CHANGES.md

Change log for kotlinx.coroutines

Version 1.7.0-RC

• Kotlin version is updated to 1.8.20.
• Atomicfu version is updated to 0.20.2.
• JavaFx version is updated to 17.0.2 in kotlinx-coroutines-javafx (#3671).
• previous-compilation-data.bin file is removed from JAR resources (#3668).
• CoroutineDispatcher.asExecutor() runs tasks without dispatching if the dispatcher is unconfined (#3683). Thanks @odedniv!
• SharedFlow.toMutableList lint overload is undeprecated (#3706).
• Channel.invokeOnClose is promoted to stable API (#3358).
• Improved lock contention in Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO during the startup phase (#3652).
• Fixed a bug that led to threads oversubscription in Dispatchers.Default (#3642).
• Fixed a bug that allowed limitedParallelism to perform dispatches even after the underlying dispatcher was closed (#3672).
• Restored binary compatibility of previously experimental TestScope.runTest(Long) (#3673).

Version 1.7.0-Beta

Core API significant improvements

• New Channel implementation with significant performance improvements across the API (#3621).
• New select operator implementation: faster, more lightweight, and more robust (#3020).
• Mutex and Semaphore now share the same underlying data structure (#3020).
• Dispatchers.IO is added to K/N (#3205)
  • newFixedThreadPool and Dispatchers.Default implementations on K/N were wholly rewritten to support graceful growth under load (#3595).
• kotlinx-coroutines-test rework:
  • Add the timeout parameter to runTest for the whole-test timeout, 10 seconds by default (#3270). This replaces the configuration of quiescence timeouts, which is now deprecated (#3603).
  • The withTimeout exception messages indicate if the timeout used the virtual time (#3588).
  • TestCoroutineScheduler, runTest, and TestScope API are promoted to stable (#3622).
  • runTest now also fails if there were uncaught exceptions in coroutines not inherited from the test coroutine (#1205).

Breaking changes

• Old K/N memory model is no longer supported (#3375).
• New generic upper bounds were added to reactive integration API where the language since 1.8.0 dictates (#3393).
• kotlinx-coroutines-core and kotlinx-coroutines-jdk8 artifacts were merged into a single artifact (#3268).
• Artificial stackframes in stacktrace recovery no longer contain the \b symbol and are now navigable in IDE and supplied with proper documentation (#2291).
• CoroutineContext.isActive returns true for contexts without any job in them (#3300).

Bug fixes and improvements

• Kotlin version is updated to 1.8.10.
• JPMS is supported (#2237). Thanks @lion7!
• BroadcastChannel and all the corresponding API are deprecated (#2680).
• Added all supported K/N targets (#3601, #812, #855).
• K/N Dispatchers.Default is backed by the number of threads equal to the number of available cores (#3366).
• Fixed an issue where some coroutines' internal exceptions were not properly serializable (#3328).
• Introduced Job.parent API (#3201).
• Fixed a bug when TestScheduler leaked cancelled jobs (#3398).
• TestScope.timeSource now provides comparable time marks (#3617). Thanks @hfhbd!
• Fixed an issue when cancelled withTimeout handles were preserved in JS runtime (#3440).
• Ensure awaitFrame only awaits a single frame when used from the main looper (#3432). Thanks @pablobaxter!
• Obsolete Class-Path attribute was removed from kotlinx-coroutines-debug.jar manifest (#3361).
• Fixed a bug when updateThreadContext operated on the parent context (#3411).
• Added new Flow.filterIsInstance extension (#3240).
• Dispatchers.Default thread name prefixes are now configurable with system property (#3231).
• Added Flow.timeout operator as @FlowPreview (#2624). Thanks @pablobaxter!
• Improved the performance of the future builder in case of exceptions (#3475). Thanks @He-Pin!
• Mono.awaitSingleOrNull now waits for the onComplete signal (#3487).
• Channel.isClosedForSend and Channel.isClosedForReceive are promoted from experimental to delicate (#3448).
• Fixed a data race in native EventLoop (#3547).
• Dispatchers.IO.limitedParallelism(valueLargerThanIOSize) no longer creates an additional wrapper (#3442). Thanks @dovchinnikov!
• Various @FlowPreview and @ExperimentalCoroutinesApi are promoted to experimental and stable respectively (#3542, #3097, #3548).
• Performance improvements in Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO (#3416, #3418).
• Fixed a bug when internal suspendCancellableCoroutineReusable might have hanged (#3613).
• Introduced internal API to process events in the current system dispatcher (#3439).
• Global CoroutineExceptionHandler is no longer invoked in case of unprocessed future failure (#3452).
• Performance improvements and reduced thread-local pressure for the withContext operator (#3592).
• Improved performance of DebugProbes (#3527).
• Fixed a bug when the coroutine debugger might have detected the state of a coroutine incorrectly (#3193).
• Various documentation improvements and fixes.

Version 1.6.4

• Added TestScope.backgroundScope for launching coroutines that perform work in the background and need to be cancelled at the end of the test (#3287).
• Fixed the POM of kotlinx-coroutines-debug having an incorrect reference to kotlinx-coroutines-bom, which cause the builds of Maven projects using the debug module to break (#3334).
• Fixed the Publisher.await functions in kotlinx-coroutines-reactive not ensuring that the Subscriber methods are invoked serially (#3360). Thank you, @EgorKulbachka!
• Fixed a memory leak in withTimeout on K/N with the new memory model (#3351).
• Added the guarantee that all Throwable implementations in the core library are serializable (#3328).
• Moved the documentation to https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/ (#3342).
• Various documentation improvements.

Version 1.6.3

• Updated atomicfu version to 0.17.3 (#3321), fixing the projects using this library with JS IR failing to build (#3305).

Version 1.6.2

• Fixed a bug with ThreadLocalElement not being correctly updated when the most outer suspend function was called directly without kotlinx.coroutines (#2930).
• Fixed multiple data races: one that might have been affecting runBlocking event loop, and a benign data race in Mutex (#3250, #3251).
• Obsolete TestCoroutineContext is removed, which fixes the kotlinx-coroutines-test JPMS package being split between kotlinx-coroutines-core and kotlinx-coroutines-test (#3218).
• Updated the ProGuard rules to further shrink the size of the resulting DEX file with coroutines (#3111, #3263). Thanks, @agrieve!
• Atomicfu is updated to 0.17.2, which includes a more efficient and robust JS IR transformer (#3255).
• Kotlin is updated to 1.6.21, Gradle version is updated to 7.4.2 (#3281). Thanks, @wojtek-kalicinski!
• Various documentation improvements.

Version 1.6.1

• Rollback of time-related functions dispatching on Dispatchers.Main. This behavior was introduced in 1.6.0 and then found inconvenient and erroneous (#3106, #3113).
• Reworked the newly-introduced CopyableThreadContextElement to solve issues uncovered after the initial release (#3227).
• Fixed a bug with ThreadLocalElement not being properly updated in racy scenarios (#2930).
• Reverted eager loading of default CoroutineExceptionHandler that triggered ANR on some devices (#3180).
• New API to convert a CoroutineDispatcher to a Rx scheduler (#968, #548). Thanks @recheej!
• Fixed a memory leak with the very last element emitted from flow builder being retained in memory (#3197).
• Fixed a bug with limitedParallelism on K/N with new memory model throwing ClassCastException (#3223).
• CoroutineContext is added to the exception printed to the default CoroutineExceptionHandler to improve debuggability (#3153).
• Static memory consumption of Dispatchers.Default was significantly reduced (#3137).
• Updated slf4j version in kotlinx-coroutines-slf4j from 1.7.25 to 1.7.32.

Version 1.6.0

Note that this is a full changelog relative to the 1.5.2 version. Changelog relative to 1.6.0-RC3 can be found at the end.

kotlinx-coroutines-test rework

• kotlinx-coroutines-test became a multiplatform library usable from K/JVM, K/JS, and K/N.
• Its API was completely reworked to address long-standing issues with consistency, structured concurrency and correctness (#1203, #1609, #2379, #1749, #1204, #1390, #1222, #1395, #1881, #1910, #1772, #1626, #1742, #2082, #2102, #2405, #2462 ).
• The old API is deprecated for removal, but the new API is based on the similar concepts (README), and the migration path is designed to be graceful: migration guide.

Dispatchers

• Introduced CoroutineDispatcher.limitedParallelism that allows obtaining a view of the original dispatcher with limited parallelism (#2919).
• Dispatchers.IO.limitedParallelism usages ignore the bound on the parallelism level of Dispatchers.IO itself to avoid starvation (#2943).
• Introduced new Dispatchers.shutdown method for containerized environments (#2558).
• newSingleThreadContext and newFixedThreadPoolContext are promoted to delicate API (#2919).

Breaking changes

• When racing with cancellation, the future builder no longer reports unhandled exceptions into the global CoroutineExceptionHandler. Thanks @vadimsemenov! (#2774, #2791).
• Mutex.onLock is deprecated for removal (#2794).
• Dispatchers.Main is now used as the default source of time for delay and withTimeout when present(#2972).
  • To opt-out from this behaviour, kotlinx.coroutines.main.delay system property can be set to false.
• Java target of coroutines build is now 8 instead of 6 (#1589).
• Source-breaking change: extension collect no longer resolves when used with a non-in-place argument of a functional type. This is a candidate for a fix, uncovered after 1.6.0, see #3107 for the additional details.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Kotlin is updated to 1.6.0.
• Kotlin/Native new memory model is now supported in regular builds of coroutines conditionally depending on whether kotlin.native.binary.memoryModel is enabled (#2914).
• Introduced CopyableThreadContextElement for mutable context elements shared among multiple coroutines. Thanks @yorickhenning! (#2893).
• transformWhile, awaitClose, ProducerScope, merge, runningFold, runingReduce, and scan are promoted to stable API (#2971).
• SharedFlow.subscriptionCount no longer conflates incoming updates and gives all subscribers a chance to observe a short-lived subscription (#2488, #2863, #2871).
• Flow exception transparency mechanism is improved to be more exception-friendly (#3017, #2860).
• Cancellation from flat* operators that leverage multiple coroutines is no longer propagated upstream (#2964).
• SharedFlow.collect now returns Nothing (#2789, #2502).
• DisposableHandle is now fun interface, and corresponding inline extension is removed (#2790).
• FlowCollector is now fun interface, and corresponding inline extension is removed (#3047).
• Deprecation level of all previously deprecated signatures is raised (#3024).
• The version file is shipped with each JAR as a resource (#2941).
• Unhandled exceptions on K/N are passed to the standard library function processUnhandledException (#2981).
• A direct executor is used for Task callbacks in kotlinx-coroutines-play-services (#2990).
• Metadata of coroutines artifacts leverages Gradle platform to have all versions of dependencies aligned (#2865).
• Default CoroutineExceptionHandler is loaded eagerly and does not invoke ServiceLoader on its exception-handling path (#2552).
• Fixed the R8 rules for ServiceLoader optimization (#2880).
• Fixed BlockHound integration false-positives (#2894, #2866, #2937).
• Fixed the exception handler being invoked several times on Android, thanks to @1zaman (#3056).
• SendChannel.trySendBlocking is now available on Kotlin/Native (#3064).
• The exception recovery mechanism now uses ClassValue when available (#2997).
• JNA is updated to 5.9.0 to support Apple M1 (#3001).
• Obsolete method on internal Delay interface is deprecated (#2979).
• Support of deprecated CommonPool is removed.
• @ExperimentalTime is no longer needed for methods that use Duration (#3041).
• JDK 1.6 is no longer required for building the project (#3043).
• New version of Dokka is used, fixing the memory leak when building the coroutines and providing brand new reference visuals (https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/) (#3051, #3054).

Changelog relative to version 1.6.0-RC3

• Restored MPP binary compatibility on K/JS and K/N (#3104).
• Fixed Dispatchers.Main not being fully initialized on Android and Swing (#3101).

Version 1.6.0-RC3

• Fixed the error in 1.6.0-RC2 because of which Flow.collect couldn't be called due to the @InternalCoroutinesApi annotation (#3082)
• Fixed some R8 warnings introduced in 1.6.0-RC (#3090)
• TestCoroutineScheduler now provides a TimeSource with its virtual time via the timeSource property. Thanks @hfhbd! (#3087)

Version 1.6.0-RC2

• @ExperimentalTime is no longer needed for methods that use Duration (#3041).
• FlowCollector is now fun interface, and corresponding inline extension is removed (#3047).
• Fixed the exception handler being invoked several times on Android, thanks to @1zaman (#3056).
• The deprecated TestCoroutineScope is no longer sealed, to simplify migration from it (#3072).
• runTest gives more informative errors when it times out waiting for external completion (#3071).
• SendChannel.trySendBlocking is now available on Kotlin/Native (#3064).
• Fixed the bug due to which Dispatchers.Main was not used for delay and withTimeout (#3046).
• JDK 1.6 is no longer required for building the project (#3043).
• New version of Dokka is used, fixing the memory leak when building the coroutines and providing brand new reference visuals (https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/) (#3051, #3054).

Version 1.6.0-RC

kotlinx-coroutines-test rework

• kotlinx-coroutines-test became a multiplatform library usable from K/JVM, K/JS, and K/N.
• Its API was completely reworked to address long-standing issues with consistency, structured concurrency and correctness (#1203, #1609, #2379, #1749, #1204, #1390, #1222, #1395, #1881, #1910, #1772, #1626, #1742, #2082, #2102, #2405, #2462 ).
• The old API is deprecated for removal, but the new API is based on the similar concepts (README), and the migration path is designed to be graceful: migration guide

Dispatchers

• Introduced CoroutineDispatcher.limitedParallelism that allows obtaining a view of the original dispatcher with limited parallelism (#2919).
• Dispatchers.IO.limitedParallelism usages ignore the bound on the parallelism level of Dispatchers.IO itself to avoid starvation (#2943).
• Introduced new Dispatchers.shutdown method for containerized environments (#2558).
• newSingleThreadContext and newFixedThreadPoolContext are promoted to delicate API (#2919).

Breaking changes

• When racing with cancellation, the future builder no longer reports unhandled exceptions into the global CoroutineExceptionHandler. Thanks @vadimsemenov! (#2774, #2791).
• Mutex.onLock is deprecated for removal (#2794).
• Dispatchers.Main is now used as the default source of time for delay and withTimeout when present(#2972).
  • To opt-out from this behaviour, kotlinx.coroutines.main.delay system property can be set to false.
• Java target of coroutines build is now 8 instead of 6 (#1589).

Bug fixes and improvements

• Kotlin is updated to 1.6.0.
• Kotlin/Native new memory model is now supported in regular builds of coroutines conditionally depending on whether kotlin.native.binary.memoryModel is enabled (#2914).
• Introduced CopyableThreadContextElement for mutable context elements shared among multiple coroutines. Thanks @yorickhenning! (#2893).
• transformWhile, awaitClose, ProducerScope, merge, runningFold, runingReduce, and scan are promoted to stable API (#2971).
• SharedFlow.subscriptionCount no longer conflates incoming updates and gives all subscribers a chance to observe a short-lived subscription (#2488, #2863, #2871).
• Flow exception transparency mechanism is improved to be more exception-friendly (#3017, #2860).
• Cancellation from flat* operators that leverage multiple coroutines is no longer propagated upstream (#2964).
• SharedFlow.collect now returns Nothing (#2789, #2502).
• DisposableHandle is now fun interface, and corresponding inline extension is removed (#2790).
• Deprecation level of all previously deprecated signatures is raised (#3024).
• The version file is shipped with each JAR as a resource (#2941).
• Unhandled exceptions on K/N are passed to the standard library function processUnhandledException (#2981).
• A direct executor is used for Task callbacks in kotlinx-coroutines-play-services (#2990).
• Metadata of coroutines artifacts leverages Gradle platform to have all versions of dependencies aligned (#2865).
• Default CoroutineExceptionHandler is loaded eagerly and does not invoke ServiceLoader on its exception-handling path (#2552).
• Fixed the R8 rules for ServiceLoader optimization (#2880).
• Fixed BlockHound integration false-positives (#2894, #2866, #2937).
• The exception recovery mechanism now uses ClassValue when available (#2997).
• JNA is updated to 5.9.0 to support Apple M1 (#3001).
• Obsolete method on internal Delay interface is deprecated (#2979).
• Support of deprecated CommonPool is removed.

Version 1.5.2

• Kotlin is updated to 1.5.30.
• New native targets for Apple Silicon are introduced.
• Fixed a bug when onUndeliveredElement was incorrectly called on a properly received elements on JS (#2826).
• Fixed Dispatchers.Default on React Native, it now fully relies on setTimeout instead of stub process.nextTick. Thanks to @Legion2 (#2843).
• Optimizations of Mutex implementation (#2581).
• Mutex implementation is made completely lock-free as stated (#2590).
• Various documentation and guides improvements. Thanks to @MasoodFallahpoor and @Pihanya.

Version 1.5.1

• Atomic update, getAndUpdate, and updateAndGet operations of MutableStateFlow (#2720).
• Executor.asCoroutineDispatcher implementation improvements (#2601):
  • If the target executor is ScheduledExecutorService, then its schedule API is used for time-related coroutine operations.
  • RemoveOnCancelPolicy is now part of the public contract.
• Introduced overloads for Task.asDeferred and Task.await that accept CancellationTokenSource for bidirectional cancellation (#2527).
• Reactive streams are updated to 1.0.3 (#2740).
• CopyableThrowable is allowed to modify the exception message during stacktrace recovery (#1931).
• CoroutineDispatcher.releaseInterceptedContinuation is now a final method (#2785).
• Closing a Handler underlying Handler.asCoroutineDispatcher now causes the dispatched coroutines to be canceled on Dispatchers.IO (#2778).
• Kotlin is updated to 1.5.20.
• Fixed a spurious ClassCastException in releaseInterceptedContinuation and IllegalStateException from tryReleaseClaimedContinuation (#2736, #2768).
• Fixed inconsistent exception message during stacktrace recovery for non-suspending channel iterators (#2749).
• Fixed linear stack usage for CompletableFuture.asDeferred when the target future has a long chain of listeners (#2730).
• Any exceptions from CoroutineDispatcher.isDispatchNeeded are now considered as fatal and are propagated to the caller (#2733).
• Internal DebugProbesKt (used in the debugger implementation) are moved from debug to core module.

Version 1.5.0

Note that this is a full changelog relative to 1.4.3 version. Changelog relative to 1.5.0-RC can be found in the end.

Channels API

• Major channels API rework (#330, #974). Existing offer, poll, and sendBlocking methods are deprecated, internal receiveCatching and onReceiveCatching removed, receiveOrNull and onReceiveOrNull are completely deprecated. Previously deprecated SendChannel.isFull declaration is removed. Channel operators deprecated with ERROR are now HIDDEN.
• New methods receiveCatching, onReceiveCatching trySend, tryReceive, and trySendBlocking along with the new result type ChannelResult are introduced. They provide better type safety, are less error-prone, and have a consistent future-proof naming scheme. The full rationale behind this change can be found here.
• BroadcastChannel and ConflatedBroadcastChannel are marked as ObsoleteCoroutinesApi in the favor or SharedFlow and StateFlow. The migration scheme can be found in their documentation. These classes will be deprecated in the next major release.
• callbackFlow and channelFlow are promoted to stable API.

Reactive integrations

• All existing API in modules kotlinx-coroutines-rx2, kotlinx-coroutines-rx3, kotlinx-coroutines-reactive, kotlinx-coroutines-reactor, and kotlinx-coroutines-jdk9 were revisited and promoted to stable (#2545).
• publish is no longer allowed to emit null values (#2646).
• Misleading awaitSingleOr* functions on Publisher type are deprecated (#2591).
• MaybeSource.await is deprecated in the favor of awaitSingle, additional lint functions for Mono are added in order to prevent ambiguous Publisher usages (#2628, #1587).
• ContextView support in kotlinx-coroutines-reactor (#2575).
• All reactive builders no longer ignore inner cancellation exceptions preventing their completion (#2262, #2646).
• MaybeSource.collect and Maybe.collect properly finish when they are completed without a value (#2617).
• All exceptions are now consistently handled according to reactive specification, whether they are considered 'fatal' or not by reactive frameworks (#2646).

Other improvements

• Kotlin version is upgraded to 1.5.0 and JVM target is updated to 1.8.
• Flow.last and Flow.lastOrNull operators (#2246).
• Flow.runningFold operator (#2641).
• CoroutinesTimeout rule for JUnit5 (#2197).
• Internals of Job and AbstractCoroutine was reworked, resulting in smaller code size, less memory footprint, and better performance (#2513, #2512).
• CancellationException from Kotlin standard library is used for cancellation on Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/Native (#2638).
• Introduced new DelicateCoroutinesApi annotation that warns users about potential target API pitfalls and suggests studying API's documentation first. The only delicate API right now is GlobalScope (#2637).
• Fixed bug introduced in 1.4.3 when kotlinx-coroutines-core.jar triggered IDEA debugger failure (#2619).
• Fixed memory leak of ChildHandlerNode with reusable continuations (#2564).
• Various documentation improvements (#2555, #2589, #2592, #2583, #2437, #2616, #2633, #2560).

Changelog relative to version 1.5.0-RC

• Fail-fast during emitAll called from cancelled onCompletion operator (#2700).
• Flows returned by stateIn/shareIn keep strong reference to sharing job (#2557).
• Rename internal TimeSource to AbstractTimeSource due to import issues (#2691).
• Reverted the change that triggered IDEA coroutines debugger crash (#2695, reverted #2291).
• watchosX64 target support for Kotlin/Native (#2524).
• Various documentation fixes and improvements.

Version 1.5.0-RC

Channels API

• Major channels API rework (#330, #974). Existing offer, poll, and sendBlocking methods are deprecated, internal receiveCatching and onReceiveCatching removed, receiveOrNull and onReceiveOrNull are completely deprecated. Previously deprecated SendChannel.isFull declaration is removed. Channel operators deprecated with ERROR are now HIDDEN.
• New methods receiveCatching, onReceiveCatching trySend, tryReceive, and trySendBlocking along with the new result type ChannelResult are introduced. They provide better type safety, are less error-prone, and have a consistent future-proof naming scheme. The full rationale behind this change can be found here.
• BroadcastChannel and ConflatedBroadcastChannel are marked as ObsoleteCoroutinesApi in the favor or SharedFlow and StateFlow. The migration scheme can be found in their documentation. These classes will be deprecated in the next major release.
• callbackFlow and channelFlow are promoted to stable API.

Reactive integrations

• All existing API in modules kotlinx-coroutines-rx2, kotlinx-coroutines-rx3, kotlinx-coroutines-reactive, kotlinx-coroutines-reactor, and kotlinx-coroutines-jdk9 were revisited and promoted to stable (#2545).
• publish is no longer allowed to emit null values (#2646).
• Misleading awaitSingleOr* functions on Publisher type are deprecated (#2591).
• MaybeSource.await is deprecated in the favor of awaitSingle, additional lint functions for Mono are added in order to prevent ambiguous Publisher usages (#2628, #1587).
• ContextView support in kotlinx-coroutines-reactor (#2575).
• All reactive builders no longer ignore inner cancellation exceptions preventing their completion (#2262, #2646).
• MaybeSource.collect and Maybe.collect properly finish when they are completed without a value (#2617).
• All exceptions are now consistently handled according to reactive specification, whether they are considered 'fatal' or not by reactive frameworks (#2646).

Other improvements

• Flow.last and Flow.lastOrNull operators (#2246).
• Flow.runningFold operator (#2641).
• CoroutinesTimeout rule for JUnit5 (#2197).
• Internals of Job and AbstractCoroutine was reworked, resulting in smaller code size, less memory footprint, and better performance (#2513, #2512).
• CancellationException from Kotlin standard library is used for cancellation on Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/Native (#2638).
• Introduced new DelicateCoroutineApi annotation that warns users about potential target API pitfalls and suggests studying API's documentation first. The only delicate API right now is GlobalScope (#2637).
• Fixed bug introduced in 1.4.3 when kotlinx-coroutines-core.jar triggered IDEA debugger failure (#2619).
• Fixed memory leak of ChildHandlerNode with reusable continuations (#2564).
• Various documentation improvements (#2555, #2589, #2592, #2583, #2437, #2616, #2633, #2560).

Version 1.4.3

General changes

• Thread context is properly preserved and restored for coroutines without ThreadContextElement (#985)
• ThreadContextElements are now restored in the opposite order from update (#2195)
• Improved performance of combine with 4 parameters, thanks to @alexvanyo (#2419)
• Debug agent sanitizer leaves at least one frame with source location (#1437)
• Update Reactor version in kotlinx-coroutines-reactor to 3.4.1, thanks to @sokomishalov (#2432)
• callInPlace contract added to ReceiveChannel.consume (#941)
• CoroutineStart.UNDISPATCHED promoted to stable API (#1393)
• Kotlin updated to 1.4.30
• kotlinx.coroutines are now released directly to MavenCentral
• Reduced the size of DispatchedCoroutine by a field
• Internal class TimeSource renamed to SchedulerTimeSource to prevent wildcard import issues (#2537)

Bug fixes

• Fixed the problem that prevented implementation via delegation for Job interface (#2423)
• Fixed incorrect ProGuard rules that allowed shrinking volatile felds (#1564)
• Fixed await/asDeferred for MinimalStage implementations in jdk8 module (#2456)
• Fixed bug when onUndeliveredElement wasn't called for unlimited channels (#2435)
• Fixed a bug when ListenableFuture.isCancelled returned from asListenableFuture could have thrown an exception, thanks to @vadimsemenov (#2421)
• Coroutine in callbackFlow and produce is properly cancelled when the channel was closed separately (#2506)

Version 1.4.2

• Fixed StackOverflowError in Job.toString when Job is observed in its intermediate state (#2371).
• Improved liveness and latency of Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO in low-loaded mode (#2381).
• Improved performance of consecutive Channel.cancel invocations (#2384).
• SharingStarted is now fun interface (#2397).
• Additional lint settings for SharedFlow to catch programmatic errors early (#2376).
• Fixed bug when mutex and semaphore were not released during cancellation (#2390, thanks to @Tilps for reproducing).
• Some corner cases in cancellation propagation between coroutines and listenable futures are repaired (#1442, thanks to @vadimsemenov).
• Fixed unconditional cast to CoroutineStackFrame in exception recovery that triggered failures of instrumented code (#2386).
• Platform-specific dependencies are removed from kotlinx-coroutines-javafx (#2360).

Version 1.4.1

This is a patch release with an important fix to the SharedFlow implementation.

• SharedFlow: Fix scenario with concurrent emitters and cancellation of subscriber (#2359, thanks to @vehovsky for the bug report).

Version 1.4.0

Improvements

• StateFlow, SharedFlow and corresponding operators are promoted to stable API (#2316).
• Flow.debounce operator with timeout selector based on each individual element is added (#1216, thanks to @mkano9!).
• CoroutineContext.job extension property is introduced (#2159).
• Flow.combine operator is reworked:
  • Complete fairness is maintained for single-threaded dispatchers.
  • Its performance is improved, depending on the use-case, by at least 50% (#2296).
  • Quadratic complexity depending on the number of upstream flows is eliminated (#2296).
  • crossinline and inline-heavy internals are removed, fixing sporadic SIGSEGV on Mediatek Android devices (#1683, #1743).
• Flow.zip operator performance is improved by 40%.
• Various API has been promoted to stable or its deprecation level has been raised (#2316).

Bug fixes

• Suspendable stateIn operator propagates exception to the caller when upstream fails to produce initial value (#2329).
• Fix SharedFlow with replay for subscribers working at different speed (#2325).
• Do not fail debug agent installation when security manager does not provide access to system properties (#2311).
• Cancelled lazy coroutines are properly cleaned up from debug agent output (#2294).
• BlockHound false-positives are correctly filtered out (#2302, #2190, #2303).
• Potential crash during a race between cancellation and upstream in Observable.asFlow is fixed (#2104, #2299, thanks to @LouisCAD and @drinkthestars).

Version 1.4.0-M1

Breaking changes

• The concept of atomic cancellation in channels is removed. All operations in channels and corresponding Flow operators are cancellable in non-atomic way (#1813).
• If CoroutineDispatcher throws RejectedExecutionException, cancel current Job and schedule its execution to Dispatchers.IO (#2003).
• CancellableContinuation.invokeOnCancellation is invoked if the continuation was cancelled while its resume has been dispatched (#1915).
• Flow.singleOrNull operator is aligned with standard library and does not longer throw IllegalStateException on multiple values (#2289).

New experimental features

• SharedFlow primitive for managing hot sources of events with support of various subscription mechanisms, replay logs and buffering (#2034).
• Flow.shareIn and Flow.stateIn operators to transform cold instances of flow to hot SharedFlow and StateFlow respectively (#2047).

Other

• Support leak-free closeable resources transfer via onUndeliveredElement in channels (#1936).
• Changed ABI in reactive integrations for Java interoperability (#2182).
• Fixed ProGuard rules for kotlinx-coroutines-core (#2046, #2266).
• Lint settings were added to Flow to avoid accidental capturing of outer CoroutineScope for cancellation check (#2038).

External contributions

• Allow nullable types in Flow.firstOrNull and Flow.singleOrNull by @ansman (#2229).
• Add Publisher.awaitSingleOrDefault|Null|Else extensions by @sdeleuze (#1993).
• awaitCancellation top-level function by @LouisCAD (#2213).
• Significant part of our Gradle build scripts were migrated to .kts by @turansky.

Thank you for your contributions and participation in the Kotlin community!

Version 1.3.9

• Support of CoroutineContext in Flow.asPublisher and similar reactive builders (#2155).
• Kotlin updated to 1.4.0.
• Transition to new HMPP publication scheme for multiplatform usages:
  • Artifacts kotlinx-coroutines-core-common and kotlinx-coroutines-core-native are removed.
  • For multiplatform usages, it's enough to depend directly on kotlinx-coroutines-core in commonMain source-set.
  • The same artifact coordinates can be used to depend on platform-specific artifact in platform-specific source-set.

Version 1.3.8

New experimental features

• Added Flow.transformWhile operator (#2065).
• Replaced scanReduce with runningReduce to be consistent with the Kotlin standard library (#2139).

Bug fixes and improvements

• Improve user experience for the upcoming coroutines debugger (#2093, #2118, #2131).
• Debugger no longer retains strong references to the running coroutines (#2129).
• Fixed race in Flow.asPublisher (#2109).
• Fixed ensureActive to work in the empty context case to fix IllegalStateException when using flow from suspend fun main (#2044).
• Fixed a problem with AbortFlowException in the Flow.first operator to avoid erroneous NoSuchElementException (#2051).
• Fixed JVM dependency on Android annotations (#2075).
• Removed keep rules mentioning kotlinx.coroutines.android from core module (#2061 by @mkj-gram).
• Corrected some docs and examples (#2062, #2071, #2076, #2107, #2098, #2127, #2078, #2135).
• Improved the docs and guide on flow cancellation (#2043).
• Updated Gradle version to 6.3 (it only affects multiplatform artifacts in this release).

Version 1.3.7

• Fixed problem that triggered Android Lint failure (#2004).
• New Flow.cancellable() operator for cooperative cancellation (#2026).
• Emissions from flow builder now check cancellation status and are properly cancellable (#2026).
• New currentCoroutineContext function to use unambiguously in the contexts with CoroutineScope in receiver position (#2026).
• EXACTLY_ONCE contract support in coroutine builders.
• Various documentation improvements.

Version 1.3.6

Flow

• StateFlow, new primitive for state handling (#1973, #1816, #395). The StateFlow is designed to eventually replace ConflatedBroadcastChannel for state publication scenarios. Please, try it and share your feedback. Note, that Flow-based primitives to publish events will be added later. For events you should continue to either use BroadcastChannel(1), if you put events into the StateFlow, protect them from double-processing with flags.
• Flow.onEmpty operator is introduced (#1890).
• Behavioural change in Flow.onCompletion, it is aligned with invokeOnCompletion now and passes CancellationException to its cause parameter (#1693).
• A lot of Flow operators have left its experimental status and are promoted to stable API.

Other

• runInterruptible primitive to tie cancellation with thread interruption for blocking calls. Contributed by @jxdabc (#1947).
• Integration module with RxJava3 is introduced. Contributed by @ZacSweers (#1883)
• Integration with BlockHound in kotlinx-coroutines-debug module (#1821, #1060).
• Memory leak in ArrayBroadcastChannel is fixed (#1885).
• Behavioural change in suspendCancellableCoroutine, cancellation is established before invoking passed block argument (#1671).
• Debug agent internals are moved into kotlinx-coroutines-core for better integration with IDEA. It should not affect library users and all the redundant code should be properly eliminated with R8.
• ClassCastException with reusable continuations bug is fixed (#1966).
• More precise scheduler detection for Executor.asCoroutineDispatcher (#1992).
• Kotlin updated to 1.3.71.

Version 1.3.5

• firstOrNull operator. Contributed by @bradynpoulsen.
• java.time adapters for Flow operators. Contributed by @fvasco.
• kotlin.time.Duration support (#1402). Contributed by @fvasco.
• Memory leak with a mix of reusable and non-reusable continuations is fixed (#1855).
• DebugProbes are ready for production installation: its performance is increased, the flag to disable creation stacktraces to reduce the footprint is introduced (#1379, #1372).
• Stacktrace recovery workaround for Android 6.0 and earlier bug (#1866).
• New integration module: kotlinx-coroutines-jdk9 with adapters for java.util.concurrent.Flow.
• BroadcastChannel.close properly starts lazy coroutine (#1713).
• kotlinx-coroutines-bom is published without Gradle metadata.
• Make calls to service loader in reactor integrations optimizable by R8 (#1817).

Version 1.3.4

Flow

• Detect missing awaitClose calls in callbackFlow to make it less error-prone when used with callbacks (#1762, #1770). This change makes callbackFlow different from channelFlow.
• ReceiveChannel.asFlow extension is introduced (#1490).
• Enforce exception transparency invariant in flow builder (#1657).
• Proper Dispatcher support in Flow reactive integrations (#1765).
• Batch Subscription.request calls in Flow reactive integration (#766).
• ObservableValue.asFlow added to JavaFx integration module (#1695).
• ObservableSource.asFlow added to RxJava2 integration module (#1768).

Other changes

• kotlinx-coroutines-core is optimized for R8, making it much smaller for Android usages (75 KB for 1.3.4 release).
• Performance of Dispatchers.Default is improved (#1704, #1706).
• Kotlin is updated to 1.3.70.
• CoroutineDispatcher and ExecutorCoroutineDispatcher experimental coroutine context keys are introduced (#1805).
• Performance of various Channel operations is improved (#1565).

Version 1.3.3

Flow

• Flow.take performance is significantly improved (#1538).
• Flow.merge operator (#1491).
• Reactive Flow adapters are promoted to stable API (#1549).
• Reusable cancellable continuations were introduced that improved the performance of various flow operators and iteration over channels (#1534).
• Fixed interaction of multiple flows with take operator (#1610).
• Throw NoSuchElementException instead of UnsupportedOperationException for empty Flow in reduce operator (#1659).
• onCompletion now rethrows downstream exceptions on emit attempt (#1654).
• Allow non-emitting withContext from flow builder (#1616).

Debugging

• DebugProbes.dumpCoroutines is optimized to be able to print the 6-digit number of coroutines (#1535).
• Properly capture unstarted lazy coroutines in debugger (#1544).
• Capture coroutines launched from within a test constructor with CoroutinesTimeout test rule (#1542).
• Stacktraces of Job-related coroutine machinery are shortened and prettified (#1574).
• Stacktrace recovery unification that should provide a consistent experience recover of stacktrace (#1597).
• Stacktrace recovery for withTimeout is supported (#1625).
• Do not recover exception with a single String parameter constructor that is not a message (#1631).

Other features

• Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO rework: CPU consumption is significantly lower, predictable idle threads termination (#840, #1046, #1286).
• Avoid ServiceLoader for loading Dispatchers.Main (#1572, #1557, #878, #1606).
• Consistently handle undeliverable exceptions in RxJava and Reactor integrations (#252, #1614).
• yield support in immediate dispatchers (#1474).
• CompletableDeferred.completeWith(result: Result<T>) is introduced.
• Added support for tvOS and watchOS-based Native targets (#1596).

Bug fixes and improvements

• Kotlin version is updated to 1.3.61.
• CoroutineDispatcher.isDispatchNeeded is promoted to stable API (#1014).
• Livelock and stackoverflows in mutual select expressions are fixed (#1411, #504).
• Properly handle null values in ListenableFuture integration (#1510).
• Making ReceiveChannel.cancel linearizability-friendly.
• Linearizability of Channel.close in a complex contended cases (#1419).
• ArrayChannel.isBufferEmpty atomicity is fixed (#1526).
• Various documentation improvements.
• Reduced bytecode size of kotlinx-coroutines-core, reduced size of minified dex when using basic functionality of kotlinx-coroutines.

Version 1.3.2

This is a maintenance release that does not include any new features or bug fixes.

• Reactive integrations for Flow are promoted to stable API.
• Obsolete reactive API is deprecated.
• Deprecation level for API deprecated in 1.3.0 is increased.
• Various documentation improvements.

Version 1.3.1

This is a minor update with various fixes:

• Flow: Fix recursion in combineTransform<T1, T2, R> (#1466).
• Fixed race in the Semaphore (#1477).
• Repaired some of ListenableFuture.kt's cancellation corner cases (#1441).
• Consistently unwrap exception in slow path of CompletionStage.asDeferred (#1479).
• Various fixes in documentation (#1496, #1476, #1470, #1468).
• Various cleanups and additions in tests.

Note: Kotlin/Native artifacts are now published with Gradle metadata format version 1.0, so you will need Gradle version 5.3 or later to use this version of kotlinx.coroutines in your Kotlin/Native project.

Version 1.3.0

Flow

This version is the first stable release with Flow API.

All Flow API not marked with @FlowPreview or @ExperimentalCoroutinesApi annotations are stable and here to stay. Flow declarations marked with @ExperimentalCoroutinesApi have the same guarantees as regular experimental API. Please note that API marked with @FlowPreview have weak guarantees on source, binary and semantic compatibility.

Changelog

• A new guide section about Flow.
• CoroutineDispatcher.asExecutor extension (#1450).
• Fixed bug when select statement could report the same exception twice (#1433).
• Fixed context preservation in flatMapMerge in a case when collected values were immediately emitted to another flow (#1440).
• Reactive Flow integrations enclosing files are renamed for better interoperability with Java.
• Default buffer size in all Flow operators is increased to 64.
• Kotlin updated to 1.3.50.

Version 1.3.0-RC2

Flow improvements

• Operators for UI programming are reworked for the sake of consistency, naming scheme for operator overloads is introduced:

  • combineLatest is deprecated in the favor of combine.
  • combineTransform operator for non-trivial transformations (#1224).
  • Top-level combine and combineTransform overloads for multiple flows (#1262).
  • switchMap is deprecated. flatMapLatest, mapLatest and transformLatest are introduced instead (#1335).
  • collectLatest terminal operator (#1269).

• Improved cancellation support in flattenMerge (#1392).

• channelFlow cancellation does not leak to the parent (#1334).

• Fixed flow invariant enforcement for suspend fun main (#1421).

• delayEach and delayFlow are deprecated (#1429).

General changes

• Integration with Reactor context

  • Propagation of the coroutine context of await calls into Mono/Flux builder.
  • Publisher.asFlow propagates coroutine context from collect call to the Publisher.
  • New Flow.asFlux builder.

• ServiceLoader-code is adjusted to avoid I/O on the Main thread on newer (3.6.0+) Android toolchain.

• Stacktrace recovery support for minified builds on Android (#1416).

• Guava version in kotlinx-coroutines-guava updated to 28.0.

• setTimeout-based JS dispatcher for platforms where process is unavailable (#1404).

• Native, JS and common modules are added to kotlinx-coroutines-bom.

• Fixed bug with ignored acquiredPermits in Semaphore (#1423).

Version 1.3.0-RC

Flow

• Core Flow API is promoted to stable
• New basic Flow operators: withIndex, collectIndexed, distinctUntilChanged overload
• New core Flow operators: onStart and onCompletion
• ReceiveChannel.consumeAsFlow and emitAll (#1340)

General changes

• Kotlin updated to 1.3.41
• Added kotlinx-coroutines-bom with Maven Bill of Materials (#1110)
• Reactive integrations are seriously improved
  • All builders now are top-level functions instead of extensions on CoroutineScope and prohibit Job instance in their context to simplify lifecycle management
  • Fatal exceptions are handled consistently (#1297)
  • Integration with Reactor Context added (#284)
• Stacktrace recovery for suspend fun main (#1328)
• CoroutineScope.cancel extension with message (#1338)
• Protection against non-monotonic clocks in delay (#1312)
• Duration.ZERO is handled properly in JDK 8 extensions (#1349)
• Library code is adjusted to be more minification-friendly

Version 1.3.0-M2

• Kotlin updated to 1.3.40.
• Flow exception transparency concept.
• New declarative Flow operators: onCompletion, catch, retryWhen, launchIn. onError* operators are deprecated in favour of catch. (#1263)
• Publisher.asFlow is integrated with buffer operator.
• Publisher.openSubscription default request size is 1 instead of 0 (#1267).

Version 1.3.0-M1

Flow:

• Core Flow interfaces and operators are graduated from preview status to experimental.
• Context preservation invariant rework (#1210).
  • channelFlow and callbackFlow replacements for flowViaChannel for concurrent flows or callback-based APIs.
  • flow prohibits emissions from non-scoped coroutines by default and recommends to use channelFlow instead to avoid most of the concurrency-related bugs.
• Flow cannot be implemented directly
  • AbstractFlow is introduced for extension (e.g. for managing state) and ensures all context preservation invariants.
• Buffer size is decoupled from all operators that imply channel usage (#1233)
  • buffer operator can be used to adjust buffer size of any buffer-dependent operator (e.g. channelFlow, flowOn and flatMapMerge).
  • conflate operator is introduced.
• Flow performance is significantly improved.
• New operators: scan, scanReduce, first, emitAll.
• flowWith and flowViaChannel are deprecated.
• retry ignores cancellation exceptions from upstream when the flow was externally cancelled (#1122).
• combineLatest overloads for multiple flows (#1193).
• Fixed numerical overflow in drop operator.

Channels:

• consumeEach is promoted to experimental API (#1080).
• Conflated channels always deliver the latest value after closing (#332, #1235).
• Non-suspending ChannelIterator.next to improve iteration performance (#1162).
• Channel exception types are consistent with produce and are no longer swallowed as cancellation exceptions in case of programmatic errors (#957, #1128).
• All operators on channels (that were prone to coroutine leaks) are deprecated in the favor of Flow.

General changes:

• Kotlin updated to 1.3.31
• Semaphore implementation (#1088)
• Loading of Dispatchers.Main is tweaked so the latest version of R8 can completely remove I/O when loading it (#1231).
• Performace of all JS dispatchers is significantly improved (#820).
• withContext checks cancellation status on exit to make reasoning about sequential concurrent code easier (#1177).
• Consistent exception handling mechanism for complex hierarchies (#689).
• Convenient overload for CoroutinesTimeout.seconds (#1184).
• Fix cancellation bug in onJoin (#1130).
• Prevent internal names clash that caused errors for ProGuard (#1159).
• POSIX's nanosleep as delay in runBlocking in K/N (#1225).

Version 1.2.2

• Kotlin updated to 1.3.40.

Version 1.2.1

Major:

• Infrastructure for testing coroutine-specific code in kotlinx-coroutines-test: runBlockingTest, TestCoroutineScope and TestCoroutineDispatcher, contributed by Sean McQuillan (@objcode). Obsolete TestCoroutineContext from kotlinx-coroutines-core is deprecated.
• Job.asCompletableFuture extension in jdk8 module (#1113).

Flow improvements:

• flowViaChannel rework: block parameter is no longer suspending, but provides CoroutineScope receiver and allows conflated channel (#1081, #1112).
• New operators: switchMap, sample, debounce (#1107).
• consumerEach is deprecated on Publisher, ObservableSource and MaybeSource, collect extension is introduced instead (#1080).

Other:

• Race in Job.join and concurrent cancellation is fixed (#1123).
• Stacktrace recovery machinery improved: cycle detection works through recovered exceptions, cancellation exceptions are recovered on cancellation fast-path.
• Atomicfu-related bug fixes: publish transformed artifacts, do not propagate transitive atomicfu dependency (#1064, #1116).
• Publication to NPM fixed (#1118).
• Misplaced resources are removed from the final jar (#1131).

Version 1.2.0

• Kotlin updated to 1.3.30.
• New API: CancellableContinuation.resume with onCancelling lambda (#1044) to consistently handle closeable resources.
• Play services task version updated to 16.0.1.
• ReceiveChannel.isEmpty is no longer deprecated

A lot of Flow improvements:

• Purity property is renamed to context preservation and became more restrictive.
• zip and combineLatest operators.
• Integration with RxJava2
• flatMap, merge and concatenate are replaced with flattenConcat, flattenMerge, flatMapConcat and flatMapMerge.
• Various documentation improvements and minor bug fixes.

Note that Flow is not leaving its preview status.

Version 1.2.0-alpha-2

This release contains major feature preview: cold streams aka Flow (#254).

Performance:

• Performance of Dispatcher.Main initialization is significantly improved (#878).

Version 1.2.0-alpha

• Major debug agent improvements. Real stacktraces are merged with coroutine stacktraces for running coroutines, merging heuristic is improved, API is cleaned up and is on its road to stabilization (#997).
• CoroutineTimeout rule or JUnit4 is introduced to simplify coroutines debugging (#938).
• Stacktrace recovery improvements. Exceptions with custom properties are no longer copied, CopyableThrowable interface is introduced, machinery is documented (#921, #950).
• Dispatchers.Unconfined, MainCoroutineDispatcher.immediate, MainScope and CoroutineScope.cancel are promoted to stable API (#972).
• CompletableJob is introduced (#971).
• Structured concurrency is integrated into futures and listenable futures (#1008).
• ensurePresent and isPresent extensions for ThreadLocal (#1028).
• ensureActive extensions for CoroutineContext, CoroutineScope and Job (#963).
• SendChannel.isFull and ReceiveChannel.isEmpty are deprecated (#1053).
• withContext checks cancellation on entering (#962).
• Operator invoke on CoroutineDispatcher (#428).
• Java 8 extensions for delay and withTimeout now properly handle too large values (#428).
• A global exception handler for fatal exceptions in coroutines is introduced (#808, #773).
• Major improvements in cancellation machinery and exceptions delivery consistency. Cancel with custom exception is completely removed.
• Kotlin version is updated to 1.3.21.
• Do not use private API on newer Androids to handle exceptions (#822).

Bug fixes:

• Proper select support in debug agent (#931).
• Proper supervisorScope support in debug agent (#915).
• Throwing initCause does no longer trigger an internal error (#933).
• Lazy actors are started when calling close in order to cleanup their resources (#939).
• Minor bugs in reactive integrations are fixed (#1008).
• Experimental scheduler shutdown sequence is fixed (#990).

Version 1.1.1

• Maintenance release, no changes in the codebase
• Kotlin is updated to 1.3.20
• Gradle is updated to 4.10
• Native module is published with Gradle metadata v0.4

Version 1.1.0

• Kotlin version updated to 1.3.11.
• Resumes to CancellableContinuation in the final state produce IllegalStateException (#901). This change does not affect #830, races between resume and cancellation do not lead to an exceptional situation.
• runBlocking is integrated with Dispatchers.Unconfined by sharing an internal event loop. This change does not affect the semantics of the previously correct code but allows to mix multiple runBlocking and unconfined tasks (#860).

Version 1.1.0-alpha

Major improvements in coroutines testing and debugging

• New module: kotlinx-coroutines-debug. Debug agent that improves coroutines stacktraces, allows to print all active coroutines and its hierarchies and can be installed as Java agent.
• New module: kotlinx-coroutines-test. Allows setting arbitrary Dispatchers.Main implementation for tests (#810).
• Stacktrace recovery mechanism. Exceptions from coroutines are recovered from current coroutine stacktraces to simplify exception diagnostic. Enabled in debug mode, controlled by kotlinx.coroutines.debug system property (#493).

Other improvements

• MainScope factory and CoroutineScope.cancel extension (#829). One line CoroutineScope integration!
• CancellableContinuation race between resumeWithException and cancel is addressed, exceptions during cancellation are no longer reported to exception handler (#830, #892).
• Dispatchers.Default now consumes much less CPU on JVM (#840).
• Better diagnostic and fast failure if an uninitialized dispatcher is used (#880).
• Conflated channel becomes linearizable.
• Fixed inconsistent coroutines state when the result of the coroutine had type DisposableHandle (#835).
• Fixed JavaFx initialization bug (#816).
• TimeoutCancellationException is thrown by withTimeout instead of CancellationException if negative timeout is supplied (#870).
• Kotlin/Native single-threaded workers support: coroutines can be safely used in multiple independent K/N workers.
• jsdom support in Dispatchers.Default on JS.
• rxFlowable generic parameter is now restricted with Any.
• Guava 27 support in kotlinx-coroutines-guava.
• Coroutines are now built with progressive mode.
• Various fixes in the documentation.

Version 1.0.1

• Align publisher implementation with Reactive TCK.
• Reimplement future coroutine builders on top of AbstractCoroutine (#751).
• Performance optimizations in Dispatchers.Default and Dispatchers.IO.
• Use only public API during JavaFx instantiation, fixes warnings on Java 9 and build on Java 11 (#463).
• Updated contract of CancellableContinuation.resumeWithException (documentation fix, see #712).
• Check cancellation on fast-path of all in-place coroutine builders (withContext, coroutineScope, supervisorScope, withTimeout and withTimeoutOrNull).
• Add optional prefix to thread names of ExperimentalCoroutineDispatcher (#661).
• Fixed bug when ExperimentalCoroutineDispatcher could end up in inconsistent state if Thread constructor throws an exception (#748).

Version 1.0.0

• All Kotlin dependencies updated to 1.3 release version.
• Fixed potential memory leak in HandlerDispatcher.scheduleResumeAfterDelay, thanks @cbeyls.
• yield support for Unconfined and immediate dispatchers (#737).
• Various documentation improvements.

Version 1.0.0-RC1

• Coroutines API is updated to Kotlin 1.3.
• Deprecated API is removed or marked as internal.
• Experimental and internal coroutine API is marked with corresponding kotlin.experimental.Experimental annotation. If you are using @ExperimentalCoroutinesApi or @InternalCoroutinesApi you should explicitly opt-in, otherwise compilation warning (or error) will be produced.
• Unconfined dispatcher (and all dispatchers which support immediate invocation) forms event-loop on top of current thread, thus preventing all StackOverflowErrors. Unconfined dispatcher is now much safer for the general use and may leave its experimental status soon (#704).
• Significantly improved performance of suspending hot loops in kotlinx.coroutines (#537).
• Proguard rules are embedded into coroutines JAR to assist jettifier (#657)
• Fixed bug in shutdown sequence of runBlocking (#692).
• ReceiveChannel.receiveOrNull is marked as obsolete and deprecated.
• Job.cancel(cause) and ReceiveChannel.cancel(cause) are deprecated, cancel() returns Unit (#713).

Version 0.30.2

• Dispatchers.Main is instantiated lazily (see #658 and #665).
• Blocking coroutine dispatcher views are now shutdown properly (#678).
• Prevent leaking Kotlin 1.3 from atomicfu dependency (#659).
• Thread-pool based dispatcher factories are marked as obsolete (#261).
• Fixed exception loss on withContext cancellation (#675).

Version 0.30.1

Maintenance release:

• Added Dispatchers.Main to common dispatchers, which can be used from Android, Swing and JavaFx projects if a corresponding integration library is added to dependencies.
• With Dispatchers.Main improvement tooling bug in Android Studio #626 is mitigated, so Android users now can safely start the migration to the latest kotlinx.coroutines version.
• Fixed bug with thread unsafety of shutdown sequence in EventLoop.
• Experimental coroutine dispatcher now has close contract similar to Java Executor, so it can be safely instantiated and closed multiple times (affects only unit tests).
• Atomicfu version is updated with fixes in JS transformer (see #609)

Version 0.30.0

• [Major] Further improvements in exception handling — no failure exception is lost.
  • async and async-like builders cancel parent on failure (it affects CompletableDeferred, and all reactive integration builders).
  • This makes parallel decomposition exception-safe and reliable without having to rember about awaitAll (see #552).
  • Job() wih parent now also cancels parent on failure consistently with other scopes.
  • All coroutine builders and Job implementations propagate failure to the parent unless it is a CancellationException.
  • Note, "scoping" builders don't "cancel the parent" verbatim, but rethrow the corresponding exception to the caller for handling.
  • SupervisorJob() and supervisorScope { ... } are introduced, allowing for a flexible implementation of custom exception-handling policies, see a new section in the guide on supervision.
  • Got rid of awaitAll in documentation and rewrote currentScope section (see #624).
• [Major] Coroutine scheduler is used for Dispatchers.Default by default instead of deprecated CommonPool.
  • "DefaultDispatcher" is used as a public name of the default impl (you'll see it thread names and in the guide).
  • -Dkotlinx.coroutines.scheduler=off can be used to switch back to CommonPool for a time being (until deprecated CommonPool is removed).
• Make CoroutineStart.ATOMIC experimental as it covers important use-case with resource cleanup in finally block (see #627).
• Restored binary compatibility of Executor.asCoroutineDispatcher (see #629).
• Fixed OOM in thread-pool dispatchers (see #571).
• Check for cancellation when starting coroutine with Dispatchers.Unconfined (see #621).
• A bunch of various performance optimizations and docs fixes, including contributions from @AlexanderPrendota, @PaulWoitaschek.

Version 0.27.0

• [Major] Public API revision. All public API was reviewed and marked as preparation to 1.0 release:
  1. @Deprecated API. All API marked as deprecated will be removed in 1.0 release without replacement.
  2. @ExperimentalCoroutinesApi API. This API is experimental and may change in the future, but migration mechanisms will be provided. Signature, binary compatibility and semantics can be changed.
  3. @InternalCoroutinesApi. This API is intended to be used only from within kotlinx.coroutines. It can and will be changed, broken and removed in the future releases without any warnings and migration aids. If you find yourself using this API, it is better to report your use-case to Github issues, so decent, stable and well-tested alternative can be provided.
  4. @ObsoleteCoroutinesApi. This API has serious known flaws and will be replaced with a better alternative in the nearest releases.
  5. Regular public API. This API is proven to be stable and is not going to be changed. If at some point it will be discovered that such API has unfixable design flaws, it will be gradually deprecated with proper replacement and migration aid, but won't be removed for at least a year.
• [Major] Job state machine is reworked. It includes various performance improvements, fixes in data-races which could appear in a rare circumstances and consolidation of cancellation and exception handling. Visible consequences of include more robust exception handling for large coroutines hierarchies and for different kinds of CancellationException, transparent parallel decomposition and consistent view of coroutines hierarchy in terms of its state (see #220 and #585).
• NIO, Quasar and Rx1 integration modules are removed with no replacement (see #595, #601, #603).
• withContext is now aligned with structured concurrency and awaits for all launched tasks, its performance is significantly improved (see #553 and #617).
• Added integration module with Play Services Task API. Thanks @SUPERCILEX and @lucasvalenteds for the contribution!
• Integration with Rx2 now respects nullability in type constraints (see #347). Thanks @Dmitry-Borodin for the contribution!
• CompletableFuture.await and ListenableFuture.await now propagate cancellation to the future (see #611).
• Cancellation of runBlocking machinery is improved (see #589).
• Coroutine guide is restructured and split to multiple files for the sake of simplicity.
• CoroutineScope factory methods add Job if it is missing from the context to enforce structured concurrency (see #610).
• Handler.asCoroutineDispatcher has a name parameter for better debugging (see #615).
• Fixed bug when CoroutineSchedule was closed from one of its threads (see #612).
• Exceptions from CoroutineExceptionHandler are reported by default exception handler (see #562).
• CoroutineName is now available from common modules (see #570).
• Update to Kotlin 1.2.70.

Version 0.26.1

• Android Main dispatcher is async by default which may significantly improve UI performance. Contributed by @JakeWharton (see #427).
• Fixed bug when lazily-started coroutine with registered cancellation handler was concurrently started and cancelled.
• Improved termination sequence in IO dispatcher.
• Fixed bug with CoroutineScope.plus operator (see #559).
• Various fixes in the documentation. Thanks to @SUPERCILEX, @yorlov, @dualscyther and @soudmaijer!

Version 0.26.0

• Major rework of kotlinx.coroutines concurrency model (see #410 for a full explanation of the rationale behind this change):
  • All coroutine builders are now extensions on CoroutineScope and inherit its coroutineContext. Standalone builders are deprecated.
  • As a consequence, all nested coroutines launched via builders now automatically establish parent-child relationship and inherit CoroutineDispatcher.
  • All coroutine builders use Dispatchers.Default by default if CoroutineInterceptor is not present in their context.
  • CoroutineScope became the first-class citizen in kolinx.coroutines.
  • withContext block argument has CoroutineScope as a receiver.
  • GlobalScope is introduced to simplify migration to new API and to launch global-level coroutines.
  • currentScope and coroutineScope builders are introduced to extract and provide CoroutineScope.
  • Factory methods to create CoroutineScope from CoroutineContext are introduced.
  • CoroutineScope.isActive became an extension property.
  • New sections about structured concurrency in core guide: "Structured concurrency", "Scope builder" and "Structured concurrency with async".
  • New section in UI guide with Android example: "Structured concurrency, lifecycle and coroutine parent-child hierarchy".
  • Deprecated reactive API is removed.
• Dispatchers are renamed and grouped in the Dispatchers object (see #41 and #533):
  • Dispatcher names are consistent.
  • Old dispatchers including CommonPool are deprecated.
• Fixed bug with JS error in rare cases in invokeOnCompletion(onCancelling = true).
• Fixed loading of Android exception handler when Thread.contextClassLoader is mocked (see #530).
• Fixed bug when IO dispatcher silently hung (see #524 and #525) .

Version 0.25.3

• Distribution no longer uses multi-version jar which is not supported on Android (see #510).
• JS version of the library does not depend on AtomicFu anymore:   All the atomic boxes in JS are fully erased.
• Note that versions 0.25.1-2 are skipped for technical reasons (they were not fully released).

Version 0.25.0

• Major rework on exception-handling and cancellation in coroutines (see #333, #452 and #451):
  • New "Exception Handling" section in the guide explains exceptions in coroutines.
  • Semantics of Job.cancel resulting Boolean value changed — true means exception was handled by the job, caller shall handle otherwise.
  • Exceptions are properly propagated from children to parents.
  • Installed CoroutineExceptionHandler for a family of coroutines receives one aggregated exception in case of failure.
  • Change handleCoroutineException contract, so custom exception handlers can't break coroutines machinery.
  • Unwrap JobCancellationException properly to provide exception transparency over whole call chain.
• Introduced support for thread-local elements in coroutines context (see #119):
  • ThreadContextElement API for custom thread-context sensitive context elements.
  • ThreadLocal.asContextElement() extension function to convert an arbitrary thread-local into coroutine context element.
  • New "Thread-local data" subsection in the guide with examples.
  • SLF4J Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) integration is provided via MDCContext element defined in kotlinx-coroutines-slf4j integration module.
• Introduced IO dispatcher to offload blocking I/O-intensive tasks (see #79).
• Introduced ExecutorCoroutineDispatcher instead of CloseableCoroutineDispatcher (see #385).
• Built with Kotlin 1.2.61 and Kotlin/Native 0.8.2.
• JAR files for kotlinx-coroutines are now JEP 238 multi-release JAR files.
  • On JDK9+ VarHandle is used for atomic operations instead of Atomic*FieldUpdater for better performance.
  • See AtomicFu project for details.
• Reversed addition of BlockingChecker extension point to control where runBlocking can be used (see #227).
  • runBlocking can be used anywhere without limitations (again), but it would still cause problems if improperly used on UI thread.
• Corrected return-type of EventLoop pseudo-constructor (see #477, PR by @Groostav).
• Fixed as*Future() integration functions to catch all Throwable exceptions (see #469).
• Fixed runBlocking cancellation (see #501).
• Fixed races and timing bugs in withTimeoutOrNull (see #498).
• Execute EventLoop.invokeOnTimeout in DefaultDispatcher to allow busy-wait loops inside runBlocking (see #479).
• Removed kotlinx-coroutines-io module from the project, it has moved to kotlinx-io.
• Provide experimental API to create limited view of experimental dispatcher (see #475).
• Various minor fixes by @LouisCAD, @Dmitry-Borodin.

Version 0.24.0

• Fully multiplatform release with Kotlin/Native support (see #246):
  • Only single-threaded operation inside runBlocking event loop is supported at this moment.
  • See details on setting up build environment here.
• Improved channels:
  • Introduced SendChannel.invokeOnClose (see #341).
  • Make close, cancel, isClosedForSend, isClosedForReceive and offer linearizable with other operations (see #359).
  • Fixed bug when send operation can be stuck in channel forever.
  • Fixed broadcast channels on JS (see #412).
• Provides BlockingChecker mechanism which checks current context (see #227).
  • Attempts to use runBlocking from any supported UI thread (Android, JavaFx, Swing) will result in exception.
• Android:
  • Worked around Android bugs with zero-size ForkJoinPool initialization (see #432, #288).
  • Introduced UI.immediate extension as performance-optimization to immediately execute tasks which are invoked from the UI thread (see #381).
    • Use it only when absolutely needed. It breaks asynchrony of coroutines and may lead to surprising and unexpected results.
• Fixed materialization of a cause exception for Job onCancelling handlers (see #436).
• Fixed JavaFx UI on Java 9 (see #443).
• Fixed and documented the order between cancellation handlers and continuation resume (see #415).
• Fixed resumption of cancelled continuation (see #450).
• Includes multiple fixes to documentation contributed by @paolop, @SahilLone, @rocketraman, @bdavisx, @mtopolnik, @Groostav.
• Experimental coroutines scheduler preview (JVM only):
  • Written from scratch and optimized for communicating coroutines.
  • Performs significantly better than ForkJoinPool on coroutine benchmarks and for connected applications with ktor.
  • Supports automatic creating of new threads for blocking operations running on the same thread pool (with an eye on solving #79), but there is no stable public API for it just yet.
  • For preview, run JVM with -Dkotlinx.coroutines.scheduler option. In this case DefaultDispatcher is set to new experimental scheduler instead of FJP-based CommonPool.
  • Submit your feedback to issue #261.

Version 0.23.4

• Recompiled with Kotlin 1.2.51 to solve broken metadata problem (see KT-24944).

Version 0.23.3

• Kotlin 1.2.50.
• JS: Moved to atomicfu version 0.10.3 that properly matches NPM & Kotlin/JS module names (see #396).
• Improve source-code compatibility with previous (0.22.x) version of openChannel().use { ... } pattern by providing deprecated extension function use on ReceiveChannel.

Version 0.23.2

• IO: fix joining and continuous writing byte array interference.

Version 0.23.1

• JS: Fix dependencies in NPM: add "kotlinx-atomicfu" dependency (see #370).
• Introduce broadcast coroutine builder (see #280):
  • Support BroadcastChannel.cancel method to drop the buffer.
  • Introduce ReceiveChannel.broadcast() extension.
• Fixed a bunch of doc typos (PRs by @paolop).
• Corrected previous version's release notes (PR by @ansman).

Version 0.23.0

• Kotlin 1.2.41
• Coroutines core module is made mostly cross-platform for JVM and JS:
  • Migrate channels and related operators to common, so channels can be used from JS (see #201).
  • Most of the code is shared between JVM and JS versions using cross-platform version of AtomicFU library.
  • The recent version of Kotlin allows default parameters in common code (see #348).
  • The project is built using Gradle 4.6.
• Breaking change: CancellableContinuation is not a Job anymore (see #219):
  • It does not affect casual users of suspendCancellableCoroutine, since all the typically used functions are still there.
  • CancellableContinuation.invokeOnCompletion is deprecated now and its semantics had subtly changed:
    • invokeOnCancellation is a replacement for invokeOnCompletion to install a handler.
    • The handler is not invoked on resume which corresponds to the typical usage pattern.
    • There is no need to check for cont.isCancelled in a typical handler code anymore (since handler is invoked only when continuation is cancelled).
    • Multiple cancellation handlers cannot be installed.
    • Cancellation handlers cannot be removed (disposed of) anymore.
  • This change is designed to allow better performance of suspending cancellable functions:
    • Now CancellableContinuation implementation has simpler state machine and is implemented more efficiently.
  • Exception handling in AbstractContinuation (that implements CancellableContinuation) is now consistent:
    • Always prefer exception thrown from coroutine as exceptional reason, add cancellation cause as suppressed exception.
• Big change: Deprecate CoroutineScope.coroutineContext:
  • It is replaced with top-level coroutineContext function from Kotlin standard library.
• Improve ReceiveChannel operators implementations to guarantee closing of the source channels under all circumstances (see #279):
  • onCompletion parameter added to produce and all other coroutine builders.
  • Introduce ReceiveChannel.consumes(): CompletionHandler extension function.
• Replace SubscriptionReceiveChannel with ReceiveChannel (see #283, PR by @deva666).
  • ReceiveChannel.use extension is introduced to preserve source compatibility, but is deprecated.
    • consume or consumeEach extensions should be used for channels.
    • When writing operators, produce(onCompletion=consumes()) { ... } pattern shall be used (see #279 above).
• JS: Kotlin is declared as peer dependency (see #339, #340, PR by @ansman).
• Invoke exception handler for actor on cancellation even when channel was successfully closed, so exceptions thrown by actor are always reported (see #368).
• Introduce awaitAll and joinAll for Deferred and Job lists correspondingly (see #171).
• Unwrap CompletionException exception in CompletionStage.await slow-path to provide consistent results (see #375).
• Add extension to ExecutorService to return CloseableCoroutineDispatcher (see #278, PR by @deva666).
• Fail with proper message during build if JDK_16 is not set (see #291, PR by @venkatperi).
• Allow negative timeouts in delay, withTimeout and onTimeout (see #310).
• Fix a few bugs (leaks on cancellation) in delay:
  • Invoke clearTimeout on cancellation in JSDispatcher.
  • Remove delayed task on cancellation from internal data structure on JVM.
• Introduce ticker function to create "ticker channels" (see #327):
  • It provides analogue of RX Observable.timer for coroutine channels.
  • It is currently supported on JVM only.
• Add a test-helper class TestCoroutineContext (see #297, PR by @streetsofboston).
  • It is currently supported on JVM only.
  • Ticker channels (#327) are not yet compatible with it.
• Implement a better way to set CoroutineContext.DEBUG value (see #316, PR by @dmytrodanylyk):
  • Made CoroutineContext.DEBUG_PROPERTY_NAME constant public.
  • Introduce public constants with "on", "off", "auto" values.
• Introduce system property to control CommonPool parallelism (see #343):
  • CommonPool.DEFAULT_PARALLELISM_PROPERTY_NAME constant is introduced with a value of "kotlinx.coroutines.default.parallelism".
• Include package-list files into documentation site (see #290).
• Fix various typos in docs (PRs by @paolop and @ArtsiomCh).

Version 0.22.5

• JS: Fixed main file reference in NPM package
• Added context argument to Channel.filterNot (PR by @jcornaz).
• Implemented debug toString for channels (see #185).

Version 0.22.4

• JS: Publish to NPM (see #229).
• JS: Use node-style dispatcher on ReactNative (see #236).
• jdk8 integration improvements:
  • Added conversion from CompletionStage to Deferred (see #262, PR by @jcornaz).
  • Use fast path in CompletionStage.await and make it cancellable.

Version 0.22.3

• Fixed produce builder to close the channel on completion instead of cancelling it, which lead to lost elements with buffered channels (see #256).
• Don't use ForkJoinPool if there is a SecurityManager present to work around JNLP problems (see #216, PR by @NikolayMetchev).
• JS: Check for undefined window.addEventListener when choosing default coroutine dispatcher (see #230, PR by @ScottPierce).
• Update 3rd party dependencies:
  • kotlinx-coroutines-rx1 to RxJava version 1.3.6.
  • kotlinx-coroutines-rx2 to RxJava version 2.1.9.
  • kotlinx-coroutines-guava to Guava version 24.0-jre.

Version 0.22.2

• Android: Use @Keep annotation on AndroidExceptionPreHandler to fix the problem on Android with minification enabled (see #214).
• Reactive: Added awaitFirstOrDefault and awaitFirstOrNull extensions (see #224, PR by @konrad-kaminski).
• Core: Fixed withTimeout and withTimeoutOrNull that should not use equals on result (see #212, PR by @konrad-kaminski).
• Core: Fixed hanged receive from a closed subscription of BroadcastChannel (see #226).
• IO: fixed error propagation (see ktorio/ktor#301).
• Include common sources into sources jar file to work around KT-20971.
• Fixed bugs in documentation due to MPP.

Version 0.22.1

• Migrated to Kotlin 1.2.21.
• Improved actor builder documentation (see #210) and fixed bugs in rendered documentation due to multiplatform.
• Fixed runBlocking to properly support specified dispatchers (see #209).
• Fixed data race in Job implementation (it was hanging at LockFreeLinkedList.helpDelete on certain stress tests).
• AbstractCoroutine.onCancellation is invoked before cancellation handler that is set via invokeOnCompletion.
• Ensure that launch handles uncaught exception before another coroutine that uses join on it resumes (see #208).

Version 0.22

• Migrated to Kotlin 1.2.20.
• Introduced stable public API for AbstractCoroutine:
  • Implements Job, Continuation, and CoroutineScope.
  • Has overridable onStart, onCancellation, onCompleted and onCompletedExceptionally functions.
  • Reactive integration modules are now implemented using public API only.
  • Notifies onXXX before all the installed handlers, so launch handles uncaught exceptions before "joining" coroutines wakeup (see #208).

Version 0.21.2

• Fixed openSubscription extension for reactive Publisher/Observable/Flowable when used with select { ... } and added an optional request parameter to specify how many elements are requested from publisher in advance on subscription (see #197).
• Simplified implementation of Channel.flatMap using toChannel function to work around Android 5.0 APK install SIGSEGV (see #205).

Version 0.21.1

• Improved performance of coroutine dispatching (DispatchTask instance is no longer allocated).
• Fixed Job.cancel and CompletableDeferred.complete to support cancelling/completing states and properly wait for their children to complete on join/await (see #199).
• Fixed a bug in binary heap implementation (used internally by delay) which could have resulted in wrong delay time in rare circumstances.
• Coroutines library for Kotlin/JS:
  • Promise.asDeferred immediately installs handlers to avoid "Unhandled promise rejection" warning.
  • Use window.postMessage instead of setTimeout for coroutines inside the browser to avoid timeout throttling (see #194).
  • Use custom queue in Window.awaitAnimationFrame to align all animations and reduce overhead.
  • Introduced Window.asCoroutineDispatcher() extension function.

Version 0.21

• Migrated to Kotlin 1.2.10.
• Coroutines library for Kotlin/JS and multiplatform projects (see #33):
  • launch and async coroutine builders.
  • Job and Deferred light-weight future with cancellation support.
  • delay and yield top-level suspending functions.
  • await extension for JS Promise and asPromise/asDeferred conversions.
  • promise coroutine builder.
  • Job() and CompletableDeferred() factories.
  • Full support for parent-child coroutine hierarchies.
  • Window.awaitAnimationFrame extension function.
  • Sample frontend Kotlin/JS application with coroutine-driven animations.
• run is deprecated and renamed to withContext (see #134).
• runBlocking and EventLoop implementations optimized (see #190).

Version 0.20

• Migrated to Kotlin 1.2.0.
• Channels:
  • Sequence-like filter, map, etc extensions on ReceiveChannel are introduced (see #88 by @fvasco and #69 by @konrad-kaminski).
  • Introduced ReceiveChannel.cancel method.
  • All operators on ReceiveChannel fully consume the original channel (cancel it when they are done) using a helper consume extension.
  • Deprecated ActorJob and ProducerJob; actor now returns SendChannel and produce returns ReceiveChannel (see #127).
  • SendChannel.sendBlocking extension method (see #157 by @@fvasco).
• Parent-child relations between coroutines:
  • Introduced an optional parent job parameter for all coroutine builders so that code with an explict parent Job is more natural.
  • Added parent parameter to CompletableDeferred constructor.
  • Introduced Job.children property.
  • Job.cancelChildren is now an extension (member is deprecated and hidden).
  • Job.joinChildren extension is introduced.
  • Deprecated Job.attachChild as a error-prone API.
  • Fixed StackOverflow when waiting for a lot of completed children that did not remove their handlers from the parent.
• Use java.util.ServiceLoader to find default instances of CoroutineExceptionHandler.
• Android UI integration:
  • Use Thread.getUncaughtExceptionPreHandler to make sure that exceptions are logged before crash (see #148).
  • Introduce UI.awaitFrame for animation; added sample coroutine-based animation application for Android here.
  • Fixed delay(Long.MAX_VALUE) (see #161)
• Added missing DefaultDispatcher on some reactive operators (see #174 by @fvasco)
• Fixed actor and produce so that a cancellation of a Job cancels the underlying channel (closes and removes all the pending messages).
• Fixed sporadic failure of example-context-06 (see #160)
• Fixed hang of Job.start on lazy coroutine with attached invokeOnCompletion handler.
• A more gradual introduction to runBlocking and coroutines in the guide (see #166).

Version 0.19.3

• Fixed send/openSubscription race in ArrayBroadcastChannel. This race lead to stalled (hanged) send/receive invocations.
• Project build has been migrated to Gradle.

Version 0.19.2

• Fixed ArrayBroadcastChannel receive of stale elements on openSubscription. Only elements that are sent after invocation of openSubscription are received now.
• Added a default value for context parameter to rxFlowable (see #146 by @PhilGlass).
• Exception propagation logic from cancelled coroutines is adjusted (see #152):
  • When cancelled coroutine crashes due to some other exception, this other exception becomes the cancellation reason of the coroutine, while the original cancellation reason is suppressed.
  • UnexpectedCoroutineException is no longer used to report those cases as is removed.
  • This fixes a race between crash of CPU-consuming coroutine and cancellation which resulted in an unhandled exception and lead to crashes on Android.
• run uses cancelling state & propagates exceptions when cancelled (see #147):
  • When coroutine that was switched into a different dispatcher using run is cancelled, the run invocation does not complete immediately, but waits until the body completes.
  • If the body completes with exception, then this exception is propagated.
• No Job in newSingleThreadContext and newFixedThreadPoolContext anymore (see #149, #151):
  • This resolves the common issue of using run(ctx) where ctx comes from either newSingleThreadContext or newFixedThreadPoolContext invocation. They both used to return a combination of dispatcher + job, and this job was overriding the parent job, thus preventing propagation of cancellation. Not anymore.
  • ThreadPoolDispatcher class is now public and is the result type for both functions. It has the close method to release the thread pool.

Version 0.19.1

• Failed parent Job cancels all children jobs, then waits for them them. This makes parent-child hierarchies easier to get working right without having to use try/catch or other exception handlers.
• Fixed a race in ArrayBroadcastChannel between send and openChannel invocations (see #138).
• Fixed quite a rare race in runBlocking that resulted in AssertionError. Unfortunately, cannot write a reliable stress-test to reproduce it.
• Updated Reactor support to leverage Bismuth release train (contributed by @sdeleuze, see PR #141)

Version 0.19

• This release is published to Maven Central.
• DefaultDispatcher is introduced (see #136):
  • launch, async, produce, actor and other integration-specific coroutine builders now use DefaultDispatcher as the default value for their context parameter.
  • When a context is explicitly specified, newCoroutineContext function checks if there is any interceptor/dispatcher defined in the context and uses DefaultDispatcher if there is none.
  • DefaultDispatcher is currently defined to be equal to CommonPool.
  • Examples in the guide now start with launch { ... } code and explanation on the nature and the need for coroutine context starts in "Coroutine context and dispatchers" section.
• Parent coroutines now wait for their children (see #125):
  • Job completing state is introduced in documentation as a state in which parent coroutine waits for its children.
  • Job.attachChild and Job.cancelChildren are introduced.
  • Job.join now always checks cancellation status of invoker coroutine for predictable behavior when joining failed child coroutine.
  • Job.cancelAndJoin extension is introduced.
  • CoroutineContext.cancel and CoroutineContext.cancelChildren extensions are introduced for convenience.
  • withTimeout/withTimeoutOrNull blocks become proper coroutines that have CoroutineScope and wait for children, too.
  • Diagnostics in cancellation and unexpected exception messages are improved, coroutine name is included in debug mode.
  • Fixed cancellable suspending functions to throw CancellationException (as was documented before) even when the coroutine is cancelled with another application-specific exception.
  • JobCancellationException is introduced as a specific subclass of CancellationException which is used for coroutines that are cancelled without cause and to wrap application-specific exceptions.
  • Job.getCompletionException is renamed to Job.getCancellationException and return a wrapper exception if needed.
  • Introduced Deferred.getCompletionExceptionOrNull to get not-wrapped exception result of async task.
  • Updated docs for Job & Deferred to explain parent/child relations.
• select expression is modularized:
  • SelectClause(0,1,2) interfaces are introduced, so that synchronization constructs can define their select clauses without having to modify the source of the SelectBuilder in kotlinx-corounes-core module.
  • Job.onJoin, Deferred.onAwait, Mutex.onLock, SendChannel.onSend, ReceiveChannel.onReceive, etc that were functions before are now properties returning the corresponding select clauses. Old functions are left in bytecode for backwards compatibility on use-site, but any outside code that was implementing those interfaces by itself must be updated.
  • This opens road to moving channels into a separate module in future updates.
• Renamed TimeoutException to TimeoutCancellationException (old name is deprecated).
• Fixed various minor problems:
  • JavaFx toolkit is now initialized by JavaFx context (see #108).
  • Fixed lost ACC_STATIC on methods (see #116).
  • Fixed link to source code from documentation (see #129).
  • Fixed delay in arbitrary contexts (see #133).
• kotlinx-coroutines-io module is introduced. It is a work-in-progress on ByteReadChannel and ByteWriteChannel interfaces, their implementations, and related classes to enable convenient coroutine integration with various asynchronous I/O libraries and sockets. It is currently unstable and will change in the next release.

Version 0.18

• Kotlin 1.1.4 is required to use this version, which enables:
  • withLock and consumeEach functions are now inline suspend functions.
  • JobSupport class implementation is optimized (one fewer field).
• TimeoutException is public (see #89).
• Improvements to Mutex (courtesy of @fvasco):
  • Introduced holdsLock (see #92).
  • Improved documentation on Mutex fairness (see #90).
• Fixed NPE when ArrayBroadcastChannel is closed concurrently with receive (see #97).
• Fixed bug in internal class LockFreeLinkedList that resulted in ISE under stress in extremely rare circumstances.
• Integrations:
  • quasar: Introduced integration with suspendable JVM functions that are instrumented with Parallel Universe Quasar (thanks to the help of @pron).
  • reactor: Replaced deprecated setCancellation with onDipose and updated to Aluminium-SR3 release (courtesy of @yxf07, see #96)
  • jdk8: Added adapters for java.time classes (courtesy of @fvasco, see #93)

Version 0.17

• CompletableDeferred is introduced as a set-once event-like communication primitive (see #70).
  • Coroutines guide uses it in a section on actors.
  • CompletableDeferred is an interface with private impl (courtesy of @fvasco, see #86).
  • It extends Deferred interface with complete and completeExceptionally functions.
• Job.join and Deferred.await wait until a cancelled coroutine stops execution (see #64).
  • Job and Deferred have a new cancelling state which they enter on invocation of cancel.
  • Job.invokeOnCompletion has an additional overload with onCancelling: Boolean parameter to install handlers that are fired as soon as coroutine enters cancelling state as opposed to waiting until it completes.
  • Internal select implementation is refactored to decouple it from JobSupport internal class and to optimize its state-machine.
  • Internal AbstractCoroutine class is refactored so that it is extended only by true coroutines, all of which support the new cancelling state.
• CoroutineScope.context is renamed to coroutineContext to avoid conflicts with other usages of context in applications (like Android context, see #75).
• BroadcastChannel.open is renamed to openSubscription (see #54).
• Fixed StackOverflowError in a convoy of Mutex.unlock invokers with Unconfined dispatcher (see #80).
• Fixed SecurityException when trying to use coroutines library with installed SecurityManager.
• Fixed a bug in withTimeoutOrNull in case with nested timeouts when coroutine was cancelled before it was ever suspended.
• Fixed a minor problem with awaitFirst on reactive streams that would have resulted in spurious stack-traces printed on the console when used with publishers/observables that continue to invoke onNext despite being cancelled/disposed (which they are technically allowed to do by specification).
• All factory functions for various interfaces are implemented as top-level functions (affects Job, Channel, BroadcastChannel, Mutex, EventLoop, and CoroutineExceptionHandler). Previous approach of using operator invoke on their companion objects is deprecated.
• Nicer-to-use debug toString implementations for coroutine dispatcher tasks and continuations.
• A default dispatcher for delay is rewritten and now shares code with EventLoopImpl that is used by runBlocking. It internally supports non-default TimeSource so that delay-using tests can be written with "virtual time" by replacing their time source for the duration of tests (this feature is not available outside of the library).

Version 0.16

• Coroutines that are scheduled for execution are cancellable by default now
  • suspendAtomicCancellableCoroutine function is introduced for funs like   send/receive/receiveOrNull that require atomic cancellation   (they cannot be cancelled after decision was made)
  • Coroutines started with default mode using   async/launch/actor builders can be cancelled before their execution starts
  • CoroutineStart.ATOMIC is introduced as a start mode to specify that   coroutine cannot be cancelled before its execution starts
  • run function is also cancellable in the same way and accepts an optional CoroutineStart parameter to change this default.
• BroadcastChannel factory function is introduced
• CoroutineExceptionHandler factory function is introduced by @konrad-kaminski
• integration directory is introduced for all 3rd party integration projects
  • It has contribution guidelines and contributions from community are welcome
  • Support for Guava ListenableFuture in the new kotlinx-coroutines-guava module
  • Rx1 Scheduler support by @konrad-kaminski
• Fixed a number of Channel and BroadcastChannel implementation bugs related to concurrent send/close/close of channels that lead to hanging send, offer or close operations (see #66). Thanks to @chrisly42 and @cy6erGn0m for finding them.
• Fixed withTimeoutOrNull which was returning null on timeout of inner or outer withTimeout blocks (see #67). Thanks to @gregschlom for finding the problem.
• Fixed a bug where Job fails to dispose a handler when it is the only handler by @uchuhimo

Version 0.15

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.2 (can still be used with 1.1.0).
• CoroutineStart enum is introduced for launch/async/actor builders:
  • The usage of luanch(context, start = false) is deprecated and is replaced with launch(context, CoroutineStart.LAZY)
  • CoroutineStart.UNDISPATCHED is introduced to start coroutine execution immediately in the invoker thread, so that async(context, CoroutineStart.UNDISPATCHED) is similar to the behavior of C# async.
  • Guide to UI programming with coroutines mentions the use of it to optimize the start of coroutines from UI threads.
• Introduced BroadcastChannel interface in kotlinx-coroutines-core module:
  • It extends SendChannel interface and provides open function to create subscriptions.
  • Subscriptions are represented with SubscriptionReceiveChannel interface.
  • The corresponding SubscriptionReceiveChannel interfaces are removed from reactive implementation modules. They use an interface defined in kotlinx-coroutines-core module.
  • ConflatedBroadcastChannel implementation is provided for state-observation-like use-cases, where a coroutine or a regular code (in UI, for example) updates the state that subscriber coroutines shall react to.
  • ArrayBroadcastChannel implementation is provided for event-bus-like use-cases, where a sequence of events shall be received by multiple subscribers without any omissions.
  • Guide to reactive streams with coroutines includes "Rx Subject vs BroadcastChannel" section.
• Pull requests from Konrad Kamiński are merged into reactive stream implementations:
  • Support for Project Reactor Mono and Flux. See kotlinx-coroutines-reactor module.
  • Implemented Rx1 Completable.awaitCompleted.
  • Added support for Rx2 Maybe.
• Better timeout support:
  • Introduced withTimeoutOrNull function.
  • Implemented onTimeout clause for select expressions.
  • Fixed spurious concurrency inside withTimeout blocks on their cancellation.
  • Changed behavior of withTimeout when CancellationException is suppressed inside the block. Invocation of withTimeout now always returns the result of execution of its inner block.
• The channel property in ActorScope is promoted to a wider Channel type, so that an actor can have an easy access to its own inbox send channel.
• Renamed Mutex.withMutex to Mutex.withLock, old name is deprecated.

Version 0.14

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.1 (can still be used with 1.1.0).
• Introduced consumeEach helper function for channels and reactive streams, Rx 1.x, and Rx 2.x.
  • It ensures that streams are unsubscribed from on any exception.
  • Iteration with for loop on reactive streams is deprecated.
  • Guide to reactive streams with coroutines is updated virtually all over the place to reflect these important changes.
• Implemented awaitFirstOrDefault extension for reactive streams, Rx 1.x, and Rx 2.x.
• Added Mutex.withMutex helper function.
• kotlinx-coroutines-android module has provided dependency on of Android APIs to eliminate warnings when using it in android project.

Version 0.13

• New kotlinx-coroutinex-android module with Android UI context implementation.
• Introduced whileSelect convenience function.
• Implemented ConflatedChannel.
• Renamed various toXXX conversion functions to asXXX (old names are deprecated).
• run is optimized with fast-path case and no longer has CoroutineScope in its block.
• Fixed dispatching logic of withTimeout (removed extra dispatch).
• EventLoop that is used by runBlocking now implements Delay, giving more predictable test behavior.
• Various refactorings related to resource management and timeouts:
  • Job.Registration is renamed to DisposableHandle.
  • EmptyRegistration is renamed to NonDisposableHandle.
  • Job.unregisterOnCompletion is renamed to Job.disposeOnCompletion.
  • Delay.invokeOnTimeout is introduced.
  • withTimeout now uses Delay.invokeOnTimeout when available.
• A number of improvement for reactive streams and Rx:
  • Introduced rxFlowable builder for Rx 2.x.
  • Scheduler.asCoroutineDispatcher extension for Rx 2.x.
  • Fixed bug with sometimes missing onComplete in publish, rxObservable, and rxFlowable builders.
  • Channels that are open for reactive streams are now Closeable.
  • Fixed CompletableSource.await and added test for it.
  • Removed rx.Completable.await due to name conflict.
• New documentation:
  • Guide to UI programming with coroutines
  • Guide to reactive streams with coroutines
• Code is published to JCenter repository.

Version 0.12

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.0 release.
• Reworked and updated utilities for Reactive Streams, Rx 1.x, and Rx 2.x with library-specific coroutine builders, suspending functions, converters and iteration support.
• LinkedListChannel with unlimited buffer (offer always succeeds).
• onLock select clause and an optional owner parameter in all Mutex functions.
• selectUnbiased function.
• actor coroutine builder.
• Couple more examples for "Shared mutable state and concurrency" section and "Channels are fair" section with ping-pong table example in coroutines guide.

Version 0.11-rc

• select expression with onJoin/onAwait/onSend/onReceive clauses.
• Mutex is moved to kotlinx.coroutines.sync package.
• ClosedSendChannelException is a subclass of CancellationException now.
• New sections on "Shared mutable state and concurrency" and "Select expression" in coroutines guide.

Version 0.10-rc

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.0-rc-91.
• Mutex synchronization primitive is introduced.
• buildChannel is renamed to produce, old name is deprecated.
• Job.onCompletion is renamed to Job.invokeOnCompletion, old name is deprecated.
• delay implementation in Swing, JavaFx, and scheduled executors is fixed to avoid an extra dispatch.
• CancellableContinuation.resumeUndispatched is introduced to make this efficient implementation possible.
• Remove unnecessary creation of CancellationException to improve performance, plus other performance improvements.
• Suppress deprecated and internal APIs from docs.
• Better docs at top level with categorized summary of classes and functions.

Version 0.8-beta

• defer coroutine builder is renamed to async.
• lazyDefer is deprecated, async has an optional start parameter instead.
• LazyDeferred interface is deprecated, lazy start functionality is integrated into Job interface.
• launch has an optional start parameter for lazily started coroutines.
• Job.start and Job.isCompleted are introduced.
• Deferred.isCompletedExceptionally and Deferred.isCancelled are introduced.
• Job.getInactiveCancellationException is renamed to getCompletionException.
• Job.join is now a member function.
• Internal JobSupport state machine is enhanced to support new (not-started-yet) state. So, lazy coroutines do not need a separate state variable to track their started/not-started (new/active) status.
• Exception transparency in Job.cancel (original cause is rethrown).
• Clarified possible states for Job/CancellableContinuation/Deferred in docs.
• Example on async-style functions and links to API reference site from coroutines guide.

Version 0.7-beta

• Buffered and unbuffered channels are introduced: Channel, SendChannel, and ReceiveChannel interfaces, RendezvousChannel and ArrayChannel implementations, Channel() factory function and buildChannel{} coroutines builder.
• Here context is renamed to Unconfined (the old name is deprecated).
• A guide on coroutines is expanded: sections on contexts and channels.

Version 0.6-beta

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.0-beta-37.
• A guide on coroutines is expanded.

Version 0.5-beta

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.0-beta-22 (republished version).
• Removed currentCoroutineContext and related thread-locals without replacement. Explicitly pass coroutine context around if needed.
• lazyDefer(context) {...} coroutine builder and LazyDeferred interface are introduced.
• The default behaviour of all coroutine dispatchers is changed to always schedule execution of new coroutine for later in this thread or thread pool. Correspondingly, CoroutineDispatcher.isDispatchNeeded function has a default implementation that returns true.
• NonCancellable context is introduced.
• Performance optimizations for cancellable continuations (fewer objects created).
• A guide on coroutines is added.

Version 0.4-beta

• Switched to Kotlin version 1.1.0-beta-18 (republished version).
• CoroutineDispatcher methods now have context parameter.
• Introduced CancellableContinuation.isCancelled
• Introduced EventLoop dispatcher and made it a default for runBlocking { ... }
• Introduced CoroutineScope interface with isActive and context properties; standard coroutine builders include it as receiver for convenience.
• Introduced Executor.toCoroutineDispatcher() extension.
• Delay scheduler thread is not daemon anymore, but times out automatically.
• Debugging facilities in newCoroutineContext can be explicitly disabled with -Dkotlinx.coroutines.debug=off.
• xxx-test files are renamed to xxx-example for clarity.
• Fixed NPE in Job implementation when starting coroutine with already cancelled parent job.
• Support cancellation in kotlinx-coroutines-nio module