CHANGES:
Features/Changes
- Misc: drop support for OCaml 4.12 and bellow
- Misc: switch to dune.3.19
- Misc: initial support for ocaml 5.4 (#2030, #2058)
- Compiler: support for OCaml 4.14.3+trunk (#1844)
- Compiler: add the
--empty-sourcemapflag - Compiler: improve debug/sourcemap location of closures (#1947)
- Compiler: optimize compilation of switches (#1921, #2057)
- Compiler: evaluate statically more primitives (#1912, #1915, #1965, #1969)
- Compiler: rewrote inlining pass (#1935, #2018, #2027)
- Compiler: improve tailcall optimization (#1943)
- Compiler: improve deadcode optimization (#1963, #1962, #1967)
- Compiler: deadcode elimination of cyclic values (#1978)
- Compiler: remove empty blocks (#1934)
- Compiler: improve coloring optimization (#1971, #1984, #1986, #1989)
- Compiler: faster constant sharing (#1988)
- Compiler: faster js code generation (#1985)
- Compiler: improve performance of Javascript linking
- Compiler: more efficient code generation from bytecode (#1972)
- Compiler: faster compilation by improving the scheduling of optimization passes (#1962, #2001, #2012, #2027)
- Compiler: faster compilation by stopping sooner when optimizations become unproductive (#1939)
- Compiler: Propagate arity between compilation units (#1594)
- Compiler: Add flags to enable/disable warnings (#2052)
- Compiler/wasm: directly write Wasm binary modules (#2000, #2003)
- Compiler/wasm: faster wat output (#1992)
- Compiler/wasm: use a Wasm text files preprocessor (#1822)
- Compiler/wasm: optimize integer operations (#2032)
- Compiler/wasm: use type analysis to remove some unnecessary uses of JavasScript strict equality (#2040)
- Compiler/wasm: use more precise environment types (#2041)
- Compiler/wasm: optimize calls to statically known function (#2044)
- Runtime: use es6 class (#1840)
- Runtime: support more Unix functions (#1829)
- Runtime: remove polyfill for Map to simplify MlObjectTable implementation (#1846)
- Runtime: refactor caml_xmlhttprequest_create implementation (#1846)
- Runtime: update constant imports to use
node:fsmodule (#1850) - Runtime: make Obj.dup work with floats and boxed numbers (#1871)
- Runtime: delete BigStringReader, one should use UInt8ArrayReader instead
- Runtime: less conversion during un-marshalling (#1889)
- Runtime: use TextEncoder/TextDecoder for utf8-utf16 conversions
- Runtime: use Dataview to convert between floats and bit representation
- Runtime: optimize Str.search_forward/search_backward (#2056)
- Runtime: deprecate caml_ba_create_from (#2056)
- Runtime: check for unused variable in the runtime (#2056)
- Runtime/wasm: implement BLAKE2b primitives for Wasm (#1873)
- Runtime/wasm: support jsoo_env and keep track of backtrace status (#1881)
- Runtime/wasm: support unmarshaling compressed data (#1898)
- Runtime/wasm: make resuming a continuation more efficient in Wasm (#1892)
- Runtime/wasm: use imported string constants for JavaScript strings (#2022)
- Runtime/wasm: use DataView primitives to implement bigarrays (#1979)
- Ppx: explicitly disallow polymorphic method (#1897)
- Ppx: allow "function" in object literals (#1897)
- Lib: add Dom_html.window.matchMedia & Dom_html.mediaQueryList (#2017)
- Lib: make the Wasm version of Json.output work with native ints and JavaScript objects (#1872)
Bug fixes
- Compiler: fix stack overflow issues with double translation (#1869)
- Compiler: minifier fix (#1867)
- Compiler: fix shortvar with --enable es6 (AssignTarget was not properly handled)
- Compiler: fix assert failure with double translation (#1870)
- Compiler: fix path rewriting of Wasm source maps (#1882)
- Compiler: fix global dead code in presence of dead tailcall (#2010)
- Compiler/wasm: fix bound check for empty float array (#1904)
- Runtime: fix path normalization (#1848)
- Runtime: fix reading from the pseudo-filesystem (#1859)
- Runtime: fix initialization of standard streams under Windows (#1849)
- Runtime: fix Int64.of_string overflow check (#1874)
- Runtime: fix caml_string_concat when not using JS strings (#1874)
- Runtime: consistent bigarray hashing across all architectures (#1977)
- Runtime: fix caml_utf8_of_utf16 bug in high surrogate case (#2008)
- Runtime: fix method lookup (#2034, #2038, #2039)
- Lib: fix Dom_html.Keyboard_code.of_event (#1878)
- Tools: fix jsoo_mktop and jsoo_mkcmis (#1877)
- Toplevel: fix for when use-js-strings is disabled (#1997)