ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc1/ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1-rc1/html/ This includes the source tarball and bindists for Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Solaris, on x86 and x86_64. There is a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes available (attached) using my GPG key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). We plan to make the 7.8.1 RC2 release quite soon, as we're aware of some existing issues. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/