opam 2.0.1 is out!
We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.1.
This new version contains mainly backported fixes, some platform-specific:
- Cold boot for MacOS/CentOS/Alpine
- Install checksum validation on MacOS
- Archive extraction for OpenBSD now defaults to using gtar
- Fix compilation of mccs on MacOS and Nix platforms
- Do not use GNU-sed specific features in the release Makefile, to fix build on OpenBSD/FreeBSD
- Cleaning to enable reproducible builds
- Update configure scripts
And some opam specific:
- git: fix git fetch by sha1 for git < 2.14
- linting: add testvariable warning and empty description error
- upgrade: convert pinned but not installed opam files
- error reporting: more comprehensible error message for tar extraction, and upgrade of git-url compilers
- opam show: upgrade given local files
- list: as opam 2.0.0 listdoesn't return non-zero code if list is empty, add--silentoption for a silent output and returns 1 if list is empty
Installation instructions (unchanged):
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From binaries: run sh <(curl -sL https://opam.ocaml.org/install.sh)or download manually from the Github "Releases" page to your PATH. In this case, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -nito enable sandboxing if you had version 2.0.0~rc manually installed.
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From source, using opam: opam update; opam install opam-devel(then copy the opam binary to your PATH as explained, and don't forget to run opam init --reinit -nito enable sandboxing if you had version 2.0.0~rc manually installed)
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From source, manually: see the instructions in the README. 
We hope you enjoy this new major version, and remain open to bug reports and suggestions.
NOTE: this article is cross-posted on opam.ocaml.org and ocamlpro.com. Please head to the latter for the comments!