Hi Mark, I was planning on releasing GHC 7.8.3 very soon (in the next few days,) and I'm wondering if it is still a possible candidate for the next Haskell Platform? To be clear, there are no library updates this time around - 7.8.3 is almost 100% a pure compiler/runtime bugfix release, and some of the fixes are quite bad. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9078 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8768 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9148 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9001 The first one, #9078, would be particularly bad to let slip into the release - it affects possibly all EDSLs using mkStableName for sharing, and is very easy to trigger by allocating stable names quickly. I'd say #8768 is somewhat nasty as well. Accelerate and SBV are two examples of projects that will crash. There are currently no plans to even bump the corresponding library numbers - we didn't do so for 7.8.2, and there are no changes at all that would warrant a bump for 7.8.3. It's really a stability release more than anything and irons out several real bumps. Do let me know what you think - I'll keep this thread updated as the release gets closer if anything else goes in. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/