Highlights of the release

Make truncation by characters in repl configurable #16167
New (experimental for now) lazy vals implementation #15296

Other changes and fixes

Coverage

Make coverage instrumentation more robust #16235

Default parameters

Resolve overloading: keep track of prefix and indices of all default getters #16009

Experimentals

Let accesors inherit @experimental annotations from accessed symbols #16099

Extension Methods

Fix i14451 #16010

GADTs

Add fixed GADT exhaustivity test cases #16169
Eliminate class hierarchy in GadtConstraint #16194

Initialization

Code refactoring of initialization checker #16066

Inline

Refine checking for outer references #16122

Java interoperability

Parse native in Java bytecode as @native #16232

Opaque Types

Disallow opaque type aliases of context functions #16041

Parser

Align implementation with spec of soft modifiers #15961

Pattern Matching

Fix redundancy (unreachability) warning #16179

Polyfunctions

Avoid checking purity of Apply without symbols #16221

Reporting

Expose reason for unchecked warning #16086
Refine AsSeenFrom approximation scheme #15957
Better output under -Ydetailed-stats #15950
Fix crash in -Vprofile code #16007
Name stripped of module suffix must not be empty #15597
Fix InlineMatch pos for summonFrom #16025

Rewrites

Rewrites are UTF-8 #15622

Scala-JS

Fix the detection of inferred types of = js.native. #16184
Do not elide fields required for Scala.js interop semantics. #16187

Scaladoc

Update quick links for new ui #15912
Avoid parsing code comment twice #16154
Make footer text configurable #16064
Add typography fallback fonts #16063

SemanticDB

Emit SymbolInformation and Occurrence for anonymous class #15865
Fix regression in type apply synthetics #16031

Transform

Fix creating forwarders for simple alias givens #16193
Only check for Scala2LocalSuffix in methods on Scala2x classes #16014
Fix mapping TypeMaps over annotations #15948
Peephole optimization to drop .apply from partially applied methods #16022

Typer

Fix approximateOr of (A & Double) | Null #16241
Create boxed environments only for references and function values #16136
Fix higher-order unification incorrectly substituting tparams #16181
Handle copies of constrained type lambdas when determining an implicit scope #16159
Create message for missing arguments #16158
Make singleton types subtypes of their refined type #16135
Disallow overriding val parameters #16096
Avoid crash where creator proxies are referenced indirectly #16098
Refine estimation of default arguments in overloading resolution #15962
Harden canAssign #15963
Fix isSubType for static objects filling in type projections #15959
Fix expected type of TupleXXL unapply #16248
Drop lazy recursive application in approximateParent #16073
Type match with a match type when a match type is expected #15599

Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who made this release possible 🎉

According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges 3.2.1..3.2.2-RC1 these are:

    83  Martin Odersky
    24  Yichen Xu
    23  Quentin Bernet
    18  Michael Pollmeier
    17  Dale Wijnand
     8  Fengyun Liu
     8  Paweł Marks
     7  Guillaume Raffin
     6  Som Snytt
     6  Szymon Rodziewicz
     5  Kacper Korban
     4  Chris Kipp
     3  Matt Bovel
     3  Rikito Taniguchi
     2  Ben Hutchison
     2  Florian3k
     2  Guillaume Martres
     2  Jamie Thompson
     2  João Costa
     2  Julien Richard-Foy
     2  Lukas Rytz
     2  Sébastien Doeraene
     1  Anton Sviridov
     1  Gabriel Volpe
     1  Liang Yan
     1  Noah Rosamilia
     1  Ondra Pelech
     1  Seth Tisue
     1  Tomasz Godzik
     1  Vadim Chelyshov
     1  nmc.borst
     1  nmcb
     1  olsdavis