🔗Changelog

All notable changes to Tim Engine are documented here. The changelog is managed with changer in the tim repository.

🔗v0.2.6 — 2026-07-27

input:TYPE shorthand — input:time, input:color, input:range, etc. are parsed as <input type="TYPE"> at the lexer/parser level. Distinguished from Tim's : text-content syntax by checking wsno == 0 (no whitespace before the colon). Only triggers on input tags; subsequent attributes (.class, #id) still apply.
svg elements now auto-inject xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" at parse time, unless you explicitly provide xmlns.
@LitElement, ClassName — define Lit-style custom HTML elements in Tim. The tag name is derived from the class name (kebab-case). The body supports @javascript blocks (concatenated into the class body) and a single @client block (the render template compiled to JS template literals). Generates a JavaScript class extending LitElement with connectedCallback, render(), and customElements.define(). Client-side only; server-side rendering emits the class as a <script> block.

PHP Linux build — replaced --passC: staticExec(...) with switch("passC", ...) in tim.nims; uses php-config --include-dir as primary header discovery on Linux (with pkg-config fallback).
Clue hardcoded macOS pragmas — wrapped {.passC:} / {.passL:} in php_api.nim, python_api.nim, lua_api.nim inside when defined(macosx): to prevent MacPorts paths from leaking into Linux builds.
Docs workflow — added permissions: contents: write for the gh-pages push.
Ruby extension CI — tim-ruby/.github/workflows/build.yml builds the native extension via repository_dispatch for x86_64-darwin, arm64-darwin, and x86_64-linux.

Element multiplication — tag*N repeats an HTML element N times with an injected $i index variable (0-based). Example: li*3: $items[$i] produces three <li> elements.
@import "std/..." system — populated the stdlibs table and fixed libobjects.nim syntax errors; switched build.nim to initCompiler for stdlib pass-through.
Request API — exposed the Supranim request API as foreign functions callable via $this.getPath(), $this.getMethod(), $this.getQuery("key"), $this.getHeader("key"), $this.getBody(), $this.getIp(), $this.getUrl(), $this.getAgent(), $this.getParam("key").
@static compile-time evaluator — for for loops and if/elif/else conditionals. The body is captured as raw text, {$varName} / $varName patterns are substituted with literal iteration values, then re-parsed by an inner parser. Supports literal arrays and start..end integer ranges (e.g. @static for $x in 1..12:).
Lexer gains tkIs / tkIsNot — recognized as infix operators (precedence 5, equal to ==), with stdlib implementations that compare values at runtime by TypeId. (Note: in the current engine the identity helpers are available as the is(a, b) / isnot(a, b) functions.)

Updated stdlib for VanCode v0.1.9 ValueStorage API — Object.fields changed from seq[Value] to seq[ValueStorage] (inline primitive storage). All field reads now use .toValue, all field writes use .toStorage. No functional changes.

Fixed addCallable KeyError in VanCode when the exportFunctions key is missing on overloaded function names.
Exported macros (macro foo*) now properly cross module boundaries via exported = true in genMacro.
serve command no longer hardcodes template paths — reads compilation.source, compilation.output, and subdirectory paths from tim.config.yml.
Fixed source and output fields in tim.config.yml.
parseVarIdent now handles generic type annotations (var abc: array[string]).
CompilationPolicy is now threaded from engine.config.compilation.policy into the codegen via initCompiler, enabling per-project feature restrictions (imports, stdlib, packages, loops, conditionals, assignments, dynamic libs).
Ruby gem automation — release.yml pushes platform-specific binaries (x86_64-darwin, arm64-darwin, x86_64-linux) to openpeeps/tim-ruby on tag releases.
Removed hardcoded MacPorts paths from Clue's ruby_api.nim — uses project-level pkg-config instead.