Installed fine on my M4 Mac. Passes my smoke tests, seems to work with llvm 22 as does 9.12.3 and 9.14.1 Thanks to Zubin and all who worked on this On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:15 AM Zubin Duggal via ghc-devs < ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote:
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate for GHC 9.12.4. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org][] and via [GHCup](https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/).
GHC 9.12.4 is a bug-fix release fixing many issues of a variety of severities and scopes, including:
* Fixed a critical code generation regression where sub-word division produced incorrect results (#26711, #26668), similar to the bug fixed in 9.12.2 * Numerous fixes for register allocation bugs, preventing data corruption when spilling and reloading registers (#26411, #26526, #26537, #26542, #26550) * Fixes for several compiler crashes, including issues with CSE (#25468), SetLevels (#26681), implicit parameters (#26451), and the type-class specialiser (#26682) * Fixed cast worker/wrapper incorrectly firing on INLINE functions (#26903) * Fixed LLVM backend miscompilation of bit manipulation operations (#20645, #26065, #26109) * Fixed associated type family and data family instance changes not triggering recompilation (#26183, #26705) * Fixed negative type literals causing the compiler to hang (#26861) * Improvements to determinism of compiler output (#26846, #26858) * Fixes for eventlog shutdown deadlocks (#26573) and lost wakeups in the RTS (#26324) * Fixed split sections support on Windows (#26696, #26494) and the LLVM backend (#26770) * Fixes for the bytecode compiler, PPC native code generator, and Wasm backend * The runtime linker now supports COMMON symbols (#6107) * Improved backtrace support: backtraces for `error` exceptions are now evaluated at throw time * `NamedDefaults` now correctly requires the class to be standard or have an in-scope default declaration, and handles poly-kinded classes (#25775, #25778, #25882) * ... and many more
A full accounting of these fixes can be found in the [release notes][]. As always, GHC's release status, including planned future releases, can be found on the GHC Wiki [status][].
This release candidate will have a two-week testing period. If all goes well the final release will be available the week of 26 March 2026.
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We would like to thank these sponsors and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.
As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see anything amiss.
[release notes]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/ghc-9.12/docs/users_guide/9.12.4-notes.rst?ref_type=heads&plain=1 [status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status [downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.4-rc1 [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list -- ghc-devs@haskell.org To unsubscribe send an email to ghc-devs-leave@haskell.org