Versions 1.2.6 and 1.0.8 released

30 July 2020 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce this double release of versions 1.2.6 and 1.0.8.

Version 1.2.6

Version 1.2.6 is our third patch release for Nim 1.2 and it brings several new fixes since versions 1.2.2 and 1.2.4 (the latter was just a hotfix release, because 1.2.2 was mistakenly shipped without nim-gdb).

Installing Nim 1.2.6

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.2.6 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.2.6 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.0.8 from our nightlies builds.

Bugfixes since 1.2.2

  • Fixed “The pegs module doesn’t work with generics!” (#14718)
  • Fixed “[goto exceptions] {.noReturn.} pragma is not detected in a case expression” (#14458)
  • Fixed “[exceptions:goto] C compiler error with dynlib pragma calling a proc” (#14240)
  • Fixed “Nim source archive install: ‘install.sh’ fails with error: cp: cannot stat ‘bin/nim-gdb’: No such file or directory” (#14748)
  • Fixed “Stropped identifiers don’t work as field names in tuple literals” (#14911)
  • Fixed “uri.decodeUrl crashes on incorrectly formatted input” (#14082)
  • Fixed “odbcsql module has some wrong integer types” (#9771)
  • Fixed “[ARC] Compiler crash declaring a finalizer proc directly in ‘new’” (#15044)
  • Fixed “code with named arguments in proc of winim/com can not been compiled” (#15056)
  • Fixed “javascript backend produces javascript code with syntax error in object syntax” (#14534)
  • Fixed “[ARC] SIGSEGV when calling a closure as a tuple field in a seq” (#15038)
  • Fixed “Compiler crashes when using string as object variant selector with else branch” (#14189)
  • Fixed “Constructing a uint64 range on a 32-bit machine leads to incorrect codegen” (#14616)

Full changelog since v1.2.2 contains 30 commits.

Verson 1.0.8

Version 1.0.8 is our fourth patch release for Nim 1.0 for those users who haven’t yet switched to Nim 1.2, coming 5 months after the release of Nim 1.0.6.

If you are still on Nim 1.0.x, and would like to know about new features available in Nim 1.2.x, check out our version 1.2.0 release article.

Installing Nim 1.0.8

New users

We recommend you to install Nim 1.2, see the instructions above.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.0.8 is as easy as:

$ choosenim 1.0.8

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.0.8 from our nightlies builds.

Bugfixes since 1.0.6

  • Fixed “write requires conversion to string” (#13182)
  • Fixed “Some remarks to stdlib documentation” (#13352)
  • Fixed “[Macro] Crash on malformed case statement with multiple else” (#13255)
  • Fixed “regression: echo 'discard' | nim c -r - generates a file ‘-‘ ; - should be treated specially” (#13374)
  • Fixed “Internal error in getTypeDescAux” (#13378)
  • Fixed “Internal error in getTypeDescAux” (#13378)
  • Fixed “joinPath(“”, “”) is “/” ; should be “”” (#13455)
  • Fixed “tables.values is broken” (#13496)
  • Fixed “Arrays are passed by copy to iterators, causing crashes, unnecessary allocations and slowdowns” (#12747)
  • Fixed “[regression] VM: Error: cannot convert -1 to uint64” (#13661)
  • Fixed “Error: cannot convert -1 to uint (inside tuples)” (#13671)
  • Fixed “Critical: 1 completed Future, multiple await: Only 1 await will be awakened (the last one)” (#13889)
  • Fixed “openssl wrapper corrupts stack on OpenSSL 1.1.1f + Android” (#13903)
  • Fixed “Cant use expressions with when in type sections.” (#14007)
  • Fixed “Incorrect escape sequence for example in jsffi library documentation” (#14110)
  • Fixed “cas is wrong for tcc” (#14151)
  • Fixed “Invalid return value of openProcess is NULL rather than INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE(-1) in windows” (#14289)
  • Fixed “nim-gdb is missing from all released packages” (#13104)
  • Fixed “The pegs module doesn’t work with generics!” (#14718)
  • Fixed “Nim source archive install: ‘install.sh’ fails with error: cp: cannot stat ‘bin/nim-gdb’: No such file or directory” (#14748)
  • Fixed “Stropped identifiers don’t work as field names in tuple literals” (#14911)
  • Fixed “uri.decodeUrl crashes on incorrectly formatted input” (#14082)
  • Fixed “odbcsql module has some wrong integer types” (#9771)
  • Fixed “code with named arguments in proc of winim/com can not been compiled” (#15056)
  • Fixed “javascript backend produces javascript code with syntax error in object syntax” (#14534)
  • Fixed “Compiler crashes when using string as object variant selector with else branch” (#14189)

Full changelog since v1.0.6 contains 82 commits.