Nim version 2.2.6 released

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A new Nim blog post/announcement has been posted!

The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.

It comes six months after the 2.2.4 release and it contains 141 commits, bringing bugfixes and improvements.

If you’re still on Nim 1.6, take a look at the version 2.0 release article to see all the features you’re missing. If you’ve been using Nim 2.0, the version 2.2 release article shows the improvements available in Nim 2.2.

The Nim 2.2.6 changelog is available here.

Highlights

Exception handling combined with Nim’s async is more stable than ever before as the underlying closure iterator transformation has been rewritten.

The compiler is now smart enough to produce a move operation for return obj.field. Previously it performed a copy. Expect your code to run slightly faster due to this and other minor performance improvements.

Installing Nim 2.2.6

Check out if the package manager of your OS already ships version 2.2.6 or install it as described here.

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 2.2.6 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update self
$ choosenim update stable

NOTE: We recommend you to install and use the latest version of choosenim, v.0.8.16, available in <a ...

Get the full details here: Nim version 2.2.6 released - Nim Blog