Mill

Your shiny new Scala build tool! Confused by SBT? Frustrated by Maven? Perplexed by Gradle? Give Mill a try!

Table of Contents

Documentation
How to build and test
Project Layout
Project Maintenance
- Pull Requests
- Commit Messages
Changelog

Documentation

If you want to use Mill in your own projects, check out our documentation:

Documentation

Here is some quick example, so that you can imagine how it looks:

import mill._, scalalib._

object foo extends ScalaModule {
  def scalaVersion = "3.2.1"
}

object bar extends ScalaModule {
  def moduleDeps = Seq(foo)
  def scalaVersion = "3.2.1"
}

If you use Mill and like it, you will probably enjoy the following book by the Author:

Hands-on Scala Programming

Hands-on Scala has a Chapter 10: Static Build Pipelines dedicated to Mill, but rest of the book introduces other libraries and tools in a similar style. Hands-on Scala is a great way to level up your skills in Scala in general and Mill in particular

The remainder of this readme is developer-documentation targeted at people who wish to work on Mill’s own codebase. The developer docs assume you have read through the user-facing documentation linked above. It’s also worth spending a few minutes reading the following blog posts to get a sense of Mill’s design & motivation:

Mill is profiled using the JProfiler Java Profiler, by courtesy of EJ Technologies.

How to build and test

Mill is built using Mill. To begin, first download & install Mill as described in the documentation above. As Mill is under active development, stable releases may not be able to build the current development branch of Mill. It is recommended to install the latest unstable release manually.

IntelliJ Setup

If you are using IntelliJ IDEA to edit Mill’s Scala code, you can create the IntelliJ project files via:

./mill mill.scalalib.GenIdea/idea

Automated Tests

To run test suites:

./mill main.test
./mill scalalib.test
./mill scalajslib.test
./mill integration.test

Manual Testing

To manually test Mill on a small build, you can use the scratch folder:

./mill -i dev.run scratch -w resolve _

This runs the task resolve _ with your current checkout of Mill on the trivial build defined in scratch/build.sc. You can modify that build file to add additional modules, files, etc. and see how it behaves.

More generally, you can use:

./mill -i dev.run [target-dir] [...args]

To create run your current checkout of Mill in the given target-dir with the given args. This is useful e.g. to test a modified version of Mill on some other project’s Mill build.

You can also create a launcher-script to let you run the current checkout of Mill without the bootstrap Mill process present:

./mill dev.launcher

This creates the out/dev/launcher.dest/run launcher script, which you can then use to run your current checkout of Mill where-ever you’d like. Note that this script relies on the compiled code already present in the Mill out/ folder, and thus isn’t suitable for testing on Mill’s own Mill build since you would be over-writing the compiled code at the same time as the launcher script is using it.

You can also run your current checkout of Mill on the build in your scratch/ folder without the bootstrap Mill process being present via:

./mill dev.launcher && (cd scratch && ../out/dev/launcher.dest/run -w show thingy)

Bootstrapping: Building Mill with your current checkout of Mill

To test bootstrapping of Mill’s own Mill build using a version of Mill built from your checkout, you can run

./mill installLocal

This creates a standalone assembly at target/mill-release you can use, which references jars published locally in your ~/.ivy2/local cache. You can then use this standalone assembly to build & re-build your current Mill checkout without worrying about stomping over compiled code that the assembly is using.

This assembly is design to work on bash, bash-like shells and Windows Cmd. If you have another default shell like zsh or fish, you probably need to invoke it with sh ~/mill-release or prepend the file with a proper shebang.

If you want to install into a different location or a different Ivy repository, you can set it’s optional parameters

Install into /tmp

$ ./mill inspect installLocal
[1/1] inspect
installLocal(build.sc:865)
    Build and install Mill locally.
    @param binFile The location where the Mill binary should be installed
    @param ivyRepo The local Ivy repository where Mill modules should be published to
...
$ ./mill installLocal --binFile /tmp/mill --ivyRepo /tmp/millRepo
...
Published 44 modules and installed /tmp/mill

Troubleshooting

In case of troubles with caching and/or incremental compilation, you can always restart from scratch removing the out directory:

os.remove.all -rf out/

Project Layout

The Mill project is organized roughly as follows:

Core modules that are included in the main assembly

core, main, main.client, scalalib, scalajslib.

These are general lightweight and dependency-free: mostly configuration & wiring of a Mill build and without the heavy lifting.

Heavy lifting is delegated to the worker modules (described below), which the core modules resolve from Maven Central (or from the local filesystem in dev) and load into isolated classloaders.

Worker modules that are resolved from Maven Central

scalalib.worker, scalajslib.worker[0.6], scalajslib.worker[1.0]

These modules are where the heavy-lifting happens, and include heavy dependencies like the Scala compiler, Scala.js optimizer, etc.. Rather than being bundled in the main assembly & classpath, these are resolved separately from Maven Central (or from the local filesystem in dev) and kept in isolated classloaders.

This allows a single Mill build to use multiple versions of e.g. the Scala.js optimizer without classpath conflicts.

Contrib modules

contrib/bloop/, contrib/flyway/, contrib/scoverage/, etc.

These are modules that help integrate Mill with the wide variety of different tools and utilities available in the JVM ecosystem.

These modules are not as stringently reviewed as the main Mill core/worker codebase, and are primarily maintained by their individual contributors. These are maintained as part of the primary Mill Github repo for easy testing/updating as the core Mill APIs evolve, ensuring that they are always tested and passing against the corresponding version of Mill.

Project Maintenance

Pull Requests

Changes to the main branch need a pull request. Exceptions are preparation commits for releases, which are meant to be pushed with tags in one go
Merged pull request (and closed issues) need to be assigned to a Milestone
Pull requests are typically merged via "Squash and merge", so we get a linear and useful history
Larger pull request, where it makes sense to keep single commits, or with multiple authors may be committed via merge commits.

Commit Messages

The title should be meaningful and may contain the pull request number in parentheses (typically automatically generated on GitHub)
The description should contain additional required details, which typically reflect the content of the first PR comment
A full link to the pull request should be added via a line: Pull request: <link>
If the PR has multiple authors but is merged as merge commit, those authors should be included via a line for each co-author: Co-authored-by: <author>
If the message contains links to other issues or pull requests, you should use full URLs to reference them

Changelog

'main' branch

Changes since 0.10.9:

For details refer to milestone after 0.10.9 and the list of commits.

0.10.9 - 2022-11-10

Changes since 0.10.8:

Hardened Maven and Ivy artifact handling to prevent path-traversal attacks (see CVE-2022-37866), also updated coursier dependency to a non-vulnerable version
Decoupled mill-moduledefs module into a separate project, to better suite compiler plugin packaging and improve support for various Scala versions
Applied more workarounds to coursier concurrency issues to make parallel builds more robust
Added support for newer Scala versions in GenIdea (2.2 and 2.3)
Fixed an issue where PublishModule dropped module dependencies when mixed-in after other trait which overrode moduleDeps
new JMH contrib plugin
Lots of internal improvements and dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.9 and the list of commits.

0.10.8 - 2022-10-10

Changes since 0.10.7:

Improvements for better Scala 3.2 support
Fixed non-working default commands in cross modules
CoursierModule: mitigate more download failure situations (e.g. checksum failures)
PublishModule: properly show gpg output in server mode
BSP: Better compiler message handling (logMessage instead of showMessage) and support for diagnostic code
ScoverageModule: Support for Scoverage 2.x
New contrib module GitlabPublishModule
Various internal improvements and version bumps
Documentation improvements

For details refer to milestone 0.10.8 and the list of commits.

0.10.7 - 2022-08-24

Changes since 0.10.6:

Don’t print unwanted debug messages from zinc

For details refer to milestone 0.10.7 and the list of commits.

0.10.6 - 2022-08-24

Changes since 0.10.5:

PathRefs sigs are now more reproducible and independent of the used filesystem
JavaModule can now use a non-local Java Compiler to support all options
Logger: new debugEnabled to detect whether debug logging is enabled
New testkit module, to use TestEvaluator in external projects
Fixed reading of .mill-jvm-opts in server mode
BSP: Automatic SemanticDB enablement to improve Metals support
mill.twirllib.TwirlModule - new mandatory target twirlScalaVersion to configure the Scala version used by Twirl compiler, and support for newer versions
Lots of documentation updates and additions
Upgraded to Zinc 1.7.1 and various other dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.6 and the list of commits.

0.10.5 - 2022-07-01

Changes since 0.10.4:

New init command, to create new Mill projects from Gitter8 (g8) templates
PathRef now gracefully ignores socket files. This also fixes an annoying issue when Mill was previously ran in a source directory.
Fixed a bug with using mill --repl without any further arguments, which was introduced in Mill 0.10.2 and prevented proper no-server mode
Fixed the visualize command which wasn’t working on some newer JREs
Improved Mill server support for Windows 11 and some Windows Server versions
ScalaModule / ZincWorkerModule: Fixed incremental compilation issue with JRE 17 (and probably others)
TestModule now better supports JUnit5 test suites
ScalaJsModule: internal improvements to the stability of the Scala.js linker
ScalaNativeModule: Added support for nativeEmbedResources
BSP: improved handling of the mill-build module when the BSP client is IntelliJ IDEA
Documentation updates and link fixes
Various dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.5 and the list of commits.

0.10.4 - 2022-05-06

Changes since 0.10.3:

Switched from ipcsocket to junixsocket library to enhance the robustness of Mill client server communication. This should greatly improve the user experience on Windows.
Internal improvements and better support of GraalVM
The Mill Documentation site has now built-in search functionality
ScalaJsModule: New targets fastLinkJS and fullLinkJS and deprecated fastOpt and fullOpt
ScalaJsModule: Support for ModuleSplitStyle
BSP: Updated to protocol version 2.1.0-M1, added support for test framework names and support for the JVM extension
GenIdea: More consistent ordering of libraries and dependent modules and support for Scala 3.1 language level
Bloop: Added support for runtime dependencies
Enhanced test suite to cover Mill client server scenarios
Various dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.4 and the list of commits.

0.10.3 - 2022-04-11

Changes since 0.10.2:

Fixed import $file for files with hyphens and other symbols in its name
Fixed an issues with truncated output just before Mill finishes
Mill commands now support arguments of type Task[T], which can improve writing re-usable commands, especially, they can be called from other tasks more easily
JavaModule: Improved correctness and performance of compileClasspath and bspCompileClasspath targets. This fixes an issue with BSP for large projects. Also, compile-time dependencies no longer sneak into the classpath transitively.
JavaModule: Added docJarUseArgsFile target and fix issue with Windows command length restrictions in docJar
BSP and Bloop: Better detect foreign modules
Various internal API refinements and improvements
Reorganized integration test suite and build setup

For details refer to milestone 0.10.3 and the list of commits.

0.10.2 - 2022-03-18

Changes since 0.10.1:

Mill workers can now implement AutoCloseable to properly free resources
ScalaModule: Fixed repl start
CoursierModule: Fixed concurrent download issues with coursier (we detect and retry)
MainModule: Fixed potential match error with show and showNamed
Restructured contrib module documentation
Internal improvements

For details refer to milestone 0.10.2 and the list of commits.

0.10.1 - 2022-03-08

Changes since 0.10.0:

MillClienMain can now act as universal main to start mill with or without a server process
Improved show command that always returns valid JSON
Added showNamed command that includes the task names in the output
Implemented more granular cache invalidation which keeps more caches intact when you split your build setup over multiple .sc files with import $file.
The local .mill-jvm-opts file is no longer restricted to -X options
CoursierModule: Added coursierCacheCustomizer to support a FileCache customizers
JavaModule: the docJar target no longer includes hidden files
ScalaModule: Updated to latest zinc version
ScalaModule: Reworked scalac plugins handling for the better and to support Scala 3
ScalaNativeModule: fixed Dep.withDottyCompat behavior
ScalaJSModule: support for linking multiple modules
ScalafmtModule: Support for newer Scalafmt versions
Tool chain: Update to Mill 0.10.0
Tool chain: we no longer create files outside the mill project directory (e.g. ~/mill-release is now under target/mill-release)
Various dependency updates
Lots of internal improvements

For details refer to milestone 0.10.1 and the list of commits.

0.10.0 - 2022-01-14

Changes since 0.10.0-M5:

Changed structure of out directory, out/foo/dest is now out/foo.dest
Fixed issues with loading of predef scripts
--watch now supports manual re-runs by pressing enter
Improved subprocess handling
Published poms can now contain properties and versionScheme information
Improved Scala.js support, including more target configuration options and support for Node 17
Improved Scala Native for version > 0.4.2 and support Scala 3
Internal improvements, fixes and dependency version updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.0 and the list of commits.

0.10.0-M5 - 2021-12-18

This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins.

Changes since 0.10.0-M4:

Fixed Log4Shell security vulnerability in ZincWorkerModule (CVE-2021-44228)
Factored out the testrunner into a new module, which also fixes some potential classloader issues when executing tests (e.g. with JNA)
Removed the limitation of max 22 inputs for tasks
--watched commands can now re-run when pressing enter-key
task and arguments of commands can now have hyphens in their name
Reworked and decluttered the out-folder structure
prepareOffline now has a all flag to control if all or only some dependency should be prefetched
Made chaching more effective for targets overridden in stackable-traits
Further BSP improvements, esp. for Metals and Scala 3
Lots of other internal improvements and fixes
Various dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M5 and the list of commits.

0.10.0-M4 - 2021-11-08

Changes since 0.10.0-M3:

BSP support rework and overhaul of built-in BSP server
GenIdea: failures when inspecting and resolving the build are not properly reported
Coursier: we now implemented a workaround to tackle concurrent downloads issues
New + separator to provide multiple targets (with parameters) via cmdline
New --import cmdline option to run ad-hoc plugins without editing of build.sc
New T.ctx().workspace API to access the project root directory
Various internal improvements and bug fixes
Various refactorings and cleanups

For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M4 and the list of commits.

0.10.0-M3 - 2021-09-29

This is a milestone release. This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins build for mill 0.9.x. The API is suspected to change before a 0.10.0 releae.

Changes since 0.10.0-M2:

ScalaModule with PublishModule: the scala-library artifact is now always part of the dependencies in published `pom.xml`s and `ivy.xml`s
New JavaModule.mandatoryIvyDeps target to provide essential dependencies like scala-library without forcing the user to call super.ivyDeps
ScalaJSModule.scalaLibraryIvyDeps no longer contains the scala-js-library, but only the scala-library; if you need that, use ScalaJSModule.mandatoryIvyDeps instead.
import $ivy support $MILL_BIN_PLATFORM variable and a new sort notations for external plugins
We fixed and enabled lots of tests to run on Windows
Some generic targets like plan or path now also return their output
GenIdea: improved support for Scala 3 projects *

For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M3 and the list of commits.

0.10.0-M2 - 2021-09-17

This is a early milestone release. This release breaks binary compatibility for external plugins build for mill 0.9.x. The API is suspected to change before a 0.10.0 releae.

Changes since 0.9.9:

Removed deprecated API
ScalaModule: added mandatoryScalacOptions to avoid the common issue that users forget to include mandatory options when defining their own.
Renamed toolsClasspath targets found in various modules to avoid hard to resolve clashes when mixing traits
Fixed and improved our test suite on Windows
Various fixes and improvements
Various dependency updates

For details refer to milestone 0.10.0-M2 and the list of commits.

0.9.12 - 2022-01-07

fixed parsing of command parameters in show command
zinc worker: Updated log4j2 to 2.17.1

For details refer to milestone 0.9.12 and the list of commits.

0.9.11 - 2021-12-15

zinc worker: Updated log4j2 to 2.16.0 to fix Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability

For details refer to milestone 0.9.11 and the list of commits.

0.9.10 - 2021-11-13

Some feature backports from mill 0.10
New + separator to provide multiple targets (with parameters) via cmdline
New --import cmdline option to run ad-hoc plugins without editing of build.sc
import $ivy support $MILL_BIN_PLATFORM variable and a new sort notations for external plugins

For details refer to milestone 0.9.10 and the list of commits.

0.9.9 - 2021-07-15

Changes since 0.9.8:

BSP: Fixed/improved source item for root project
Bloop: Prevent compilation during bloop config generation
GenIdea: Fix content path of root project (mill-build)
Various version bumps

For details refer to milestone 0.9.9 and the list of commits.

0.9.8 - 2021-05-27

Changes since 0.9.7:

Fixed some potential binary incompatibilities with external plugins (builds against older os-lib versions)
Fixed location and configuration of mills home path (used for caching of build scripts)
Properly close jar resources - should fix issues in assembly, esp. on Windows where open resources are locked
BSP: Repaired mills BSP server
playlib: Fixed issues with the play-contrib module and added support for Play 2.8
GenIdea: changed dir for generated mill modules to .idea/mill_modules
Various version bumps, including Scala 2.13.5

For details refer to milestone 0.9.8 and the list of commits.

0.9.7 - 2021-05-14

Changes since 0.9.6:

ScalaModule: Support for Scala 3
CoursierModule: Support customized dependency resolution (needed to work with ScalaFX)
TestModule: Added new testFramework target and only support one test framework. Deprecated testFrameworks targets.
TestModule: Added new convenience traits to configure popular test frameworks, e.g. TestModule.Junit4, TestModule.ScalaTest, TestModule.Utest, and many more
Bloop: Added support for foreign modules
Better support for Windows environments
Various internal improvements, cleanups, and deprecations
Various dependencies updates
Removed tut contrib module because of unmaintained/archived upstream dependency

For details refer to milestone 0.9.7 and the list of commits.

0.9.6 - 2021-04-03

The mill project home and repository has been moved to https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill.

repl and console targets now support forkArgs and forkEnv
Support for Scala 3 release candidates and new Scaladoc 3 tool
Support for Scala.js on Scala 3
Scala Native improvements
Test runner now uses an args file to support running tests on Windows
GenIdea: better supports source jars, full config contributions and provided/runtime dependencies
Various dependency updates
Documentation site reworked to support multiple release versions
Improved CI setup to better test mill on Windows

For details refer to milestone 0.9.6 and the list of commits.

0.9.5 - 2021-01-26

Updated zinc to 1.4.4
Support for Scala Native 0.4.0
Support for Scala.js ESModule (including Bloop support)
Inner Tests traits in modules like JavaModule, ScalaModule and others now have unique names (JavaModuleTests, ScalaModuleTests, etc), to allow for easier customization
Various version bumps of dependencies
CI now runs all tests, it did miss some before

For details refer to milestone 0.9.5 and the list of commits.

0.9.4 - 2020-12-21

Implemented more BSP protocol commands and fixed some glitches with IntelliJ
Stabilized CI builds
Various fixes and improvements
Various version bumps

For details refer to milestone 0.9.4 and the list of commits.

0.9.3 - 2020-11-26

(We also tagged 0.9.0, 0.9.1, and 0.9.2, but due to release difficulties, we ask you not to use them.)

Replace the built in @main method functionality with the MainArgs library
Note that the MainArgs replacement has some backwards incompatibilities: Short flags like -i can no longer be passed via --i, the @doc("") is now @arg(doc = ""), Seq[T] parameters are now passed via repeated --foo flags rather than comma-separated.
Add the ability to relocate/shade files in .assembly #947
Twirl enhancements #952
Add scalacPluginClasspath to Tests #956
Add toMap methods to BuildInfo #958
Bump coursier to version 2.0.0 #973
Make BSP support a first-class citizen #969
Omit the suffix in artifactName in cross modules #953
Allow test classes with constructor parameters #982
Proguard contrib module #972
Support Scala.js useECMAScript2015 option and ModuleKind.ESModule #1004
Support Scala.js incremental linking #1007

For details refer to milestone 0.9.3 and the list of commits.

Older releases

0.8.0 - 2020-07-20

Bump external dependencies: uPickle 1.2.0, Ammonite 2.2.0, etc.
Use default coursier repos (#931)
Work around relative paths issue on windows (#936)
Support Scala.js versions >1.0.0 (#934)

For details refer to milestone 0.8.0 and the list of commits.

0.7.4 - 2020-07-03

new command line options --repl and --no-server, deprecated --interactive option
Support for Scala.js 1.1
Fixed missing source maps for Scala.js 1.0 and 1.1
Improved BSP contrib module

For details refer to milestone 0.7.4 and the list of commits.

0.7.3

For details refer to milestone 0.7.3 and the list of commits.

0.7.2 - 2020-05-19

For details refer to milestone 0.7.2 and the list of commits.

0.7.1 - 2020-05-17

For details refer to milestone 0.7.1 and the list of commits.

0.7.0 - 2020-05-15

Greatly improved parallel builds via -j <n>/--jobs <n>, with better scheduling and utilization of multiple cores
build.sc files now uses Scala 2.13.2
Avoid duplicate target resolution with mill resolve __
Add ability to pass GPG arguments to publish via --gpgArgs
-w/--watch now works for T.source targets

For details refer to milestone 0.7.0 and the list of commits.

0.6.3 - 2020-05-10

Finished incomplete support to publish extra artifacts to IVY repositories (publishLocal)
Improved Sonatype uploads
GenIdea: improvements for shared source dirs and skipped modules
ScoverageModule: Some refactorings to allow better customization
More robust classpath handling under Windows

For details refer to milestone 0.6.3 and the list of commits.

0.6.2 - 2020-04-22

Mill can now execute targets in parallel. This is experimental and need to be enabled with --jobs <n> option.
PublishModule: new publishM2Local to publish into local Maven repositories
PublishModule: enhanced publishLocal to specify to ivy repository location
Windows: Fixed windows launcher and more robust classpath handling
ScalaNativeModule: improved compiling and linking support
new contrib module VersionFile
Dependency: improved dependency update checker and expose results for programmatic use
ǹew contrib module Bintray
ǹew contrib module Artifactory
fixed testCached support in various modules
GenIdea: improvements, esp. related to source jars

For details refer to milestone 0.6.2 and the list of commits.

0.6.1 - 2020-02-24

Bugfix: Mill now no longer leaks open files (version bump to uPickle 1.0.0)
New --version option
Added Support for Scala.js 1.0.0+
Added Support for Scala Native 0.4.0-M2
JavaModule: Enhanced ivyDepsTree to optionally include compile-time and runtime-time dependencies
JavaModule: allSourceFiles no longer include Scala sources
JavaModule: assembly supports configurable separator when merging resources
ScoverageModule: respect unmanagedClasspath, added console reporter
ScalaPBModule: added more configuration options
Bloop: Fixed inconsistent working directory when executing tests via bloop (forces -Duser.dir when generating bloop config)

For details refer to milestone 0.6.1 and the list of commits.

0.6.0 - 2020-01-20

Support for METALS 0.8.0 in VSCode

For details refer to milestone 0.6.0 and the list of commits.

0.5.9 - 2020-01-14

Bump library versions again
Alias T.ctx. functions to T.: T.dest, T.log, etc.
Bump Mill’s client-connect-to-server timeout, to reduce flakiness when the server is taking a moment to start up

For details refer to the list of commits.

Version 0.5.8 has some binary compatibility issues in requests-scala/geny and should not be used.

0.5.7 - 2019-12-28

Bump library versions: Ammonite 2.0.1, uPickle 0.9.6, Scalatags 0.8.3, OS-Lib 0.6.2, Requests 0.4.7, Geny 0.4.2

For details refer to milestone 0.5.7 and the list of commits.

0.5.5 / 0.5.6 - 2019-12-20

(we skipped version 0.5.4 as we had some publishing issues)

Bump library versions: Ammonite 1.9.2, uPickle 0.9.0, Scalatags 0.8.2, OS-Lib 0.5.0, Requests 0.3.0, Geny 0.2.0, uTest 0.7.1
Fixed a long standing issue that output of sub-processes are only shown when -i option was used. Now, you will always seen output of sub-process.
Mill now properly restarts it’s server after it’s version has changed
PublishModule: added ability to publish into non-staging repositories
ScalaPBModule: added extra include path option

For details refer to milestone 0.5.5 and the list of commits.

0.5.3 - 2019-12-07

GenIdea/idea: improved support for generated sources and use/download sources in more cases
ScalaJS: improvements and support for ScalaJS 0.6.29+ and 1.0.1.RC1
Introduced new CoursierModule to use dependency management independent from a compiler
ScoverageModule: better handling of report directories
ScalaPBModule: more configuration options
various other fixes and improvements

For details refer to milestone 0.5.3 and the list of commits.

0.5.2 - 2019-10-17

TestModule: new `testCached`target, which only re-runs tests after relevant changes
TestModule.test: fixed issue when stacktraces have no filename info
Dependency/updates: fixed issue with reading stale dependencies
GenIdea/idea: no longer shared output directories between mill and IntelliJ IDEA
support for Dotty >= 0.18.1
Fixed backwards compatibility of mill wrapper script
Mill now support the Build Server Protocol 2.0 (BSP) and can act as a build server
bloop: removed semanticDB dependency
Documentation updates

For details refer to milestone 0.5.2 and the list of commits.

0.5.1 - 2019-09-05

GenIdea: Bug fixes
GenIdea: Support for module specific extensions (Facets) and additional config files
Add ability to define JAR manifests
Dotty support: Updates and support for binary compiler bridges
Ivy: improved API to create optional dependendies
Interpolate $MILL_VERSION in ivy imports
Zinc: Fixed logger output
Scoverage: Upgrade to Scoverage 1.4.0
Flyway: Upgrade to Flyway 6.0.1
Bloop: Updated semanticDB version to 4.2.2
Documentation updates
Improved robustness in release/deployment process

For details refer to milestone 0.5.1 and the list of commits.

0.5.0

Mill now supports a ./mill bootstrap script, allowing a project to pin the version of Mill it requires, as well as letting contributors use ./mill … to begin development without needing to install Mill beforehand.
Support for a .mill-version file or MILL_VERSION environment variable for Overriding Mill Versions
Fix scoverage: inherit repositories from outer project #645

0.4.2

Improvements to IntelliJ project generation #616
Allow configuration of Scala.js' JsEnv #628

0.4.1

Fixes for scala native test suites without test frameworks #627
Fix publication of artifacts by increasing sonatype timeouts
Bug fixes for Scoverage integration #623

0.4.0

Publish compileIvyDeps as provided scope (535)
Added contrib modules to integrate Bloop, Flyway, Play Framework, Scoverage
Allow configuration of GPG key names when publishing (530)
Bump Ammonite version to 1.6.7, making Requests-Scala available to use in your build.sc
Support for Scala 2.13.0-RC2
ScalaFmt support now uses the version specified in .scalafmt.conf

0.3.6

Started to splitting out mill.api from mill.core
Avoid unnecessary dependency downloading by providing fetches per cache policy
Added detailed dependency download progress to the progress ticker
Fixed internal code generator to support large projects
Zinc worker: compiler bridge can be either pre-compiled or on-demand-compiled
Zinc worker: configurable scala library/compiler jar discovery
Zinc worker: configurable compiler cache supporting parallelism
Version bumps: ammonite 1.6.0, scala 2.12.8, zinc 1.2.5
Mill now by default fails fast, so in case a build tasks fails, it exits immediately
Added new -k/--keep-going commandline option to disable fail fast behaviour and continue build as long as possible in case of a failure

0.3.5

Bump uPickle to 0.7.1

0.3.4

Mill is now bundled with OS-Lib, providing a simpler way of dealing with filesystem APIs and subprocesses

0.3.3

Added new debug method to context logger, to log additional debug info into the task specific output dir (out/<task>/log)
Added --debug option to enable debug output to STDERR
Fix ScalaModule#docJar task when Scala minor versions differ 475

0.3.2

Automatically detect main class to make ScalaModule#assembly self-executable

0.3.0

Bump Ammonite to 1.3.2, Fastparse to 2.0.4
Sped up ScalaModule#docJar task by about 10x, greatly speeding up publishing
Add a flag JavaModule#skipIdea you can override to disable Intellij project generation #458
Allow sub-domains when publishing #441

0.2.8

mill inspect now displays out the doc-comment documentation for a task.
Avoid shutdown hook failures in tests #422
Ignore unreadable output files rather than crashing #423
Don’t compile hidden files #428

0.2.7

Add visualizePlan command
Basic build-info plugin in mill-contrib-buildinfo
ScalaPB integration in mill-contrib-scalapblib
Fixes for Twirl support, now in mill-contrib-twirllib
Support for building Dotty projects #397
Allow customization of run/runBackground working directory via forkWorkingDir
Reduced executable size, improved incremental compilation in #414

0.2.6

Improve incremental compilation to work with transitive module dependencies
Speed up hot compilation performance by properly re-using classloaders
Speed up compilation time of build.sc files by removing duplicate macro generated routing code

0.2.5

Add .runBackground and .runMainBackground commands, to run something in the background without waiting for it to return. The process will keep running until it exits normally, or until the same .runBackground command is run a second time to spawn a new version of the process. Can be used with -w for auto-reloading of long-running servers.
Scala-Native support. Try it out!
Add --disable-ticker to reduce spam in CI
Fix propagation of --color flag

0.2.4

Fix resolution of scala-{library,compiler,reflect} in case of conflict
Allow configuration of JavaModule and ScalafmtModule scala workers
Allow hyphens in module and task names
Fix publishing of ScalaJS modules to properly handle upstream ScalaJS dependencies

0.2.3

Added the mill show visualize command, making it easy to visualize the relationships between various tasks and modules in your Mill build.
Improve Intellij support (351): better jump-to-definition for third-party libraries, no longer stomping over manual configuration, and better handling of import $ivy in your build file.
Support for un-signed publishing and cases where your GPG key has no passphrase (346)
Basic support for Twirl, Play Framework’s templating language (271)
Better performance for streaming large amounts of stdout from Mill’s daemon process.
Allow configuration of append/exclude rules in ScalaModule#assembly (309)

0.2.2

Preserve caches when transitioning between -i/--interactive and the fast client/server mode (329)
Keep Mill daemon running if you Ctrl-C during -w/--watch mode (327)
Allow mill version to run without a build file (328)
Make docJar (and thus publishing) robust against scratch files in the source directories (334) and work with Scala compiler options (336)
Allow passing Ammonite command-line options to the foo.repl command (333)
Add mill clean (315) to easily delete the Mill build caches for specific targets
Improve IntelliJ integration of `MavenModule`s/`SbtModule`s' test folders (298)
Avoid showing useless stack traces when foo.test result-reporting fails or foo.run fails
ScalaFmt support (308)
Allow ScalaModule#generatedSources to allow single files (previous you could only pass in directories)

0.2.0

Universal (combined batch/sh) script generation for launcher, assembly, and release (#264)
Windows client/server improvements (#262)
Windows repl support (note: MSYS2 subsystem/shell will be supported when jline3 v3.6.3 is released)
Fixed Java 9 support
Remove need for running publishAll using --interactive when on OSX and your GPG key has a passphrase
First-class support for `JavaModule`s
Properly pass compiler plugins to Scaladoc (#282)
Support for ivy version-pinning via ivy"…".forceVersion()
Support for ivy excludes via ivy"…".exclude() (#254)
Make ivyDepsTree properly handle transitive dependencies (#226)
Fix handling of runtime-scoped ivy dependencies (#173)
Make environment variables available to Mill builds (#257)
Support ScalaCheck test runner (#286)
Support for using Typelevel Scala (#275)
If a module depends on multiple submodules with different versions of an ivy dependency, only one version is resolved (#273)

0.1.7

Support for non-interactive (client/server) mode on Windows.
More fixes for Java 9
Bumped the Mill daemon timeout from 1 minute to 5 minutes of inactivity before it shuts down.
Avoid leaking Node.js subprocesses when running ScalaJSModule tests
Passing command-line arguments with spaces in them to tests no longer parses wrongly
ScalaModule#repositories, scalacPluginIvyDeps, scalacOptions, javacOptions are now automatically propagated to Tests modules
ScalaJSModule linking errors no longer show a useless stack trace
ScalaModule#docJar now properly uses the compileClasspath rather than runClasspath
Bumped underlying Ammonite version to 1.1.0, which provides the improved Windows and Java 9 support

0.1.6

Fixes for non-interactive (client/server) mode on Java 9
Windows batch (.bat) generation for launcher, assembly, and release

0.1.5

Introduced the mill plan foo.bar command, which shows you what the execution plan of running the foo.bar task looks like without actually evaluating it.
Mill now generates an out/mill-profile.json file containing task-timings, to make it easier to see where your mill evaluation time is going
Introduced ScalaModule#ivyDepsTree command to show dependencies tree
Rename describe to inspect for consistency with SBT
mill resolve now prints results sorted alphabetically
Node.js configuration can be customised with ScalaJSModule#nodeJSConfig
Scala.js fullOpt now uses Google Closure Compiler after generating the optimized Javascript output
Scala.js now supports NoModule and CommonJSModule module kinds
Include compileIvyDeps when generating IntelliJ projects
Fixed invalid POM generation
Support for Java 9 (and 10)
Fixes for Windows support
Fixed test classes discovery by skipping interfaces
Include "optional" artifacts in dependency resolution if they exist
out/{module_name} now added as a content root in generated IntelliJ project

0.1.4

Speed up Mill client initialization by another 50-100ms
Speed up incremental `assembly`s in the common case where upstream dependencies do not change.
Make ScalaJSModule#run work with main-method discovery
Make ScalaWorkerModule user-defineable, so you can use your own custom coursier resolvers when resolving Mill’s own jars
Simplify definitions of SCM strings
Make the build REPL explicitly require -i/--interactive to run
Log a message when Mill is initializing the Zinc compiler interface

0.1.3

Greatly reduced the overhead of evaluating Mill tasks, with a warm already-cached mill dev.launcher now taking ~450ms instead of ~1000ms
Mill now saves compiled build files in ~/.mill/ammonite, which is configurable via the --home CLI arg.
Fixed linking of multi-module Scala.js projects

0.1.2

Mill now keeps a long-lived work-daemon around in between commands; this should improve performance of things like compile which benefit from the warm JVM. You can use -i/--interactive for interactive consoles/REPLs and for running commands without the daemon
Implemented the ScalaModule#launcher target for easily creating command-line launchers you can run outside of Mill
ScalaModule#docJar no longer fails if you don’t have scala-compiler on classpath
Support for multiple testFrameworks in a test module.

0.1.1

Fixes for foo.console
Enable Ammonite REPL integration via foo.repl

0.1.0

First public release

oridag/mill