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From: Florian Angeletti <florian.angeletti@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] OCaml 4.12.0, first alpha release
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:37:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21bbad4a-a932-0213-3bb4-6ab7e92b054a@inria.fr> (raw)

Dear OCaml users,

The set of new features for the future version 4.12.0 of OCaml has been 
frozen,
maybe a little earlier than expected.

In this new version of OCaml, the gap between the mainline and multicore 
runtime
has been considerably narrowed.
Moreover, this new version comes with a port to the newly launched 
macOs/ARM architecture.
We are thus planning to have a shorter release cycle this time around to get
this new version out the door as soon as sensible — which probably 
translates
to the beginning of January.

I am thus happy to announce the first alpha release for OCaml 4.12.0 .

This alpha version is here to help fellow hackers join us early in our bug
hunting and opam ecosystem fixing fun. You can see the progress on this 
front at:

https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues/17530

Once the major tools are supported, we will switch to beta releases.

And since changes are more fun when they come in pair, we are also testing
a new layout for the opam compiler packages.

The base compiler can now be installed as an opam switch with the 
following commands

opam update
opam switch create 4.12.0~alpha1 
--repositories=default,beta=git+https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-beta-repository.git

If you want to tweak the configuration of the compiler, the new layout 
offers
much finer-grained options. The new command looks like this:

opam update
opam switch create <switch_name> 
--packages=ocaml-variants.4.12.0~alpha1+options,<option_list> 
--repositories=default,beta=git+https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-beta-repository.git

where <option_list> is a comma separated list of ocaml-option-* 
packages. For instance, for a flambda and no-flat-float-array switch:

opam switch create 4.12.0~alpha1+flambda+nffa 
--packages=ocaml-variants.4.12.0~alpha1+options,ocaml-option-flambda,ocaml-option-no-flat-float-array 
--repositories=default,beta=git+https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml-beta-repository.git

All available options can be listed with "opam search ocaml-option".

If you want to test this version, it is advised to install the alpha 
opam repository

https://github.com/kit-ty-kate/opam-alpha-repository

with

opam repo add alpha git://github.com/kit-ty-kate/opam-alpha-repository.git

This alpha repository contains various fixes in the process of being 
upstreamed.

The source code for the alpha is also available at these addresses:

  https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/archive/4.12.0-alpha1.tar.gz
  https://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.12/ocaml-4.12.0~alpha1.tar.gz

If you find any bugs, please report them here:

  https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues

If you are interested by the ongoing list of new features and fixed 
bugs, the
updated change log for OCaml 4.12.0 is available at:

   https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/4.12/Changes

Happy hacking,
Florian Angeletti for the OCaml team.


             reply	other threads:[~2020-11-16 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16 10:37 Florian Angeletti [this message]
2020-12-01 10:34 ` [Caml-list] OCaml 4.12.0, second " Florian Angeletti
2020-12-18  8:31   ` [Caml-list] OCaml 4.12.0, third " Florian Angeletti

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