Haskellers, we are pleased to announce the release of

Haskell Platform 7.10.2
get it here...

Highlights include:
  • GHC 7.10.2
  • packages & tools bumped to very latest
  • major package updates to:
    • attoparsec
    • case-insensitive
    • cgi
    • GLUT, GLURaw, OpenGL, & OpenGLRaw
    • mtl
    • network
    • primitive & vector
    • QuickCheck
    • random
    • syb
    • text
  • new website
  • new installer script for linux
  • 10 bugs closed: Issues · haskell/haskell-platform
This is our first release concurrent with GHC's release. You'll notice that the version number has changed to reflect that from now on, our aim is to keep HP releases sync'd to GHC releases.

Note: Haskell Platform download pages are often cached - you may need to hit reload to see the release.

About the last minute update to text package:
tl;dr: Vast majority of code will never notice the difference. Go ahead and get the HP now and start enjoying 7.10.2 You can always update to the point release when it comes out.

Despite all the testing, GHC central noticed just a day before release that there was a regression with text literals in 7.10.2. It was possible to work around the issue via a change to the text package, and text-1.2.1.3 was released just today. Alas, there wasn't enough time to re-build and test the platform installers between then and now, so this release has text-1.2.1.1. There will be a point release (7.10.2.1) of the Platform this weekend or next with the updated text package.

The issue does not result in incorrect code, only slow compilation times for very text literal laden code (as in thousands of literals), and slightly higher one-time construction cost at run-time. In full stack builds and many other test builds, these slow downs were inconsequential.

Windows Notes:
The Haskell Platform on Windows now provides the MSys2 tools. These tools are needed when installing packages that use conf-tools (generally rare). These tools are not automatically placed onto the PATH in order avoid troubles due to MSys2 tools which have the same name as a standard Windows tool (e.g., echo, find, dir).


- Mark "release monad" Lentczner

Special thanks to Erik Rantappa, Wasif Hasan Baig, & Ben Gamari for the new web site. Randy Polen for Windows build wrangling.