Scala v2.13.16 released!

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Scala v2.13.16 has been released.

The Scala team at Akka (formerly Lightbend) is pleased to announce Scala 2.13.16.

The following changes are highlights of this release:

Breaking change

• On the empty string, .tail and .init now throw (instead of returning the empty string) (#10851 by @sh0hei)
  • This is a bugfix, but be aware that existing code might, perhaps inadvertently, be relying on the old behavior

Compatibility

• Support Scala 3.6 in TASTy reader (#10893)
• Support JDK 24 in optimizer (via ASM upgrade) (#10888 by @Philippus)

REPL

• REPL: JLine 3.27.1 (was 3.26.3) and on Windows use JNI not JNA (#10899, #10898, #10882)
  • These upgrades ho…

Link: Release Scala 2.13.16 · scala/scala · GitHub