Thanks Ben! When testing, I found that a type checker regression from 7.10 to 8.0 that I thought/hoped was resolved is in fact still present in this release candidate. I filed a new bug: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12885 It originally seemed the same as #12175. But unfortunately, although that problem is resolved in 8.0.2-rc1, this one is still around (though they may still be related). Thanks, -Judah On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/
This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs found in 8.0.1 including,
* Interface file build determinism (#4012).
* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default
* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)
* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076)
* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker
* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system
* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.
* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.
* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing.
Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in -rc2, which will be released in about a week.
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!
Happy testing,
- Ben
[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed& milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type& col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
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