[ Note: we have made a minor update to 1.9.4 called 1.9.4.19. The download links below point to this release. If you need 1.9.4.17 go to our downloads page. ]
[ Note: download links updated to point to the MSI correctly ]
We're very glad to announce the release of F# 1.9.4, the Spring Refresh of F#, uploaded to the Microsoft Research download site yesterday! (MSI download, ZIP, detailed release notes) (Ok, ok, apologies to our antipodean users where it’s actually autumn... In any case, on with the show!)
This release of F# has much the same shape and form as earlier releases of F# from MSR. As I hinted in April, our focus for this release has been on polishing and simplifying the language and libraries, particularly with regard to making certain details more regular and consistent. Much of this has been driven by user feedback, and we'd like to say a big thank you to for all the feedback we've got from hubFS users, the F# list, F# users at Microsoft and our growing number of commercial users, particularly our friends at the financial institutions using F#. Also a thank you to those community members who helped us by installing early releases of this version.
Some of the highlights of the language streamlining we've done in this release include
Addressing items like these go a long way to transitioning the language into a stabilized, productization mode. Our overall goals, as always, are to integrate the succinctness, efficiency, expressivity of typed functional programming into the foundational set of tools that people use as part of .NET programming, while ensuring that language is simple-to-use and has great tool support.
The detailed release notes can be found here.
There have been numerous changes and enhancements in this release, documented below. These may cause you to see additional deprecation warnings or errors. We’d be particularly grateful if you could report any compilation failures, and if possible reduce them to a minimal repro for us.
Many thanks & enjoy your F# work!
Don, James, Luke, Brian, Jomo, Chris, Matteo, Santosh and Laurent
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Is there going to be a new specification document matching this release?
Thanks. ~n
Awesome, thanks. Keep up the great work. I can't wait for this to go more or less RTM so we can use it in production :).
MSI and ZIP are same address
There is some problem when I install on VS2008 via .bat
Kudos to Don and the F# team! I already installed (and solved a little problem) with the new version. Just a small correction, the URL for the MSI installer is http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/7ac148a7-149b-4056-aa06-1e6754efd36f/Details.aspx . Keep up the great work!!!
MSI Download is at:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/7ac148a7-149b-4056-aa06-1e6754efd36f/Details.aspx?0sr=d
En el camino de pasar de lenguaje de investigadores a lenguaje comercial de F#, Don Syme acaba de anunciar
In its way from research language to commercial language, Don Syme just announced that, silently, on
Will the #light compiler directive be in the final release too?
I missed this as I was doing a lot of work at the time (was release a few days back) as via Don's blog
Has anyone tried/succeeded in getting F# 1.9.4 to work with Mono 1.9.1?
How can I get hold of ZIPs for previous F# versions? (The download page seems only to show the latest version.)
Now FSharp is very powerfull language for functional/imperative/object-oriented program.But in the world,logical Paradigm languages are powerfull too, Constraint Programming is very good for computer algebra programming and symbolic computation programming.If add logical Paradigm in F#,F# is the first choice for numeric and symbolic computation programming.Now,there have a language Mozart-OZ hold all the paradigm functional/imperative/object-oriented/logical,but it have less lib for GUI and graphics like F# have .net lib and DirectX.So,if F# add some logical program elements,it will be the most perfect programming language in the world.