OPAM 1.1.0 release candidate out

Authors: Louis Gesbert
Date: 2013-10-14
Category: Tooling
Tags: opam


OPAM 1.1.0 is ready, and we are shipping a release candidate for packagers and all interested to try it out.

This version features several bug-fixes over the September beta release, and quite a few stability and usability improvements. Thanks to all beta-testers who have taken the time to file reports, and helped a lot tackling the remaining issues.

Repository change to opam.ocaml.org

This release is synchronized with the migration of the main repository from ocamlpro.com to ocaml.org. A redirection has been put in place, so that all up-to-date installation of OPAM should be redirected seamlessly. OPAM 1.0 instances will stay on the old repository, so that they won't be broken by incompatible package updates.

We are very happy to see the impressive amount of contributions to the OPAM repository, and this change, together with the licensing of all metadata under CC0 (almost pubic domain), guarantees that these efforts belong to the community.

If you are upgrading from 1.0

The internal state will need to be upgraded at the first run of OPAM 1.1.0. THIS PROCESS CANNOT BE REVERTED. We have tried hard to make it fault- resistant, but failures might happen. In case you have precious data in your ~/.opam folder, it is advised to backup that folder before you upgrade to 1.1.0.

Installing

Using the binary installer:

  • download and run https://github.com/ocaml/opam/blob/master/shell/opam_installer.sh

You can also get the new version either from Anil's unstable PPA:

add-apt-repository ppa:avsm/ppa-testing
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opam

or build it from sources at :

  • https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam/releases/tag/1.1.0-RC

Changes

Too many to list here, see https://raw.github.com/OCamlPro/opam/1.1.0-RC/CHANGES

For packagers, some new fields have appeared in the OPAM description format:

  • depexts provides facilities for dealing with system (non ocaml) dependencies
  • messages, post-messages can be used to notify the user or help her troubleshoot at package installation.
  • available supersedes ocaml-version and os constraints, and can contain more expressive formulas


About OCamlPro:

OCamlPro is a R&D lab founded in 2011, with the mission to help industrial users benefit from experts with a state-of-the-art knowledge of programming languages theory and practice.

  • We provide audit, support, custom developer tools and training for both the most modern languages, such as Rust, Wasm and OCaml, and for legacy languages, such as COBOL or even home-made domain-specific languages;
  • We design, create and implement software with great added-value for our clients. High complexity is not a problem for our PhD-level experts. For example, we helped the French Income Tax Administration re-adapt and improve their internally kept M language, we designed a DSL to model and express revenue streams in the Cinema Industry, codename Niagara, and we also developed the prototype of the Tezos proof-of-stake blockchain from 2014 to 2018.
  • We have a long history of creating open-source projects, such as the Opam package manager, the LearnOCaml web platform, and contributing to other ones, such as the Flambda optimizing compiler, or the GnuCOBOL compiler.
  • We are also experts of Formal Methods, developing tools such as our SMT Solver Alt-Ergo (check our Alt-Ergo Users' Club) and using them to prove safety or security properties of programs.

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