cleanups and internal improvements
-
Updated dependencies: Ammonite 3.0.0-M0-1, junixsocket 2.6.2, semanticdb-java 0.8.13, upickle 3.0.0-M2
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M4 and the list of commits.
This release is binary incompatible to 0.11.0-M2.
Changes since 0.11.0-M2:
-
Slightly changed the
out/
folder layout for overridden and private tasks. Instead offoo.overridden
we now use afoo.super
path to hold the metadata and scratch files. -
Fixed the caching for private targets with same name but defined in different super traits.
-
Fixed non-functional
clean
command when used with arguments denoting modules. -
scalalib
: FixedGenIdea
issues on Windows, when the build uses plugins or additional libraries. -
scalajslib
:ScalaJSModule.ScalaJSModuleTests
now extendsScalaModule.ScalaModuleTests
which improves consistency, better default values and compatibility with other modules likeScoverageModule
. -
scalanativelib
:ScalaNativeModule.ScalaNativeModuleTests
now extendsScalaModule.ScalaModuleTests
which improves consistency, better default values and compatibility with other modules. -
contrib.gitlab
: Improved error handling for token lookup and documentation. -
Updated dependencies: coursier 2.1.0-RC5, jna 5.13.0, semanticdb-scala 4.7.3, trees 4.7.3
-
Documentation improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M3 and the list of commits.
This release is binary incompatible to 0.11.0-M1.
Changes since 0.11.0-M1:
-
Splitted BSP module into
mill.bsp
andmill.bsp.worker
and removed various dependencies (guava, bsp4j, xtends, lsp4j, …) from Mill API -
scalalib
: Added support to generate semanticdb data for Java source files -
scalajslib
: Added support forscalaJSOutputPattern
-
scalajslib
: Added suport forscalaJSSourceMap
-
scalajslib
: Dropped support for Scala.js 0.6 -
Updated dependencies: ammonite 2.5.6, coursier 2.1.0-RC4, semanticdb 4.7.1, requests 0.8.0, scalafmt 3.6.1, trees 4.7.1, upickle 3.0.0-M1, utest 0.8.1
-
Various internal cleanups and improvements
-
Documentation improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M2 and the list of commits.
This release is binary incompatible to 0.10.10.
Changes since 0.10.10:
-
Greatly improved dependency resolution between modules, making it possible to mix Java and Scala modules
-
main
: RestrictCross
parameter to be of typeModule
-
scalalib
: Performance improvements in Zinc worker module -
scalalib
: Resources are no longer added tocompileClasspath
. -
scalalib
: Added newcompileResources
which will end up incompileClasspath
-
scalalib
: Consolidated artifact and platform suffix handling -
scalajslib
: Performance improvements in worker module -
scalanativelib
: Performance improvements in worker module -
Updated dependencies: coursier 2.1.0-RC3, os-lib 0.9, scala 2.12.17, trees 4.7.0
-
Removed lots of deprecated API
-
Various internal cleanups and improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.11.0-M1 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.10:
-
Fixed non-functional
clean
command when used with arguments denoting modules. -
scalalib
: FixedGenIdea
issues on Windows, when the build uses plugins or additional libraries. -
scalajslib
: Performance improvements in worker module -
scalajslib
: Pass more settings fromScalaJSModule
to itsTests
If you have issues after the update (like
org.scalajs.jsenv.UnsupportedInputException
, com-lihaoyi#2300), check your settings in the test modules for consistency. -
Some internal improvements backported from
0.11.0-M3
For details refer to milestone 0.10.11 and the list of commits.
After this release, the main
branch is open for development of the next major version of Mill, which is probably 0.11
.
Further maintenance work will happen in the 0.10.x
branch.
Changes since 0.10.9:
-
Lots of documentation improvements, additions and restructurings
-
core
: Fixed some rare issues with reading the.mill-jvm-opts
file -
core
: We made slight adaptions to theT.dest
location of target defined in included files, to fix potential colliding cache locations -
scalalib
: JAR archives created by Mill now by default contain directory entries -
scalalib
: Updated zinc to 1.8.0 -
scalajslib
: Added support for moreJsEnv
providersIf you get some issues (like
connect ECONNREFUSED
, com-lihaoyi#2204) after the update, review your settings forJsEnv
providers. -
scalanativelib
: Support for incremental compilation since Scala Native 0.4.9 -
contrib.testng
: The TestNG library is no longer provided transitively; you need to provide it explicitly -
contrib.bloop
: Fixed re-generation of bloop config dir; previously, it could happen, that there where no config files at all -
BSP
: implementbuildTarget/OutputPaths
request -
Various version bumps and internal improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.10.10 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.8:
-
Hardened Maven and Ivy artifact handling to prevent path-traversal attacks (see CVE-2022-37866), also updated coursier dependency to a non-vulnerable version
-
Decoupled
mill-moduledefs
module into a separate project, to better suite compiler plugin packaging and improve support for various Scala versions -
Applied more workarounds to coursier concurrency issues to make parallel builds more robust
-
Added support for newer Scala versions in
GenIdea
(2.2 and 2.3) -
Fixed an issue where
PublishModule
dropped module dependencies when mixed-in after other trait which overrodemoduleDeps
-
new
JMH
contrib plugin -
Lots of internal improvements and dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.9 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.7:
-
Improvements for better Scala 3.2 support
-
Fixed non-working default commands in cross modules
-
CoursierModule
: mitigate more download failure situations (e.g. checksum failures) -
PublishModule
: properly showgpg
output in server mode -
BSP
: Better compiler message handling (logMessage
instead ofshowMessage
) and support for diagnostic code -
ScoverageModule
: Support for Scoverage 2.x -
New contrib module
GitlabPublishModule
-
Various internal improvements and version bumps
-
Documentation improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.10.8 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.6:
-
Don’t print unwanted debug messages from zinc
For details refer to milestone 0.10.7 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.5:
-
PathRef
s sigs are now more reproducible and independent of the used filesystem -
JavaModule
can now use a non-local Java Compiler to support all options -
Logger
: newdebugEnabled
to detect whether debug logging is enabled -
New
testkit
module, to useTestEvaluator
in external projects -
Fixed reading of
.mill-jvm-opts
in server mode -
BSP: Automatic SemanticDB enablement to improve Metals support
-
mill.twirllib.TwirlModule
- new mandatory targettwirlScalaVersion
to configure the Scala version used by Twirl compiler, and support for newer versions -
Lots of documentation updates and additions
-
Upgraded to Zinc 1.7.1 and various other dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.6 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.4:
-
New
init
command, to create new Mill projects from Gitter8 (g8) templates -
PathRef
now gracefully ignores socket files. This also fixes an annoying issue when Mill was previously ran in a source directory. -
Fixed a bug with using
mill --repl
without any further arguments, which was introduced in Mill 0.10.2 and prevented proper no-server mode -
Fixed the
visualize
command which wasn’t working on some newer JREs -
Improved Mill server support for Windows 11 and some Windows Server versions
-
ScalaModule
/ZincWorkerModule
: Fixed incremental compilation issue with JRE 17 (and probably others) -
TestModule
now better supports JUnit5 test suites -
ScalaJsModule
: internal improvements to the stability of the Scala.js linker -
ScalaNativeModule
: Added support fornativeEmbedResources
-
BSP
: improved handling of themill-build
module when the BSP client is IntelliJ IDEA -
Documentation updates and link fixes
-
Various dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.5 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.3:
-
Switched from ipcsocket to junixsocket library to enhance the robustness of Mill client server communication. This should greatly improve the user experience on Windows.
-
Internal improvements and better support of GraalVM
-
The Mill Documentation site has now built-in search functionality
-
ScalaJsModule
: New targetsfastLinkJS
andfullLinkJS
and deprecatedfastOpt
andfullOpt
-
ScalaJsModule
: Support forModuleSplitStyle
-
BSP
: Updated to protocol version 2.1.0-M1, added support for test framework names and support for the JVM extension -
GenIdea
: More consistent ordering of libraries and dependent modules and support for Scala 3.1 language level -
Bloop
: Added support for runtime dependencies -
Enhanced test suite to cover Mill client server scenarios
-
Various dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.4 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.2:
-
Fixed
import $file
for files with hyphens and other symbols in its name -
Fixed an issues with truncated output just before Mill finishes
-
Mill commands now support arguments of type
Task[T]
, which can improve writing re-usable commands, especially, they can be called from other tasks more easily -
JavaModule
: Improved correctness and performance ofcompileClasspath
andbspCompileClasspath
targets. This fixes an issue with BSP for large projects. Also, compile-time dependencies no longer sneak into the classpath transitively. -
JavaModule
: AddeddocJarUseArgsFile
target and fix issue with Windows command length restrictions indocJar
-
BSP
andBloop
: Better detect foreign modules -
Various internal API refinements and improvements
-
Reorganized integration test suite and build setup
For details refer to milestone 0.10.3 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.1:
-
Mill workers can now implement
AutoCloseable
to properly free resources -
ScalaModule
: Fixedrepl
start -
CoursierModule
: Fixed concurrent download issues with coursier (we detect and retry) -
MainModule
: Fixed potential match error withshow
andshowNamed
-
Restructured contrib module documentation
-
Internal improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.10.2 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.0:
-
MillClienMain
can now act as universal main to start mill with or without a server process -
Improved
show
command that always returns valid JSON -
Added
showNamed
command that includes the task names in the output -
Implemented more granular cache invalidation which keeps more caches intact when you split your build setup over multiple
.sc
files withimport $file
. -
The local
.mill-jvm-opts
file is no longer restricted to-X
options -
CoursierModule
: AddedcoursierCacheCustomizer
to support aFileCache
customizers -
JavaModule
: thedocJar
target no longer includes hidden files -
ScalaModule
: Updated to latest zinc version -
ScalaModule
: Reworked scalac plugins handling for the better and to support Scala 3 -
ScalaNativeModule
: fixedDep.withDottyCompat
behavior -
ScalaJSModule
: support for linking multiple modules -
ScalafmtModule
: Support for newer Scalafmt versions -
Tool chain: Update to Mill 0.10.0
-
Tool chain: we no longer create files outside the mill project directory (e.g.
~/mill-release
is now undertarget/mill-release
) -
Various dependency updates
-
Lots of internal improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.10.1 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.0-M5:
-
Changed structure of
out
directory,out/foo/dest
is nowout/foo.dest
-
Fixed issues with loading of predef scripts
-
--watch
now supports manual re-runs by pressing enter -
Improved subprocess handling
-
Published poms can now contain properties and
versionScheme
information -
Improved Scala.js support, including more target configuration options and support for Node 17
-
Improved Scala Native for version > 0.4.2 and support Scala 3
-
Internal improvements, fixes and dependency version updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.0 and the list of commits.
This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins.
Changes since 0.10.0-M4:
-
Fixed Log4Shell security vulnerability in
ZincWorkerModule
(CVE-2021-44228) -
Factored out the testrunner into a new module, which also fixes some potential classloader issues when executing tests (e.g. with JNA)
-
Removed the limitation of max 22 inputs for tasks
-
--watched
commands can now re-run when pressing enter-key -
task and arguments of commands can now have hyphens in their name
-
Reworked and decluttered the out-folder structure
-
prepareOffline
now has aall
flag to control if all or only some dependency should be prefetched -
Made caching more effective for targets overridden in stackable-traits
-
Further BSP improvements, esp. for Metals and Scala 3
-
Lots of other internal improvements and fixes
-
Various dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M5 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.10.0-M3:
-
BSP support rework and overhaul of built-in BSP server
-
GenIdea: failures when inspecting and resolving the build are not properly reported
-
Coursier: we now implemented a workaround to tackle concurrent downloads issues
-
New
+
separator to provide multiple targets (with parameters) via cmdline -
New
--import
cmdline option to run ad-hoc plugins without editing ofbuild.sc
-
New
T.ctx().workspace
API to access the project root directory -
Various internal improvements and bug fixes
-
Various refactorings and cleanups
For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M4 and the list of commits.
This is a milestone release. This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins build for mill 0.9.x. The API is suspected to change before a 0.10.0 releae.
Changes since 0.10.0-M2:
-
ScalaModule with PublishModule
: thescala-library
artifact is now always part of the dependencies in published `pom.xml`s and `ivy.xml`s -
New
JavaModule.mandatoryIvyDeps
target to provide essential dependencies like scala-library without forcing the user to callsuper.ivyDeps
-
ScalaJSModule.scalaLibraryIvyDeps
no longer contains the scala-js-library, but only the scala-library; if you need that, useScalaJSModule.mandatoryIvyDeps
instead. -
import $ivy
support$MILL_BIN_PLATFORM
variable and a new sort notations for external plugins -
We fixed and enabled lots of tests to run on Windows
-
Some generic targets like
plan
orpath
now also return their output -
GenIdea
: improved support for Scala 3 projects *
For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M3 and the list of commits.
This is a early milestone release. This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins build for mill 0.9.x. The API is suspected to change before a 0.10.0 releae.
Changes since 0.9.9:
-
Removed deprecated API
-
ScalaModule
: addedmandatoryScalacOptions
to avoid the common issue that users forget to include mandatory options when defining their own. -
Renamed
toolsClasspath
targets found in various modules to avoid hard to resolve clashes when mixing traits -
Fixed and improved our test suite on Windows
-
Various fixes and improvements
-
Various dependency updates
For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M2 and the list of commits.
-
fixed parsing of command parameters in
show
command -
zinc worker: Updated log4j2 to 2.17.1
For details refer to milestone 0.9.12 and the list of commits.
-
zinc worker: Updated log4j2 to 2.16.0 to fix Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability
For details refer to milestone 0.9.11 and the list of commits.
-
Some feature backports from mill 0.10
-
New
+
separator to provide multiple targets (with parameters) via cmdline -
New
--import
cmdline option to run ad-hoc plugins without editing ofbuild.sc
-
import $ivy
support$MILL_BIN_PLATFORM
variable and a new sort notations for external plugins
For details refer to milestone 0.9.10 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.9.8:
-
BSP: Fixed/improved source item for root project
-
Bloop: Prevent compilation during bloop config generation
-
GenIdea: Fix content path of root project (mill-build)
-
Various version bumps
For details refer to milestone 0.9.9 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.9.7:
-
Fixed some potential binary incompatibilities with external plugins (builds against older os-lib versions)
-
Fixed location and configuration of mills home path (used for caching of build scripts)
-
Properly close jar resources - should fix issues in
assembly
, esp. on Windows where open resources are locked -
BSP: Repaired mills BSP server
-
playlib: Fixed issues with the play-contrib module and added support for Play 2.8
-
GenIdea: changed dir for generated mill modules to
.idea/mill_modules
-
Various version bumps, including Scala 2.13.5
For details refer to milestone 0.9.8 and the list of commits.
Changes since 0.9.6:
-
ScalaModule
: Support for Scala 3 -
CoursierModule
: Support customized dependency resolution (needed to work with ScalaFX) -
TestModule
: Added newtestFramework
target and only support one test framework. DeprecatedtestFrameworks
targets. -
TestModule
: Added new convenience traits to configure popular test frameworks, e.g.TestModule.Junit4
,TestModule.ScalaTest
,TestModule.Utest
, and many more -
Bloop
: Added support for foreign modules -
Better support for Windows environments
-
Various internal improvements, cleanups, and deprecations
-
Various dependencies updates
-
Removed tut contrib module because of unmaintained/archived upstream dependency
For details refer to milestone 0.9.7 and the list of commits.
The mill project home and repository has been moved to https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill.
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repl
andconsole
targets now supportforkArgs
andforkEnv
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Support for Scala 3 release candidates and new Scaladoc 3 tool
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Support for Scala.js on Scala 3
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Scala Native improvements
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Test runner now uses an args file to support running tests on Windows
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GenIdea: better supports source jars, full config contributions and provided/runtime dependencies
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Various dependency updates
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Documentation site reworked to support multiple release versions
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Improved CI setup to better test mill on Windows
For details refer to milestone 0.9.6 and the list of commits.
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Updated zinc to 1.4.4
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Support for Scala Native 0.4.0
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Support for Scala.js ESModule (including Bloop support)
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Inner
Tests
traits in modules likeJavaModule
,ScalaModule
and others now have unique names (JavaModuleTests
,ScalaModuleTests
, etc), to allow for easier customization -
Various version bumps of dependencies
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CI now runs all tests, it did miss some before
For details refer to milestone 0.9.5 and the list of commits.
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Implemented more BSP protocol commands and fixed some glitches with IntelliJ
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Stabilized CI builds
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Various fixes and improvements
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Various version bumps
For details refer to milestone 0.9.4 and the list of commits.
(We also tagged 0.9.0
, 0.9.1
, and 0.9.2
, but due to release difficulties, we ask you not to use them.)
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Replace the built in
@main
method functionality with the MainArgs library -
Note that the MainArgs replacement has some backwards incompatibilities: Short flags like
-i
can no longer be passed via--i
, the@doc("")
is now@arg(doc = "")
,Seq[T]
parameters are now passed via repeated--foo
flags rather than comma-separated. -
Add the ability to relocate/shade files in
.assembly
#947 -
Twirl enhancements #952
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Add
scalacPluginClasspath
to Tests #956 -
Add
toMap
methods toBuildInfo
#958 -
Bump coursier to version 2.0.0 #973
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Make BSP support a first-class citizen #969
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Omit the suffix in
artifactName
in cross modules #953 -
Allow test classes with constructor parameters #982
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Proguard contrib module #972
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Support Scala.js useECMAScript2015 option and ModuleKind.ESModule #1004
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Support Scala.js incremental linking #1007
For details refer to milestone 0.9.3 and the list of commits.
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Bump external dependencies: uPickle 1.2.0, Ammonite 2.2.0, etc.
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Use default coursier repos (#931)
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Work around relative paths issue on windows (#936)
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Support Scala.js versions >1.0.0 (#934)
For details refer to milestone 0.8.0 and the list of commits.
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new command line options
--repl
and--no-server
, deprecated--interactive
option -
Support for Scala.js 1.1
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Fixed missing source maps for Scala.js 1.0 and 1.1
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Improved BSP contrib module
For details refer to milestone 0.7.4 and the list of commits.
For details refer to milestone 0.7.3 and the list of commits.
For details refer to milestone 0.7.2 and the list of commits.
For details refer to milestone 0.7.1 and the list of commits.
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Greatly improved parallel builds via
-j <n>
/--jobs <n>
, with better scheduling and utilization of multiple cores -
build.sc
files now uses Scala 2.13.2 -
Avoid duplicate target resolution with
mill resolve __
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Add ability to pass GPG arguments to publish via
--gpgArgs
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-w
/--watch
now works forT.source
targets
For details refer to milestone 0.7.0 and the list of commits.
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Finished incomplete support to publish extra artifacts to IVY repositories (
publishLocal
) -
Improved Sonatype uploads
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GenIdea
: improvements for shared source dirs and skipped modules -
ScoverageModule
: Some refactorings to allow better customization -
More robust classpath handling under Windows
For details refer to milestone 0.6.3 and the list of commits.
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Mill can now execute targets in parallel. This is experimental and need to be enabled with
--jobs <n>
option. -
PublishModule
: newpublishM2Local
to publish into local Maven repositories -
PublishModule
: enhancedpublishLocal
to specify to ivy repository location -
Windows: Fixed windows launcher and more robust classpath handling
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ScalaNativeModule
: improved compiling and linking support -
new contrib module
VersionFile
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Dependency
: improved dependency update checker and expose results for programmatic use -
ǹew contrib module
Bintray
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ǹew contrib module
Artifactory
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fixed testCached support in various modules
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GenIdea
: improvements, esp. related to source jars
For details refer to milestone 0.6.2 and the list of commits.
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Bugfix: Mill now no longer leaks open files (version bump to uPickle 1.0.0)
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New
--version
option -
Added Support for Scala.js 1.0.0+
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Added Support for Scala Native 0.4.0-M2
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JavaModule
: EnhancedivyDepsTree
to optionally include compile-time and runtime-time dependencies -
JavaModule
:allSourceFiles
no longer include Scala sources -
JavaModule
: assembly supports configurable separator when merging resources -
ScoverageModule
: respectunmanagedClasspath
, added console reporter -
ScalaPBModule
: added more configuration options -
Bloop: Fixed inconsistent working directory when executing tests via bloop (forces
-Duser.dir
when generating bloop config)
For details refer to milestone 0.6.1 and the list of commits.
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Support for METALS 0.8.0 in VSCode
For details refer to milestone 0.6.0 and the list of commits.
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Bump library versions again
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Alias
T.ctx.
functions toT.
:T.dest
,T.log
, etc. -
Bump Mill’s client-connect-to-server timeout, to reduce flakiness when the server is taking a moment to start up
For details refer to the list of commits.
Version 0.5.8 has some binary compatibility issues in requests-scala/geny and should not be used.
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Bump library versions: Ammonite 2.0.1, uPickle 0.9.6, Scalatags 0.8.3, OS-Lib 0.6.2, Requests 0.4.7, Geny 0.4.2
For details refer to milestone 0.5.7 and the list of commits.
(we skipped version 0.5.4 as we had some publishing issues)
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Bump library versions: Ammonite 1.9.2, uPickle 0.9.0, Scalatags 0.8.2, OS-Lib 0.5.0, Requests 0.3.0, Geny 0.2.0, uTest 0.7.1
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Fixed a long standing issue that output of sub-processes are only shown when
-i
option was used. Now, you will always seen output of sub-process. -
Mill now properly restarts it’s server after it’s version has changed
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PublishModule
: added ability to publish into non-staging repositories -
ScalaPBModule
: added extra include path option
For details refer to milestone 0.5.5 and the list of commits.
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GenIdea/idea
: improved support for generated sources and use/download sources in more cases -
ScalaJS: improvements and support for ScalaJS 0.6.29+ and 1.0.1.RC1
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Introduced new
CoursierModule
to use dependency management independent from a compiler -
ScoverageModule
: better handling of report directories -
ScalaPBModule
: more configuration options -
various other fixes and improvements
For details refer to milestone 0.5.3 and the list of commits.
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TestModule
: new `testCached`target, which only re-runs tests after relevant changes -
TestModule.test
: fixed issue when stacktraces have no filename info -
Dependency/updates
: fixed issue with reading stale dependencies -
GenIdea/idea
: no longer shared output directories between mill and IntelliJ IDEA -
support for Dotty >= 0.18.1
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Fixed backwards compatibility of mill wrapper script
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Mill now support the Build Server Protocol 2.0 (BSP) and can act as a build server
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bloop: removed semanticDB dependency
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Documentation updates
For details refer to milestone 0.5.2 and the list of commits.
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GenIdea: Bug fixes
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GenIdea: Support for module specific extensions (Facets) and additional config files
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Add ability to define JAR manifests
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Dotty support: Updates and support for binary compiler bridges
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Ivy: improved API to create optional dependendies
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Interpolate
$MILL_VERSION
in ivy imports -
Zinc: Fixed logger output
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Scoverage: Upgrade to Scoverage 1.4.0
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Flyway: Upgrade to Flyway 6.0.1
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Bloop: Updated semanticDB version to 4.2.2
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Documentation updates
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Improved robustness in release/deployment process
For details refer to milestone 0.5.1 and the list of commits.
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Mill now supports a
./mill
bootstrap script, allowing a project to pin the version of Mill it requires, as well as letting contributors use./mill …
to begin development without needing to install Mill beforehand. -
Support for a
.mill-version
file orMILL_VERSION
environment variable for Overriding Mill Versions -
Fix scoverage: inherit repositories from outer project #645
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Publish
compileIvyDeps
as provided scope (535) -
Added contrib modules to integrate Bloop, Flyway, Play Framework, Scoverage
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Allow configuration of GPG key names when publishing (530)
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Bump Ammonite version to 1.6.7, making Requests-Scala available to use in your
build.sc
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Support for Scala 2.13.0-RC2
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ScalaFmt support now uses the version specified in
.scalafmt.conf
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Started to splitting out mill.api from mill.core
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Avoid unnecessary dependency downloading by providing fetches per cache policy
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Added detailed dependency download progress to the progress ticker
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Fixed internal code generator to support large projects
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Zinc worker: compiler bridge can be either pre-compiled or on-demand-compiled
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Zinc worker: configurable scala library/compiler jar discovery
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Zinc worker: configurable compiler cache supporting parallelism
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Version bumps: ammonite 1.6.0, scala 2.12.8, zinc 1.2.5
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Mill now by default fails fast, so in case a build tasks fails, it exits immediately
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Added new
-k
/--keep-going
commandline option to disable fail fast behaviour and continue build as long as possible in case of a failure
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Mill is now bundled with OS-Lib, providing a simpler way of dealing with filesystem APIs and subprocesses
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Added new
debug
method to context logger, to log additional debug info into the task specific output dir (out/<task>/log
) -
Added
--debug
option to enable debug output to STDERR -
Fix
ScalaModule#docJar
task when Scala minor versions differ 475
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Add
visualizePlan
command -
Basic build-info plugin in
mill-contrib-buildinfo
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ScalaPB integration in
mill-contrib-scalapblib
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Fixes for Twirl support, now in
mill-contrib-twirllib
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Support for building Dotty projects #397
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Allow customization of
run
/runBackground
working directory viaforkWorkingDir
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Reduced executable size, improved incremental compilation in #414
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Improve incremental compilation to work with transitive module dependencies
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Speed up hot compilation performance by properly re-using classloaders
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Speed up compilation time of
build.sc
files by removing duplicate macro generated routing code
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Add
.runBackground
and.runMainBackground
commands, to run something in the background without waiting for it to return. The process will keep running until it exits normally, or until the same.runBackground
command is run a second time to spawn a new version of the process. Can be used with-w
for auto-reloading of long-running servers. -
Scala-Native support. Try it out!
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Add
--disable-ticker
to reduce spam in CI -
Fix propagation of
--color
flag
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Fix resolution of
scala-{library,compiler,reflect}
in case of conflict -
Allow configuration of
JavaModule
andScalafmtModule
scala workers -
Allow hyphens in module and task names
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Fix publishing of ScalaJS modules to properly handle upstream ScalaJS dependencies
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Added the mill show visualize command, making it easy to visualize the relationships between various tasks and modules in your Mill build.
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Improve Intellij support (351): better jump-to-definition for third-party libraries, no longer stomping over manual configuration, and better handling of
import $ivy
in your build file. -
Support for un-signed publishing and cases where your GPG key has no passphrase (346)
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Basic support for Twirl, Play Framework’s templating language (271)
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Better performance for streaming large amounts of stdout from Mill’s daemon process.
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Allow configuration of append/exclude rules in
ScalaModule#assembly
(309)
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Preserve caches when transitioning between
-i
/--interactive
and the fast client/server mode (329) -
Keep Mill daemon running if you Ctrl-C during
-w
/--watch
mode (327) -
Allow
mill version
to run without a build file (328) -
Make
docJar
(and thus publishing) robust against scratch files in the source directories (334) and work with Scala compiler options (336) -
Allow passing Ammonite command-line options to the
foo.repl
command (333) -
Add
mill clean
(315) to easily delete the Mill build caches for specific targets -
Improve IntelliJ integration of `MavenModule`s/`SbtModule`s' test folders (298)
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Avoid showing useless stack traces when
foo.test
result-reporting fails orfoo.run
fails -
ScalaFmt support (308)
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Allow
ScalaModule#generatedSources
to allow single files (previous you could only pass in directories)
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Universal (combined batch/sh) script generation for launcher, assembly, and release (#264)
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Windows client/server improvements (#262)
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Windows repl support (note: MSYS2 subsystem/shell will be supported when jline3 v3.6.3 is released)
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Fixed Java 9 support
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Remove need for running
publishAll
using--interactive
when on OSX and your GPG key has a passphrase -
First-class support for `JavaModule`s
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Properly pass compiler plugins to Scaladoc (#282)
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Support for ivy version-pinning via
ivy"…".forceVersion()
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Support for ivy excludes via
ivy"…".exclude()
(#254) -
Make
ivyDepsTree
properly handle transitive dependencies (#226) -
Fix handling of
runtime
-scoped ivy dependencies (#173) -
Make environment variables available to Mill builds (#257)
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Support ScalaCheck test runner (#286)
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Support for using Typelevel Scala (#275)
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If a module depends on multiple submodules with different versions of an ivy dependency, only one version is resolved (#273)
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Support for non-interactive (client/server) mode on Windows.
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More fixes for Java 9
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Bumped the Mill daemon timeout from 1 minute to 5 minutes of inactivity before it shuts down.
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Avoid leaking Node.js subprocesses when running
ScalaJSModule
tests -
Passing command-line arguments with spaces in them to tests no longer parses wrongly
-
ScalaModule#repositories
,scalacPluginIvyDeps
,scalacOptions
,javacOptions
are now automatically propagated toTests
modules -
ScalaJSModule
linking errors no longer show a useless stack trace -
ScalaModule#docJar
now properly uses the compileClasspath rather than runClasspath -
Bumped underlying Ammonite version to 1.1.0, which provides the improved Windows and Java 9 support
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Fixes for non-interactive (client/server) mode on Java 9
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Windows batch (.bat) generation for launcher, assembly, and release
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Introduced the
mill plan foo.bar
command, which shows you what the execution plan of running thefoo.bar
task looks like without actually evaluating it. -
Mill now generates an
out/mill-profile.json
file containing task-timings, to make it easier to see where your mill evaluation time is going -
Introduced
ScalaModule#ivyDepsTree
command to show dependencies tree -
Rename
describe
toinspect
for consistency with SBT -
mill resolve
now prints results sorted alphabetically -
Node.js configuration can be customised with
ScalaJSModule#nodeJSConfig
-
Scala.js
fullOpt
now uses Google Closure Compiler after generating the optimized Javascript output -
Scala.js now supports
NoModule
andCommonJSModule
module kinds -
Include
compileIvyDeps
when generating IntelliJ projects -
Fixed invalid POM generation
-
Support for Java 9 (and 10)
-
Fixes for Windows support
-
Fixed test classes discovery by skipping interfaces
-
Include "optional" artifacts in dependency resolution if they exist
-
out/{module_name}
now added as a content root in generated IntelliJ project
-
Speed up Mill client initialization by another 50-100ms
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Speed up incremental `assembly`s in the common case where upstream dependencies do not change.
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Make
ScalaJSModule#run
work with main-method discovery -
Make
ScalaWorkerModule
user-defineable, so you can use your own custom coursier resolvers when resolving Mill’s own jars -
Simplify definitions of
SCM
strings -
Make the build REPL explicitly require
-i
/--interactive
to run -
Log a message when Mill is initializing the Zinc compiler interface
-
Greatly reduced the overhead of evaluating Mill tasks, with a warm already-cached
mill dev.launcher
now taking ~450ms instead of ~1000ms -
Mill now saves compiled build files in
~/.mill/ammonite
, which is configurable via the--home
CLI arg. -
Fixed linking of multi-module Scala.js projects
-
Mill now keeps a long-lived work-daemon around in between commands; this should improve performance of things like
compile
which benefit from the warm JVM. You can use-i
/--interactive
for interactive consoles/REPLs and for running commands without the daemon -
Implemented the
ScalaModule#launcher
target for easily creating command-line launchers you can run outside of Mill -
ScalaModule#docJar
no longer fails if you don’t havescala-compiler
on classpath -
Support for multiple
testFrameworks
in a test module.