On behalf of the dune, I'm pleased to announce the release of dune 2.8.0. This release contains many bug fixes, performance improvements, and interesting new features. I'll point out two new features that I'm most excited about.
First is the experimental dune_site
extension that makes it possible to register and load plugins at runtime. This feature is quite involved, but we've documented it extensively in the manual.
Another cool feature is that we've eliminated the need for .merlin files and all the caveats that came with them. Now, merlin talks to dune directly to get precise configuration for every module. Say goodbye to all those "approximate .merlin file" warnings!
I encourage everyone to upgrade as soon as possible, as earlier versions are not compatible with OCaml 4.12. Happy Hacking.
See full changelog
-
dune rules
accepts aliases and other non-path rules (#4063, @mrmr1993) -
Action
(diff reference test_result)
now acceptreference
to be absent and in that case consider that the reference is empty. Then runningdune promote
will create the reference file. (#3795, @bobot) -
Ignore special files (BLK, CHR, FIFO, SOCKET), (#3570, fixes #3124, #3546, @ejgallego)
-
Experimental: Simplify loading of additional files (data or code) at runtime in programs by introducing specific installation sites. In particular it allow to define plugins to be installed in these sites. (#3104, #3794, fixes #1185, @bobot)
-
Move all temporary files created by dune to run actions to a single directory and make sure that actions executed by dune also use this directory by setting
TMPDIR
(orTEMP
on Windows). (#3691, fixes #3422, @rgrinberg) -
Fix bootstrap script with custom configuration. (#3757, fixes #3774, @marsam)
-
Add the
executable
field toinline_tests
to customize the compilation flags of the test runner executable (#3747, fixes #3679, @lubegasimon) -
Add
(enabled_if ...)
to(copy_files ...)
(#3756, @nojb) -
Make sure Dune cleans up the status line before exiting (#3767, fixes #3737, @alan-j-hu)
-
Add
{gitlab,bitbucket}
as options for defining project sources withsource
stanza(source (<host> user/repo))
in thedune-project
file. (#3813, @rgrinberg) -
Fix generation of
META
anddune-package
files when some targets (byte, native, dynlink) are disabled. Previously, dune would generate all archives for regardless of settings. (#3829, #4041, @rgrinberg) -
Do not run ocamldep to for single module executables & libraries. The dependency graph for such artifacts is trivial (#3847, @rgrinberg)
-
Fix cram tests inside vendored directories not being interpreted correctly. (#3860, fixes #3843, @rgrinberg)
-
Add
package
field to private libraries. This allows such libraries to be installed and to be usable by other public libraries in the same project (#3655, fixes #1017, @rgrinberg) -
Fix the
%{make}
variable on Windows by only checking for agmake
binary on UNIX-like systems as a unrelatedgmake
binary might exist on Windows. (#3853, @kit-ty-kate) -
Fix
$ dune install
modifying the build directory. This made the build directory unusable when$ sudo dune install
modified permissions. (fix #3857, @rgrinberg) -
Fix handling of aliases given on the command line (using the
@
and@@
syntax) so as to correctly handle relative paths. (#3874, fixes #3850, @nojb) -
Allow link time code generation to be used in preprocessing executable. This makes it possible to use the build info module inside the preprocessor. (#3848, fix #3848, @rgrinberg)
-
Correctly call
git ls-tree
so unicode files are not quoted, this fixes problems withdune subst
in the presence of unicode files. Fixes #3219 (#3879, @ejgallego) -
dune subst
now accepts common command-line arguments such as--debug-backtraces
(#3878, @ejgallego) -
dune describe
now also includes information about executables in addition to that of libraries. (#3892, #3895, @nojb) -
instrumentation backends can now receive arguments via
(instrumentation (backend <name> <args>))
. (#3906, #3932, @nojb) -
Tweak auto-formatting of
dune
files to improve readability. (#3928, @nojb) -
Add a switch argument to opam when context is not default. (#3951, @tmattio)
-
Avoid pager when running
$ git diff
(#3912, @AltGr) -
Add
(root_module ..)
field to libraries & executables. This makes it possible to use library dependencies shadowed by local modules (#3825, @rgrinberg) -
Allow
(formatting ...)
field in(env ...)
stanza to set per-directory formatting specification. (#3942, @nojb) -
[coq] In
coq.theory
,:standard
for theflags
field now uses the flags set inenv
profile flags (#3931 , @ejgallego @rgrinberg) -
[coq] Add
-q
flag to:standard
coqc
flags , fixes #3924, (#3931 , @ejgallego) -
Add support for Coq's native compute compilation mode (@ejgallego, #3210)
-
Add a
SUFFIX
directive in.merlin
files for each dialect with no preprocessing, to let merlin know of additional file extensions (#3977, @vouillon) -
Stop promoting
.merlin
files. Write per-stanza Merlin configurations in binary form. Add a new subcommanddune ocaml-merlin
that Merlin can use to query the configuration files. Theallow_approximate_merlin
option is now useless and deprecated. Dune now conflicts withmerlin < 3.4.0
andocaml-lsp-server < 1.3.0
(#3554, @voodoos) -
Configurator: fix a bug introduced in 2.6.0 where the configurator V1 API doesn't work at all when used outside of dune. (#4046, @aalekseyev)
-
Fix
libexec
andlibexec-private
variables. In cross-compilation settings, they now point to the file in the host context. (#4058, fixes #4057, @TheLortex) -
When running
$ dune subst
, use project metadata as a fallback when package metadata is missing. We also generate a warning when(name ..)
is missing indune-project
files to avoid failures in production builds. -
Remove support for passing
-nodynlink
for executables. It was bypassed in most cases and not correct in other cases in particular on arm32. (#4085, fixes #4069, fixes #2527, @emillon) -
Generate archive rules compatible with 4.12. Dune longer attempt to generate an archive file if it's unnecessary (#3973, fixes #3766, @rgrinberg)
-
Fix generated Merlin configurations when multiple preprocessors are defined for different modules in the same folder. (#4092, fixes #2596, #1212 and #3409, @voodoos)
-
Add the option
use_standard_c_and_cxx_flags
todune-project
that 1. disables the unconditional use of theocamlc_cflags
andocamlc_cppflags
fromocamlc -config
in C compiler calls, these flags will be present in the:standard
set instead; and 2. enables the detection of the C compiler family and populates the:standard
set of flags with common default values when building CXX stubs. (#3875, #3802, fix #3718 and #3528, @voodoos)