<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Thanks Ben, installed fine on my Mac running 10.14.6.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">For the release notes I suggest we document <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17341">https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17341</a> which is associated with <a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6262">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6262</a> and <a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6104">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6104</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">I realize this will be controversial and may be rejected but I think the current status is very confusing to new / inexperienced users so I felt I should suggest it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">As I mentioned in 17341, can we add a milestone and priority to this feature request?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Thanks again for everybody's work on GHC</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">George</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:58 AM Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com" target="_blank">ben@well-typed.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hello all,<br>
<br>
The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first release<br>
candidate of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are<br>
available at the usual place:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-rc1/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-rc1/</a><br>
<br>
GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including:<br>
<br>
* The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted<br>
types.<br>
<br>
* The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give<br>
top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class<br>
declarations.<br>
<br>
* A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous<br>
deriving clauses<br>
<br>
* A number of improvements in code generation, including changes<br>
<br>
* A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances<br>
available for a type.<br>
<br>
* An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation<br>
<br>
* A new, low-latency garbage collector.<br>
<br>
* Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler<br>
samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and<br>
other program events<br>
<br>
This is the first and likely final release candidate. For a variety of<br>
reasons, it comes a few weeks later than the original schedule of<br>
release late December. However, besides a few core libraries<br>
book-keeping issues this candidate is believed to be in good condition<br>
for the final release. As such, the final 8.10.1 release will likely<br>
come in two weeks.<br>
<br>
Note that at the moment we still require that macOS Catalina users<br>
exempt the binary distribution from the notarization requirement by<br>
running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`.<br>
<br>
In addition, we are still looking for any Alpine Linux to help diagnose<br>
the correctness issues in the Alpine binary distribution [1]. If you use<br>
Alpine any you can offer here would be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other<br>
issues.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
- Ben<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418</a><br>
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