Graal Release 0.3, Transition to JDK8, New Truffle Call API

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

We are pleased to announce the release of Graal version 0.3. In addition to general stability and performance improvements, the main changes are the transition to JDK8 as well as a new API for Truffle calls. Additionally, we added support for obtaining stack traces on the Truffle level [1].

Source repository changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/graal/graal/rev/graal-0.3
Binaries for Linux, MacOS, and Windows as well as detailed changelog: http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/builds. 

We would like to thank everyone who helped with this release. We very much appreciate both direct contributions as well as feedback!

The Graal Team

[1] http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/javadoc/graalvm/all/com/oracle/truffle/api/TruffleRuntime.html#getStackTrace--