New features (in development)

Added a values() method for dictionaries

Mesons built-in dict type now supports the dict.values() method to retrieve the dictionary values as an array, analogous to the dict.keys() method.

dict = { 'b': 'world', 'a': 'hello' }

dict.keys() # Returns ['a', 'b']
dict.values() # Returns ['hello', 'world']

-Db_msvcrt on clang

-Db_msvcrt will now link the appropriate runtime library, and set the appropriate preprocessor symbols, also when the compiler is clang.

Added new namingscheme option

Traditionally Meson has named output targets so that they don't clash with each other. This has meant, among other things, that on Windows Meson uses a nonstandard .a suffix for static libraries because both static libraries and import libraries have the suffix .lib.

There is now an option namingscheme that can be set to platform. This new platform native naming scheme that replicates what Rust does. That is, shared libraries on Windows get a suffix .dll, static libraries get .lib and import libraries have the name .dll.lib.

We expect to change the default value of this option to platform in a future major version. Until that happens we reserve the right to alter how platform actually names its output files.

i18n.xgettext now accepts CustomTarget and CustomTargetIndex as sources

Previously, custom_tgt were accepted but silently ignored, and custom_idx were not accepted.

Now, they both can be used, and the generated outputs will be scanned to extract translation strings.