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opam 2.3.0 release!

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! As mentioned in our talk at the OCaml Workshop 2024, we decided to switch to a time-based release cycle (every 6 months), starting with opam 2.3. As promised, we are very pleased to announce the release of opam 2.3.0, and encourage all users to upgrade. ...

13 Nov 2024

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opam 2.1.3 is released!

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.1.3. This opam release consists of backported fixes: Fix opam init and opam init --reinit when the jobs variable has been set in the opamrc or the current config. (#5056) opam var no longer fails if ...

12 Aug 2022

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opam 2.0.9 release

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.9. This new version contains some back-ported fixes. New features Back-ported ability to load upgraded roots read-only; allows applications compiled with opam-state 2.0.9 to load a root which has b...

03 Aug 2021

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opam 2.1.0~rc2 released

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! The opam team has great pleasure in announcing opam 2.1.0~rc2! The focus since beta4 has been preparing for a world with more than one released version of opam (i.e. 2.0.x and 2.1.x). The release candidate extends CLI versioning further and, under the ho...

23 Jun 2021

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opam 2.0.8 release

We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.8. This new version contains some backported fixes: Critical for fish users! Don't add . to PATH. [#4078] Fix sandbox script for newer ccache versions. [#4079 and #4087] Fix sandbox crash when ~/.cache is a symlink. [#4068] User modifications ...

08 Feb 2021

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opam 2.1.0 alpha is here!

We are happy to announce a alpha for opam 2.1.0, one year and a half in the making after the release of 2.0.0. Many new features made it in (see the complete changelog or release note for the details), but here are a few highlights of this release. Release highlights The two following features have ...

22 Apr 2020

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opam 2.0.7 release

We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.7. This new version contains backported small fixes: Escape Windows paths on manpages [#4129 @AltGr @rjbou] Fix opam installer opam file [#4058 @rjbou] Fix various warnings [#4132 @rjbou @AltGr - fix #4100] Fix dune 2.5.0 promote-install-files...

21 Apr 2020

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opam 2.0.6 release

We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.6. This new version contains some small backported fixes and build update: Don't remove git cache objects that may be used [#3831 @AltGr] Don't include .gitattributes in index.tar.gz [#3873 @dra27] Update FAQ uri [#3941 @dra27] Lock: add warni...

16 Jan 2020

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opam 2.0.5 release

We are pleased to announce the minor release of opam 2.0.5. This new version contains build update and small fixes: Bump src_ext Dune to 1.6.3, allows compilation with OCaml 4.08.0. [#3887 @dra27] Support Dune 1.7.0 and later [#3888 @dra27 - fix #3870] Bump the ocaml_mccs lib-ext, to include latest ...

11 Jul 2019

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opam 2.0.4 release

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.4. This new version contains some backported fixes: Sandboxing on macOS: considering the possibility that TMPDIR is unset [#3597 @herbelin - fix #3576] display: Fix opam config var display, aligned on opam config list [#3723 @rjbou - rel. #3717] pin...

10 Apr 2019

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