The long anticipated Haskell Platform 2014.2 release, including GHC 7.8.3, and numerous updated packages, is almost here!

We have created "Release Candidate 2" installers for OS X and Windows, and believe, barring show stopper issues, creepers exploding, or other bizarre phenomenon, these will likely be blessed as the final in a few days time.

If you would like to be an early adopter, please try 'em out...

source tarball: haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-RC2.tar.gz
source repo: haskell/haskell-platform at 2014.2.0.0-RC2
windows 32bit: hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-i386-RC2-setup.exe
windows 64bit:hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-x86_64-RC2-setup.exe
os x 64bit: Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 64bit RC2.signed.pkg
travis-ci build: haskell/haskell-platform

Notes for RC2, since RC1:

Windows

Extra thanks to Randy Polen for burning the midnight-oil to get ths out

removed unneeded python (et al) files from the GHC bindist for 64-bit Windows (referenced in GHC ticket #9014)
added HTML "view source" pages for the GHC packages that was missing from the GHC bindist for both 32- and 64-bit Windows.

Mac OS X

If you installed RC1, you can remove first with the command sudo uninstall-hs only 7.8.3 --remove

Run it without --remove to see what it will do before running, it if you like. In theory you can just install this one right on top of RC1.... but hasn't been tested.

file layout on the Mac... improved slightly (again). In particular, executables are now installed directly in $prefix/bin dirs, rather than within the package dir
fix the bug with haddock master index not being updated correctly
works on 10.6! (and 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) with gcc or clang based Xcodes
works on 10.10!!! (Yosemite, developer preview 4 release)

Source tarball

missing sources in hptool now present
platform.sh improved somewhat (in particular, handles host cabal being pre-sandbox)

Timetable

These can "soak" amongst the intreped on these lists for a few hours.
On Monday evening (PST) I'll announce to haskell-cafe and reddit
End of next week (from my vacation, I'll point out), we'll declare success and ship.

— Mark

SHA-256 sums:

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