release 5.4.0~alpha1

Author: Octachron

VERSION

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-5.4.0+dev3-2025-05-22
+5.4.0~alpha1
 
 # Starting with OCaml 4.14, although the version string that appears above is
 # still correct and this file can thus still be used to figure it out,

build-aux/ocaml_version.m4

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # The following macro, OCAML__DEVELOPMENT_VERSION, should be either
 # [true] of [false].
 
-m4_define([OCAML__DEVELOPMENT_VERSION], [true])
+m4_define([OCAML__DEVELOPMENT_VERSION], [false])
 
 # The three following components (major, minor and patch level) MUST be
 # integers. They MUST NOT be left-padded with zeros and all of them,
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_MINOR], [4])
 m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_PATCHLEVEL], [0])
 # Note that the OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA string defined below is always empty
 # for officially-released versions of OCaml.
-m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA], [dev3-2025-05-22])
+m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA], [alpha1])
 
 # The OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA_PREFIX macro defined below should be a
 # single character:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA], [dev3-2025-05-22])
 # and with an empty OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA string;
 # Or [+] to give more info about this specific version.
 # Development releases, for instance, should use a [+] prefix.
-m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA_PREFIX], [+])
+m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_EXTRA_PREFIX], [~])
 m4_define([OCAML__VERSION_SHORT], [OCAML__VERSION_MAJOR.OCAML__VERSION_MINOR])
 # The OCAML__VERSION below must be in the format specified in stdlib/sys.mli
 m4_define([OCAML__VERSION],

configure

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 opam-version: "2.0"
-version: "5.4.0+trunk"
+version: "5.4.0~alpha1"
 license: "LGPL-2.1-or-later WITH OCaml-LGPL-linking-exception"
-synopsis: "OCaml development version"
+synopsis: "First alpha release of OCaml 5.4.0"
 maintainer: "caml-list@inria.fr"
 authors: [
   "Xavier Leroy"