Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.2 is not available

Thanks all! This makes M1 a much more feasible platform now that the NCG works - it is 2x faster to compile than the LLVM backend!

On Mar 6, 2022, at 2:59 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

The GHC developers are very happy to at announce the availability of GHC 9.2.2. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org:

https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.2

This release includes many bug-fixes and other improvements to 9.2.1 including:

* A number of bug-fixes in the new AArch64 native code generator

* Fixes ensuring that the `indexWord8ArrayAs*#` family of primops is handled correctly on platforms lacking support for unaligned memory accesses (#21015, #20987).

* Improvements to the compatibility story in GHC's migration to the XDG Base Directory Specification (#20684, #20669, #20660)

* Restored compatibility with Windows 7

* A new `-fcompact-unwind` flag, improving compatibility with C++ libraries on Apple Darwin (#11829)

* Introduction of a new flag, `-fcheck-prim-bounds`, enabling runtime bounds checking of array primops (#20769)

* Unboxing of unlifted types (#20663)

* Numerous improvements in compiler performance.

* Many, many others. See the [release notes] for a full list.

As some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to upgrade promptly.

Finally, thank you to Microsoft Research, GitHub, IOHK, the Zw3rk stake pool, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Moreover, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.

As always, do open a [ticket][] if you see anything amiss.

Happy compiling,

- Ben

[ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.2/docs/html/users_guide/9.2.2-notes.ht... _______________________________________________ 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.