[new release] js_of_ocaml, js_of_ocaml-tyxml, js_of_ocaml-toplevel, js_of_ocaml-ppx_deriving_json, js_of_ocaml-ppx, js_of_ocaml-lwt and js_of_ocaml-compiler (4.1.0)

[hhugo]

Compiler from OCaml bytecode to JavaScript

• Project page: https://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/latest/manual/overview
• Documentation: https://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/latest/manual/overview

CHANGES:

Features/Changes

• Compiler: initial support for OCaml 5 (Initial support for OCaml-5 ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1265,Prepare 5 ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1303)
• Compiler: bump magic number to match the 5.0.0~alpha0 release (bump magic number to match 5.0.0~alpha0 ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1288)
• Compiler: complain when runtime and compiler built-in primitives disagree (Compiler: add a warning when we redefine the purity of a primitive ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1312)
• Compiler: more efficient implementation of Js_traverse.freevar
• Compiler: more efficient implementation of Js_traverse.rename_variable
• Compiler: --linkall now export all compilation units in addition to primitives (Compiler: toplevel and dynlink, some cleanup ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1324)
• Compiler: improve --dynlink, one no longer need to pass --toplevel to use Dynlink (Compiler: toplevel and dynlink, some cleanup ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1324)
• Compiler: toplevel runtime files "+toplevel.js" and "+dynlink.js" are added automatically (Compiler: toplevel and dynlink, some cleanup ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1324)
• Misc: switch to cmdliner.1.1.0
• Misc: remove old binaries jsoo_link, jsoo_fs
• Misc: remove uchar dep
• Misc: use 4.14 in the CI
• Misc: switch to dune 3
• Lib: add missing options for Intl.DateTimeFormat
• Lib: add missing options for Intl.NumberFormat
• Lib: wheel event binding
• Lib: add normalize in js_string (ES6)
• Lib: more complete transition event bindings
• Lib: remove support for old browser-specific transition events
• Runtime: Implement weak semantic for weak and ephemeron
• Runtime: Implement Gc.finalise_last
• Runtime: Implement buffer for in_channels
• Runtime: add support for unix_opendir, unix_readdir, unix_closedir, win_findfirst, win_findnext, win_findclose
• Runtime: Dont use require when target-env is browser
• Runtime: Implements Parsing.set_trace (Implemement set_parser_trace ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1308)
• Test: track external used in the stdlib and unix

Bug fixes

• Compiler: fix quadratic behavior of dominance frontier (fix [PERF] Dominance frontier calculation appears to be O(n^2) ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1300)
• Compiler: fix rewriter bug in share_constant (fix Optimizer breaks some code ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1247)
• Compiler: fix miscompilation of mutually recursive functions in loop (fix #1320 ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1321)
• Compiler: fix bug while minifying/renaming try-catch blocks
• Compiler: no dead code elimination for caml_js_get
• Runtime: fix ocamlyacc parse engine (Bugfix in ocamlyacc runtime code  ocsigen/js_of_ocaml#1307)
• Runtime: fix Out_channel.is_buffered, set_buffered
• Runtime: fix format wrt alternative
• Runtime: fix Digest.channel
• Runtime: sync channel seek / pos with the native runtime
• Misc: fix installation with dune 3 without opam
• Node: Only write small chunks to stdout/stderr so they flush
• Deriving: fix for nested polymorphic variants

[hhugo]

I think the remaining failures are unrelated.

[kit-ty-kate]

Thanks!