ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.4 Release Candidate 1

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4-rc1/ This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64bit Linux. Binary builds for other platforms will be available shortly. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x3B58D86F). We plan to make the 7.8.4 release sometime in the next few weeks. 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/

On Tue Nov 25 2014 at 9:46:46 PM Austin Seipp
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4:
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4-rc1/
This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64bit Linux. Binary builds for other platforms will be available shortly. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x3B58D86F).
We plan to make the 7.8.4 release sometime in the next few weeks.
Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
Just wanted to report: I ran a full Stackage build + test suite using the release candidate, and everything passed. This build consisted of ~750 packages. You can find the list of packages at: http://lpaste.net/115090 Michael

2014-11-25 20:46 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4:
Would it be possible to get the RC on https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc? This way one could easily test things on Travis CI.

On 2014-11-26 at 12:40:37 +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
2014-11-25 20:46 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp
: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4:
Would it be possible to get the RC on https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc? This way one could easily test things on Travis CI.
I'll put a 7.8.4rc .deb up soon (probably right after the GHC 7.10 branch has been created)

Would it be possible to get a RC for the Mac up at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4-rc1/ ?
Thanks
George
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-11-26 at 12:40:37 +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
2014-11-25 20:46 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp
: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4:
Would it be possible to get the RC on https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc? This way one could easily test things on Travis CI.
I'll put a 7.8.4rc .deb up soon (probably right after the GHC 7.10 branch has been created) _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

Thomas and I have found some bugs in HPC on OSX, and we're in the midst of
tracking those down,
Those fixes should get into 7.8.4 and 7.10 both. Currently HPC on OSX is
broken in pretty fundamental ways, and thats not ok!
-Carter
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:53 PM, George Colpitts
Would it be possible to get a RC for the Mac up at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4-rc1/ ?
Thanks George
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
wrote: On 2014-11-26 at 12:40:37 +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
2014-11-25 20:46 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp
: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.8.4:
Would it be possible to get the RC on https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc? This way one could easily test things on Travis CI.
I'll put a 7.8.4rc .deb up soon (probably right after the GHC 7.10 branch has been created) _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Carter Schonwald
Thomas and I have found some bugs in HPC on OSX, and we're in the midst of tracking those down,
You mean these are regressions? If they are introduced in one of the non-blocker fixes in 7.8.4, we can probably just revert them. Anyway, thanks a lot for testing. Cheers, Mikolaj
participants (7)
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Austin Seipp
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Carter Schonwald
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George Colpitts
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Herbert Valerio Riedel
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Michael Snoyman
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Mikolaj Konarski
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Sven Panne