On 2016-01-13 at 16:43:35 +0100, Ben Gamari wrote:
The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the first release candidate of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Source and binary distributions as well as the newly revised users guide can be found at
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1-rc1/
This is the first in a series of release candidates which will allow us to get wider testing of the significant changes that have occurred since the 7.10 series. [...]
As this wasn't explicitly mentioned in the announce, I'd like to point your attention to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0 which would benefit greatly from early adopters. More importantly, this helps us all to reduce the boring & redundant investigative work of rediscovering the same migration techniques by multiple parties over and over again... :-) ---- I'd also like to remind you that (more or less) daily snapshots of GHC 8.0.1 for Ubuntu {Precise,Trusty,Vivid,Wily} are already available via https://github.com/hvr/multi-ghc-travis This also includes a "cabal-install-1.24" package (which currently contains the current latest devel snapshots of cabal-install soon to become version 1.24) This specifically allows you to integrate GHC 8.0.1 & cabal-install 1.24 into your test-matrices in the `travis.yml` files, and thereby help detect GHC 8.0 & Cabal 1.2[34] issues early on. The new packages have been whitelisted for containerised Travis jobs already. Cheers, hvr