On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Dominick Samperi <djsamperi@gmail.com> wrote:
The Haskell Platform wiki page says the platform follows a 6-month
release schedule, yet the last release occurred more than one year
ago, and I couldn't find information about future plans.

Are there plans to update the platform with ghc 7.8.2?

The Platform keeps getting stuck waiting for GHC. The skipped release was because ghc 7.8 took some 6 months after "we plan to release just before ICFP 2013"(!); now it's waiting on ghc 7.8.3 bug fixes, which were "should be released by the end of the week" a couple of weeks ago. :( 7.8.3's bug fixes are significant enough that it would be bad to release a platform without them.

And we couldn't go with 7.6 because of some problems on newer OS X:es right? 

Releasing two platforms with the same GHC version is a recipe for disaster as well. It's currently designed to cohabitate with other versions of the platform and that is dependent on each platform release having a unique GHC release.