<div dir="ltr">(fwd to the real haskell cafe list)<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>-- Dan Burton</div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" style=""><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dan Burton</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danburton.email@gmail.com">danburton.email@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.2 is now available<br>To: Ben Gamari <<a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">ben@well-typed.com</a>><br>Cc: Haskell-cafe <<a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@googlegroups.com">haskell-cafe@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I have two trivialities to bring up:<br><br>1. Could you update <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/</a> to point to 8.6.2? (It's currently showing 8.6.1.)</div><div dir="ltr">2. The SHA1SUMS and SHA256SUMS for 8.6.2 list a file "./ghc-8.6.2-x86_64-darwin.tar.xz", but that is a broken link; the corresponding file is found at "./ghc-8.6.2-x86_64<b>-apple</b>-darwin.tar.xz". Can these be harmonized?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5352776688753550768gmail_signature">-- Dan Burton</div></div><br><input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"3","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:29 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.2, a<br>
bugfix release to GHC 8.6.1. The source distribution, binary<br>
distributions, and documentation for this release are available at<br>
<br>
<a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.2" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.2</a><br>
<br>
The 8.6 release fixes several regressions present in 8.6.1 including:<br>
<br>
* A long-standing (but previously hard to manifest) bug resulting in<br>
undefined behavior for some applications of dataToTag# has been fixed<br>
(#15696)<br>
<br>
* An incorrect linker path to libgmp in the Mac OS binary distributions<br>
(#15404)<br>
<br>
* A regression rendering Windows installations to read-only directories<br>
unusable (#15667)<br>
<br>
* A regression resulting in panics while compiling some record updates<br>
of GADTs constructors (#15499)<br>
<br>
* A regression resulting in incorrect type errors when splicing types<br>
into constraint contexts has been fixed (#15815)<br>
<br>
* Around a dozen other issues.<br>
<br>
See Trac [1] for a full list of issues resolved in this release.<br>
<br>
Note that this release ships with one significant but long-standing bug<br>
(#14251): Calls to functions taking both Float# and Double# may result<br>
in incorrect code generation when compiled using the LLVM code generator.<br>
This is not a new issue, it has existed as long as the LLVM code<br>
generator has existed; however, changes in code generation in 8.6 made<br>
it more likely that user code using only lifted types will trigger it.<br>
<br>
Happy compiling!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
- Ben<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.6.2&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/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.6.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority</a> <br>
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