Friends, After talking with Simon yesterday, we have some idea of how the release will go. As I'm sure you're aware, the release is winding down rather quickly, and it will be a fantastic one hopefully :) Now that all the features have landed, we're going into bugfixing mode. The schedule is, roughly: - Nov 1st: Cut branch, and I plan on making a 7.8 RC1 available the same day, for several platforms. - Release will be ~3 weeks out from there, approximately Nov 25th. This gives us a month of solid bugfixing. During the 3 weeks with the 7.8 branch open, I'm a bit hesitant to land massive changes, so that our branches don't diverge too far. OTOH, a few things can probably land in this timeframe with minimal disturbances (such as the Applicative-Monad change.) If you want to land something in that time frame, please just ask me. On the whole, things actually feel pretty good - although there a few nasty bugs to sort out, the uptake in community involvement has simply been fantastic (definitely related to the number bugs we've found,) and I think we're on track to sort the remaining stuff out. A great thanks to all of the new people helping out! And if you want to help even more, please check out the tickets remaining for 7.8.1: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=!closed&milestone=7.8.1&order=priority If you think you can take on a bug, please assign it to yourself so we know what's going on. Note: if the bug isn't *high* or *highest*, it's unlikely to get looked at, at least by me! It won't be rejected if you submit a patch, but I'm simply not going to be able to get to it I'm afraid. So please grab something, and go for it! I am also reminded that the GHC October Status report will be due shortly - I'll take some time to write it up, and follow through here on the list (and glasgow-haskell-users) so interested parties can read up on what is happening. -- Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/