The Kotlin 1.8.0 release is out.
Here are some of its biggest highlights:

  • New experimental functions for JVM: recursively copy or delete directory content
  • Improved kotlin-reflect performance
  • New -Xdebug compiler option for better debugging experience
  • kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8 merged into kotlin-stdlib
  • Improved Objective-C/Swift interoperability
  • Compatibility with Gradle 7.3

more: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew18.html

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