[ANN] opam 2.2.0 rc1 release

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Hi everyone,

We’re once again very excited to announce this first release candidate (and hopefully only) for opam 2.2.0.

What’s new in this rc?

  • Fix opam upgrade wanting to keep rebuilding the compiler (as now it contains an x-env-path-rewrite field)
  • Provide defaults so opam init -y no longer asks questions on Windows
  • Fix OpamConsole.menu when there are more than 9 options (can happen on Windows)
  • A couple more fixes and general improvements

:open_book: You can read our blog post for more information about these changes and more, and for even more details you can take a look at the release note or the changelog.

Windows issues

Configuration of Windows is tricky, so please don’t be too disheartened if things don’t work instantly. If something doesn’t work first time, please do report it , even if you manage to find a way to workaround it. If opam didn’t elegantly tell you what was wrong, then it’s a bug and we’d love to hear about it, rather than ending up with a series of workarounds flying around. It’s no problem at all for us to receive a bug report which turns out to be user error - we’d far rather that than not hear bugs which are opam’s error! :scream_cat:

How to upgrade

For Unix systems

bash -c "sh <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh) --version 2.2.0~rc1"

or from PowerShell for Windows systems

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.ps1) }"

We’re planning for a final opam 2.2.0 release next week, so please do report any issue you encounter on our bug-tracker .

Happy hacking,
<> <> The opam team <> <> :camel:

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