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OCaml 3.09.3 has been released. OCaml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes ocamldoc and ocamlprof improvements, in addition to a number of bugfixes.

The "Introduction to F#, Part 2" video interview with F# creator Don Syme is now available. F# is a variant of ML running on .NET, sharing a core language with Objective Caml.

The September 5 to 12, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the availability of O'Caml 3.09.3 release candidate 2, memoization, the announcement of Olmar, and more.

Objective Caml 3.09.3 rc2 has been released. OCaml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes camlp4-related changes. It is available from the OCaml CVS repository, under the "ocaml3093rc2" tag.

The August 29 to September 5, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the availability of the OCaml 3.09.3 release candidate, continuations, eliminating array bounds checks, and more.

Objective Caml 3.09.3 RC1 is now available from CVS. OCaml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release candidate includes improvements to ocamldoc, plus bugfixes and other changes.

The July 18 to August 1, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the pa_arg 0.2.0 syntax extension for parsing command line options, Cocoa bindings, and more.

The July 4 to July 11, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: global exception handlers, Web development using OCaml, and more.

The June 27 to July 4, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: a new marshalling format offering better compressibility, web application frameworks for OCaml, and more.

The June 13 to 20, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers the implementation of resumable exceptions in pure OCaml.

The May 30 to June 6, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: immutable strings, and shared libraries on x86 Mac OS X.

The May 9 to 16, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and disucssion in the Caml community.

This release covers topics such as: the 4 MB array size limit, coexisting with non-OCaml threads, the new Camlp4 beta release, plus more.

The April 25 to May 9, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of HashCaml, accessing the top-level printing facilities, plus more.

The April 18 to 25, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Caml community.

This edition covers topics such as: the performance of the threaded interpreter on hyperthreaded CPUs, OCaml on SPARC, and more.

The April 11 to 18, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available.

This edition covers: the creation of native Windows executables that do not launch a console window, the release of OCaml 3.09.2, and more.

OCaml 3.09.2 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes support for Mac OS X on Intel, and a number of bugfixes.

OCaml 3.09.2+rc1 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release includes: fixes for several problems causing crashes, fixes for wrong warning messages, a fix for a signal handling inefficiency, standard library fixes, a port to Mac OS X on Intel, plus other changes. The release is only available from CVS (with the tag ocaml3092rc1).

The March 21, 2006 edition of the Caml Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Caml community.

This edition covers: the Camomile-0.6.5 Unicode library release, performance losses due to signal handling changes, and more.

Objective Caml 3.09.1 has been released. Objective Caml is a statically typed, strictly evaluated descendant of ML, offering object-oriented, functional and imperative features.

This release mainly contains a number of bugfixes.

Objective Caml 3.09.0 has been released. Objective Caml is an ML-derived language offering object-oriented capabilities and other features.

This release includes support for private row types, warnings for local variables that are bound but never used, standard library improvements, plus other changes and bugfixes.