Release v0.11.0

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v0.11.0 - 2026-07-24

Mostly compiler fixes: never-returning branches emitted invalid IL, protocol-hinted parameters threw InvalidCastException, a named fn was not identical? to its own self-reference, several numeric literals and integer operations emitted wrong bytes or overflowed instead of promoting, and the last known sources of nondeterministic DLL bytes are gone.

Compiler

• if/cond forms whose branches never return (throw or recur on both sides) no longer emit a dead branch past the end of the method, which the CLR rejected with a VerificationException. Constant-test ifs, like cond's (if :else expr nil) expansion, are analyzed correctly too - #54.
• A parameter hinted with a protocol name stays Object and dispatches through the protocol fn, as stock Clojure does. The hint used to narrow to the protocol's generated interface, so passing an extend / extend-protocol type threw InvalidCastException at the invoke boundary. A qualified tag, which is what deftype / reify specs expand to, still narrows - #51.
• A named fn's self-reference is the fn value itself, so identical? / = between them returns true, matching JVM and ClojureCLR. Reader source-location metadata is stripped from fn literals like upstream, so (meta (fn [] 1)) is nil - #52, #53.
• When a type fails to resolve, the error hints at load-path DLLs matching the type's namespace prefix that are not loaded yet - #70.
• Reporting a wrong-arity instance-method call no longer throws an ArityException from the error reporter itself, masking the diagnostic - #79.
• #inst, #uuid, and any other literal without a dedicated emitter no longer throw load-constant not implemented when embedded in compiled source; they are written as a print-dup string and read back with RT.readString at load - #83.
• Unsigned integer constants keep their exact bits: a UInt32 above Int32/MaxValue no longer throws Value was either too large or too small during emission, and a UInt64 constant no longer emits corrupted IL through mage's untyped Emit dispatch - #85, #88.
• Widening an unsigned value to long zero-extends instead of sign-extending, so (long UInt32/MaxValue) is 4294967295, not -1; the conversion opcode is chosen from the source type's signedness - #87.
• Casting an Object to a narrow numeric type (Char, SByte, Int16, UInt16, UInt32, UInt64) goes through the matching RT cast, so (char x) or (int x) on a boxed value no longer throws InvalidCastException - #91.
• Integer arithmetic promotes narrow operands to long like Clojure's numeric tower, so (inc Int32/MaxValue) is 2147483648 and (inc UInt32/MaxValue) is 4294967296 instead of overflowing or wrapping to a smaller type - #92, #93.

Deterministic compilation

• Reusable-type selection and loop binding-type inference iterate their candidate sets in a sorted order instead of hash order, removing the last known ways unchanged sources could compile to different bytes across processes - #60, #68.
• The type-name gensym counter resets per file-writing compile unit, so editing an unrelated nostrand namespace no longer renumbers every committed DLL - #64.

Runtime

• Every eval on Mono registered a dead extra dynamic assembly; the duplicate DefineDynamicAssembly call, leftover upstream debug code, is gone - #77.

Nostrand

• New nos where prints the directory of the runtime the running host actually loaded - #72.
• CLOJURE_LOAD_PATH entries are absolute, so a loader scanning it finds native assemblies from any working directory, as on stock ClojureCLR - #62.
• A deps.edn without :aliases no longer throws a NullReferenceException when aliases are requested, undeclared aliases warn on stderr like tools.deps does, and a missing or malformed deps file is reported by name - #55.
• nos test can skip individual deftest vars via :exclude-vars in magic.edn's :test config, not just whole namespaces, so a lib with a few platform-specific tests still runs the rest - #96.

Unity

• Nine orphaned clojure.tools.analyzer* DLLs, excluded from the deploy target since the monorepo's first commit and last compiled in 2022, are dropped from Export/ so they stop shipping in every player build - #66.

Tooling

• The SourceRevisionId stamped into Clojure.dll and Magic.Runtime.dll includes release tags, so from this release on a build at a tag checkout stamps 0.11.0+v0.11.0-0-g<hash> instead of a bare commit hash. Develop builds, where no release tag exists, keep the bare hash - #75.
• bb refresh-stdlib no longer flags the bootstrap-owned DLLs as missing source on every run - #81.

Docs

• New docs/native-assemblies.md: loading a precompiled C# assembly on the CLR via a loader namespace that scans CLOJURE_LOAD_PATH, and how to rebuild the committed native DLLs byte-stably - #62, #74.