F# 1.9.1.9 has been released by the F# team. To quote:
This is in general a bug fix release over 1.9.1.8, with some exceptions
- We've added two great new features:
- Overloaded numeric conversion functions. The functions int, float, float32 etc. now overloaded conversion operators. For example, you can replace Int32.of_float and Int32.of_int64 and all similar operators that convert to int by just int (or int32, which is equivalent). Likewise for sbyte, byte, int16, uint16 int32, uint32, int64, uint64, nativeint, unativeint, float, float32, single, double.
- Checked arithmetic Open Microsoft.FSharp.Core.Operators.Checked to get checked arithmetic versions of +, -, * and the above conversion operators.
- We've updated the FLinq sample The FLinq sample has been updated to use the technique outline in Don Syme's ML Workshop LINQ paper from 2006. More details to follow in blog entries.
- We've moved to an MSI installer for this release. This is to fix numerous installation problems with the previous Zip based installer. We will be making a ZIP available for Mono users of the compiler in due course