[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/backports-8.8] 2 commits: More release notes

[Ben Gamari]

Ben Gamari pushed to branch wip/backports-8.8 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
22d7f115 by Ben Gamari at 2020-07-08T12:09:07-04:00
More release notes

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b18d909b by GHC GitLab CI at 2020-07-08T12:09:07-04:00
Bump to 8.8.4, RELEASE=YES

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2 changed files:

- configure.ac
- docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst


Changes:

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configure.ac
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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ dnl
 # see what flags are available. (Better yet, read the documentation!)
 #
 
-AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [8.8.3], [glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org], [ghc-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
+AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [8.8.4], [glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org], [ghc-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
 
 # Set this to YES for a released version, otherwise NO
-: ${RELEASE=NO}
+: ${RELEASE=YES}
 
 # The primary version (e.g. 7.5, 7.4.1) is set in the AC_INIT line
 # above.  If this is not a released version, then we will append the


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docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst
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@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ Highlights
 
 - Workaround a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`).
 
+- Fix a few linking issues affecting ARM
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+- Fix "missing interface file" error triggered by some uses of ``Ordering`` (:ghc-ticket:`18185`)
+
+- Fix an integer overflow in the compact-normal-form import implementation (:ghc-ticket:`16992`)
+
+- ``configure`` now accepts  ``--enable-numa`` flag to enable/disable ``numactl`` support on Linux.
+
 
 Known issues
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