FlatBuffers v1.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-11-20 // over 6 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ A summary of what is in this release since 1.7.0:

    • Vtable trimming in all language implementations: can reduce binary size 10-20%!
    • ๐Ÿ–จ Mini-reflection tables (in C++) for debug-print, etc.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved .proto conversion.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Vectors of unions now also supported in JS/TS/PHP/C.
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Improved namespace handling.
    • Boolean types in FlexBuffers.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ Python Numpy vector support.
    • ๐Ÿ“œ Nested FlatBuffer JSON parsing.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ C++98 (stlport) support for core FlatBuffers and FlexBuffers.
    • ๐Ÿ‘ JSON Schema output support.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Many other fixes and improvements, 90 commits since 1.7.0