[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.2 is now available

10 Nov 2018

      (fwd to the real haskell cafe list)

-- Dan Burton

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Dan Burton 
Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.2 is now available
To: Ben Gamari 
Cc: Haskell-cafe 

I have two trivialities to bring up:

1. Could you update https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/ to point to
8.6.2? (It's currently showing 8.6.1.)
2. The SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS for 8.6.2 list a file
"./ghc-8.6.2-x86_64-darwin.tar.xz", but that is a broken link; the
corresponding file is found at "./ghc-8.6.2-x86_64*-apple*-darwin.tar.xz".
Can these be harmonized?

Thanks!

-- Dan Burton

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:29 AM Ben Gamari  wrote:
...
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.2, a
bugfix release to GHC 8.6.1. The source distribution, binary
distributions, and documentation for this release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.2
The 8.6 release fixes several regressions present in 8.6.1 including:
* A long-standing (but previously hard to manifest) bug resulting in
   undefined behavior for some applications of dataToTag# has been fixed
   (#15696)
* An incorrect linker path to libgmp in the Mac OS binary distributions
   (#15404)
* A regression rendering Windows installations to read-only directories
   unusable (#15667)
* A regression resulting in panics while compiling some record updates
   of GADTs constructors  (#15499)
* A regression resulting in incorrect type errors when splicing types
   into constraint contexts has been fixed (#15815)
* Around a dozen other issues.
See Trac [1] for a full list of issues resolved in this release.
Note that this release ships with one significant but long-standing bug
(#14251): Calls to functions taking both Float# and Double# may result
in incorrect code generation when compiled using the LLVM code generator.
This is not a new issue, it has existed as long as the LLVM code
generator has existed; however, changes in code generation in 8.6 made
it more likely that user code using only lifted types will trigger it.
Happy compiling!
Cheers,
- Ben
[1]
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.6.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
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