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13739 :: Nim 2.2.8 released!

• miran (orginal) [2026-02-23T09:55:32+01:00] view original

  The fourth patch for Nim 2.2 is here:

  Nim 2.2.8

  Read more about it here: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2026/02/23/nim-228.html

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• Araq (orginal) [2026-02-23T10:20:12+01:00] view original

  AWESOME!

  The new download table is super nice, many people asked for arm linux downloads. Thank you!

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• lou15b (orginal) [2026-02-23T15:37:47+01:00] view original

  One minor note: the pre-built binary tarball, at least for Linux x86_64, has a slightly older version of nimble - v0.20.1. Latest is v0.22.1.

  So you may want to update nimble after installing this nim patch.

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• treeform (orginal) [2026-02-23T15:51:20+01:00] view original

  Wow, thank you for another new version. This is fantastic. I especially like the multi-threaded fix for malloc. That has been a problem in the past, and I had to use malloc, and it always felt not great. Hopefully, this problem is now behind us. And thank you for the ARM builds as well. Those have come up. It is cool to see this project moving an doing. So many bug fixes, so many things are just getting repaired. It's great. Thank you for everyone who put in the hard work.

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• planetis (orginal) [2026-02-23T17:04:44+01:00] view original

  Try these prebuilt packages:

  Fedora

  
  dnf -y copr enable planetis/nim
  dnf -y install nim
  Run

  Ubuntu

  
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:planetis/nim
  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install nim
  Run

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• miran (orginal) [2026-02-23T21:46:53+01:00] view original

  One minor note: the pre-built binary tarball, at least for Linux x86_64, has a slightly older version of nimble - v0.20.1. Latest is v0.22.1

  The shipping of the older Nimble version was done on purpose, as we had some problems with Nimble v0.22.x.

  But, as you said, you can update Nimble manually. Both now and generally, whenever there is a new Nimble release. You don't need to wait for a new Nim release to update Nimble.

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