Version 0.19.2 released

The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.19.2, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.

This is mostly a bugfix release of version 0.19.0. It adds RISC-V support and there are no breaking changes. The most important bugfixes are:

spawn can handle the empty seqs/strings that are internally represented as nil .

can handle the empty seqs/strings that are internally represented as . The most pressing bugs of the documentation generator have been fixed.

async streaming of the httpclient has been fixed.

Installing 0.19.2

If you have installed a previous version of Nim using choosenim , getting Nim 0.19.2 is as easy as:

$ choosenim update stable

If you don’t have it already, you can get choosenim by following these instructions or you can install Nim by following the instructions on our install page.

Compiler changes

Added support for the RISC-V 64 bit architecture named riscv64 (e.g. HiFive)

Bugfixes