01 November 2024 The Nim Team

The Nim team is happy to announce Nim version 2.0.12, our sixth patch release for Nim 2.0, for our users who haven’t switched yet to Nim 2.2.

Version 2.0.12 is a small release, containing just 24 commits, but it brings several improvements to Nim 2.0.10, released a month ago.

Installing Nim 2.0.12

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim, getting Nim 2.0.12 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update self
$ choosenim 2.0.12

Make sure that the version of choosenim you have installed is 0.8.5 or higher, otherwise visit choosenim’s repo and see there how to re-install it first, before updating Nim.

Alternatively, you can download Nim 2.0.12 from our nightlies builds.

Donating to Nim

We would like to encourage you to donate to Nim. The donated money will be used to further improve Nim by creating bounties for the most important bugfixes and features.

You can donate via:

• Open Collective
• Bitcoin: 1BXfuKM2uvoD6mbx4g5xM3eQhLzkCK77tJ

If you are a company, we also offer commercial support.

Bugfixes

These reported issues were fixed:

• Fixed “dist/checksums wrong type: preventing build_all.sh” (#24173)
• Fixed “Regression: compiler crash on static inference” (#23755)
• Fixed “Regression: Error: fatal error: invalid kind for lastOrd(tyGenericParam)” (#23823)
• Fixed “compiler crash on len of varargs[untyped]” (#24258)
• Fixed “Error: VM problem: dest register is not set with const-bound proc” (#24359)
• Fixed “Returning address of constant array emits invalid C code” (#22389)
• Fixed “SIGSEGV with nim c -c and nim e on macro w(): untyped = result = genSym(nskType)” (#24379)

The complete list of changes is available here.