Release 5.9.0 · ocsigen/js_of_ocaml

CHANGES:

Features/Changes

Misc: update testsuite to OCaml 5.2
Misc: CI uses opam.2.2 and no longer use sunset repo
Misc: yojson is no longer optional
Misc: reduce the diff with the wasm_of_ocaml fork
Misc: finalize support for OCaml 5.3
Compiler: speedup global_flow/global_deadcode pass on large bytecode
Compiler: improved global dead code elimination (#2206)
Compiler: speedup json parsing, relying on Yojson.Raw (#1640)
Compiler: Decode sourcemap mappings only when necessary (#1664)
Compiler: mark [TextEncoder] as reserved
Compiler: add support for the Wasm backend in parts of the pipeline, in
prevision for the merge of wasm_of_ocaml
Compiler: introduce a Targetint module
that follows the semantic of the backend (js or wasm)
Compiler: warn on joo_global_object
Compiler: revisit static env handling (#1708)
Compiler: Emit index source_map to avoid changing mappings (#1714, #1715)
Compiler: improved source map generation (#1716)
Runtime: change Sys.os_type on windows (Cygwin -> Win32)
Runtime: backtraces are really expensive, they need to be explicitly
requested at compile time (--enable with-js-error) or at startup (OCAMLRUNPARAM=b=1)
Runtime: allow dynlink of precompiled js with separate compilation (#1676)
Runtime: reimplement the runtime of weak and ephemeron (#1707)
Lib: Modify Typed_array API for compatibility with WebAssembly
Lib: add details element and toggle event (#1728)
Toplevel: no longer set globals for toplevel initialization
Runtime: precompute constants used in caml_lxm_next (#1730)
Runtime: cleanup runtime