[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler version 7.10.3

Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of GHC 7.10.3: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/ There can be found source tarballs and binary distributions for 64-bit and 32-bit modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later), CentOS (GMP 4.0), Windows, and 64-bit Mac OS X platforms. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x97DB64AD). Significant fixes in release include changes to the simplifier's treatment of rules, the handling of Mac OS X frameworks, and support for response files to work around the restrictive command line length limit on Windows. As always, a full accounting of the changes present in this release can be found in the release notes [1]. The previous release, 7.10.2, was well-behaved save a couple notable bugs; while we have merged a good number of bug fixes in 7.10.3 they were were largely low risk and so we expect that this release should be similiarly stable. A notable exception is the upgrade of the Windows compiler toolchain to GCC 5.2. Typically we would refrain from making such large changes in a point release but Windows users have been long suffering at the hand of the old toolchain (e.g. lack of response file support, #8596, and lack of SEH support). We expect that this change should fix far more than breaks. Unfortunately, due to some oversights in the release process there are two source tarballs for this release. The first, ghc-7.10.3-src.tar.{bz2,xz}, does not include the release notes in the users guide. This is fixed in the second patchlevel release, ghc-7.10.3a-src.tar.{bz2,xz}. It is recommended that users wanting a source release use the ghc-7.10.3a-src tarballs. GHC 7.10.3 will very likely be the last release in the GHC 7 series. In the coming weeks we will be beginning the release process for GHC 8.0, which will include a number of exciting features including the merger of kinds with types, injective type families, imporved DWARF debugging information, applicative-do syntax, a Strict language extension synonyms mechanism, and more. See the GHC 8.0.1 status page for details [2]. Happy compiling! Cheers, - Ben [1] http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/docs/html/users_guide//release-7-10... [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.0.1

Towards the end of http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/docs/html/users_guide//release-7-10...: 1.7.3. Known bugs At the time of release there is a fix in the Cabal upstream respository, although it is not yet present in a release. "fix" is hyperlinked to itself, and it doesn't say what the fix is for. -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Glasgow-Haskell-Compiler-versi... Sent from the Haskell - Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Jeremy
Towards the end of http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/docs/html/users_guide//release-7-10...:
1.7.3. Known bugs At the time of release there is a fix in the Cabal upstream respository, although it is not yet present in a release.
"fix" is hyperlinked to itself, and it doesn't say what the fix is for.
Yes, indeed; this remark no longer applies but sadly made it into the release notes. I'm working on fixing this (which unfortunately means we will have a 7.10.3b). Cheers, - Ben

Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2015, 06:51 -0700 schrieb Jeremy:
"fix" is hyperlinked to itself, and it doesn't say what the fix is for.
that is intended. fix is inherent self-referential, and furthermore polymorphic. Greetings, Joachim PS: SCNR -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org

On 09-12-2015 12:28, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2015, 06:51 -0700 schrieb Jeremy:
"fix" is hyperlinked to itself, and it doesn't say what the fix is for.
that is intended. fix is inherent self-referential, and furthermore polymorphic.
Greetings, Joachim
PS: SCNR
Took me a good while to fully comprehend this joke :). I wonder if it was intended by the author of that line. Cheers, -- Felipe.

On 9 December 2015 at 21:17, Ben Gamari
We are pleased to announce the release of GHC 7.10.3
Awesome, thank you! I have build it for Fedora and RHEL/CentOS in my Fedora Copr repo: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10.3 The repos also include cabal-install. Cheers, Jens
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Ben Gamari
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Felipe Lessa
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Jens Petersen
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Jeremy
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Joachim Breitner