Opam 2.2 and beyond

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Opam 2.2 lands after three years with concrete changes: new commands opam tree and opam y, recursive pinnings with subpath support, Software Heritage source fallback, formulas extended to install-time uses, and native Windows support for MSVC and MinGW‑w64. The Windows work adds automatic MSYS2 provisioning, ~1k lines of Windows-specific C stubs, and packaged Winget installs; demos show switches for msvc and mingw and editor tooling (Merlin/LSP, VS Code) working. Repository currently covers OCaml 4.13+; remaining tasks are updating con packages for C bindings and moving to a six‑month time‑based release cadence (2.3 imminent).

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1. 0:00Opam 2.2 introduction
2. 2:55Native Windows support
3. 9:58Windows-native demo
4. 13:31Windows parity status
5. 16:45Six-month release cycle
6. 19:41Opam maintainers' plans
7. 20:47Opam 2.3 and 3 roadmap
8. 22:32Q&A