First release candidate of OCaml 5.2.0
Florian Angeletti <[email protected]>
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Dear OCaml users, The release of OCaml 5.2.0 is imminent. As a final step, we are publishing a release candidate to check that everything is in order before the release in the upcoming week(s). If you find any bugs, please report them on OCaml's issue tracker at https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues. Compared to the second beta release, this release contains one small compiler-libs printer fix and one configuration tweak. The full change log for OCaml 5.2.0 is available on GitHub (https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/5.2/Changes). A short summary of the changes since the second beta release is also available below. Happy hacking, Florian Angeletti for the OCaml team. Installation Instructions ------------------------------ The base compiler can be installed as an opam switch with the following commands on opam 2.1 and later: opam update opam switch create 5.2.0~rc1 The source code for the release candidate is also directly available on: * GitHub: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/archive/5.2.0-rc1.tar.gz * OCaml archives at INRIA: https://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-5.2/ocaml-5.2.0~rc1.tar.gz Fine-Tuned Compiler Configuration ---------------------------------------------- If you want to tweak the configuration of the compiler, you can switch to the option variant with: opam update opam switch create <switch_name> ocaml-variants.5.2.0~rc1+options <option_list> where `<option_list>` is a space-separated list of `ocaml-option-*` packages. For instance, for a `flambda` and `no-flat-float-array` switch: opam switch create 5.2.0~rc1+flambda+nffa ocaml-variants.5.2.0~rc1+options ocaml-option-flambda ocaml-option-no-flat-float-array All available options can be listed with `opam search ocaml-option`. Changes since the second beta ------------------------------------------ - #13130(https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/13130): Minor fixes to `pprintast` for raw identifiers and local module open syntax for types. (Chet Murthy, review by Gabriel Scherer) - #13100(https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/issues/13100) Fix detection of `zstd` when compiling with `musl-gcc` (David Allsopp, review by Samuel Hym)