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We are done with 2024, and now is a good time to reflect on what has happened over the past 12 months. I was not planning to, but my feed convinced me to give it a try. Plus, it is a good opportunity to revive my “Retrospective” series.

Welcome, dear reader, to a new opam blog post! Today we take an additional step down the metaphorical rabbit hole with opam pin, the easiest way to catch a ride on the development version of a package in opam. We are aware that our readers are eager to see these blog posts venture on the developer s...

Pierre-Étienne Meunier, creator and lead developer of open-source version control system Pijul, joins the home team to talk about version control, functional programming, and why OCaml is a source of French national pride.

On this day in 1996, Xavier Leroy announced Objective Caml 1.00 (the language wasn’t officially called OCaml until 4.00.0 in July 2012). I wouldn’t start using OCaml for another 7 years; I think I may have dropped Research Machines Basic by then and was mucking around with a mix of Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal and Delphi, but I hadn’t yet got an email address either.

Over the past few months, we have been heavily engaged in release engineering the Irmin 2.0 release, which covers multiple years of work on…

I'm very happy to announce a new major release of ocaml-git (2.0). This release is a 2-year effort to get a revamped streaming API offering…

After a few more months brewing, we are pleased to announce a new beta release of opam. With this new milestone, opam is reaching feature-freeze, with an expected 2.0.0 by the beginning of next year. This version brings many new features, stability fixes, and big improvements to the local developmen...