:mega: :mega: :mega: `kotlinx.coroutines` version 1.3.0-M1 is here! A lot of changes in Flow: * Cor...

# coroutines

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

📣 📣 📣 kotlinx.coroutines version 1.3.0-M1 is here!

A lot of changes in Flow:
* Core Flow interfaces and operators are graduated from preview status to experimental ⏸️
* Serious performance improvements of Flow
* More accurate context preservation invariant that should prevent most of the concurrency and contract violation bugs
* Flow interface cannot be implemented directly, only via AbstractFlow to preserve Flow’s invariant
* Separate buffer operator composable with buffered operator (flowOn, flowChannel etc.). No more bufferSize constant in operators!
* New operators and a lot more!

General changes:
* Scalable state-of-the-art Semaphore implementation
* Channels API improved: performance, experimental API and consistent exception handling
* withContext checks cancellation status on exit to make reasoning about sequential concurrent code easier
* JS dispatcher performance
* Various API and performance improvements and bug fixes

Full changelog: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/releases/tag/1.3.0-M1

[basher]

Awesome! What does the -M1 signify?

[louiscad]

@basher Milestone one.

[basher]

Ah! Is there a way to see what upcoming milestones are left and general plan?

[louiscad]

I don't think so, but I'd expect that they want to round up Flow before 1.3.0. You can see remaining open issues tagged with flow on GitHub.

[gildor]

Maybe I missed something, but isn’t channelFlow and callbackFlow are exactly the same, just alias.
Is it for some future changes? Or just to make semantics more clear?

[elizarov]

They are the same. It is just a ploy to target docs to specific use-cases and also clearly express intent in your code.