[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-alpha2 released
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 8.10 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha2/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: * The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted types. * The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class declarations. * A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous deriving clauses * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes * A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances available for a type. * An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation * A new, low-latency garbage collector. * Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and other program events This release is the second alpha of the 8.10 pre-release cycle. The release will be a release candidate in roughly three weeks. If all goes well the final release will be cut roughly two weeks after the candidate, in mid-January. This being an alpha release, there are a few issues that are still outstanding: * The new Alpine Linux binary distribution is not present due to an apparent correctness issue [1]; any help Alpine users can offer here would be greatly appreciated. * We have yet to sort out compliance with Apple's notarization requirements [2] which will be likely be necessary for users of macOS Catalina. However, until this has been sorted out Catalina users can exempt the current macOS binary distribution from the notarization requirement themselves by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`. * There is one remaining non-regression correctness issue which we plan to fix for the final 8.10.1 but that is not fixed in this release. Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other issues. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418
Thanks for the release.
Will deb9-linux binary be released in the future?
Or deb10-linux version only?
Perhaps ubuntu18.04LTS users need deb9-linux binary.
Regards,
Takenobu
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:28 AM Ben Gamari
Hello all,
The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 8.10 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place:
https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha2/
GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including:
* The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted types.
* The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class declarations.
* A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous deriving clauses
* A number of improvements in code generation, including changes
* A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances available for a type.
* An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation
* A new, low-latency garbage collector.
* Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and other program events
This release is the second alpha of the 8.10 pre-release cycle. The release will be a release candidate in roughly three weeks. If all goes well the final release will be cut roughly two weeks after the candidate, in mid-January.
This being an alpha release, there are a few issues that are still outstanding:
* The new Alpine Linux binary distribution is not present due to an apparent correctness issue [1]; any help Alpine users can offer here would be greatly appreciated.
* We have yet to sort out compliance with Apple's notarization requirements [2] which will be likely be necessary for users of macOS Catalina.
However, until this has been sorted out Catalina users can exempt the current macOS binary distribution from the notarization requirement themselves by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`.
* There is one remaining non-regression correctness issue which we plan to fix for the final 8.10.1 but that is not fixed in this release.
Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other issues.
Cheers,
- Ben
[1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 02:28, Ben Gamari
I also built this for fedora in 2 test https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=40009944 builds https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=40042995 (the latter for arm). Jens ps The reason it took so long being that I made some significant packaging changes earlier for Fedora 31 (added subpackages for prof), which had made it difficult to build Haskell packages for both F30 and F31.
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