Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 7.10.3 release candidate 1

Personally, I would love delaying announcements such as these until binaries are available, at least for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Richard On Nov 2, 2015, at 1:18 PM, George Colpitts wrote:

Will there be a Mac release candidate also?

Thanks George

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

We are pleased to announce the first (and hopefully only) release candidate for GHC 7.10.3:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc1/

This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64-bit and 32-bit modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later) and Windows. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x97DB64AD). As always, our content delivery network tends to be a bit slow on the uptake. If you see an empty directory at this URL just add a few superfluous slashes to the end; this is typically enough to fool it.

The 7.10.2 release was well-behaved save a couple notable bugs; while we have merged a good number of bug fixes in 7.10.3 they were were largely low risk and so we expect that this release should be similiarly stable.

The one exception to this is an upgrade of the Windows compiler toolchain to GCC 5.2. Windows users have been long suffering at the hand of our old toolchain (e.g. lack of response file support, #8596, and lack of SEH support) so we expect that this change should fix far more than breaks.

We plan to make the 7.10.3 release sometime next week.

Please test this as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release and this will ideally be the last release of the 7.10 series.

Happy testing,

- Ben

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