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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 2.0.8 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 2.0.7 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 2.0.3 release

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.3. This new version contains some backported fixes: Fix manpage remaining $ (OPAMBESTEFFORT) Fix OPAMROOTISOK handling Regenerate missing environment file Installation instructions (unchanged): From binaries: run or download manually from the Github...

28 Jan 2019

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opam 2.0.1 is out!

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.1. This new version contains mainly backported fixes, some platform-specific: Cold boot for MacOS/CentOS/Alpine Install checksum validation on MacOS Archive extraction for OpenBSD now defaults to using gtar Fix compilation of mccs on MacOS and Nix p...

24 Oct 2018

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opam 2.0.0 release and repository upgrade

We are happy to announce the final release of opam 2.0.0. A few weeks ago, we released a last release candidate to be later promoted to 2.0.0, synchronised with the opam package repository upgrade. You are encouraged to update as soon as you see fit, to continue to get package updates: opam 2.0.0 su...

19 Sep 2018

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opam 2.0.0 RC4-final is out!

We are happy to announce the opam 2.0.0 final release candidate! 🍾 This release features a few bugfixes over Release Candidate 3. It will be promoted to 2.0.0 proper within a few weeks, when the official repository format switches from 1.2.0 to 2.0.0. After that date, updates to the 1.2.0 reposit...

26 Jul 2018

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opam 2.0.0 Release Candidate 3 is out!

We are pleased to announce the release of a third release candidate for opam 2.0.0. This one is expected to be the last before 2.0.0 comes out. Changes since the 2.0.0~rc2 are, as expected, mostly fixes. We deemed it useful, however, to bring in the following: a new command opam switch link that all...

22 Jun 2018

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