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@vegorov-rbx vegorov-rbx commented Aug 15, 2025

What's Changed?

This week we have an update with an implementation for one of the RFCs we had approved before, an improvement of the new type solver and a small Lua 5.1 C API compatibility improvement.

For example:

@[deprecated {reason = "foo suffers from performance issues", use = "bar"}]
local function foo()
    ...
end

-- Function 'foo' is deprecated, use 'bar' instead. foo suffers from performance issues
foo()
  • lua_cpcall C API function has been restored both for compatibility with Lua 5.1 and as a safe way to enter protected call environment to work with Luau C API functions that may error

Instead of

if (!lua_checkstack(L, 2))
    return -1;
lua_pushcfunction(L, test, nullptr);
lua_pushlightuserdata(L, context);
int status = lua_pcall(L, 1, 0, 0);

you can simply do

int status = lua_cpcall(L, test, context);
  • In Luau CLI, required module return values can now have any type

New Type Solver

  • Additional improvements on type refinements used with external types should fix some reported false positive errors where types refined to never
  • Fixed an issue in recursive refinement types in a form of t1 where t1 = refine<t1, _> getting 'stuck'
  • Fixed an issue in subtyping of generic functions, it is now possible to assign <T>(T, (T) -> T) -> T to (number, <X>(X) -> X) -> number
  • Fixed an ICE caused by recursive types (Fixes Recursive generic type with different parameters inside table or function crashes new solver #1686)
  • Added additional iteration and recursion limits to stop the type solver before system resources are used up

Internal Contributors

Co-authored-by: Andy Friesen afriesen@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Annie Tang annietang@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Ariel Weiss aaronweiss@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Hunter Goldstein hgoldstein@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Ilya Rezvov irezvov@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Sora Kanosue skanosue@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Vighnesh Vijay vvijay@roblox.com
Co-authored-by: Vyacheslav Egorov vegorov@roblox.com

hgoldstein and others added 30 commits January 10, 2025 09:13
Note: Fixed conflicts by hand in:
- Analysis/src/ConstraintGenerator.cpp
- CodeGen/src/OptimizeConstProp.cpp
- VM/src/lmathlib.cpp
- tests/Conformance.test.cpp
a03c92095f6 #unflagged CLI-141149 Added lua_clonetable (#97902)
d66c43f36aa #flagged CLI-140903: Do not crash on duplicate keys in table literals (#97833)
8a2687f1690 #nonprod Luau: fix a test configuration issue breaking OSS CI. (#97878)
7add6d9dde9 #nojira CI-debugger revert #unflagged CLI-132461 Luau: refactor subtyping to also include the generic mapping it came up with. (#97872)
0c731fd3cc4 #flag-removal Clip `LuauNewSolverVisitErrorExprLvalues` (#96942)
2fe783b9615 #unflagged CLI-132461 Luau: refactor subtyping to also include the generic mapping it came up with. (#97803)
0cc41a0afae #unflagged CLI-141053 Luau buffer readbits/writebits implementation for big endian machines (#97826)
ae50bf04f99 #nonprod CLI-140027 Simplify require-by-string path resolution, fix bug when running CLI tools on unprefixed path (#97468)
77004599a6f #flag-removal Cleanup Luau VM and Compiler flags (#97799)
86777e269dd #flag-removal Remove LuauUserTypeFunPrintToError, LuauUserTypeFunNoExtraConstraint, LuauUserTypeFunUpdateAllEnvs, LuauUserTypeFunThreadBuffer and LuauUserTypeFunExportedAndLocal (#97624)
349b133fdc4 #nojira CI-debugger revert #unflagged CLI-132461 Luau: refactor subtyping to also include the generic mapping it came up with. (#97759)
2e820646ffa #flagged CLI-139615: Treat user defined type functions as opaque in eqSatSimplify (#96897)
c0845205e37 #flag-removal CLI-140688 Clean up `FFlagLuauIntersectNormalsNeedsToTrackResourceLimits` as `true`. (#97719)
3e07876a043 #flagged CLI-140571: Track interior free table types generated during constraint solving (#97498)
199b558dc36 #unflagged CLI-132461 Luau: refactor subtyping to also include the generic mapping it came up with. (#95646)
fd9255f62d3 #nonprod CLI-140762 unittest for fragment ac crash (#97669)
e9c710e017f #flag-removal FFlagLuauStoreCommentsForDefinitionFiles (#93359)
b184b940d55 CLI-140702 #unflagged Fix most clang-tidy warnings in TypeChecker2 (#97604)
1fc857f1bb3 CLI-140489 #unflagged Fix a potential hash collision bug in StringCache. (#97539)
58f62f900a2 #nonprod Some new unit testing macros for Luau tests. (#97336)
ab43a354b25 #flag-removal Remove LuauVectorMetatable and LuauVectorDefinitionsExtra (#97528)
c4c28694390 #flagged CLI-140485 Do not retain the Def/RefinementKey arenas when retainFullTypeGraphs is false (#97422)
This test fails due to a bad interaction when `FFlagLuauStoreCSTData` is
enabled, whilst `FFlagLexerFixInterpStringStart` is disabled.
The OSS test suite, when run with `--fflags=true`, enables all
flags starting with a `Luau` prefix, but does not enable any other flag.

To resolve this, we explicitly enable both fflags for the failing
interpolated string test cases. As a consequence, we technically lose
the check that these tests pass when all flags are disabled.
@vegorov-rbx vegorov-rbx merged commit 55f3e00 into master Aug 15, 2025
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