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Corrupt copies on the OpenBSD CI worker

Last week I updated the OpenBSD workers to OCaml 5.5.0 and took that opportunity to deploy OpenBSD 7.8. Shortly after, issue#1061 was opened as jobs randomly failed with an opam parse error.

30 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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Moving to opam 2.5

opam 2.5.0 was released on 27th November, and this update needs to be propagated through the CI infrastructure. This post mirrors the steps taken for the release of opam 2.4.1.

12 Jan 2026

Marc Elvers

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Moving to opam 2.4

opam 2.4.0 was released on 18th July followed by opam 2.4.1 a few days later. This update needs to be propagated through the CI infrastructure. The first step is to update the base images for each OS.

30 Jul 2025

Marc Elvers

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Worker moves

Following the setup of rosemary with FreeBSD 14 (with 20C/40T), I have paused spring and summer (which combined have 12C/24T) and rosemary is now handling all of the FreeBSD workload.

09 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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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

OCamlPro

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