Dear OCaml users,

The release of OCaml version 4.08.1 is imminent.
This new bugfix release fixes some compilation failures in presence of "-pack",
and some native-code alignment issues on ARM64, PPC64 and amd64.
We have created a release candidate that you can test.

The source code is available at these addresses:

 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/archive/4.08.1+rc1.tar.gz
 https://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.08/ocaml-4.08.1+rc1.tar.gz

The compiler can also be installed as an OPAM switch with one of the
following commands:

opam switch create ocaml-variants.4.08.1+rc1 --repositories=default,ocaml-beta=git+https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-beta-repository.git

or

opam switch create ocaml-variants.4.08.1+rc1+<VARIANT> --repositories=default,ocaml-beta=git+https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-beta-repository.git

 where you replace <VARIANT> with one of these:
   afl
   default-unsafe-string
   force-safe-string
   flambda
   fp
   fp+flambda

We want to know about all bugs. Please report them here:
 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues

Happy hacking,
— Florian Angeletti, for the OCaml team.


OCaml 4.08.1 changes:
------------------------

### Bug fixes:

- #7887: ensure frame table is 8-aligned on ARM64 and PPC64
  (Xavier Leroy, report by Mark Hayden, review by Mark Shinwell
   and Gabriel Scherer)

- #8751: fix bug that could result in misaligned data section when compiling to
  native-code on amd64.  (observed with the mingw64 compiler)
  (Nicolás Ojeda Bär, review by David Allsopp)

- #8769, #8770: Fix assertion failure with -pack
  (Leo White, review by Gabriel Scherer, report by Fabian @copy)