[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2 is now available

Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2 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/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.ht...

Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.3. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.3 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.2: - a compiler panic (#17429) due to over-zealous eta reduction - a linker crash on Windows (#17575) - the ability to bootstrap with earlier 8.8 releases has been restored (#17146) - the `directory` submodule has been updated, fixing #17598 As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know. Happy compiling! Cheers, - Ben [1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.3-notes.ht...

Thank you for the release.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 02:02, Ben Gamari
[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.3-notes.ht...
I am getting 404 from the docs. Cheers, Jens

Jens Petersen
Thank you for the release.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 02:02, Ben Gamari
wrote: [1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.3-notes.ht...
I am getting 404 from the docs.
Hmm, this appears to be a CDN issue given that the file exists on the server and https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide//8.8.3-notes.h... works. This is quite odd given that I am quite aggressive in purging the CDN at this point. I'll try to investigate tomorrow. Cheers, - Ben
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