Version 1.6.16 released

11 October 2023 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.16, our eight patch release for Nim 1.6.

Version 1.6.16 is a result of three months of hard work, and it contains 84 commits, bringing lots of general improvements over 1.6.14.

This release is aimed at our users who haven’t switched to Nim v2.0 yet.

Installing Nim 1.6

New users

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 1.6.16 or install it as described here.

Existing users

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 1.6.16 is as easy as:

$ choosenim 1.6.16

Alternatively, you can download Nim 1.6.16 from our nightlies builds.

Donating to Nim

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Bugfixes

These reported issues were fixed:

  • Fixed “Undefined behavior when with hash(...) on non-aligned bytes due to murmurHash cast[ptr int32]” (#22387)
  • Fixed “async/closure environment does not align local variables” (#22419)
  • Fixed “Ambiguous error when import modules with same names but different aliases” (#22208)
  • Fixed “system.create doesn’t work with bitfield objects” (#20516)
  • Fixed “Memory leak with implicit result” (#21703)
  • Fixed “Missing range or overflow check in “sum” or “prod” functions.” (#21792)
  • Fixed “Compiler SIGSEGV when using SharedTable” (#21251)
  • Fixed “Wrong codegen with openArray” (#15428)
  • Fixed “Invalid codegen when unpacking tuple via template” (#22049)
  • Fixed “Wrong assignment for tuples in some contexts with refc” (#16331)
  • Fixed “Table has inconsistent hash” (#20023)
  • Fixed “template with module as parameter elides usage/checking of module name specifier” (#21231)
  • Fixed “gcc error compiling generated code using for with iterator” (#21110)
  • Fixed “Consistent nimsuggest crash on generics in first class functions” (#22137)
  • Fixed “SIGSEGV with ARC and closure iterator” (#22237)
  • Fixed “--gcc.exe doesn’t work with --genScript:on” (#22281)
  • Fixed “async proc Error: unhandled exception: closureiters.nim(858, 11) ctx.nearestFinally != 0 [AssertionDefect] when the return statement is in the finally block” (#22297)
  • Fixed “Crash of compiler on array type check” (#5780)
  • Fixed “when picks wrong branch with static int” (#22474)
  • Fixed “Undefined behaviorwith set card() on non-aligned pointer from cardSetImpl/countBits64cast on ptr uint64” (#22481)
  • Fixed “elementType from std/typetraits doesn’t work in generic procs” (#21532)
  • Fixed ““environment misses” for type reference in iterator access nested in closure” (#22548)
  • Fixed “Invalid type mismatch in generic” (#17509)
  • Fixed “Error compiling with ARC/ORC” (#21974)
  • Fixed “Internal error when using lent + template in method/proc” (#22138)
  • Fixed “-d:useMalloc broken with --mm:none and threads on” (#22262)
  • Fixed “peg matchLen can raise an unlisted exception: Exception” (#22541)
  • Fixed “Piece of code output c compiler error “ (#17197)
  • Fixed “Missing type inference in loop + case + if + continue” (#22604)

The complete list of changes is available here.