Version 0.19.6 release notes (#149)

Author: narimiran

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+title: "Version 0.19.6 released"
+author: The Nim Team
+---
+
+The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim,
+version 0.19.6, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that
+focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
+
+This is the third bugfix release of version 0.19.
+There are no breaking changes.
+The most important bugfixes are:
+
+- Boolean logic at compile time is now correct.
+- Bitwise operations on signed integers in VM are fixed.
+- Fixed object self-assignment order of evaluation.
+- Compiler no longer crashes with generic types and static generic parameters.
+- Fixed raising generic exceptions.
+
+
+## Installing 0.19.6
+
+If you have installed a previous version of Nim using ``choosenim``,
+getting Nim 0.19.6 is as easy as:
+
+```bash
+$ choosenim update stable
+```
+
+If you don't have it already, you can get ``choosenim`` by following
+[these instructions](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim) or you can install
+Nim by following the instructions on our
+[install](https://nim-lang.org/install.html) page.
+
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- Fixed "32 bit signed xor broken on VM"
+  ([#10482](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10482))
+- Fixed "SetMaxPoolSize not heeded"
+  ([#10584](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10584))
+- Fixed "uint inplace add in if branch is omitted when compiled to JS"
+  ([#10697](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10697))
+- Fixed "Booleans Work Wrong in Compile-time"
+  ([#10886](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10886))
+- Fixed "Bug in setTerminate()"
+  ([#10765](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10765))
+- Fixed "Cannot raise generic exception"
+  ([#7845](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7845))
+- Fixed "Nim string definition conflicts with other C/C++ instances"
+  ([#10907](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10907))
+- Fixed "std/json fails to escape most non-printables, breaking generation and parsing"
+  ([#10541](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/10541))
+- Fixed "object self-assignment order-of-evaluation broken"
+  ([#9844](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/9844))
+- Fixed "Compiler crash with generic types and static generic parameters"
+  ([#7569](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/7569))