[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1 released

Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1/ GHC 8.10.1 brings 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 Note that at the moment we still require that macOS Catalina users exempt the binary distribution from the notarization requirement by running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`. This situation will hopefully be improved for GHC 8.10.2 with the resolution of #17418 [1]. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418

Ben Gamari
Hello all,
The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place:
Note that the release notes can be found here: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.10.1-notes.... Further, the migration guide can be found here: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/migration/8.10 Cheers, - Ben

Hi, late question, I just noticed: Is it intentional that the text library in 8.10.1 is older than the one in 8.8? (1.2.3.2 vs 1.2.4.0 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/libraries/version-hist... ) Thanks, Jens

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 10:18, Jens Petersen
Is it intentional that the text library in 8.10.1 is older than the one in 8.8?
Ben pointed me at https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17956 in irc. Thanks, Jens
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