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 OCaml 4.03.0:
 -------------
-
 (Changes that can break existing programs are marked with a "*")

 Language features:
 - PR#6374: allow "_ t" as a short-hand for "(_, _, ..) t" for n-ary type
  constructors (Alain Frisch)
- allow field punning in object copying expressions: {< x; >} for {< x = x; >}
-  (Jeremy Yallop)
- PR#6714: allow [@@ocaml.warning] on most structure and signature items
-    (values, modules, module types)
+- PR#6714: allow [@@ocaml.warning] on most structure and signature items:
+  values, modules, module types
  (Peter Zotov)
-* Custom index operators: ( .() ), ( .[] ), ( .{} ) etc.
+* GPR#69: Custom index operators: ( .() ), ( .[] ), ( .{} ) etc.
  (user 'Octachron')
  The syntax "foo.(bar) <- baz" now desugars into "( .()<- ) foo bar baz"; this
  should allow user to define their own notations by overriding.
@ -19,8 +16,13 @@ Language features:
  module, which means that the foo.{bar,baz} syntactic sugar is only available
  when the Bigarray module is opened; this can break existing programs,
  which should be fixed by opening the Bigarray module.
+- GPR#88: allow field punning in object copying expressions:
+    {< x; y; >} is sugar for {< x = x; y = y; >}
+  (Jeremy Yallop)

 Compilers:
+- PR#6475: accept -o in ocamlc when compiling C files
+  (Vincent Laporte, Peter Zotov)
 - PR#6501: harden the native-code generator against certain uses of "%identity"
  (Xavier Leroy, report by Antoine Miné).
 - PR#6636: add --version option
@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ Compilers:
 - PR#6737: fix Typedtree attributes on (fun x -> body) expressions
 - PR#6679: fix pprintast printing of constraints in type declarations
 - PR#6845: -no-check-prims to tell ocamlc not to check primitives in runtime
- some cmm optimizations of integer operations with constants
+- GPR#17: some cmm optimizations of integer operations with constants
  (Stephen Dolan, review by Pierre Chambart)

 Runtime system:
@ -41,22 +43,22 @@ Runtime system:
  (Peter Zotov, review by Jacques-Henri Jourdan)

 Standard library:
+- PR#6390, GPR#36: expose Sys.{int_size,max_wosize} for improved js_of_ocaml portability
+  (Hugo Heuzard)
 * PR#6494: Add equal function in modules
  Bytes, Char, Digest, Int32, Int64, Nativeint, and String
  (Romain Calascibetta)
+* PR#6524, GPR#79: Filename: Optional ?perms argument to open_temp_file
+  (Daniel Bünzli, review by Jacques-Pascal Deplaix)
 - PR#6577: improve performance of %L, %l, %n, %S, %C format specifiers
  (Alain Frisch)
 - PR#6585: fix memory leak in win32unix/createprocess.c
- PR#6694, PR#6695: deprecate functions using ISO-8859-1 character set
-  in Char, Bytes, String and provide alternatives using US-ASCII.
-  (Peter Zotov)
- expose Sys.{int_size,max_wosize} for improved js_of_ocaml portability
-  (Hugo Heuzard)
-* Filename: Optional ?perms argument to open_temp_file
-  (Daniel Bünzli, review by Jacques-Pascal Deplaix)
 - PR#6645, GPR#174: Guarantee that Set.add, Set.remove, Set.filter
  return the original set if no change is required (Alain Frisch,
  Mohamed Iguernelala)
+- PR#6694, PR#6695: deprecate functions using ISO-8859-1 character set
+  in Char, Bytes, String and provide alternatives using US-ASCII.
+  (Peter Zotov)

 Type system:
 - PR#5545: Type annotations on methods cannot control the choice of abbreviation
@ -149,6 +151,8 @@ Features wishes:
 OCaml 4.02.2:
 -------------

+(Changes that can break existing programs are marked with a "*")
+
 Language features:
 - PR#6583: add a new class of binary operators with the same syntactic
  precedence as method calls; these operators start with # followed
@ -156,16 +160,18 @@ Language features:
  It is also possible to use '#' as part of these extra symbols
  (for instance ##, or #+#); this is rejected by the type-checker,
  but can be used e.g. by ppx rewriters.
- PR#6016: add a "nonrec" keyword for type declarations
+  (Alain Frisch, request by Gabriel Radanne)
+* PR#6016: add a "nonrec" keyword for type declarations
  (Jérémie Dimino)

 Compilers:
- PR#6475: accept -o in ocamlc when compiling C files
-  (Vincent Laporte, Peter Zotov)
 - PR#6600: make -short-paths faster by building the printing map
-  incrementally (Jacques Garrigue)
+  incrementally
+  (Jacques Garrigue)
 - PR#6642: replace $CAMLORIGIN in -ccopt with the path to cma or cmxa
  (Peter Zotov, Gabriel Scherer, review by Damien Doligez)
+- PR#6845: -no-check-prims to tell ocamlc not to check primitives in runtime
+  (Alain Frisch)
 - GPR#159: Better locations for structure/signature items
  (Leo White)

@ -192,25 +198,47 @@ OCamlbuild:
 - PR#6774: new menhir-specific flags "only_tokens" and "external_tokens(Foo)"
  (François Pottier)

+Libraries:
+- PR#6285: Add support for nanosecond precision in Unix.stat()
+  (Jérémie Dimino, report by user 'gfxmonk')
+
+Runtime:
+- PR#6078: Release the runtime system when calling caml_dlopen
+  (Jérémie Dimino)
+
 Bug fixes:
 - PR#5836, PR#6684: printing lazy values in ocamldebug may segfault
-  (Gabriel Scherer)
+  (Gabriel Scherer, request by the Coq team)
+- PR#5887: move the byterun/*.h headers to byterun/caml/*.h to avoid
+  header name clashes
+  (Jérôme Vouillon and Adrien Nader and Peter Zotov)
+- PR#6573: extern "C" for systhreads/threads.h
+  (Mickaël Delahaye)
+- PR#6575: Array.init evaluates callback although it should not do so
+  (Alain Frisch, report by Gerd Stolpmann)
 - PR#6616: allow meaningful use of -use-runtime without -custom.
  (Peter Zotov)
+- PR#6617: allow android build with pthreads support (since SDK r10c)
+  (Peter Zotov)
+- PR#6626: ocamlbuild on cygwin cannot find ocamlfind
+  (user 'algoriddle')
 - PR#6628: Configure script rejects legitimate arguments
  (Michael Grünewald, Damien Doligez)
 - PR#6640: ocamlbuild: wrong "unused tag" warning on "precious"
  (report by user 'william')
 - PR#6665: Failure of tests/asmcomp on sparc
  (Stéphane Glondu)
- PR#6573: extern "C" for systhreads/threads.h
-  (Mickaël Delahaye)
 - PR#6669: fix 4.02 regression in toplevel printing of lazy values
  (Leo White, review by Gabriel Scherer)
- PR#6680: Missing parentheses when printing polymorphic variant value in warning
- PR#6686: Bug in [subst_boxed_number] (Jérémie Dimino, Mark Shinwell)
+- PR#6680: Missing parentheses in warning about polymorphic variant value
+  (Jacques Garrigue and Gabriel Scherer, report by Philippe Veber)
+- PR#6686: Bug in [subst_boxed_number]
+  (Jérémie Dimino, Mark Shinwell)
 - PR#6690: Uncaught exception (Not_found) with (wrong) wildcard or unification
  type variable in place of a local abstract type
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Mikhail Mandrykin)
+- PR#6693 (part two): Incorrect relocation types in x86-64 runtime system
+  (Peter Zotov, review by Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Xavier Leroy and Mark Shinwell)
 - PR#6717: Pprintast does not print let-pattern attributes
  (Gabriel Scherer, report by Peter Zotov)
 - PR#6727: Printf.sprintf "%F" misbehavior
@ -218,36 +246,45 @@ Bug fixes:
 - PR#6749: ocamlopt returns n for (n mod 1) instead of 0
  (Mark Shinwell and Jérémie Dimino)
 - PR#6763: #show with -short-paths doesn't select shortest type paths
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by David Sheets)
 - PR#6768: Typechecker overflow the stack on cyclic type
- PR#6770: (duplicate of PR#6686)
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by user 'darktenaibre')
 - PR#6775: Digest.file leaks file descriptor on error
  (Valentin Gatien-Baron)
 - PR#6787: Soundness bug with polymorphic variants
+  (Jacques Garrigue, with help from Leo White and Grégoire Henry,
+   report by Michael O'Connor)
 - PR#6791: "%s@[", "%s@{" regression in Scanf
  (Benoît Vaugon)
 - PR#6793: ocamlbuild passes nonsensical "-ocamlc ..." commands to menhir
  (Gabriel Scherer, report by Damien Doligez)
 - PR#6812: -short-paths and -no-alias-deps can create inconsistent assumptions
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Valentin Gatien-Baron)
 - PR#6817: GADT exhaustiveness breakage with modules
+  (Leo White, report by Pierre Chambart)
 - PR#6824: fix buffer sharing on partial application of Format.asprintf
  (Gabriel Scherer, report by Alain Frisch)
 - PR#6836: Assertion failure using -short-paths
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by David Sheets)
 - PR#6841: Changing compilation unit name with -o breaks ocamldebug
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Jordan Walke)
 - PR#6843: record weak dependencies even when the .cmi is missing
  (Leo White, Gabriel Scherer)
 - PR#6849: Inverted pattern unification error
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Leo White)
 - PR#6862: Exhaustiveness check wrong for class constructor arguments
+  (Jacques Garrigue)
 - PR#6870: Unsoundness when -rectypes fails to detect non-contractive type
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Stephen Dolan)
 - PR#6872: Type-directed propagation fails to disambiguate variants
  that are also exception constructors
+  (Jacques Garrigue, report by Romain Beauxis)
 - GPR#143: fix getsockopt behaviour for boolean socket options
  (Anil Madhavapeddy and Andrew Ray)
- ocamlbuild on cygwin cannot find ocamlfind
-  (user 'algoriddle')
- allow android build with pthreads support (since SDK r10c)
-  (Peter Zotov)

 Feature wishes:
+- PR#6452, GPR#140: add internal suport for custom printing formats
+  (Jérémie Dimino)
 - PR#6641: add -g, -ocamlcflags, -ocamloptflags options to ocamlmklib
  (Peter Zotov)
 - PR#6693: also build libasmrun_shared.so and lib{asm,caml}run_pic.a