1.2.0 * Handle locally installed self-upgrade opam binary (#1257) * Added `opam list --depends-on` to show reverse dependencies (#693) * More consistent checks on user-specified packages (#1241) * Handle version constraints from the command line (`package>=version`) (#380) * Output clear and concise messages on non solvable requests (#595, #1238) * Much better internal parser. File locations in error messages (#1260, #1222) * Removed dependency on camlp4 (#917) * Fixed orphan packages handling (installed packages with no upstream) (#1198) * Solver: optimize default preferences, depending on the solver version. New --criteria option (#1208) * Better PATH modifications handling, add 'opam config env --inplace-path' (#1189, #1749) * Specify variable overrides with environment OPAMVAR_name (#1153) * Much better overall failsafe behaviour. Error reports on interruption (#1202, #1125, #1188...) * Better action processing, with downloads first (#984) * Much improved and faster interface with the Cudf solver (#1185, #1179) * Ask the user to confirm actions whenever non-trivial (#1165) * Added option --show-actions, made --dry-run simulate actions (#1142) * Now prints meaningful causes explaining the actions (#1174) * Fixed the stats displayed after update (#1161) * Added variables to query ocaml native tools and arch (#979) * Enable packagers to specify mirrors in url files (#807) * Cleaned up the command-line interface (#1250, #1170, #1472). Incompatible changes: - 'opam config exec': takes command args directly rather than as a string (use -- for command arguments) - 'opam switch import|export': now have a mandatory FILE argument. '-f' no longer accepted. - 'opam pin' now takes a subcommand 'add', 'remove', 'list' or 'edit'. - 'opam config -env': no longer accepted for 'opam config env' - '--no-aspcud' is now '--use-internal-solver'. - Removed unused `opam config -I`, `opam config {asm,byte}{comp,link}` - '-r' isn't accepted anymore for '--root' * Much extended pinning features, with the ability to use opam files from the source, pin packages that don't exist in a repository, fill a local opam file from a template, etc. * Improved the internal solver to handle much larger problems (#1358) * Use Unix.lockf for more reliable internal repository locks (#1299) * Large performance improvements (#1363) * Upgraded external dependencies to dose 3.2.2, ocamlgraph 1.8.5, cmdliner 0.9.4, cudf 0.7 * Switch export file now include pinning data. Pinned package restored through 'opam switch import' (#1393) * Meaningful messages explaining why packages aren't available (#1419, #1398) * More informative 'opam config list', more complete 'opam config var' * Added 'opam config cudf-universe' for use in external tools * opam files: added a 'dev-repo' field, and the experimental 'flags' field (#1217, #1472) * Generate an opam-admin.top to easily apply scripts on a package repository (#1454). Provide scripts to ease adding new metadata ('dev-repo', etc.) * Added 'opam upgrade --fixup' to save the day if your installed package set gets inconsistent. * Fixed some return codes * Added option to query (recursive) (reverse) dependencies and external dependencies to 'opam list * Fixed opam init for some shells * OPAM search now includes the 'syntax' and 'libs' fields in the search, as well as 'findlib' files * 'opam source' command to get the package archive or upstream source easily * Added an 'install' field in opam files, to separate from build * Added the 'build', 'test' and 'doc' dependency flags to limit the scope of some dependencies * Added Check for common dependencies at init time * Pinning to a local git directory pins as path, but advertises pinning as git will now automatically select the pin kind to 'git' (#1555) * Fixed init scripts for fish and csh (#952) * More reliable and faster usage of git branches in the git backend * Friendlier env variable handling (true/1/yes or false/0/no/"" for true and false) (#1608) * Specify what is not rather than 'already up-to-date' when some packages couldn't be upgradedd (#1645) * Override Make variables in sub-processes (#1617) * 'opam update' no longer needed after 'opam repo add' * Attempt to read files in 'permissive mode' when they claim a newer OPAM version (#1662) * Fixed ignore of SIGPIPE in sub-processes (#1681) * New shell completion scripts * Added 'opam lint' to perform checks on opam files * Use the published version of jsonm rather than include it (#1574) * Hundreds of smaller fixes and UI improvements 1.1.2 * Rewritten, more compatible build system based on Makefiles (#1362, #1424) 1.1.1 * Fix `opam-admin make -r` (#990) * Explicitly prettyprint list of lists, to fix `opam-admin depexts` (#997) * Tell the user which fields is invalid in a configuration file (#1016) * Add `OpamSolver.empty_universe` for flexible universe instantiation (#1033) * Add `OpamFormula.eval_relop` and `OpamFormula.check_relop` (#1042) * Change `OpamCompiler.compare` to match `Pervasives.compare` (#1042) * Add `OpamCompiler.eval_relop` (#1042) * Add `OpamPackage.Name.compare` (#1046) * Add types `version_constraint` and `version_formula` to `OpamFormula` (#1046) * Clearer command aliases. Made `info` an alias for `show` and added the alias `uninstall` (#944) * Fixed `opam init --root=` (#1047) * Display OS constraints in `opam info` (#1052) * Add a new 'opam-installer' script to make `.install` files usable outside of opam (#1026) * Add a `--resolve` option to `opam-admin make` that builds just the archives you need for a specific installation (#1031) * Fixed handling of spaces in filenames in internal files (#1014) * Replace calls to `which` by a more portable call (#1061) * Fixed generation of the init scripts in some cases (#1011) * Better reports on package patch errors (#987, #988) * More accurate warnings for unknown package dependencies (#1079) * Added `opam config report` to help with bug reports (#1034) * Do not reinstall dev packages with `opam upgrade ` (#1001) * Be more careful with `opam init` to a non-empty root directory (#974) * Cleanup build-dir after successful compiler installation to save on space (#1006) * Improved OSX compatibility in the external solver tools (#1074) * Fixed messages printed on update that were plain wrong (#1030) * Improved detection of meaningful changes from upstream packages to trigger recompilation 1.1.0 [Oct 2013] * Fix update of dev packages (#962) * Add support for zip source archives (#958) * Add `OPAMCURL` environment variable to control invocation of curl (#960) * Ensure repository redirects only happen for http remotes (#955) * Turn malformed package files into warnings instead of hard errors (#957) * Improve robustness of pinned package update (#949) * Finish conversion of default repository to (#948) * Fix regression in handling archives with no extension (treat them as tar again) (#972) * Fixed stale archives causing packages to be marked as NEW when they weren't (#945) 1.1.0RC1 [Oct 2013] * Add `make cold` target to build OPAM without a system OCaml installed (#910) * More informative error messages from `curl` (#905) * Document use of `OPAMCOLOR` for optional ANSI coloring * Add `opam-admin depexts` utility to rewrite OPAM files with external dependencies * Added `repo` files for repository meta-information * Added support for repo redirections * Added scripts for automated testing in Travis * Fixed bug in opam-admin that could keep not up-to-date archives * Added an `opam-admin depexts` script to ease handling of external dependencies * Added the `--deps-only` option to `opam install` * Fixed upgrade with corner-cases of orphan packages * Added a `note` display form * Better handling of external solver failures, and added a `--no-aspcud` option * Fixed unpinning of some installed packages * Fixed upgrade of metadata from 1.0 when there are orphan custom compilers 1.1.0-beta [Sept 2013] * Automatic backup before any operation which might alter the list of installed packages * Support for arbitrary sub-directories for metadata repositories * Lots of colors * New option `opam update -u` equivalent to `opam update && opam upgrade --yes` * New `opam-admin` tool, bundling the features of `opam-mk-repo` and `opam-repo-check` + new 'opam-admin stats' tool * New `available`: field in opam files, superseding `ocaml-version` and `os` fields * Package names specified on the command-line are now understood case-insensitively (#705) * Fixed parsing of malformed opam files (#696) * Fixed recompilation of a package when uninstalling its optional dependencies (#692) * Added conditional post-messages support, to help users when a package fails to install for a known reason (#662) * Rewrite the code which updates pin et dev packages to be quicker and more reliable * Add {opam,url,desc,files/} overlay for all packages * `opam config env` now detects the current shell and outputs a sensible default if no override is provided. * Improve `opam pin` stability and start display information about dev revisions * Add a new `man` field in `.install` files * Support hierarchical installation in `.install` files * Add a new `stublibs` field in `.install` files * OPAM works even when the current directory has been deleted * speed-up invocation of `opam config var VARIABLE` when variable is simple (eg. `prefix`, `lib`, ...) * `opam list` now display only the installed packages. Use `opam list -a` to get the previous behavior. * Inverse the depext tag selection (useful for `ocamlot`) * Add a `--sexp` option to `opam config env` to load the configuration under emacs * Purge `~/.opam/log` on each invocation of OPAM * System compiler with versions such as `version+patches` are now handled as if this was simply `version` * New `OpamVCS` functor to generate OPAM backends * More efficient `opam update` * Switch license to LGPL with linking exception * `opam search` now also searches through the tags * minor API chanages for `API.list` and `API.SWITCH.list` * Improve the syntax of filters * Add a `messages` field * Add a `--jobs` command line option and add `%{jobs}%` to be used in OPAM files * Various improvments in the solver heuristics * By default, turn-on checking of certificates for downloaded dependency archives: use `./configure --disable-certificate-check` to go back to the previous behavior * Check the md5sum of downloaded archives when compiling OPAM * Improved `opam info` command (more information, non-zero error code when no patterns match) * Display OS and OPAM version on internal errors to ease error reporting * Fix `opam reinstall` when reinstalling a package wich is a dependency of installed packages (regression introduced in 0.9.5) * Export and read `OPAMSWITCH` to be able to call OPAM in different switches * `opam-client` can now be used in a toplevel * `-n` now means `--no-setup` and not `--no-checksums` anymore * Fix support for FreeBSD * Fix installation of local compilers with local paths endings with `.../ocaml/` * Fix the contents of `~/.opam/opam-init/variable.sh` after a switch 1.0.0 [Mar 2013] * Improve the lexer performance (thx to @oandrieu) * Fix various typos (thx to @chaudhuri) * Fix build issue (thx to @avsm) 0.9.6 [Mar 2013] * Fix installation of pinned packages on BSD (thx to @smondet) * Fix configuration for zsh users (thx to @AltGr) * Fix loading of `~/.profile` when using dash (eg. in Debian/Ubuntu) * Fix installation of packages with symbolic links (regression introduced in 0.9.5) 0.9.5 [Mar 2013] * If necessary, apply patches and substitute files before removing a package * Fix `opam remove --keep-build-dir` keeps the folder if a source archive is extracted * Add build and install rules using ocamlbuild to help distro packagers * Support arbitrary level of nested subdirectories in packages repositories * Add `opam config exec "CMD ARG1 ... ARGn" --switch=SWITCH` to execute a command in a subshell * Improve the behaviour of `opam update` wrt. pinned packages * Change the default external solver criteria (only useful if you have aspcud installed on your machine) * Add support for global and user configuration for OPAM (`opam config setup`) * Stop yelling when OPAM is not up-to-date * Update or generate `~/.ocamlinit` when running `opam init` * Fix tests on *BSD (thx Arnaud Degroote) * Fix compilation for the source archive 0.9.4 [Feb 2013] * Disable auto-removal of unused dependencies. This can now be enabled on-demand using `-a` * Fix compilation and basic usage on Cygwin * Fix BSD support (use `type` instead of `which` to detect existing commands) * Add a way to tag external dependencies in OPAM files * Better error messages when trying to upgrade pinned packages * Display `depends` and `depopts` fields in `opam info` * `opam info pkg.version` shows the metadata for this given package version * Add missing `doc` fields in `.install` files * `opam list` now only shows installable packages 0.9.3 [Feb 2013] * Add system compiler constraints in OPAM files * Better error messages in case of conflicts * Cleaner API to install/uninstall packages * On upgrade, OPAM now perform all the remove action first * Use a cache for main storing OPAM metadata: this greatly speed-up OPAM invocations * after an upgrade, propose to reinstall a pinned package only if there were some changes * improvements to the solver heuristics * better error messages on cyclic dependencies 0.9.2 [Jan 2013] * Install all the API files * Fix `opam repo remove repo-name` * speed-up `opam config env` * support for `opam-foo` scripts (which can be called using `opam foo`) * 'opam update pinned-package' works * Fix 'opam-mk-repo -a' * Fix 'opam-mk-repo -i' * clean-up pinned cache dir when a pinned package fails to install 0.9.1 [Jan 2013] * Use ocaml-re 1.2.0 0.9.0 [Jan 2013] * add a new `--fake` option to simulate build and installation of packages. Use this option this care, it can easily corrupt the state of OPAM. * Better messages in case of error * OPAM proposes better solutions to the user * support for installed roots and auto-clean of unused packages * rename `--cores` to `--jobs` * better error messages for wrong argument of 'opam init' * show the root causes of actions done by OPAM * opam import and export now uses -f to specify the filename, and uses stdin and stdout if no filename is specified * Fix environment initialisation for some corner-cases * Add a way to specify how to run tests and build documentation for the packages * Display homepage, authors, doc link, license with 'opam info' * Improve `opam remove` efficiency when using `ocamlfind` command(s) only * Git pinning now works with commits/tags/branches * `opam init` works without preinstalled compiler * Support for DARCS backends * Each global command-line flag `xxx` as can be set using the `OPAMxxx` environment variable instead * Better display of compiler switch (+ read compiler descriptions) * Clearer error message when trying to pin a non-existing package * Fix issue with pinning to version number * Add a `shared` location to be used in OPAM files * Improve (but break) the command-line interface by using cmdliner 0.8.2 [Dec 2012] * Fix an issue with `opam reinstall` where packages were reinstalled in reverse order 0.8.1 [Nov 2012] * Simplify string substitution in OPAM files * Recompile the installed packages when the system compiler is upgraded * Fix various regressions in pinned and dev packages introduced in 0.8.0 0.8.0 [Nov 2012] * Improvements in the solver interface and API * The solver now use an external SAT-solver (aspcud) if found in the path * More expressive constraints in optional dependencies * Clean-up the build directory when build succeeds 0.7.7 [Oct 2012] * Add an `--alias` global command-line argument to overwrite the default alias value * Allow more concurrency between no conflicting opam commands * Upgrade to the latest version of DOSE and CUDF (solver libraries) * Add repository priorities * Create the default directories (`bin/`, `lib/` ...) when installing a new compiler 0.7.6 [Oct 2012] * major internal API refactoring * repositories are now versionned, and we try to auto-update when possible * more expressive compiler constraints in opam files 0.7.5 [Oct 2012] * dependencies can now be expressed by any formula (instead of just CNF) * It's easier to compose the value of environment variable (ie. to write `%{lwt+ssl:enable}%`) * Fix regression on init for rsync repositories 0.7.4 [Oct 2012] * improve `opam pin`: the code is more robust and it is now possible to pin a package to a git repository * add support for patches per package * add `opam switch -import file` and `opam switch -export file` 0.7.3 [Sep 2012] * Better user-message when no solution is found * Improve the minimality of installed packages 0.7.2 [Sep 2012] * Fix regression in init introcuced in 0.7.0 * Fix regression in update introduced in 0.7.0 0.7.1 [Sep 2012] * Remove forgotten debug statement 0.7.0 [Sep 2012] * report upgrade statistic on update * do no ask y/n when installing compiler's base packages * improve opam-mk-repo * fix `opam search` to be caseless * ability to filter some commands (depending on some predicates) in opam file * improvments when packages disapear upstream * check for ocaml 3.12.1 on configure * tell the user to unset some potentially dangerous variables when running opam * fix few git backend issues 0.6.0 [Sep 2012] * semantics changes in `opam switch` * solver improvements in case of install and remove * better error reporting * fix caching of package archives * fix `~/.opam/repo/index` priorities 0.5.0 [Sep 2012] * add opam search * add opam reinstall * ability to upgrade only a subset of packages * lot of bug fixes in the rsync and curl backend * better `--help` messages * better information displayed to the user 0.4.0 [Aug 2012] * better layout of repository files * (partial) possibility to specify archive checksums * if the archive is not on ocamlpro.com, download it upstream * suffix +opam to the versions of archives available on ocamlpro.com * prompt the user to evaluate `opam config -env` more often * changes in meta-data aren't picked up by the CURL backen * more modulare repository system: the 'kind' of repository is no more linked to the kind of package archives 0.3.2 [Aug 2012] * fix regression for `opam switch` introduced in 0.3 * fix deletion of optional dependencies * support for pinned packages * fix compilation for ocaml 4.00 * fix compilation for *BSD 0.3.1 [Jul 2012] * fix regression for `opam install` introduced in 0.3 0.3.0 [Jul 2012] * improve parallel compilation of packages * better recovery on compilation/installation errors * first draft of version pinnig * fix`'opam config -env` for old shells * install the latest version of packages when possible * more robust `opam update` (ie. old files are gc-ed) * add a (more or less) generic way to install and use topfind 0.2.0 [Jul 2012] * more robust switch command * more robust parallel build (not yet activated by default) * support for compiler-constraints in packages * new solver heuristics * improved performance on init with the rsync backend 0.1.0 [Jun 2012] * Initial version