Note that the first two components in GHC's version number are both major, so bumping to 7.8 is ok according to semver.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Matthias Kilian <kili@outback.escape.de> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:16:14PM -0800, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> If BBP is going to be released as-is, can we please call the next
> release GHC 8.0?

Adding semantics to release numbers? IMHO that doesn't work.

Ciao,
        Kili
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