Ben Gamari
Hello GHCers,
After numerous delays, I think we may finally be converging on a (hopefully final) 8.0.1 release candidate. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Richard Eisenberg, Simon PJ, and many others almost all of the release blocking tickets [1] have now been resolved. There are a few patches currently waiting for review that should hopefully be mergeable within the next few days.
After these last patches have been merged I'll proceed in cutting the source distribution for GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 3. This release candidate will be made available immediately, although, in accordance with our new release policy [2], binary distributions won't be available until seven days later.
Oops, forgot the reference here. The new release timing policy was described here, [2] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-March/011546.html