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Updated · InfoWorld · Jun 30

JetBrains Releases Kotlin 2.4.20 Beta1 With StackTraceRecoverable and 3 Build Targets

Updated

Updated · InfoWorld · Jun 30

JetBrains Releases Kotlin 2.4.20 Beta1 With StackTraceRecoverable and 3 Build Targets

1 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jun 30

June 24’s Kotlin 2.4.20 Beta1 adds the StackTraceRecoverable interface and extends the build tools API to Kotlin/JS, Kotlin/Wasm and Kotlin metadata targets.
StackTraceRecoverable improves integration with kotlinx.coroutines by letting developers define how exception instances are created for stack-trace recovery without adding a dependency on that library.
The beta follows Kotlin 2.4.0, released June 3, which introduced experimental compile-time constant improvements for numeric and string operations and the IntrinsicConstEvaluation annotation.
Kotlin 2.4.0 also expanded JavaScript and TypeScript export support, enabled Java 26 bytecode generation and added experimental support for the WebAssembly Component Model.
JetBrains said Kotlin 2.4.0 is already included in IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, with another update to the 2.4.0 line due soon.

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