@channel Kotlin/Native team is pleased to announce...

# kotlin-native

[olonho]

@channel Kotlin/Native team is pleased to announce release v0.7 of our toolchain. This is a major release, including the following features:

* Interop with Objective-C/Swift changes:
* Uniform direct and reverse interops (values could be passed in both directions now)
* Interop by exceptions
* Type conversion and checks (as, is) for interop types
* Seamless interop on numbers, strings, lists, maps and sets
* Better interop on constructors and initializers
* Switched to Xcode 9.3 on Apple platforms
* Introduced object freezing API, frozen object could be used from multiple threads
* Kotlin enums are frozen by default
* Switch to Gradle 4.6
* Use Gradle native dependency model, allowing to use .klib as Maven artifacts
* Introduced typed arrays API
* Introduced weak references API
* Activated global devirtualization analysis
* Performance improvements (box caching, others)
* Production of static libraries

Binaries can be downloaded from the following links:

https://download.jetbrains.com/kotlin/native/builds/releases/0.7/macos/kotlin-native-macos-0.7.tar.gz
https://download.jetbrains.com/kotlin/native/builds/releases/0.7/linux/kotlin-native-linux-0.7.tar.gz
https://download.jetbrains.com/kotlin/native/builds/releases/0.7/windows/kotlin-native-windows-0.7.zip

GitHub release page is https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/releases/tag/v0.7.