We have the pleasure of celebrating the birthdays of Jane Austen and Arthur C. Clarke by announcing the release of OCaml version 5.0.0. The highlight of this new major version of OCaml is the long-awaited runtime support for shared memory parallelism and effect handlers . This multicore support is …

Unbelievable. Thanks for the hard work y’all can’t wait to see where this goes and what we build with it!

Congratulations! I have some questions about plans to improve the debugging experience. For the bytecode debugger, any plans to make it support multiple domains? From the source code I see that currently the debugger will abort when a new thread is created. When debugging native code, any plan…

Congratulations! It may have been a long time coming, but it’s paid off. This is a really nice design and implementation. I think it will lead to greater OCaml adoption, which benefits all of us, whether we use the new features or not.

The source code is also available as a zipped file : https://codeload.github.com/ocaml/ocaml/zip/5.0.0

Where is hosted the ocamldoc for the stdlib of ocaml-5.0.0? It seems that what I access online is always from some 4.* release.

https://v2.ocaml.org/releases/5.0/api/

OCaml 5.0.0 is out!

Ecosystem

Topic		Replies	Views
Multicore OCaml: January 2022 and post-merge activity Community multicore , multicore-monthly	7	3907	February 14, 2022
Multicore OCaml: September 2021, effect handlers will be in OCaml 5.0! Community multicore , multicore-monthly	19	17072	October 15, 2021
OCaml 5.3.0 released Ecosystem	19	3050	February 23, 2025
The road to OCaml 5.0 Ecosystem announce	16	24064	October 15, 2021
Multicore OCaml: Dec 2020 / Jan 2021 Community multicore , multicore-monthly	6	3697	February 8, 2021

OCaml 5.0.0 is out!

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