Release notes and writing about Opal, a JavaScript toolkit built on one module graph.https://opalx.dev/blog/enThu, 15 Oct 2026 21:03:44 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.4.1/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.4.1/A faster opal add over old metadata, release notes taken from the changelog, and new checks that what Opal installs builds and runs. No opal.lock format change.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:03:44 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.4.0/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.4.0/Parallel downloads, opal add and opal remove, and an install that shows what it is doing. No opal.lock format change.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:29:33 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.3.1/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.3.1/The launch release: cleaner terminal output, a new download bar, and opal upgrade. Resolution, downloads, and linking are unchanged, so the benchmarks measured on v0.3.0 still hold: warm and no-op installs timed the same on both builds.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:10:13 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.3.0/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.3.0/Opal now installs the versions npm would install. On six edge-case fixtures the trees match npm's package for package, and on a 365-package Next.js scaffold 432 of npm's 433 package versions match.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:21:02 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.2.1/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.2.1/A performance fix for one finding: a 367-package Next.js install spent most of its time parsing package metadata it never used, and almost none of it on the network.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:23:02 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.2.0/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.2.0/Correctness, speed, and visibility across the package manager. Four bugs in this release produced a wrong node_modules without ever failing an install.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:28:07 GMThttps://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.1.0/https://opalx.dev/blog/opal-v0.1.0/The first release: opal install, with prebuilt binaries for Linux and macOS and an install script.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:24:41 GMT