Oils 0.24.0

2024-11-10

This is the home page for version 0.24.0 of Oils, a Unix shell. To use it,

These steps take 30 to 60 seconds on most machines. After installation, see Getting Started.

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The Oils Deployments wiki page has other ways of getting Oils. These versions may not be up-to-date.

The oils-for-unix tarball is the fast shell in C++, completed in 2024. The distro package should be called oils-for-unix.
The oil tarball is the slow reference interpreter based on CPython.
- Don't rename old distro packages. They can remain oil.
- It's not worth packaging oil in new distros. It may be removed at some point.
The project is now called Oils, or Oils for Unix. There is no more oil!

Details are in the raw git change log. Not all changes affect the release tarball.
I sometimes write a release announcement with a high-level description of changes.