kotlinx-datetime v0.8.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2026-05-07 // about 1 month ago-
๐ฅ Breaking changes:
- ๐ Deprecate
TimeZoneserialization (#576).
โ Additions:
- โ Add
orNullfunctions for non-throwing construction of datetime entities (#68). - โ Add
parseOrNullextension functions for non-throwing attempts at parsing (#508). - Introduce
LocalIsoWeekDatefor representing ISO week dates (#603). - Introduce functions for finding the next or previous date with the given day-of-week (#129).
๐ Tweaks and fixes:
- ๐ Fix bugs in
Instant.untilandInstant.periodUntil(#534). - Always output seconds in the
DateTimeComponents.Formats.RFC_1123format (#608). - ๐ On Kotlin/Native for Windows, whenever DST transitions are turned off by the user, the current system time zone is now fixed-offset (#575).
๐ Changelog relative to version 0.8.0-rc02
No changes, only the version is increased.
- ๐ Deprecate
Previous changes from v0.8.0-rc02
-
Equivalent to
rc01, but published withoutInstantandClock.
A separate compatibility artifact contains them for binary compatibility.
๐ Please see https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime/#deprecation-of-instant for details.