Version 1.6.10 released

23 November 2022 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.10, our fifth patch release for Nim 1.6.

Version 1.6.10 is a result of almost four months of hard work, and it contains 29 commits, bringing some general improvements over 1.6.8.

This version brings OpenSSL 3 support to Nim 1.6, and large allocations and deallocations for ARC/ORC are now faster.

We would recommend to all of our users to upgrade and use version 1.6.10.

Installing Nim 1.6

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.6.10 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.6.10 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.6.10 from our nightlies builds.

Donating to Nim

We would like to encourage you to donate to Nim. The donated money will be used to further improve Nim by creating bounties for the most important bugfixes and features.

You can donate via:

If you are a company, we also offer commercial support.

Bugfixes

These reported issues were fixed:

  • Fixed “–styleCheck:off does not work (and –styleCheck:hint is now the default?)” (#20397)
  • Fixed “dereferencing pointer to incomplete type error with gcc 9.4 with statics/cast” (#20141)
  • Fixed “strutils.find uses cstring optimization that stops after \0” (#19500)
  • Fixed “Nimpretty mangles numeric literal procs” (#20553)
  • Fixed “Regression in proc symbol resolution; Error: attempting to call routine “ (#18990)
  • Fixed “of operator doesn’t consider generics under orc/arc” (#20391)
  • Fixed ““incompatible type” when mixing float32 and cfloat in generics” (#19349)
  • Fixed “cannot generate code for: mSlice with toOpenArray” (#19969)
  • Fixed “-mm flag is ignored on latest Nim 1.7.1 be4bd8” (#20426)

The complete list of changes is available here.