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Official stable release announcements and updates from the OCaml compiler, OCaml infrastructure and the OCaml Platform Tools.

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Merlin 1.7.1

merlin platform editors

Minor update to installation procedure

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Merlin 1.7

merlin platform editors
See full changelog

This release also marks the apparition of a proper opam install script.

  • backend:

    • fixes on locate
    • print manifests even when -short-paths is set
    • add an "occurrences" command to list every occurrence of an identifier ( #156 )
    • new "version" command ( #180 )
    • add CPU time to log files ( #192 )
    • better error reporting from locate ( #190 )

  • documentation:

    • update vim doc file ( #204 )
    • typo correction in the README by Philippe Wang ( #195 )

  • emacs:

    • fix most byte compilation warnings, by Geoff Gole ( #209 )
    • numerous fixes

  • vim:

    • add error list independent from syntastic
    • fix completion for vim<=703 (#223)

OPAM 1.2: Repository Pinning

opam platform

Most package managers support some pin functionality to ensure that a given package remains at a particular version without being upgraded. The stable OPAM 1.1 already supported this by allowing any existing package to be pinned to a target, which could be a specific released version, a local filesystem path, or a remote version-controlled repository.

However, the OPAM 1.1 pinning workflow only lets you pin packages that already exist in your OPAM repositories. To declare a new package, you had to go through creating a local repository, registering it in OPAM, and adding your package definition there. That workflow, while reasonably clear, required the user to know about the repository format and the configuration of an internal repository in OPAM before actually getting to writing a package. Besides, you were on your own for writing the package definition, and the edit-test loop wasn't as friendly as it could have been.

A natural, simpler workflow emerged from allowing users to pin new package names that don't yet exist in an OPAM repository:

  1. choose a name for your new package
  2. opam pin add in the development source tree
  3. the package is created on-the-fly and registered locally.

To make it even easier, OPAM can now interactively help you write the package definition, and you can test your updates with a single command. This blog post explains this new OPAM 1.2 functionality in more detail; you may also want to check out the new Packaging tutorial relying on this workflow.

From source to package

For illustration purposes in this post I'll use a tiny tool that I wrote some time ago and never released: ocp-reloc. It's a simple binary that fixes up the headers of OCaml bytecode files to make them relocatable, which I'd like to release into the public OPAM repository.

"opam pin add"

The command opam pin add <name> <target> pins package <name> to <target>. We're interested in pinning the ocp-reloc package name to the project's source directory.

cd ocp-reloc
opam pin add ocp-reloc .

If ocp-reloc were an existing package, the metadata would be fetched from the package description in the OPAM repositories. Since the package doesn't yet exist, OPAM 1.2 will instead prompt for on-the-fly creation:

Package ocp-reloc does not exist, create as a NEW package ? [Y/n] y
ocp-reloc is now path-pinned to ~/src/ocp-reloc

NOTE: if you are using beta4, you may get a version-control-pin instead, because we added auto-detection of version-controlled repos. This turned out to be confusing (issue #1582), because your changes wouldn't be reflected until you commit, so this has been reverted in favor of a warning. Add the --kind path option to make sure that you get a path-pin.

OPAM Package Template

Now your package still needs some kind of definition for OPAM to acknowledge it; that's where templates kick in, the above triggering an editor with a pre-filled opam file that you just have to complete. This not only saves time in looking up the documentation, it also helps getting consistent package definitions, reduces errors, and promotes filling in optional but recommended fields (homepage, etc.).

opam-version: "1.2"
name: "ocp-reloc"
version: "0.1"
maintainer: "Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@ocamlpro.com>"
authors: "Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert@ocamlpro.com>"
homepage: ""
bug-reports: ""
license: ""
build: [
  ["./configure" "--prefix=%{prefix}%"]
  [make]
]
install: [make "install"]
remove: ["ocamlfind" "remove" "ocp-reloc"]
depends: "ocamlfind" {build}

After adding some details (most importantly the dependencies and build instructions), I can just save and exit. Much like other system tools such as visudo, it checks for syntax errors immediately:

[ERROR] File "/home/lg/.opam/4.01.0/overlay/ocp-reloc/opam", line 13, character 35-36: '.' is not a valid token.
Errors in /home/lg/.opam/4.01.0/overlay/ocp-reloc/opam, retry editing ? [Y/n]

Installation

You probably want to try your brand new package right away, so OPAM's default action is to try and install it (unless you specified -n):

ocp-reloc needs to be installed.
The following actions will be performed:
 - install   cmdliner.0.9.5                        [required by ocp-reloc]
 - install   ocp-reloc.0.1*
=== 1 to install ===
Do you want to continue ? [Y/n]

I usually don't get it working the first time around, but opam pin edit ocp-reloc and opam install ocp-reloc -v can be used to edit and retry until it does.

Package Updates

How do you keep working on your project as you edit the source code, now that you are installing through OPAM? This is as simple as:

opam upgrade ocp-reloc

This will pick up changes from your source repository and reinstall any packages that are dependent on ocp-reloc as well, if any.

So far, we've been dealing with the metadata locally used by your OPAM installation, but you'll probably want to share this among developers of your project even if you're not releasing anything yet. OPAM takes care of this by prompting you to save the opam file back to your source tree, where you can commit it directly into your code repository.

cd ocp-reloc
git add opam
git commit -m 'Add OPAM metadata'
git push

Publishing your New Package

The above information is sufficient to use OPAM locally to integrate new code into an OPAM installation. Let's look at how other developers can share this metadata.

Picking up your development package

If another developer wants to pick up ocp-reloc, they can directly use your existing metadata by cloning a copy of your repository and issuing their own pin.

git clone git://github.com/OCamlPro/ocp-reloc.git
opam pin add ocp-reloc/

Even specifying the package name is optional since this is documented in ocp-reloc/opam. They can start hacking, and if needed use opam pin edit to amend the opam file too. No need for a repository, no need to share anything more than a versioned opam file within your project.

Cloning already existing packages

We have been focusing on an unreleased package, but the same functionality is also of great help in handling existing packages, whether you need to quickly hack into them or are just curious. Let's consider how to modify the omd Markdown library.

opam source omd --pin
cd omd.0.9.7
...patch...
opam upgrade omd

The new opam source command will clone the source code of the library you specify, and the --pin option will also pin it locally to ensure it is used in preference to all other versions. This will also take care of recompiling any installed packages that are dependent on omd using your patched version so that you notice any issues right away.

There's a new OPAM field available in 1.2 called dev-repo. If you specify this in your metadata, you can directly pin to the upstream repository via opam source --dev-repo --pin.

If the upstream repository for the package contains an opam file, that file will be picked up in preference to the one from the OPAM repository as soon as you pin the package. The idea is to have:

  • a development opam file that is versioned along with your source code (and thus accurately tracks the latest dependencies for your package).
  • a release opam file that is published on the OPAM repository and can be updated independently without making a new release of the source code.

How to get from the former to the latter will be the subject of another post! In the meantime, all users of the beta are welcome to share their experience and thoughts on the new workflow on the bug tracker.

Utop 1.12

utop platform
See full changelog
  • supports -require for scripts
  • support for React 1.0.0
  • make utop.el compatible with melpa: http://melpa.milkbox.net

Merlin 1.6

merlin platform editors
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  • backend:

    • small memory leak fix
    • major improvements and bugfixes for locate (i.e. "jump to definition")

  • emacs:

    • fixed bug preventing merlin restart ( #167 )
    • removed keybindings reserved to users ( #170 ) the full list is:
      • C-c l previously bound to merlin-use
      • C-c r previously bound to merlin-restart-process
      • C-c t previously bound to merlin-type-expr
    • removed keybindings on C-<up> and C-<down> as these already have a meaning in emacs ( #129 ) They were bound to merlin-type-enclosing-go-up and merlin-type-enclosing-go-down respectively.
    • the emacs mode is now compiled (contribution from Jacques-Pascal Deplaix #158 , with a follow up from Rudy Grinberg #165 )
    • improved efficiency of completion at point

  • extensions:

    • added support for variantslib ( #132 )
    • updated fieldslib support ( #169 , #185 )
    • fix pa_lwt translation ( #182 )
    • added support for pa_enumerate ( #187 )

  • vim:

    • the split method for locate can now be configured

Utop 1.11

utop platform
See full changelog
  • update the async hook following the renaming of Async_core to Async_kernel
  • fix tab completion not working on some emacs
  • complete #load_rec the same way as #load

OPAM 1.1.1 released

opam platform

We are proud to announce that OPAM 1.1.1 has just been released.

This minor release features mostly stability and UI/doc improvements over OPAM 1.1.0, but also focuses on improving the API and tools to be a better base for the platform (functions for opam-doc, interface with tools like opamfu and opam-installer). Lots of bigger changes are in the works, and will be merged progressively after this release.

Installing

Installation instructions are available on the wiki.

Note that some packages may take a few days until they get out of the pipeline. If you're eager to get 1.1.1, either use our binary installer or compile from source.

The 'official' package repository is now hosted at opam.ocaml.org, synchronised with the Git repository at http://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository, where you can contribute new packages descriptions. Those are under a CC0 license, a.k.a. public domain, to ensure they will always belong to the community.

Thanks to all of you who have helped build this repository and made OPAM such a success.

See full changelog

From the changelog:

  • Fix opam-admin make <packages> -r (#990)
  • Explicitly prettyprint list of lists, to fix opam-admin depexts (#997)
  • Tell the user which fields is invalid in a configuration file (#1016)
  • Add OpamSolver.empty_universe for flexible universe instantiation (#1033)
  • Add OpamFormula.eval_relop and OpamFormula.check_relop (#1042)
  • Change OpamCompiler.compare to match Pervasives.compare (#1042)
  • Add OpamCompiler.eval_relop (#1042)
  • Add OpamPackage.Name.compare (#1046)
  • Add types version_constraint and version_formula to OpamFormula (#1046)
  • Clearer command aliases. Made info an alias for show and added the alias uninstall (#944)
  • Fixed opam init --root=<relative path> (#1047)
  • Display OS constraints in opam info (#1052)
  • Add a new 'opam-installer' script to make .install files usable outside of opam (#1026)
  • Add a --resolve option to opam-admin make that builds just the archives you need for a specific installation (#1031)
  • Fixed handling of spaces in filenames in internal files (#1014)
  • Replace calls to which by a more portable call (#1061)
  • Fixed generation of the init scripts in some cases (#1011)
  • Better reports on package patch errors (#987, #988)
  • More accurate warnings for unknown package dependencies (#1079)
  • Added opam config report to help with bug reports (#1034)
  • Do not reinstall dev packages with opam upgrade <pkg> (#1001)
  • Be more careful with opam init to a non-empty root directory (#974)
  • Cleanup build-dir after successful compiler installation to save on space (#1006)
  • Improved OSX compatibility in the external solver tools (#1074)
  • Fixed messages printed on update that were plain wrong (#1030)
  • Improved detection of meaningful changes from upstream packages to trigger recompilation

Ocp-indent 1.4.1

ocp-indent platform
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  • OCaml 4.01.0 warnings fix
  • fixed indent of lwt try/finally
  • sort Jane Street tests by priority
  • added support for BENCH syntax
  • added support for the new {xx| |xx} quotation syntax
  • emacs mode: cleaner loading
  • emacs mode: fixed the 'syntax' option
  • emacs mode: workaround an auto-complete.el display bug
  • emacs and vim modes: install in editor-specific directories
  • refactored build system. Install through opam-installer, register libs as ocamlfind sub-packages

Merlin 1.5

merlin platform editors
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  • backend:

    • better handling of paths (both sources and build)
    • split build path into cmi and cmt path. New directives "CMI" and "CMT" are now available in .merlin files ("B" still works as previously)
    • doesn't get confused anymore when the user switch between buffers (the state is cleaned)

  • emacs:

    • adds ability to enable/disable extensions manually
    • adds a command to clear all the errors from a buffer
    • displaying of errors can now be disabled

  • extensions

    • updated bin_prot for version >= 109.45.00
    • bugfix for [with compare] in presence of parametrized types
    • added support for "here" (when activated adds [val here : Lexing.position])
    • added support for [assert_lwt]
    • fixed typing of [while_lwt]

  • vim:

    • vim plugin can be installed into a custom directory and has its own makefile target (contribution from Vsevolod Velichko)
    • added "ClearEnclosing" command to remove merlin's overlay after a call to TypeOf.

Utop 1.10

utop platform
See full changelog
  • add the -require command line argument to specify packages on the command line

Utop 1.9

utop platform
See full changelog
  • automatically load all files in $OCAML_TOPLEVEL_PATH/autoload at startup. Can be disabled with autoload: false in ~/.utoprc or -no-autoload.
  • fix #38: handle errors from custom camlp4 ast filters
  • fix #7: avoid a stack overflow in UTop_lexer

Ocp-indent 1.4.0

ocp-indent platform
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  • license change: lessening the GPL to make ocp-indent easier to use as a library
  • removed indent by default after most common operators (when align_ops is set)
  • removed extra-indent in some pattern-matching cases
  • fixed a few bugs related to records, lazy as pattern, "module with"
  • added support for the cstruct syntax extension
  • fixed Makefile to properly install all cmi files, working around an ocp-build bug

Utop 1.8

utop platform
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  • handle new syntax errors
  • extend #typeof to values and modules. Thanks to Thomas Refis for this feature

Utop 1.6

utop platform
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  • hide topfind messages by default
  • more predefined prompts available via #utop_prompt_XXX
  • fix a bug in #require when passing multiple packages
  • display errors in ~/.lambda-term-inputrc nicely
  • doc update
  • fix an issue when using first-class modules

Utop 1.5

utop platform
See full changelog
  • when evaluating a region/buffer in emacs, evaluate all phrases instead of just the first one. Thanks to Matthias Andreas Benkard for this feature
  • change the default prompt from # to $ to match the standard toplevel
  • add the option UTop.show_box to allow one to hide the completion bar
  • enhance the lwt/async hooks for automatically waiting on a thread/deferred. Hooks were not triggered when the type of the expression was a type alias

Utop 1.4.0

utop platform
See full changelog
  • hide identifiers starting with _. This can be disabled with UTop.set_hide_reserved false.
  • automatically load camlp4 parsing (with original syntax) when trying to load a syntax extension
  • fix a small bug when using camlp4, causing an exception to be raised when pressing Enter in the middle of a comment

Utop 1.3.0

utop platform
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  • allow to automatically wait for ascync deferred values
  • added the -short-paths options for OCaml >= 4.01.0 (and make it the default)

Utop 1.2.1

utop platform
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  • fix: do not expunge Toploop
  • install a non-expunged version of utop: utop-full

Ocp-indent 1.3.0

ocp-indent platform
See full changelog
  • Large API rewrite, offering much more flexibility and functionality
  • Still some bug fixes (comments at end, nested ocamldoc tags, etc.)
  • Man-page fixes (thanks to Kaustuv Chaudhuri)
  • Temporarily disabled the non-functional state-marshalling function
  • Emacs mode: auto-disabling indent-tabs-mode by default, it's not compatible anyways.

Ocp-indent 1.2.2

ocp-indent platform
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  • Fixed critical bug with the parsing of the --syntax option
  • a few indent fixes (functor sigs, comments in expressions)

Ocp-indent 1.2.1

ocp-indent platform
See full changelog
  • Fixed bugs with GADTs, comments at end of modules
  • Fixed compilation with OCaml trunk (warnings as errors)
  • New vim script, contributed by Jonathan Derque
  • New option "strict_else" to allow unindenting after else

Ocp-indent 1.2.0

ocp-indent platform
See full changelog
  • Lots of fixes
  • Switched most operators and constructs with parentheses to column aligned by default (can be disabled with option align_ops)
  • Better handling of records
  • Some code cleanup (record fields with meaningful names)
  • Documentation and manpage (now relying on cmdliner)
  • Added an option (max_indent) to limit over-indent in the most annoying cases
  • Syntax extensions can now be enabled from the configuration files

Ocp-indent 1.1.0

ocp-indent platform
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  • Small fixes, stabilised ocamldoc indentation
  • Support for configuration files, either user or project-wide

Ocp-indent 1.0.2

ocp-indent platform
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  • Supporting indentation of ocamldoc. In particular, code within ocamldoc blocks {[...]} should be automatically indented
  • Fixed the emacs mode not to set the mark
  • A few new configuration options (strict_with, strict_comments, align_params)
  • A few tweaks and improvements (better empty line indent, etc.)
  • Bugfixes (#43, #47)

Ocp-indent 1.0.1

ocp-indent platform
See full changelog
  • Indentation of comments now follows ocamldoc conventions properly
  • Partial indent adapts more closely to manual indentation
  • Various small fixes (indent on empty lines, freeform comments...)

OPAM 1.1.0 released

opam platform

After a while staged as RC, we are proud to announce the final release of OPAM 1.1.0!

Thanks again to those who have helped testing and fixing the last few issues.

Important note

The repository format has been improved with incompatible new features; to account for this, the new repository is now hosted at [opam.ocaml.org][], and the legacy repository at [opam.ocamlpro.com][] is kept to support OPAM 1.0 installations, but is unlikely to benefit from many package updates. Migration to [opam.ocaml.org][] will be done automatically as soon as you upgrade your OPAM version.

You're still free, of course, to use any third-party repositories instead or in addition.

Installing

NOTE: When switching from 1.0, the internal state will need to be upgraded. THIS PROCESS CANNOT BE REVERTED. We have tried hard to make it fault- resistant, but failures might happen. In case you have precious data in your ~/.opam folder, it is advised to backup that folder before you upgrade to 1.1.0.

Using the binary installer:

  • download and run http://www.ocamlpro.com/pub/opam_installer.sh

Using the .deb packages from Anil's PPA (binaries are [currently syncing][1]): add-apt-repository ppa:avsm/ppa apt-get update sudo apt-get install opam

For OSX users, the homebrew package will be updated shortly.

or build it from sources at :

  • http://www.ocamlpro.com/pub/opam-full-1.1.0.tar.gz
  • https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/tag/1.1.0

For those who haven't been paying attention

OPAM is a source-based package manager for OCaml. It supports multiple simultaneous compiler installations, flexible package constraints, and a Git-friendly development workflow. OPAM is edited and maintained by OCamlPro, with continuous support from OCamlLabs and the community at large (including its main industrial users such as Jane-Street and Citrix).

The 'official' package repository is now hosted at [opam.ocaml.org][], synchronised with the Git repository at [http://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository][repo], where you can contribute new packages descriptions. Those are under a CC0 license, a.k.a. public domain, to ensure they will always belong to the community.

Thanks to all of you who have helped build this repository and made OPAM such a success.

See full changelog

Too many to list here, see https://raw.github.com/OCamlPro/opam/1.1.0/CHANGES

For packagers, some new fields have appeared in the OPAM description format:

  • depexts provides facilities for dealing with system (non ocaml) dependencies
  • messages, post-messages can be used to notify the user eg. of licensing information, or help her troobleshoot at package installation.
  • available supersedes ocaml-version and os constraints, and can contain more expressive formulas

Also, we have integrated the main package repository with Travis, which will help us to improve the quality of contributions (see Anil's post).

Merlin 1-4-1

merlin platform editors
See full changelog

  • documentation:

    • updates of the emacs section of the readme by Ronan Lehy.

  • emacs:

    • bugfix for ac-mode: merlin-ac-prefix wasn't called.
    • better formatting for completion suggestions.

  • vim:

    • bugfix for the "selectPhrase" command, an overflow on 32b plateform was causing complete desynchronisation between vim and merlin.
    • better formatting for completion suggestions.

Merlin 1-4

merlin platform editors
See full changelog

  • backend:

    • lazy processing of open directives makes merlin much faster
    • simplified buffer management
    • tweak signal handling to improve windows compatibility
    • track verbosity of query: repeated queries are considered more "verbose"
    • type expansion: expand type aliases for verbose query
    • add support for OUnit-like Benchmark extension
    • more tolerant type checker, to provide completion on ill-typed expressions
    • proper version reporting with git revision
    • refactored logging subsystem
    • add support "val constructs" in implementation: report errors but add definition to current environment
    • add FLG, EXT and PRJ in .merlin
    • "locate" command now works in much more situations
    • one distribution for 4.00 and 4.01, introduced common interface between both, typers now live in https://github.com/def-lkb/merlin-typers
    • new implementation of the main merlin state tracking ast & types
    • better error reporting thanks to a contribution from Ronan Lehy

  • documentation:

    • started a wiki (https://github.com/def-lkb/merlin/wiki)
    • wrote 'from-scratch' guides to ease setting-up merlin in your editor

  • emacs

    • during completion with auto-complete, you can hit C-c C-l on a candidate to jump on its definition
    • made communication with merlin asynchronous (using transfer queues) hence improving responsiveness
    • when running a merlin command, the errors present in all phrases but the current one are displayed
    • fixed buffer cleaning
    • successive call to C-c C-t do not climb the typed tree but improve merlin's verbosity. To move inside the tree use C-down and C-up (which implements phrase movement if there is no enclosing started).
    • customize data for merlin
    • refactoring and numerous bugfixes

Merlin 1-3-1

merlin platform editors

Minor release, but merlin is now compatible with ocaml versions > 4.00.1. The only noticeable changes since 1.3 is the use of short paths even with version 4.00.1 of ocaml.

See full changelog

Oops, we went looking but didn't find the changelog for this release 🙈

Merlin 1-3

merlin platform editors
See full changelog

  • backend:

    • added a "locate" command to find the definition location of the given identifier works on the local buffer out of the box and at project level if it the build directories contain cmt files

  • emacs:

    • various bugfixes
    • aesthetic changes for highlighting
    • introduced "semantic movements": add commands (and keybindings) to go to the next/previous phrase
    • support for completion in emacs 23
    • reporting of syntax errors
    • removed "idle-typing" feature
    • asynchronous fetching of types so that long signatures won't make emacs hang

  • extensions:

    • add support for "type nonrec" declaration
    • add support for "with compare" from type-conv
    • add partial support for "with fields" from type-conv

  • misc:

    • added specific support for omake's polling mode

  • vim:

    • ':TypeOf' command now accepts an (optional) argument and tries to type it in the current context (i.e. at cursor position)
    • better catching of errors

OPAM 1.0.0 released

opam platform

I am very happy to announce the first official release of OPAM!

Many of you already know and use OPAM so I won't be long. Please read http://www.ocamlpro.com/blog/2013/01/17/opam-beta.html for a longer description.

1.0.0 fixes many bugs and add few new features to the previously announced beta-release.

The most visible new feature, which should be useful for beginners with OCaml and OPAM, is an auto-configuration tool. This tool easily enables all the features of OPAM (auto-completion, fix the loading of scripts for the toplevel, opam-switch-eval alias, etc). This tool runs interactively on each opam init invocation. If you don't like OPAM to change your configuration files, use opam init --no-setup. If you trust the tool blindly, use opam init --auto-setup. You can later review the setup by doing opam config setup --list and call the tool again using opam config setup (and you can of course manually edit your ~/.profile (or ~/.zshrc for zsh users), ~/.ocamlinit and ~/.opam/opam-init/*).

Please report:

  • Bug reports and feature requests for the OPAM tool: http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/issues
  • Packaging issues or requests for a new packages: http://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository/issues
  • General queries to: https://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/platform
  • More specific queries about the internals of OPAM to: https://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/opam-devel

Install

Packages for Debian and OSX (at least homebrew) should follow shortly and I'm looking for volunteers to create and maintain rpm packages. The binary installer is up-to-date for Linux and Darwin 64-bit architectures, the 32-bit version for Linux should arrive shortly.

If you want to build from sources, the full archive (including dependencies) is available here:

http://www.ocamlpro.com/pub/opam-full-latest.tar.gz

Upgrade

If you are upgrading from 0.9.* you won't have anything special to do apart installing the new binary. You can then update your package metadata by running opam update. If you want to use the auto-setup feature, remove the "eval opam config env line you have previously added in your ~/.profile and run opam config setup --all.

So everything should be fine. But you never know ... so if something goes horribly wrong in the upgrade process (of if your are upgrading from an old version of OPAM) you can still trash your ~/.opam, manually remove what OPAM added in your ~/.profile (~/.zshrc for zsh users) and ~/.ocamlinit, and start again from scratch.

Random stats

Great success on github. Thanks everybody for the great contributions!

https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam: +2000 commits, 26 contributors https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-repository: +1700 commits, 75 contributors, 370+ packages

on http://opam.ocamlpro.com/ +400 unique visitor per week, 15k 'opam update' per week +1300 unique visitor per month, 55k 'opam update' per month 3815 unique visitor since the alpha release

See full changelog

The full change-log since the beta release in January:

1.0.0 [Mar 2013]

  • Improve the lexer performance (thx to @oandrieu)
  • Fix various typos (thx to @chaudhuri)
  • Fix build issue (thx to @avsm)

0.9.6 [Mar 2013]

  • Fix installation of pinned packages on BSD (thx to @smondet)
  • Fix configuration for zsh users (thx to @AltGr)
  • Fix loading of ~/.profile when using dash (eg. in Debian/Ubuntu)
  • Fix installation of packages with symbolic links (regression introduced in 0.9.5)

0.9.5 [Mar 2013]

  • If necessary, apply patches and substitute files before removing a package
  • Fix opam remove <pkg> --keep-build-dir keeps the folder if a source archive is extracted
  • Add build and install rules using ocamlbuild to help distro packagers
  • Support arbitrary level of nested subdirectories in packages repositories
  • Add opam config exec "CMD ARG1 ... ARGn" --switch=SWITCH to execute a command in a subshell
  • Improve the behaviour of opam update wrt. pinned packages
  • Change the default external solver criteria (only useful if you have aspcud installed on your machine)
  • Add support for global and user configuration for OPAM (opam config setup)
  • Stop yelling when OPAM is not up-to-date
  • Update or generate ~/.ocamlinit when running opam init
  • Fix tests on *BSD (thx Arnaud Degroote)
  • Fix compilation for the source archive

0.9.4 [Feb 2013]

  • Disable auto-removal of unused dependencies. This can now be enabled on-demand using -a
  • Fix compilation and basic usage on Cygwin
  • Fix BSD support (use type instead of which to detect existing commands)
  • Add a way to tag external dependencies in OPAM files
  • Better error messages when trying to upgrade pinned packages
  • Display depends and depopts fields in opam info
  • opam info pkg.version shows the metadata for this given package version
  • Add missing doc fields in .install files
  • opam list now only shows installable packages

0.9.3 [Feb 2013]

  • Add system compiler constraints in OPAM files
  • Better error messages in case of conflicts
  • Cleaner API to install/uninstall packages
  • On upgrade, OPAM now perform all the remove action first
  • Use a cache for main storing OPAM metadata: this greatly speed-up OPAM invocations
  • after an upgrade, propose to reinstall a pinned package only if there were some changes
  • improvements to the solver heuristics
  • better error messages on cyclic dependencies

0.9.2 [Jan 2013]

  • Install all the API files
  • Fix opam repo remove repo-name
  • speed-up opam config env
  • support for opam-foo scripts (which can be called using opam foo)
  • 'opam update pinned-package' works
  • Fix 'opam-mk-repo -a'
  • Fix 'opam-mk-repo -i'
  • clean-up pinned cache dir when a pinned package fails to install

0.9.1 [Jan 2013]

  • Use ocaml-re 1.2.0
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