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We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.6.1 fixing a couple of regressions and minor annoyances.

We advise everyone to upgrade. Please read on for installation and upgrade instructions.

Regression fixes

• Fix the depexts installation on opam install --deps-only when the system packages already exist in a repository (#7153)

Improvements

• Add support for using git repositories owned by another local user (common in docker containers) (#6963)

• Since 2.6.0, to make git calls more deterministic, opam doesn't take into account the user git config. In 2.6.1, it now uses /dev/null on both Unix and Windows when setting GIT_CONFIG_* instead of NUL on Windows to work around a bug in Git-for-Windows 2.56.0.windows.1 (#7085)

Try it!

The upgrade instructions are unchanged:

1. Either from binaries: run

For Unix systems

bash -c "sh <(curl -fsSL https://opam.ocaml.org/install.sh) --version 2.6.1"

or from PowerShell for Windows systems

Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod https://opam.ocaml.org/install.ps1) } -Version 2.6.1"

or download manually from the Github "Releases" page to your PATH.

1. Or from source, manually: see the instructions in the README.

You should then run:

opam init --reinit -ni

Please report any issues to the bug-tracker.

Happy hacking!