I am pleased to announce the 113.24.00 release of the Core suite.

It has been 4 month and a half since the last release, so there are

lots of new things in this release. Thankfully we now have a better

release system and can go back to more frequent releases.

All packages are now in opam and the API documentation is here:

  https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/113.24/doc/

[Note: if you run into trouble while running "opam upgrade", try "opam

upgrade core" instead. A PR has been submitted to fix this]

Notable changes:

* This is the first release completely camlp4 free!

  Especially some problems with the initial release of our ppx

  rewriters have been fixed which make them more usable.

  As a side effect of moving from camlp4 to ppx_driver, compilation

  times have improved. From a fresh `opam init` in both case:

      $ time opam install -y core.113.00.00

      [...]

      real 6m17.875s

      user 5m26.374s

      sys  1m10.039s

      $ time opam install -y core.113.24.00

      [...]

      real 3m16.900s

      user 3m9.860s

      sys  0m53.335s

* We started to handle API upgrades in a more disciplined way by using

  `[@deprecated]` attributes. This should help with incompatible

  changes in our libraries

* Addition of a few ppx rewriters:

  - ppx_expect, a Cram like framework for OCaml

  - ppx_let, for monadic/applicative let bindings

  - ppx_sexp_message, similar to ppx_sexp_value, but more "message" oriented

  We are still making adjustments in ppx_let and ppx_expect so their

  usage might slightly change in the next release.

  More information can be found on the github project pages:

  - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_expect

  - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_let

  - https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_sexp_message

The full changelog for this release can be found here:

  https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/113.24/CHANGES.html

This is the full list of packages added/modified:

- async

- async_extended

- async_extra

- async_find

- async_inotify

- async_kernel

- async_parallel

- async_rpc_kernel

- async_shell

- async_smtp

- async_ssl

- async_unix

- bignum

- bin_prot

- core

- core_bench

- core_extended

- core_kernel

- core_profiler

- email_message

- fieldslib

- incremental

- jenga

- ocaml_plugin

- patdiff

- patience_diff

- ppx_assert

- ppx_bench

- ppx_bin_prot

- ppx_compare

- ppx_conv_func

- ppx_core

- ppx_csv_conv

- ppx_custom_printf

- ppx_driver

- ppx_enumerate

- ppx_expect

- ppx_fail

- ppx_fields_conv

- ppx_here

- ppx_inline_test

- ppx_jane

- ppx_let

- ppx_optcomp

- ppx_pipebang

- ppx_sexp_conv

- ppx_sexp_message

- ppx_sexp_value

- ppx_type_conv

- ppx_typerep_conv

- ppx_variants_conv

- ppx_xml_conv

- re2

- rpc_parallel

- sexplib

- textutils

- typerep

- typerep_extended

- variantslib

-- 

Jeremie Dimino, for the Core team