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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of November 05 to 12, 2019.

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Mirage 3.7.1 released

Hannes Mehnert announced

MirageOS 3.7.1 is released to opam repository now.

Breaking change:

Behaviour changes of MirageOS unikernels:

  • A unikernel now always calls the Mirage_runtime.at_exit registered hooks – once a unikernel succesfully executed its start in Lwt_main.run, exit 0 is called to ensure this behaviour https://github.com/mirage/mirage/pull/1011
  • Top-level exceptions are no longer caught (there used to be in mirage-unix/mirage-xen/mirage-solo5 custom handlers). The OCaml runtime prints the exception and backtrace on stdout and calls exit 2 (from 4.10.0, abort() will be called).

Deprecations (being removed from Mirage 4.0)

  • All Mirage_YYY_lwt are deprecated, Mirage_YYY interfaces are no longer astracted over 'a io and buffer. This reduces the amount of opam packages - mirage-yyy-lwt are no longer part of the release (each mirage-yyy package provides a Mirage_yyy_lwt module for backwards compatibility). Motivation was discussed in https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/1004
  • mirage-types and mirage-types-lwt are deprecated, please use the Mirage_YYY signatures directly instead.

Other observable changes

  • mirage configure now deletes all exising opam files

Most reverse dependencies are already released to opam, have a look at https://github.com/mirage/mirage/issues/1012 for progress (and the temporary https://github.com/mirage/mirage-dev.git#easy opam overlay).

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