<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">As Ben has just announced on ghc-dev, we are getting close to cutting the 8.4 branch, which marks the start of working towards the new release process:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-November/015038.html" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-November/015038.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the meantime, I have summarised our plan as well as the discussion that we had on this thread so far on a new Trac Wiki page:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-November/015038.html" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-November/015038.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will also keep track of how the process unfolds on this page, so you can all easily get up to speed by just checking that page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The previous discussion on this thread ebbed off, but that doesn’t mean that all concerns have been alleviated. Moreover, the interaction with the 3 versions library policy is still unclear and we should talk with the Core Libraries Committee. What do you all think?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ben, can you please double check what I wrote to make sure I didn’t miss anything or get anything wrong?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Manuel</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>