The GHC 8.0 feature freeze is coming

tl;dr: feature freeze is imminent; get any remaining patches in ASAP. Hello all, The GHC 8.0 release cycle is quickly approaching its conclusion. While there are a few patches still outstanding (most notably the no-kinds branch to which we owe the major version number bump), most everything else has at this point been merged. If you are still sitting on a patch then please post it for review as soon as possible. We will enter a formal feature freeze within the next week. If things go according to plan we will have be able to fork the 8.0 branch shortly thereafter and have a release candidate within two weeks. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release! Cheers, - Ben