This version again got a huge speed up, especially in the up-to-date check and dependency analysis. This optimizations reduce file access to the minimum. In a larger test multi-project the time used for file checks was dropped from about 40 seconds to less than two seconds on a Windows machine.

A new experimental feature was introduced allowing the parallel execution of targets. This feature is experimental, because there are known issues. The current implementation utilizes Scalas built-in parallel collections feature which suffers from various issues, especially non configurability and error detection/reporting. But in general, that feature just works and might help you to reduce your build times, in particular if you have many targets or projects. The feature can be enabled with the commandline option --experimental-parallel.

To support the Eclipse IDE SBuild Plugin, the generic scheme handlers "source:" and "javadoc:" are introduced. In the current version, they support the default "mvn:" scheme. It is planned to support more schemes in a configurable way.

The Eclipse SBuild Plugin since version 0.4.2 already uses these schemes to retrieve source and javadoc packages.

This is a small nice commandline productivity feature: Targets can be written in a shorter notation. The short notation needs to contain at least the first character and all upper case characters. This is best understood by an example. A target "initDatabase" might be written as "iD". But those shortcuts only work if they match exactly one target. If you have two targets "initDatabase" and "installDocumentation", you need to make the shortcut unique by adding additional characters. Here are some possibilities to uniquely reference "initDatabase": "iniD", "iDa", "initD", and so on.

Until now, with Path you were able to specify paths relative to the project build file.

New in this version is the ability to specify paths relative to a directory which contains included files (with @include). For example, if you include a file "Config.scala" which contains a scala class "Config" from another directory, you can now refer to resources relative to that directory by writing Path[Config]("a-resource-next-to-Config.scala"). If the file contains a Scala object, you need to write Path[Config.type]("a-resource-next-to-Config.scala").

With Target.evictCache("targetName") it is now possible to selectively evict the cache of a specific cacheable target. This might be useful if you have more than one cacheable target and want to provide dedicated "clean" targets for each of them.