Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available
Vanessa McHale <[email protected]>
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Pleased to see ARM binaries :) Thanks! Vanessa > On Dec 12, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Ben Gamari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of GHC > 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation > are available at > > https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1 > > Release notes are also available [1]. > > This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.1: > > - A bug (#17088) in the compacting garbage collector resulting in > segmentations faults under specific circumstances. Note that this may > affect user programs even if they did not explicitly request the > compacting GC (using the -c RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to > compacting collection during times of high memory pressure. > > - A code generation bug (#17334) resulting in GHC panics has been > fixed. > > - A bug in the `process` library causing builds using `hsc2hs` to fail > non-deterministically on Windows has been fixed (Trac #17480) > > - A typechecker bug (#12088) resulting in programs being unexpectedly > rejected has been fixed. > > - A bug in the implementation of compact normal forms resulting in > segmentation faults in some uses (#17044) has been fixed. > > - A bug causing GHC to incorrectly complain about incompatible LLVM > versions when using LLVM 7.0.1 has been fixed (#16990). > > As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know. > > Happy compiling! > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > [1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.2-rc1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.html > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.