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Discover everything that went into bringing MSVC support to OCaml 5 including C11 atomics, bug reports, winpthreads, and CI updates.
Equinix has stopped commercial sales of Metal and will sunset the service at the end of June 2026. Equinix have long been a supporter of OCaml and has provided free credits to use on their Metal platform. These credits are coming to an end at the end of this month, meaning that we need to move some of our services away from Equinix. We have two new four-node blade servers, which will become the new home for these services. The blades have dual 10C/20T processors with either 192GB or 256GB of RAM and a combination of SSD and spinning disk.
opam 2.4 was branched last week… very pleasing to see Ryan’s work on Nix depext support get merged (we spent quite a bit of time on that together last summer). It’s a subtle-sounding (huge) change, but the move away from relying on patch and diff as external commands (which has been a HUGE amount of work done by @kit-ty-kate) paves the way for being able to sort out the incredible slowness of opam update on Windows.
Late last week, @MisterDA added Fedora 42 support to the Docker base image builder. The new base images attempted to build over the weekend, but there have been a few issues!
Curious about the origins of opam? Check out this short history on its evolution as the de facto package manager and environment manager for OCaml. Welcome back to the opam deep-dives series! Finally - you've asked for it since our very first opam deep-dive: it's time to explore the developer side o...
