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Introducing Dart 3.8! Here's everything you need to know ↓

Formatter updates 📐 The new formatter now decides whether a construct should split and then adds or removes the trailing comma as needed. A number of style changes were also added that tighten up and improve output.

Cross compilation 🚩 There is new support to compile to native Linux binaries from Windows, macOS, and Linux development machines. You can do this with the "dart compile exe" or "dart compile aot-snapshot" command and the "--target-os" and "--target-arch" flags.

Null-aware elements ❓ New null-aware elements let you add elements to a collection such as a list, set, or map, if the elements are not null. To make an element a null-aware element in a collection literal, prepend the element with ?.

Trending packages on pub.dev 📦 The pub.dev landing page replaces the Most Popular Packages section with the Trending Packages section. This new section showcases packages that have recently demonstrated notable growth in adoption and interest.

Hot reload on the web (experimental) 🔃 Stateful hot reload is now available on the web when you use the Dart Development Compiler (DDC). A redesign of the JS representation of Dart code lets you swap out code in a running application.