There are no plans to do a new 7.8 release at this Time.  Even doing a point release for 7.10.3 is still speculative. <div><br></div><div>We should reflect the capitan issue in the installation documentation.  And or remark that only 7.10 or newer is supported on El Capitan. </div><div><br></div><div>If a user needs a 7.8 build that works on capitan, they will need to build a source dist with an updated UNIX package. <span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Adam Foltzer &lt;<a href="mailto:acfoltzer@gmail.com">acfoltzer@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>The issue was brought up on this list [1] that the released versions of GHC 7.8 do not work on El Capitan due to an older `unix` package. In a subsequent GHC weekly news [2], it was announced that since El Capitan wasn&#39;t yet released, it wasn&#39;t worthwhile to put more developer time into 7.8.</div><div><br></div><div>Now that El Capitan is out, and the existing 7.8 binaries continue to not work, I&#39;d like to reopen this issue and request a point release with an updated `unix` package.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam Foltzer</div><div>Research Engineer</div><div>Galois, Inc.</div><div><br></div><div>[1]: <a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-July/009403.html" target="_blank">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-July/009403.html</a></div><div>[2]: <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150721#MacOSXElCapitansupport" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150721#MacOSXElCapitansupport</a></div></div>
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