[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha1 is now available
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha1 A draft of the release notes is also available [1]. This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes relative to GHC 8.6: * Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see #15934) * A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator * The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce allocations significantly for some programs. * Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the Haskell AST in tooling * More locations where users can write `forall` (GHC Proposal #0007) * Further work on the Hadrian build system This release starts the pre-release cycle for GHC 8.8. This cycle is starting quite a bit later than expected due recent work on GHC's CI and release infrastructure. See the GHC Blog [2] for more on this. As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know. Happy compiling! Cheers, - Ben [1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-n... [2] https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190405-ghc-8.8-status.html
It seems as if there is no migration documentation,
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/status/migration/8.8. Will that be
forthcoming?
Thanks
George
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:51 PM Ben Gamari
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha1
A draft of the release notes is also available [1].
This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes relative to GHC 8.6:
* Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see #15934)
* A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator
* The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce allocations significantly for some programs.
* Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the Haskell AST in tooling
* More locations where users can write `forall` (GHC Proposal #0007)
* Further work on the Hadrian build system
This release starts the pre-release cycle for GHC 8.8. This cycle is starting quite a bit later than expected due recent work on GHC's CI and release infrastructure. See the GHC Blog [2] for more on this.
As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
Happy compiling!
Cheers,
- Ben
[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-n... [2] https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190405-ghc-8.8-status.html _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 07:51, Ben Gamari
The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1.
I built it for Fedora 30 and Rawhide in a new ghc:8.8 Fedora module stream (builds for 28 and 29 will be forthcoming later). You should be able to install with ``` $ sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular module enable ghc:8.8 $ sudo dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing-modular install ghc ``` (If you have already enabled or installed a Fedora ghc module stream, then you will need to `dnf remove ghc-base` and reset the ghc module.) Thanks, Jens
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