Hello all!

I'm happy to announce that I [just released a new 
version](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/releases/tag/v0.8.0) of choosenim. 
Some of the most significant changes include:

  * No more dependencies on OpenSSL thanks to @treeform's brilliant puppy 
library.
  * Switched to using @guzba's amazing zippy library for extracting .zip files 
(we shell out to `tar` when available still due to [this 
issue](https://github.com/guzba/zippy/issues/31) and to `unxz` when we need to 
extract `tar.xz` archives).
  * Support for the new `build_all` bootstrap mechanism so grabbing a copy of 
Nim 1.6 RC2 should soon be possible (once 
[#18945](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/18945) is backported).
  * Choosenim isn't statically linked against musl anymore, so if you've 
experienced SIGILL errors in the past these should hopefully now be fixed.



For full details have a look at [the 
changelog](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/blob/v0.8.0/changelog.markdown#080---02102021).

To update you can run:
    
    
    $ choosenim update self
    
    
    Run

Let me know if you run into any issues. Also as an aside, if you are doing 
Hacktoberfest, I have [tagged a few nice 
issues](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AHacktoberfest)
 in the choosenim repo. I would encourage you to give them a whack :)

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