Re: [GHC-Releases] GHC 9.8.4

Sure On November 15, 2024 2:54:52 PM UTC, Ben Gamari wrote:

Ben Gamari writes:

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Hi all,

In light of the various issues reported in 9.8.3, I have prepared a 9.8.4 release. What is likely to be the final release pipeline can be found here [1].

However, before moving ahead with the release process, I would like to confirm that this release covers the issues raised with 9.8.3; specifically:

* we ship with filepath-1.4.300.2 * we provide manpages in all binary distributions

In addition, I backported two unrelated fixes (a soundness fix related to prompt# and a fix affecting -Wmissing-home-modules).

Julian, perhaps you could confirm that this addresses your concerns?

Unfortunately, my colleague Zubin points out that an unrelated issue in `os-string` [2] may have a large impact on HLS users. As there is a soon-to-be-merged fix for this issue I think we may need to scuttle the release candidate proposed in this thread, wait for an `os-string` release, and try again next week.

Julian, does this sound right to you?

Cheers,

- Ben

[1] https://github.com/haskell/os-string/issues/22