Release types

Stable

A ‘Stable’ release is recommended for general use and is tagged in the Repository. The version format is major.minor.patch. Stable releases may be updated without a change of version number to support versions of Scala released after date of that Scala Native version.

The most recent stable version is 0.5.11

Latest

A ‘Latest’ release is intended for developers who want to exercise the committed Scala Native code at the time of publication.

The version format is: “major.minor.patch-<date>-<gitref>-SNAPSHOT”.

“<date>” gives UTC year, month, and day of the youngest commit contained. The version date is usually not the posted date of the rest of the landing page or the invisible date of posting the SNAPSHOT.

“<gitref>”, formerly informally known as SHA1, gives the leading, currently 7, digits of the Git reference to that youngest commit.

‘Latest’ releases generally happen early in the (UTC) day where at least one commit happened the day before. They are short lived and are kept available for only a limited time; currently, but not guaranteed to stay, 3 months. For complex reasons, there is no easy way to list prior SNAPSHOT releases.

The latest nightly version is 0.5.12-20260508-4926b47-SNAPSHOT

Using Latest releases

This information is provided as a working example. It is correct as of publication but highly subject to unannounced change, particularly sbt and mill details.

Latest releases are published to: “https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/”

A project needs to have specified a resolver for that repository. See the original sbt and mill documentation for the latest details

These snippets are intended to be merged into complete example or existing project files and are not stand-alone and sufficient.

• sbt project/plugins.sbt:

  • projects using sbt version 1.11.0 or later can use

  resolvers += Resolver.sonatypeCentralSnapshots
  

  • earlier sbt versions use (also works for current sbt versions)

    resolvers +=
      "YourNameHere" at
        "https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/"
  
  

• In either case, add the plugin

    addSbtPlugin("org.scala-native" %% "sbt-scala-native" %
            "{{ release }}")
  

• mill (1.0.6) build.mill:

  import coursier.maven.MavenRepository
  
  object `<yourPackageHere>` extends ScalaNativeModule {
  
    // Earlier Mill versions used T.task
  
    def repositoriesTask = Task.Anon { super.repositoriesTask() ++ Seq(
         MavenRepository(
           "https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/"
         )
        )
    }
    
    def scalaNativeVersion = "{{ release }}"
    
  } 
  

• To determine that the desired SNAPSHOT is being used:

  $ # Or Mill equivalent
  sbt> show libraryDependencies 
  ...
  [info] * org.scala-native:javalib:{{ release }}
  

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