kern blog https://kern-lang.eu/blog Release announcements, technical deep-dives, and project updates. en Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT kern v1.0.0, the release line is stable https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-release Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first stable release. The language, stdlib, CLI and manifest surface is frozen under a written stability policy. Try kern in five minutes https://kern-lang.eu/blog/try-kern https://kern-lang.eu/blog/try-kern Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One command scaffolds a working HTTP service that compiles to a native binary of about 115 KB, with no runtime to install and nothing to configure. kern v1.0.0-rc2, reproducible across two machines https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-rc2-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-rc2-release Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cut to drive the tag-release pipeline end to end, so registry artifacts are built by CI, not by hand. kern v1.0.0-rc1, and what the label means https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-rc1-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v100-rc1-release Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The version jumps to 1.0.0-rc1, and both halves of that label are deliberate. kern v0.9.0-rc3, the engine moves inside the language https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v090-rc3-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v090-rc3-release Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT SQL, shell, URL, regex and template injection are compile errors. kern v0.9.0-rc1: the stability candidate https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v090-rc1-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v090-rc1-release Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Code-side, every v1.0 ROADMAP gate is closed or has its harness shipped. On main: generics, cooperative async, Secure<T>, native OCI https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v07-v08-preview https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v07-v08-preview Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The preview that traced the path from v0.6 to v0.9.0-rc1. kern v0.6.0: Decimal, durable event log, LLM resilience https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v060-release https://kern-lang.eu/blog/v060-release Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The hardening release. Six items moved from the v1.0 list to shipped.