<div dir="ltr">Thanks Ben! When testing, I found that a type checker regression from 7.10 to 8.0 that I thought/hoped was resolved is in fact still present in this release candidate. I filed a new bug: <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12885">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12885</a><div><br></div><div>It originally seemed the same as #12175. But unfortunately, although that problem is resolved in 8.0.2-rc1, this one is still around (though they may still be related).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-Judah </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Ben Gamari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com" target="_blank">ben@well-typed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the<br>
8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary<br>
distributions are available at<br>
<br>
<a href="http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://downloads.haskell.org/~<wbr>ghc/8.0.2-rc1/</a><br>
<br>
This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates<br>
leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs<br>
found in 8.0.1 including,<br>
<br>
* Interface file build determinism (#4012).<br>
<br>
* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile<br>
position-independent executables by default<br>
<br>
* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)<br>
<br>
* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while<br>
compiling some packages (see #12076)<br>
<br>
* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker<br>
<br>
* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system<br>
<br>
* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest<br>
on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.<br>
<br>
* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using<br>
-XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.<br>
<br>
* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete<br>
listing.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in<br>
runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in<br>
-rc2, which will be released in about a week.<br>
<br>
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who<br>
has contributed so far!<br>
<br>
Happy testing,<br>
<br>
- Ben<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/<wbr>ghc/query?status=closed&<wbr>milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=<wbr>summary&col=status&col=type&<wbr>col=priority&col=milestone&<wbr>col=component&order=priority</a><br>
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