---
title: Release 0.42
short-description: Release notes for 0.42 (preliminary)
...

**Preliminary, 0.42.0 has not been released yet.**

# New features

## Distribution tarballs from Mercurial repositories

Creating distribution tarballs can now be made out of projects based on
Mercurial. As before, this remains possible only with the Ninja backend.

---
title: Release 0.42
short-description: Release notes for 0.42 (preliminary)
...

**Preliminary, 0.42.0 has not been released yet.**

# New features

## Distribution tarballs from Mercurial repositories

Creating distribution tarballs can now be made out of projects based on
Mercurial. As before, this remains possible only with the Ninja backend.


## Add support for Genie to Vala compiler

The Vala compiler has an alternative syntax, Genie, that uses the `.gs`
file extension. Meson now recognises and uses Genie files.

Add Genie to release notes
Add Genie to release notes
