Dear all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of containers-0.5, an extension to
OCaml's standard library. Since my initial announce on this list,
containers has grown and stabilized, but remained modular and
lightweight. This release also brings compatibility with `-safe-string`[1]
which makes it depend on `base-bytes`. It now features modules that
extend `Map`, `Hashtbl`, a lightweight S-expression parser[2], new
functions in existing modules and bugfixes. There is also a new
sub-library, `containers.pervasives`, that provides a single
`CCPervasives` module that can be opened to alias `List`, `Option`, etc.
to their counterparts.

Containers should be especially useful for programmers who don't want to
depend on bigger libraries such as Core or Batteries, programmers who target
js_of_ocaml, or who just want to copy-paste a few useful
modules/functions into their own `utils.ml` file[3].

Containers is on opam, and its source code (BSD licensed) is
on github: https://github.com/c-cube/ocaml-containers . The online
documentation can be found here: http://cedeela.fr/~simon/software/containers/ .

I would also like to thank the other contributors : jpdeplaix, drup,
nicoo, and whitequark.

Cheers!

-- 
Simon

[1] if not, please fill a bug report. Please.
[2] CCSexp is only one module, with a streaming interface, and therefore
    less comprehensive than Sexplib. Still a bit experimental atm.
[3] I don't judge :-)

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