Introduction Early this year we announced our plans for [Fantomas 6](https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas/issues/2709). We are happy to announce that we have wrapped up the development of version 6 and a preview is now available on [NuGet](https://www.nuget.org/packages/fantomas/6.0.0-alpha-008). What's new? Fantomas 6 is a major release and contains a lot of new features and improvements. In
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Fantomas 6: The Legendary Formatter
The oak sleeps in the acorn
Introduction We launched Fantomas v5 in September, and it was the first version to ship with a custom Fparser and an improved syntax tree. Many view it as a big technical achievement – I know its launch was a point of personal pride. Release party Because version 5 was a big deal, I decided
Say Hello to Fantomas 5
Introduction **Fantomas 5** is here! The API of v5 is finalized! In this blogpost I will explain how you can migrate to v5 from v4. The latest preview versions are labelled as beta's, meaning **the API is stable**. Please start using these latest versions, as the final product will be very
World domination, part one
Intro Some time ago, I was able to merge in a [huge refactoring effort](https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas/pull/2218) into [the next major version of Fantomas](https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas/issues/2160). The result of these changes make Fantomas **at least twice as fast as the v4 release**. _Before_ ``` BenchmarkDotNet=v0.13.1, OS=ubuntu 20.04 Intel Xeon Platinum 8171M CPU 2.60GHz, 1 CPU, 2 logical and 2
A word on triple-slash comments
Intro Yesterday, pretty much out of nowhere, [FCS 41.0.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Compiler.Service/41.0.3) was published on NuGet. I must say, I'm pretty hyped about this release. It contains a few [PRs](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+author%3Anojaf+merged%3A2021-10-30..2022-03-03) that improve the syntax tree and provide more information to work within Fantomas. It also contains some [XML documentation improvements](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pulls?q=is%3Apr+11973+12484+12783) that Alex of the Rider team
Fantomas Daemon
Intro The Fadvent calendar is a wonderful initiative that inspires the community to create new content in a short period of time. I've been fortunate enough to be part of this for some years now. This year, I had in mind to sit this one out actually. Sometimes, there are just no new