cabal-install-3.4-rc1 now available

[Vanessa McHale]

Happy to see Arm binaries there :)

Cheers,
Vanessa McHale

> On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> The Cabal developers are happy to announce the first release candidate
> for cabal-install-3.4.0.0
> 
> The corresponding tag is `cabal-install-3.4-rc1`,
> 
>     https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases/tag/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1
> 
> and there is a handful of binaries available at
> 
>     https://oleg.fi/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1/
> 
> Ubuntu-16.04 bindist should work on most recent Linux distributions,
> (requires at least kernel 3.15, compiled against glibc-2.23).
> Similarly darwin-sierra bindist should work on newer macOSes as well.
> 
> cabal-install-3.4 release highlights are:
> 
> - Support for upcoming GHC-9.0
> - Removal of sandboxes
> - Improved public sublibrary support
> - `active-repositories` configuration
> - Various `cabal init` improvements
> - Various `cabal sdist` improvements
> - `source-repository-package` are not treated as local packages
> - Added `list-bin` command
> 
> Complete release notes (drafts) are at:
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/master/release-notes
> 
> Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any issues:
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues
> 
> On 25.7.2020 13.07, Oleg Grenrus wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> Last week I tagged Cabal-3.4 release candidate. After fixing few
>> immediately obvious issues with cabal-install, I have successfully used
>> it for a week.
>> 
>> This week I have been working on improving scripts for bootstrapping and
>> release packaging, and as intermediate result there are
>> 
>> - x86_64-darwin-sierra
>> - x86_64-ubuntu-14.04
>> - x86_64-alpine-3.11.6
>> - amd64-freebsd-12.1-RELEASE
>> - aarch64-ubuntu-18.04
>> 
>> bootstrapped builds at
>> 
>> https://oleg.fi/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1-bootstrapped/
>> 
>> The ubuntu-14.04 build works on later ubuntu, debian, and centos which I
>> tried (in docker). Note, alpine build is not static, i.e. it dynamically
>> links against musl.
>> 
>> Please try these out, especially try to build cabal-install (from 3.4)
>> branch, and use it, so we can fix most of regressions since 3.2.
>> I'm specially interested whether the darwin/macos build works on newer
>> macos versions.
>> 
>> The release notes for Cabal-3.4 and cabal-install-3.4 are available at
>> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/master/release-notes
>> 
>> - Oleg
>> 
>> 
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