Version 1.6.8 released

27 September 2022 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.8, our fourth patch release for Nim 1.6.

Version 1.6.8 is a result of almost four months of hard work, and it contains 65 commits, bringing some general improvements over 1.6.6.

We would recommend to all of our users to upgrade and use version 1.6.8.

Installing Nim 1.6

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.6.8 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.6.8 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.6.8 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 “Add –gc:arc (or –mm:arc) induce different behavior when using converter” (#19862)
  • Fixed “Converting unsigned integer to float fails in VM” (#19199)
  • Fixed “regression(0.20.0 => devel): var params assignment gives silently wrong results in VM” (#15974)
  • Fixed “genDepend broken for duplicate module names in separate folders” (#18735)
  • Fixed “Orc booting compiler doesn’t work with newSeq operations” (#19404)
  • Fixed “hasCustomPragma and getCustomPragmaVal don’t work on fields with backticks” (#20067)
  • Fixed “Cant use uint64 in case” (#20031)
  • Fixed “nim jsondoc output is broken” (#20132)
  • Fixed “Underscores are unnecessarily escaped in db_mysql” (#20153)
  • Fixed “Invalid codegen when block ends with lent” (#20107)
  • Fixed “locals doesn’t work with ORC” (#20162)
  • Fixed “reset does not work on set” (#19967)
  • Fixed “selectRead and selectWrite are dangerous to use sockets with FD numbers bigger than FD_SETSIZE (1024) on *nixes” (#19973)
  • Fixed “use-after-free bugs in object variants” (#20305)
  • Fixed “[ARC] C compiler error when using the result of a template in the subscript operator” (#20303)
  • Fixed “Calling nullary templates without () doesn’t work inside calls inside other templates” (#13515)
  • Fixed “[Regression] Incorrect captures of pegs \ident macro in nim 1.6” (#19104)
  • Fixed “Windows gcc shipped with choosenim 1.6.4 with TLS emulation turned off : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b).” (#19713)

The complete list of changes is available here.