Upcoming GHC 9.6.4 release

[Moritz Angermann]

Thanks! Backport-freeze for mid-December sounds absolutely reasonable!

-Moritz

On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 9:39 PM, Zubin Duggal <zubin at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Thanks for raising this Moritz. We decided to do the release in December
> before we are busy with other matters in January like the 9.10 fork.
> However, we do see the burdern this would place on distributors to react
> just a week before the holidays.
>
> We have decided to push the release date to the first week of January
> 2024.
>
> Please note that we still plan to finalise the release branch by
> mid-December so what I said originally about marking patches for
> backport ASAP still applies.
>
> On 23/11/24 20:26, Moritz Angermann wrote:
> >Can I suggest the release to be pushed into 2024?
> >
> >Releasing it on the 15th or a few days later will put significant burden
> >onto integrators, and distributors. To react to the ghc release.
> Especially
> >right before the holiday season for quite some.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >  Moritz
> >
> >On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 8:17 PM, Zubin Duggal <zubin at well-typed.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We are planning a release in the 9.6 series before Christmas, with a
> >> preliminary ETA of 15th December.
> >>
> >> Release tracking ticket:
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24017
> >> Please use this ticket to request any submodule bumps or for any other
> >> discussion related to the release.
> >>
> >> If you would like any patches to be considered for inclusion in this
> >> release please ensure that the corresponding Merge Requests are marked
> >> with the ~"backport needed:9.6" label.
> >>
> >> The current set of all MRs being considered for inclusion can be viewed
> at
> >>
> >>
> https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&label_name[]=backport%20needed%3A9.6
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Zubin
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