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Forging compilers in opam

As we settle into 2026, I have been doing a little early spring-cleaning. A few years ago, we had a slightly chaotic time in opam-repository over what should have been a migration from gforge.inria.fr to a new GitLab instance.

11 Jan 2026

David Allsopp's Blog

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opam 2.4 release

Feedback on this post is welcomed on Discuss! We are extremely happy to announce the release of opam 2.4.0 and encourage all users to upgrade. Please read on for installation and upgrade instructions. Major changes On opam init the compiler chosen for the default switch will no longer be ocaml-syste...

23 Jul 2025

OCamlPro

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The week that was - 2025 w18

Don’t let the road to perfect intentions be the enemy of the good. Or some other mixed metaphor. Anyhow, an attempt at musing on the week so that musing on musings may be slightly easier.

02 May 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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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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