We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.1. Snapshots beginning with 6.8.20070909 are release candidates for 6.8.1 You can download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ Right now we have the source bundles: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.20070912-src-extralibs.t... Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will be included in the build automatically. There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! We hope to release in a couple of weeks, but of course that may slip if problems are uncovered. Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team