We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.2.

As sandbox scripts have been updated, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to update yours.

This new version contains mainly backported fixes:

• Doc:
  • update man page
  • add message for deprecated options
  • reinsert removed ones to print a deprecated message instead of fail (e.g. --alias-of)
  • deprecate no-aspcud
• Pin:
  • on pinning, rebuild updated pin-depends packages reliably
  • include descr & url files on pinning 1.2 opam files
• Sandbox:
  • handle symlinks in bubblewrap for system directories such as /bin or /lib (#3661). Fixes sandboxing on some distributions such as CentOS 7 and Arch Linux.
  • allow use of unix domain sockets on macOS (#3659)
  • change one-line conditional to if statement which was incompatible with set -e
  • make /var readonly instead of empty and rw
• Path: resolve default opam root path
• System: suffix .out for read_command_output stdout files
• Locked: check consistency with opam file when reading lock file to suggest regeneration message
• Show: remove pin depends messages
• Cudf: Fix closure computation in the presence of cycles to have a complete graph if a cycle is present in the graph (typically ocaml-base-compiler ⇄ ocaml)
• List: Fix some cases of listing coinstallable packages
• Format upgrade: extract archived source files of version-pinned packages
• Core: add is_archive in OpamSystem and OpamFilename
• Init: don't fail if empty compiler given
• Lint: fix light_uninstall flag for error 52
• Build: partial port to dune
• Update cold compiler to 4.07.1

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Installation instructions (unchanged):

1. From binaries: run

   sh <(curl -sL https://opam.ocaml.org/install.sh)

   or download manually from the Github "Releases" page to your PATH. In this case, don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to enable sandboxing if you had version 2.0.0~rc manually installed or to update your sandbox script.

2. From source, using opam:

   opam update; opam install opam-devel

   (then copy the opam binary to your PATH as explained, and don't forget to run opam init --reinit -ni to enable sandboxing if you had version 2.0.0~rc manually installed or to update you sandbox script)

3. From source, manually: see the instructions in the README.

We hope you enjoy this new minor version, and remain open to bug reports and suggestions.

NOTE: this article is cross-posted on opam.ocaml.org and ocamlpro.com. Please head to the latter for the comments!