GHC 9.8 release status

Hi all, As you may have noticed, the GHC 9.8 alpha series is a bit behind the expected schedule due to an unfortunate constellation of CI issues, bugs, and backports. I am currently trying to get a set of releasable artifacts through CI although things are somewhat stalled until we find a way forward in resolving ghc/ci-config#6 [1], caused by a regression in Docker. My hope is that we can have a set of release artifacts by Thursday. When this happens I will make any necessary amendments to the release schedule [2] to account for this delay. Thank you for your patience! Cheers, - Ben [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ci-config/-/issues/6 [2]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/milestones/379#tab-issues