[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-alpha1 available

The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha1 This is the first release (partially) generated using our new CI infrastructure. One known issue is that the haddock documentation is currently unavailable. This will be fixed in the next alpha release. Do let us know if you spot anything else amiss. As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of testing. Thanks for your help! Cheers, - Ben

Small correction inline.
Ben Gamari
The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha1
This is the first release (partially) generated using our new CI infrastructure. One known issue is that the haddock documentation is currently unavailable.
Correction: the issue is not restricted only to haddock documentation; the users guide is also not present.

Users of nix can test their package using the instructions in this
gist. It should be straightforward as the 8.6.1 alpha will be
downloaded from the binary cache.
https://gist.github.com/mpickering/fd26e9f03d6cb88cbb91b90b6019f3dd
The compiler will use patches form head.hackage in order to build dependencies.
Any problems, let me know.
Matt
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:26 PM, Ben Gamari
The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha1
This is the first release (partially) generated using our new CI infrastructure. One known issue is that the haddock documentation is currently unavailable. This will be fixed in the next alpha release. Do let us know if you spot anything else amiss.
As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of testing. Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
- Ben
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I don't see an apple/darwin binary. Not sure if that is an oversight or was
planned.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 6:26 PM Ben Gamari
The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha1
This is the first release (partially) generated using our new CI infrastructure. One known issue is that the haddock documentation is currently unavailable. This will be fixed in the next alpha release. Do let us know if you spot anything else amiss.
As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of testing. Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
- Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

George Colpitts
I don't see an apple/darwin binary. Not sure if that is an oversight or was planned.
Yikes! Thank you for mentioning this. This is indeed a mistake. I'm uploading the Darwin distribution right now; it will be done within 20 minutes. Cheers, - Ben

On 1 July 2018 at 06:26, Ben Gamari
The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1.
I built it for Fedora in a Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ I see that xhtml library seems to have been downgraded from xhtml-3000.2.2.1 to xhtml-3000.2.2? Jens

Jens Petersen
On 1 July 2018 at 06:26, Ben Gamari
wrote: The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1.
I built it for Fedora in a Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/
I see that xhtml library seems to have been downgraded from xhtml-3000.2.2.1 to xhtml-3000.2.2?
This will be fixed in the next alpha. Cheers, - Ben
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