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8712 :: Release candidates for Nim 1.6.2 and 1.2.16

• miran (orginal) [2021-12-14T22:09:10+01:00] view original

  The first release candidate of our next stable release, Nim 1.6.2, is available from our nightly builds:

  • Nim 1.6.2 RC

  If you're using Choosenim, you should be able to get this RC by doing:

  
  choosenim update self
  choosenim "#version-1-6"
  Run

  If there are any regressions (compared to version 1.6.0 or the previous releases), please let us know.

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  We're also providing Nim 1.2.16 RC for our users who are still using Nim 1.2:

  • Nim 1.2.16 RC

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• Clonk (orginal) [2021-12-14T22:52:13+01:00] view original

  Congratulation on this milestone !

  Is there a changelog for this version or just commit history ?

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• miran (orginal) [2021-12-15T12:40:48+01:00] view original

  Is there a changelog for this version or just commit history ?

  For now, you can look at the commits between the 1.6.0 release and the latest commit: here.

  There will be a release article with the changelog once the final (non-RC) 1.6.2 version is released.

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• miran (orginal) [2021-12-16T19:33:22+01:00] view original

  Nim 1.2.16 is now officially released!!

  You can download it from here: https://github.com/nim-lang/nightlies/releases/tag/2021-12-16-version-1-2-eeea72060ce3aeae591601bdb90039a600941ef3

  These issues are fixed:

  • Fixed "RVO not applied to object with large array" (#14470)
  • Fixed "Generics "sandwiched" between two modules don't mixin their scope symbols properly" (#11225)
  • Fixed "variables in closure iterators loop are not correctly unassigned" (#19193)

  and it also contains other fixes/improvements, such as:

  • Allow HSlice bounded by constants of distinct types (PR #19219)
  • File specific localpassC for wrapped C/C++/ASM/(JS?) {.compile.} files (RFC #260)
  • nimRawSetjmp: support Windows (PR #19197)
  • Don't read 0 in uri.hostname (PR #19148)
  • oids: switch from PRNG to random module (PR #16203)
  • json: limit recursion depth (PR #19252)

  The complete list of commits since the previous 1.2.x release can be seen here.

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  (The release of 1.6.2 is coming tomorrow, we wanted to give it one day more of testing)

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