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Windows Docker Images

In my previous post on the base image builder, I included a footnote that we now had Windows 2025 workers, but I didn’t mention that the base images weren’t building.

09 Feb 2026

Marc Elvers

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Summer of Internships: Projects From the OCaml Compiler Team

We have had the pleasure of hosting several interns in the compiler team this past year. Their projects have tackled varied and challenging…

24 Sep 2024

Tarides

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opam 2.1.0 is released!

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are happy to announce the release of opam 2.1.0. Many new features made it in (see the pre-release changelogs or release notes for the details), but here are a few highlights. What's new in opam 2.1? Integration of system dependencies (formerly the op...

04 Aug 2021

OCamlPro

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opam 2.1.0~beta4 released

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! On behalf of the opam team, it gives me great pleasure to announce the third beta release of opam 2.1. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss beta3 - we had an issue with a configure script that caused beta2 to report as beta3 in some instances, so we skipped ...

13 Jan 2021

OCamlPro

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opam 2.0 tips

This blog post looks back on some of the improvements in opam 2.0, and gives tips on the new workflows available. Package development environment management Opam 2.0 has been vastly improved to handle locally defined packages. Assuming you have a project ~/projects/foo, defining two packages foo-lib...

12 Mar 2019

OCamlPro

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OPAM 1.2.2 Released

OPAM 1.2.2 has just been released. This fixes a few issues over 1.2.1 and brings a couple of improvements, in particular better use of the solver to keep the installation as up-to-date as possible even when the latest version of a package can not be installed. Upgrade from 1.2.1 (or earlier) See the...

07 May 2015

OCamlPro

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