Hi all, I am currently in the process of preparing ghc-9.6.7 [1]. I'm planning for a release candidate to be ready on December 21st. If you need anything included that's not already listed, please reply in this thread or leave a comment in the tracking ticket [2], and apply the ~"backport needed:9.6" label. Already backported: * !13692: (setNumCapabilities: Assert that n_caps < MAX_N_CAPS) * !13618: rts/linker: Fix out-of-bounds mapping logic * !13544: DmdAnal: Make prompt# lazy (#25439 (closed)) * !13431: rts: fix pointer overflow undefined behavior in bytecode interpreter * !13371: Consider Wanteds with rewriters as not-insoluble * !13337: configure: Fix C++ probing when GCC version is the latest but G++ is old #23118 * !13276: Fix interaction between fork and kqueue (#24672 (closed)) * !13196: driver: Fix -working-dir for foreign files * !13151: JS: support rubbish static literals (#25177 (closed)) * !13113: AARCH64 linker: skip NONE relocations * !13096: Cmm: don't perform unsound optimizations on 32-bit compiler hosts (#24893 (closed) #24700 (closed)) * !13085: driver: Fix -Wmissing-home-modules when multiple units have the same module name * !13070: Only lookup ghcversion.h file in the RTS include-dirs by default. ( f954f428 ) * !13038: Address #25055 (closed), by disabling case-of-runRW# in Gentle phase * !13010: Linker: Add windows R_X86_64_PC64 relocation support * !12990: Fix -freg-graphs for FP and AARch64 NCG (#24941 (closed)). * !12975: X86 NCG: Fix argument promotion in foreign C calls ( a82121b3 ) * !12914: Linker: use m32 allocator for sections when NEED_PLT (#24432 (closed)) * !12748: rts: fix checkClosure error message * !12484: compiler: Fingerprint -fwrite-if-simplified-core * !12416: Don't generate wrappers for type data constructors with StrictData * !12201: RTS: Emit warning when -M < -H * !11989: Fix ffi callbacks with >6 args and non-64bit args. * !11777: GHCi: fix improper location of ghci_history file * !10520: Update rdt-theme to latest upstream version * !10436: rts: fix --disable-large-address-space * !10384: Simplify code and allow more optimisation on linearly typed code * !11878: release-ci: remove release-x86_64-linux-deb11-release+boot_nonmoving_gc job In progress: * !13524: hadrian: Bump directory bound to >=1.3.9 * !13252: Bump submodule array to 0.5.8.0 * !11020: Update Haddock submodule to fix #23368 * 13624: Widen uniques to 64 bit. Luite [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13740 [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25559