[including only the ghc-devs list in this reply] Hi, On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:57:45AM -0500, Ben Gamari wrote:

* While we typically strive to produce OpenBSD builds, the gcc shipped with OpenBSD 6.1 is unfortunately too old to compile this release.

Well, OpenBSD 6.1 is almost dead, 6.2 is the stable release at the moment, and 6.3 will probably be released in about two months. For 6.2 the default C compiler is clang-4.0.0, for 6.3, it will be at least clang-5.0.1 (at least on i386 and amd64 platforms). So, providing ghc binaries for 6.1 at all would be mostly pointless, anyway (there will be no support for 6.1 from the moment 6.3 has been released). Ciao, Kili ps: whoever is doing binary releases of ghc for OpenBSD (I only know about Karel Gardas pushing patches from our ports tree from time to time) could use a newer gcc or clang from ports/packages if it helps. Of course, if time permits (and as the defacto maintainer of lang/ghc on OpenBSD I know how time consuming this can be ;-))

2018-03-08 17:57 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari :

The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. [...]

Just a few tiny remarks regarding "base": * https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.1-notes.h... says that the shipped "base" has version 2.1, I guess that should be 4.11.0.0. * https://wiki.haskell.org/Base_package needs an update. * Hackage has no 4.11.0.0 yet, that would be very helpful for the docs. Yes, there is https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/libraries/index.html, but Hackage is somehow the more canonical place to look up the package docs.

Hi! It says on the download page that the Windows versions is “excluding the Windows 10 Creator’s Update”. I’m assuming that is a copy-paste error from the release that fixed the Windows 10 CU bug. Regards, Niklas

8 mars 2018 kl. 17:57 skrev Ben Gamari :

The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Binary and source distributions can be found at

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/

This is the third major release in the GHC 8 series. As such, the focus of this release is performance, stability, and consolidation. Consequently numerous cleanups can be seen throughout the compiler including,

* Further refinement of TypeInType, including significant improvements in error messages.

* Improvements in code generation resulting in noticable performance improvements in some types of programs.

* Core library improvements, including phase 2 of the Semigroup/Monoid proposal

* Many improvements to instance deriving

* The resolution of nearly 300 other tickets

A more thorough list of the changes in this release can be found in the release notes,

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.1-notes.h...

There are a few changes in release-engineering matters that should be noted,

* This is GHC's first release on it's new, accelerated release schedule. From now on GHC will produce one release every six months.

* While we typically strive to produce OpenBSD builds, the gcc shipped with OpenBSD 6.1 is unfortunately too old to compile this release.

* FreeBSD builds are still in progress

This release has been the result of approximately six months of work by over one hundred code contributors. Thanks to everyone who has helped in writing patches, testing, reporting bugs, and offering feedback over the last year.

As always, let us know if you encounter trouble.

How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/

We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place.

Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later.

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GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license.

A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below).

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http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building

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On 9 March 2018 at 01:57, Ben Gamari wrote:

The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

Thanks! I have built it for Fedora and EPEL7 in a copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.4.1/ Cheers, Jens