Native Image Committer and Community Meeting 2024-10-17

[wirthi]

List of all past and upcoming meetings: #3933

New and Noteworthy

• Native Image Layers:
  [GR-57248] Delay resolution of vtable slots until final layer. #9869
  [GR-58478] Link base layer libraries as a dynamic library #9754
  [GR-57955] Ensure the persistType and persistMethod methods are thread safe #9726
  [GR-57251] Add GitHub action for weekly native-image layer testing #9704
  [GR-58088] Improve layer build times and memory usage. #9681
  [GR-58129] LayerUse should only disable ClosedTypeWorldHubLayout, not ClosedTypeWorld. #9675
  [GR-57248] Redo layered symbolname passing. #9633
  [GR-55073] Fix open-type world analysis. #9632
  [GR-57805] Fix layered images HelloWorld CE. #9611
  [GR-57649] Use replaceObjectWithConstant in reflection plugin. #9608
  [GR-57248] Make HostedMethod naming layer-aware #9598
  [GR-57637] Build Layered Image with external libraries #9596
  [GR-57258] Adapt reflection for multiple layers #9578
  [GR-57248] Change open type world dispatch table slot calculation and add validation code for layered builds. #9569

• GuestGraal
  [GR-58651] Enforce correct values for Services.IS_[IN|BUILDING]_NATIVE_IMAGE in image-runtime. #9842
  [GR-57997] Rename GuestGraal to LibGraal. #9635
  [GR-57636] Replace LibGraalFeature with GuestGraalFeature. #9631

• Special exceptions for missing configurations:
  [GR-58383] Make missing registration warn mode stack trace length customizable #9750

• Usability:
  [GR-54685] Condition typeReached for Unsafe.allocateInstance. #9392
  [GR-57384] Preserve origin why resources are included in an image. #9546
  [GR-58237] Improve the error message when NativeImageFileSystemProvider is not present. #9834
  [GR-52096] Set default locale at run-time. #9694
  [GR-56098] Backport to 23.1: reachability-metadata.json parser #9670
  [GR-57814] Prevent emission of typeReachable in reachability-metadata.json #9664
  Backport reachability-metadata.json parser to GraalVM 23.0 #9607 (and others)
  [GR-41981] Use canonical resource path in resource registration #9577

• Cleanups:
  [GR-24080] [GR-57399] [GR-57642] [GR-57990] Bugfixes, refactorings, and cleanups for the Posix signal handling. #9843
  [GR-58531] Eagerly initialize caches in method handle implementation. #9836 - minor fix, last PR of Christian Wimmer
  [GR-58542] Process --version, --help or --help-extra like java does. #9826
  [GR-57998] Remove ComputedValueField and ReadableJavaField. #9634

• Monitoring / tools:
  [GR-58500] Incorrect address location for compressed hub references in DWARF debuginfo. #9852 student work at JKU Linz to improve GDB debugger experience
  [GR-58488] [GR-58242] Cleanups and fixes for the premain support. #9747
  [GR-45171] Basic JVMTI infrastructure. #9558

• Other
  [GR-58292] Add option to disable substitutions. #9743