We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.0.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.4-rc1/ This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD. Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! Release notes: * A floating point regression in 7.0.3 affecting x86 has been fixed (#5149). * The GHCi linker now handles partially stripped object files (#5004). This fixes loading the ghc package in ghci when it's been stripped, which is often the case in Linux distribution packages. * A runtime system bug with large heaps has been fixed (#5086). * A runtime system bug when heap profiling has been fixed (#5127). * A runtime system bug when heap profiling has been fixed (#5127). * A runtime system bug, which caused incorrect results and segfaults when using FFI callbacks, has been fixed. * A runtime system bug, which occasionally caused parallel programs to <<loop>> when using -feager-blackholing, has been fixed (#5226). * Incorrect directory permissions when installing have been fixed (#4982). * Some improvements have been made to the new Cabal testsuite support. * Cabal is now 1.10.2.0 (was 1.10.1.0). Thanks Ian, on behalf of the GHC team