1.8.10

Dokka's documentation has been entirely rewritten and can now be found on kotlinlang.org:

• More examples, including Groovy DSL for Gradle project configuration
• More guidelines to help beginners
• More details for complex projects

Note: Version 1.8.0 was skipped due to a Metaspace memory leak in Kotlin's reflection (KT-56093). Dokka 1.8.10 should be fully compatible with Kotlin 1.8.0.

Improvements

• Revise project documentation and examples (#2728, #2737, #2736). Thanks to @sarahhaggarty for helping!
• Support generating documentation for Kotlin/Wasm projects (#2814). Thanks to @igoriakovlev!
• Move the contents of Inheritors, Parameters, See also and Samples tabs into the main declaration description (#2688).
• Add Members and Members & Extensions tabs to class-like declaration pages (#2764).
• Display source set / platform indicators at all times, which should help identify the supported platform of single-platform libraries and modules. (#2847).
• Generate the default no-arg constructor for Java declarations (#2765).

Bugfixes

• Fixed analysis environment not being properly disposed (#2755).
• Fixed nondeterministic sorting of function/property overloads (#2784).
• Fixed inconsistent alphabetical order of element groups in index and navigation (#2861).
• Fixed constructors being rendered as functions (#2689).
• Fixed default values for var properties being displayed (#2717).
• Fixed source links leading to the KDoc instead of the declaration (#2724).
• Fixed thread-safety issues in DokkaLogger (#2827).
• Fixed documentation not being inherited in case of diamond inheritance (#2686).

Gradle Plugin

• Fixed NoSuchMethodError when running under Gradle 8 (#2796).
• Fixed possible metaspace leaks due to external thread locals not being disposed (#2678).
• Fixed premature initialization of outputDirectory input property (#556).
• Fixed premature initialization of moduleVersion input property (#2799). Thanks to @JavierSegoviaCordoba!
• Fixed unnecessary snapshotting of source link directory input which led to performance problems (#2807).
• Fixed missing group and description for MultiModule tasks (#2806). Thanks to @TWiStErRob!

Javadoc

• Fixed truncation of module and package description after the first sentence (#2055). Thanks to @BlackAnubis7!
• Fixed rendering of empty/useless Kotlin companion objects (#200, #2086)
• Fixed leaking configuration/environment details in generated links (#2803).
• Fixed incorrect links when javadoc.jar produced by Dokka is imported into IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio (#2734). Thanks to @bomberaya!

Plugin API

• Mark Plugin API as experimental (#2716).

Infrastructure

• Enable Gradle build cache, and add caching of Maven dependencies for GitHub Actions (#2711, #2722). Thanks to @aSemy!
• Add concurrency cancellation for build/test GitHub Actions (#2710). Thanks to @aSemy!

Other

• Update jackson-databind to avoid CVE-2022-42003 (#2733). Thanks to @ryanlewis!
• Update Jsoup to avoid CVE-2022-36033 (#2772).
• Deprecate methods for adding/removing task dependencies in Dokka's Gradle plugin (#2857).
• Documentation improvements and fixes (#2719, #2718, #2744). Thanks to @SimonMarquis and @ansman!