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Merlin 4.8

We are pleased to announce the release of Merlin 4.8 for OCaml 4.14.1 and 5.0.

This maintenance release brings multiple bug fixes and improvements to document fetching, jump-to-definition and type-on-hover for records' labels.

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  • merlin binary
    • Update internal typer to match OCaml 4.14.1 release (#1557)
    • Improve type-enclosing behaviour when used on records' labels (#1565, fixes #1564)
    • Restore compatibility with some OCaml compiler's debug flags that were incorrectly rejected by Merlin (#1556)
    • Traverse aliases when jumping to declaration. This matches jump-to-definition's behavior (#1563)
    • Improve locate's behavior in various ill-typed expressions (#1546, fixes #1567 and partially #1543)
    • Correctly traverse patterns when looking for docs in the typedtree (#1572)
    • Get documentation when the declaration or definition is selected (#1542, fixes #1540)
    • On Windows, change to a harmless directory when launching server to avoid locking down current directory (#1569, fixes #1474)
  • test suite
    • Add multiple tests for locate over ill-typed expressions (#1546)
    • Add non-regression tests for other fixes in this release