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OCamlFormat 0.26.0

We are thrilled to announce the release of OCamlFormat 0.26.0!

After almost 5 months of intense development, this release comes with a ton of consistency improvements and bug fixes. In particular, the handling of comments should be largely superior!

Have a look at the full changelog to see the list of improvements, and don't hesitate to share your feedback on this release on OCaml Discuss.

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Items marked with an asterisk (*) are changes that are likely to format existing code differently from the previous release when using the default profile.

New features

  • Handle short syntax for generative functor types (#2348, @gpetiot)
  • Improved error reporting for unstable or dropped comments (#2292, @gpetiot)

Removed

  • Remove --numeric feature (#2333, #2357, @gpetiot)

Bug fixes

  • Fix crash caused by let f (type a) :> a M.u = .. (#2399, @Julow)
  • Fix crash caused by module T = (val (x : (module S))) (#2370, @Julow)
  • Fix invalid formatting of then begin end (#2369, @Julow)
  • Protect match after fun _ : _ -> (#2352, @Julow)
  • Fix invalid formatting of (::) (#2347, @Julow)
  • Fix indentation of module-expr extensions (#2323, @gpetiot)
  • * Remove double parentheses around tuples in a match (#2308, @Julow)
  • * Remove extra parentheses around module packs (#2305, @Julow, @gpetiot)
  • Fix indentation of trailing double-semicolons (#2295, @gpetiot)
  • Fix formatting of comments in "disable" chunks (#2279, @gpetiot)
  • Fix non-stabilizing comments attached to private/virtual/mutable keywords (#2272, #2307, @gpetiot, @Julow)

Changes

  • Improve formatting of doc-comments (#2338, #2349, #2376, #2377, #2379, #2378, @Julow) Remove unnecessary escaping and preserve empty lines.
  • * Indent as-patterns that have parentheses (#2359, @Julow)
  • Don't print warnings related to odoc code-blocks when '--quiet' is set (#2336, #2373, @gpetiot, @Julow)
  • * Improve formatting of module arguments (#2322, @Julow)
  • * Don't indent attributes after a let/val/external (#2317, @Julow)
  • Consistent indentation of @@ let+ x = ... (#2315, #2396, @Julow) It was formatted differently than @@ let x = ....
  • * Improve formatting of class expressions and signatures (#2301, #2328, #2387, @gpetiot, @Julow)
  • * Consistent indentation of fun (type a) -> following fun x -> (#2294, @Julow)
  • * Restore short-form formatting of record field aliases (#2282, #2388, @gpetiot, @Julow)
  • * Restore short-form for first-class modules: ((module M) : (module S)) is formatted as (module M : S)) (#2280, #2300, @gpetiot, @Julow)
  • * Improve indentation of ~label:(fun ... (#2271, #2291, #2293, #2298, #2398, @Julow) The fun keyword is docked where possible and the arguments are indented to avoid confusion with the body.
  • JaneStreet profile: treat comments as doc-comments (#2261, #2344, #2354, #2365, #2392, @gpetiot, @Julow)
  • Tweaks the JaneStreet profile to be more consistent with ocp-indent (#2214, #2281, #2284, #2289, #2299, #2302, #2309, #2310, #2311, #2313, #2316, #2362, #2363, @gpetiot, @Julow)