Version 1.6.4 released

08 February 2022 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.4, our second patch release for Nim 1.6.

Version 1.6.4 is a result of a month and a half of hard work, and it contains 33 commits, fixing one major regression and bringing some general improvements over 1.6.2.

The most important fix is for the C FFI regression introduced in 1.6.2.

We would recommend to all of our users to upgrade and use version 1.6.4.

Installing Nim 1.6

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.6.4 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.6.4 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.6.4 from our nightlies builds.

Donating to Nim

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Bugfixes

These reported issues were fixed:

• Fixed “Potential C FFI regression” (#19342)
• Fixed “re.split unexpected results with zero-width characters” (#14468)
• Fixed “Out-of-bounds in strformat” (#19107)
• Fixed “Adding an empty list to a non-empty list breaks the latter list” (#19297)
• Fixed “Wrong result when using varargs with var arguments.” (#16617)
• Fixed “Adding an empty DoublyLinkedList to a non-empty DoublyLinkedList breaks the latter list” (#19314)
• Fixed “Silent FFI bug when passing array inside object using gc:orc” (#19497)

The complete list of changes is available here.