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title: 0.11.0
description: "Hundreds of new BIFs, async APIs, watcher lifecycle, ESP32 HID, non-blocking HTTP, and one full CLI per platform."
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Released 2026-10-02. [GitHub release](https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox/releases/tag/v0.11.0) | [Downloads](https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/ortussolutions/matchbox/0.11.0/)

## Added
- **Expanded BoxLang Compatibility**: Added hundreds of BIFs across arrays, structs, strings, lists, queries, sets, binary operations, encryption, conversion, decision, formatting, i18n, filesystem, JDBC, cache, system, temporal, XML, ZIP, and stream APIs.
- **Compatibility Transfer Suite**: Added more than 500 black-box tests transferred from the BoxLang JVM implementation, including operators, scopes, casters, runtime types, and global BIFs.
- **Async Runtime APIs**: Added futures, executors, thread lifecycle functions, and async collection helpers.
- **Watcher Lifecycle**: Added watcher registration, lookup, start, stop, restart, shutdown, and filesystem event dispatch.
- **System Integration**: Added native process execution, YAML deserialization, system metadata helpers, SOAP client compatibility, and raw CLI key input.
- **ESP32 HID and Web Control**: Added USB keyboard and mouse BIFs, browser-based HID controls, application configuration, diagnostics, and ESP32 examples.

## Changed
- Publish one full CLI per platform and Linux amd64/arm64 Docker images built from the same binaries.
- Follow a minor-release/development-snapshot cycle with versioned S3 downloads, evergreen channels, build metadata, and SHA-256 checksums.
- **Non-blocking HTTP**: HTTP requests now use native futures so other fibers can continue running while requests are in flight; HTTP support is enabled by default.
- **Prelude Performance**: Replaced quadratic sorting and deduplication paths with O(n log n) sorting and O(n) uniqueness checks.
- **ESP32 Memory Use**: Shared compiled route data and reduced route and HTTP caches to lower embedded memory pressure.
- **Runtime Isolation**: Watcher registries are now scoped to each VM instead of process-global state.
- **Runtime Reliability**: System output streams now flush after writes and garbage collection thresholds are configurable.

## Fixed
- Included MatchBox's default IO, HTTP, crypto, and CLI BIFs in standalone runner stubs.
- Corrected `getTempDirectory()` to preserve either path separator on every host, including Windows paths returned with `/`.
- Corrected BoxLang string parsing so backslashes remain literal and doubled quote delimiters produce one quote.
- Isolated seeded random number generators and locale settings per VM so parallel scripts cannot interfere with one another.
- Corrected BoxLang operator, tokenizer, temporal, filesystem, and cross-target compatibility behavior.
- Normalized rooted and contracted paths across platforms, validated file access modes consistently, and made watcher event path tests platform-independent.
- Added a tracked SOAP WSDL fixture so tests no longer depend on an external BoxLang checkout.
- Improved compiler and runtime error messages with more accurate source locations and context.
- Fixed ESP32 USB HID behavior and reduced route execution memory overhead.