OCaml Changelog

Added

• Support OCaml 5.4 (#470, @chetmurthy)

Changed

• Improved implementation of handling of skipped blocks in mli/mld
  files (#466, @jonludlam)

Changed

• Revert #446: "Allow execution of included OCaml code blocks" (#451, @gpetiot). Included OCaml code blocks preserve their pre-2.4.0 behavior.

Added

• Handle the error-blocks syntax (#439, @jonludlam, @gpetiot)
• Allow execution of included OCaml code blocks. Add skip to include blocks to revert to the old behavior (#446, @panglesd, @gpetiot) Warning: this is a breaking change that is reverted in the next release.
• Make MDX compatible with OCaml 5.2 (#448, @gpetiot)

Fixed

• Reduce false-positives while detecting warnings (#440, @Julow)

Added

• Add os_type label to enable/disable based on Sys.os_type (#433, @polytypic)

• Make MDX compatible with OCaml 5.1 (#435, @polytypic and @kit-ty-kate)

Changed

• Vendored the odoc-parser library, removing the need to have it as a dependency. (#430, @jonludlam)

Added

• Added support for mld files (#423, @jonludlam)

Changed

• Switch to using the parser that toplevel uses (found in a mutable ref, instead of always the official OCaml parser). This allows Camlp5's parser to be used with MDX. (#417, @chetmurthy)

Fixed

• Undid the change to the pipe code to restore compatibility with Windows (#403, @MisterDA)

Added

• Report all parsing errors in Markdown files (#389, @NathanReb)

Changed

• Preserve indentation in multiline OCaml blocks in .mli files (#395, @panglesd)
• Rename the Normal syntax to Markdown to better explain what the syntax is and moved it to Mdx.Syntax (#412, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Fixed

• Fixed compatibility with Cmdliner 1.1.0 (#371, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Report errors and exit codes of toplevel directives (#382, @talex5, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Fix block locations in error reporting (#389, @NathanReb)
• Include the content of the line that features the part-end MDX directive in the output, before that line would've been dropped (#374, #387, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Handle EINTR signal on waitpid call by restarting the syscall. (#409, @tmcgilchrist)
• Fix parsing of multiline toplevel phrases in .mli files (#394, #397, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Removed

• Removed warning about missing semicolons added in MDX 1.11.0 and the automatic insertion of semicolons in the corrected files introduced in MDX 2.0.0. (#398, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Added

• Add support for adding language tags and metadata labels in mli files. (#339, #357, @julow, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Add support for running non-deterministic tests in dune MDX 0.2 stanza by setting the MDX_RUN_NON_DETERMINISTIC environment variable. (#365, #366, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Added

• Add trailing ;; to the output of toplevel phrases that were missing it. (#346, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Make MDX compatible with OCaml 4.14 (#356, @NathanReb)

Fixed

• Use the same output as the normal toplevel. Mdx used to carry an unsafe patch to work around a bug fixed in OCaml 4.06 and that patch would change the printed types in some corner cases. (#322, @emillon)

Removed

• Dropped compatibility with older OCaml versions. The minimal supported range is 4.08 to 4.13 now (#345, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Do not install deprecated mdx binary anymore (#274, @gpetiot)
• Remove deprecated rule command (#312, @gpetiot)
• Remove support for require-package label, use the mdx stanza in dune instead. This label was only used for the rule command and can now be safely removed. (#363, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Changed

• Use odoc-parser.0.9.0 (#333, @julow)

Deprecated

• Add a deprecation warning for toplevel blocks that are not terminated with ;; (#342, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Fixed

• Fix accidental redirect of stderr to stdout (#343, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Remove trailing whitespaces that were added to indent empty lines (#341, @gpetiot)

Changed

• Use odoc-parser.0.9.0 (#333, @julow)

Deprecated

• Add a deprecation warning for toplevel blocks that are not terminated with ;; (#342, @Leonidas-from-XIV)

Fixed

• Fix accidental redirect of stderr to stdout (#343, @Leonidas-from-XIV)
• Remove trailing whitespaces that were added to indent empty lines (#341, @gpetiot)

Added

• Support for OCaml 4.13 (#330, @emillon)

Added

• Display OCaml warnings in mdx-error blocks (#293, @gpetiot)

Fixed

• Show exceptions in the correct order (#332, @talex5)

Added

• Add a new dune-gen subcommand that generates testing code for Dune to build and run with the new mdx stanza. (#305, @voodoos)

Changed

• Dropped OMP dependency and use handwritten compat layers instead (#317, @NathanReb)

Added

• Allow to explicitly set the kind of blocks in labels: ocaml, cram, toplevel or include. (#237, @gpetiot)
• Include blocks do not require an empty block anymore (#286, @gpetiot)
• Support for OCaml 4.12 (#298, @kit-ty-kate)

Changed

• Improve error message of cram test exceptions due to empty lines in a block (#270, @pitag-ha)

Fixed

• Report #require directive errors (#276, @gpetiot)
• Handle no such file exception: the input file and the values of options --root and --prelude are checked (#292, @gpetiot)
• Keep locations from parsing instead of recomputing the lines, providing better error messages (#241, @gpetiot)
• Use create_process instead of execvp to call mdx-test from mdx. This fixes running mdx from dune on Windows (#299, @emillon)

Added

• HTML comments can carry block labels (#234, @gpetiot) The syntax is: <!-- $MDX labels -->, where labels is a list of valid labels separated by a comma. This line has to immediately precede the block it is attached to. The legacy syntax is preserved and will be deprecated in a later release.
• Add support for toplevel blocks in .mli files' doc comments (#206, @jsomers)
• Add support for OCaml 4.11 (#261, @kit-ty-kate)

Changed

• Apply unnamed preludes to all environments (#271, @gpetiot) New behavior:
  • env_and_file "a:f" associates f to the environment named a
  • env_and_file " :f" associates f to the default environment
  • env_and_file "f" associates f to all environments.
• Errors in non toplevel OCaml blocks are now printed to a seperate mdx-error code block following the ocaml block instead of crashing the mdx process. Those mdx-error blocks are recognized and checked by mdx and can be intentionally used to show case specific compile errors. (#238, @gpetiot)
• Improve error reporting for invalid (* $MDX part-... *) delimiters (#250, @gpetiot)

Deprecated

• The command 'mdx rule' is deprecated and will be removed in 2.0.0 (#251, @gpetiot)

Fixed

• Fix the environment selection for preludes and slightly improve quality of type names in evaluations of toplevel phrases in certain cases. (#225, @gpetiot)
• Fix toplevel parsing when phrases contain tabs (#240, @gpetiot)
• Avoid adding newlines to empty blocks (#253, @gpetiot)
• Preserve the indentation of included files (#259, @gpetiot)
• Preserve the header in shell blocks (#249, @craigfe)
• Support underscores in environment variables in set- and unset- labels (#257, @shonfeder)
• Fix mdx on Windows which was looking for the ocaml-mdx-test binary at the wrong place (#263, @hcarty)
• Properly report mdx parsing errors instead of crashing with an uncaught exception (#267, @gpetiot)

Added

• Add a --duniverse-mode to ocaml-mdx rule so that the generated rules work within a duniverse
• Allow to import arbitrary files (not only .ml/.mli ones) into code blocks using the file label. (#203, #207, @voodoos)
• Allow to set the --non-deterministic option through the MDX_RUN_NON_DETERMINISTIC env variables (#208, @NathanReb)
• Add support for OCaml 4.10 (#204, @kit-ty-kate)
• Infer syntax kind when --syntax is not set, and add 'markdown' as an alias to 'normal' (#222, @gpetiot)
• Add ocaml-mdx deps command to be used by dune to compute file and dir dependencies of an mdx file. (#217, @voodoos)
• Add new delimiters syntax using comments for partial OCaml files include (#212, @voodoos).

Changed

• Do not unset INSIDE_DUNE when executing shell commands by default (#224, @NathanReb)

Fixed

• Fix a bug that could cause ocaml-mdx test to crash on some include in toplevel code blocks (#202, @trefis)

Removed

• Remove the direction option, only synchronize from .ml to .md files (#214, @gpetiot)

Added

• Add a --output/-o option to the test subcommand to allow specifying a different output file to write the corrected to, or to write it to the standard output (#194, @NathanReb)
• Migrate to OCaml 4.08 AST to add support for let* bindings (#190, @gpetiot)
• Add --syntax option to rule subcommand to allow generating rules for cram tests (#177, @craigfe)
• Add a require-package label to explicitly declare dune package dependencies of a code block (#149, @Julow)
• Add an unset- label to unset env variables in shell blocks (#132, @clecat)

Changed

• Format rules generated by ocaml-mdx rule using dune format-dune-file (#184, @NathanReb)
• Run promotion of markdown files before .ml files in generated dune rules (#140, @clecat)

Fixed

• Use module_presence information on Env.summary to prevent fetching absent modules from the toplevel env (#186, @clecat)
• Remove trailing whitespaces at the end of toplevel or bash evaluation lines (#166, @clecat)
• Improve error reporting of ocaml-mdx test (#172, @Julow)
• Rule: Pass the --section option to test (#176, @Julow)
• Remove trailing whitespaces from shell outputs and toplevel evals (#166, @clecat)
• Remove inappropriate empty lines in generated dune rules (#163, @Julow)
• Fix ignored skip label in ocaml-mdx pp (#1561, @CraigFe)
• Fix synchronization of new parts from markdown to .ml (#156, @Julow)
• Fix ignored [@@@parts ...] markers within module definitions (#155, @Julow)
• Fix a bug in internal OCaml version comparison that lead to crashes in some cases (#145, @gpetiot)
• Promote to empty .ml file when using to-ml direction (#139, @clecat)
• Apply --force-output to .ml file as well (#137, @clecat)
• Fix a bug preventing .corrected files to be written in some cases (#136, @clecat)
• Add compatibility with 4.09.0 (#133, @xclerc)

Removed

• Remove the output subcommand as it was very specific to RealWorldOCaml needs (#195, @NathanReb)
• Remove the infer-timestamp direction (#171 @Julow)

• Add --force-output option to force generation of diff file (#118 @clecat)
• Support OCaml 4.08.0 (#121 @xclerc)
• README and documentation fixes (#122 #118 @andreypopp @clecat @samoht)
• Use latest ocaml-migrate-parsetree interfaces (@avsm)

• Updated readme file with the new features: dune rules, named environment and ocaml versions, Some grammar correction too (@gpetiot, #101, aantron, #102)
• Better lexer error messages (@avsm, #103)
• Added cram syntax parsing (@trefis, #106)
• Renamed mdx to ocaml-mdx to avoid conflicts/for more precision (@clecat, #110, #115)
• Fix blank spaces causing parsing errors (@gpetiot, #97)
• Fix empty lines causing a String.sub (@clecat, #107)

• Support end-of-line ellipsis (@dra27, #85)
• Support OCaml 4.02.3 (@gpetiot, #86)
• Support version=.., version<=.. and version>=.. keywords to run a code-block depending on the currently installed OCaml version (@gpetiot, #87, #90)
• Upgrade Travis tests to use opam 2.0.2 (@avsm, #89)
• Do not depend on ppx_tools for toplevel (@avsm, #89)
• Fix embedding in a larger Dune project with a cppo override (@avsm, #89)
• mdx output: escape HTML entities in code blocks (#91, @samoht)
• Add a mechanism to promote files to blocks and blocks to file (@gpetiot, #37)
• Support multiple toplevel environments (@gpetiot, #38)
• Use ocaml-migrate-parsetree to compile in 4.06.1 & 4.07.0 (@gpetiot, #41)
• Add a mdx rule command to generate dune rules (@gpetiot, #44)
• Add a mdx output command to generate an HTML document (@samoht, #45)
• Support empty code blocks (@samoht, #46)
• Fix detection of OCaml code/toplevel (@samoht, #47)
• Better handling of multi-line shell scripts (@samoht, #48)
• Fix regression in toplevel blocks when creating newtype (@samoht, #49)
• Fix evaluation of non-determinitic test (@samoht, #50)
• Improve mdx rules to take into account more precise dependencies (@samoht, #51)
• Fix promotion of blocks to complete ML files (@samoht, #52)
• mdx does not use the cppo library, just the binary (@samoht, #53)
• fix ellipsis in code blocks (@samoht, #57)
• Fix relative paths for promoted blocks to files (@samoht, #58)
• Fix location of errors for multi-line commands (@samoht, #60)
• improve the parser for shell blocks (@samoht, #61)
• Allow to load preludes in specific environments (@samoht, #63)
• Fix evaluation of code after directives in prelude (@samoht, #64)
• Improve promotion to ml files (@samoht, #66)
• mdx rule: generates (source_tree) dependencies for directory metadata (@samoht, #67)
• Fix handling of 'module type' in multiple toplevel environment (@samoht, #68)
• Add an eval=false label to skip the evaluation of a code block (@samoht, #69)
• Fix parsing of shell blocks with multiple exit codes (@samoht, #71)
• Support source-tree as extra block metadata (@samoht, #72)
• Better formatting of non-compiling promoted contents (@samoht, #73)
• Be sure to remove the .corrected files if the promotion to ML file works (mdx74)
• Add missing dependency in test/dune (@samoht, #75)
• Support dir=.. labels in ml code blocks (@samoht, #76)
• Allow to promote to mli files too (@samoht, #77)
• Support multi-line strings (@samoht, #78)
• fail (and exit 1) if prelude and ml blocks cannot be evaluated properly (@samoht, #80, @samoht, #83)
• Allow to pass --root to mdx rule (@samoht, #81)
• mdx rule: do not add (package mdx) in the dependencies (@samoht, #82)