https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/27/versions-128-and-1010-released.html
These are bugfix releases for 1.2.x and 1.0.x version, respectively.
Our recommendation is to use Nim 1.4! These bugfix releases are aimed at people/companies who cannot switch to 1.4 just yet.
Did the v1.2.8 tag move? I distinctly remember that 1.2.8 was released on the same day as 1.4.0 about two weeks ago.
Should I reinstall v1.2.8 ?
Did the v1.2.8 tag move?
Yes.
Should I reinstall v1.2.8 ?
Yes.
Uh, sorry, a release is complete when we announce it here, not earlier.
Thanks for sharing the tribal knowledge. For those of us who monitor GitHub this comes as a surprise. For the last 11 days in the github repo there was a tag v1.2.8 with the text Version 1.2.8 and no any indication that it was, in fact, a release candidate. Could it be more logical to call it v1.2.8rc or v1.2.7 instead of moving a tag? Ideally, a tag should be a let not a var.
Would it be more logical to call it v1.2.8rc or v1.2.7 instead of moving a tag? Ideally, a tag should be a let not a var.
Sure. And previously we were close to this ideal. Now that the move to our new "nightly build" infrastructure is complete we'll back on track.
(...) Ideally, a tag should be a let not a var.
That's how we do it usually.
This time, we found problems with the release in the middle of the release procedure. We've decided to not publicly announce the release and fix those problems, and then re-release (and re-tag).