Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available

Pleased to see ARM binaries :) Thanks! Vanessa

On Dec 12, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

Hello everyone,

The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of GHC 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1

Release notes are also available [1].

This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.1:

- A bug (#17088) in the compacting garbage collector resulting in segmentations faults under specific circumstances. Note that this may affect user programs even if they did not explicitly request the compacting GC (using the -c RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to compacting collection during times of high memory pressure.

- A code generation bug (#17334) resulting in GHC panics has been fixed.

- A bug in the `process` library causing builds using `hsc2hs` to fail non-deterministically on Windows has been fixed (Trac #17480)

- A typechecker bug (#12088) resulting in programs being unexpectedly rejected has been fixed.

- A bug in the implementation of compact normal forms resulting in segmentation faults in some uses (#17044) has been fixed.

- A bug causing GHC to incorrectly complain about incompatible LLVM versions when using LLVM 7.0.1 has been fixed (#16990).

As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.

Happy compiling!

Cheers,

- Ben

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.2-rc1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.2-note... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.