v1.2.4.13

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Get rid of implicit char* => cstring conversions by @asl in #4694
• Format-related string fixes and refactorings by @asl in #4704
• Get rid of custom implementation of Utils::PathName by @asl in #4721
• cstring-related cleanup, switch to std::string_view for some cstring API by @asl in #4716
• Remove ReferenceMap recalculation (almost) everywhere and switch to more fine-grained solutions by @asl in #4757

Changes to the Compiler Core

• Refactor error_helper and around by @asl in #4686
• Add freestanding RTTI::to, RTTI::is, RTTI::isAny by @vlstill in #4696
• More compilation fixes for C++20: hvec_map and copy_bitref by @fruffy in #4703
• Add a constant folding pass after inlining by @mihaibudiu in #4727
• [#4006] Remove confusing warning when the same header is extracted multiple times in a parse path by @kfcripps in #4725
• Emit true and false instead of 1 and 0 for BoolLiteral dbprint. by @fruffy in #4741
• [#4760] Create empty SetOfLocations for don't care arguments passed as action out args by @kfcripps in #4762
• Delete unused RemoveComplexExpressions pass. by @fruffy in #4771

Changes to the TC Back End

• P4TC - Support for DirectCounter extern by @komaljai in #4711
• Implementation of Counter extern in p4tc by @komaljai in #4734
• Make sure compiler_meta__->drop starts out false by @vbnogueira in #4722

Changes to the DPDK Back End

• Update some stale DPDK error reference files. by @fruffy in #4705
• Fix a nullptr access in the DPDK back end. by @fruffy in #4712

Changes to the P4Tools Back End

• Add P4Smith, a random program generator to the P4Tools framework by @fruffy in #4182
• [P4Smith] Fix broken links in Smith README by @fruffy in #4754

Other Changes

• Configure: DOXYGEN for documentation generation by @AdarshRawat1 in #4701
• Add a formatter binary skeleton as P4C back end by @snapdgn in #4710
• Invalid include fix in p4fmt.cpp by @snapdgn in #4718
• Test building P4C with ENABLE_GTESTS=OFF in CI by @qobilidop in #4719
• Fix up the Bazel sed command. by @fruffy in #4720
• Docs : Configure Doxygen and GitHub pages deploy Action by @AdarshRawat1 in #4702
• Fix : Compatibility issues with Doxygen version in runner and configuration by @AdarshRawat1 in #4732
• Docs : Update community link from Slack to Zulip by @AdarshRawat1 in #4735
• [Docs] Add initial CHANGELOG.md with changelogs from previous release by @AdarshRawat1 in #4708
• Docs : Configuring Doxygen Awesome CSS by @AdarshRawat1 in #4737
• Minor Fix: Graphs Backend Example Images by @AdarshRawat1 in #4749
• Fix spurious P4Testgen failure occuring because of a problem when running PTF tests in parallel. by @fruffy in #4750
• Make different Markdown files have different titles in Doxygen output by @jafingerhut in #4745
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 5 to 6 by @dependabot in #4751
• Docs: Fixing diagram paths in generated docs by @AdarshRawat1 in #4755
• Docs: Add theme dependency and instructions by @AdarshRawat1 in #4747
• Add back in heading for P4Smith README file by @jafingerhut in #4756
• Docs: Initial sequence of pages in Documentation by @AdarshRawat1 in #4758
• Docs: Update compiler file structure by @AdarshRawat1 in #4761
• Fix naming of CMake Release configuration. by @fruffy in #4765
• Simplify dependabot label generation. by @fruffy in #4766
• Add DCO description to the contribution guidelines. by @fruffy in #4743
• Add a signature for the release bot for DCO support. by @fruffy in #4769
• Automated Release v1.2.4.13 by @github-actions in #4767

New Contributors

• @snapdgn made their first contribution in #4710

Full Changelog: v1.2.4.12...v1.2.4.13