[Git][ghc/ghc][wip/backports-8.8] 2 commits: users-guide: Add 8.8.4 release notes

Ben Gamari gitlab at gitlab.haskell.org
Sat Jun 20 21:54:55 UTC 2020



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


Commits:
bee002a5 by Ben Gamari at 2020-06-20T17:54:49-04:00
users-guide: Add 8.8.4 release notes

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9bf3f036 by Ben Gamari at 2020-06-20T17:54:49-04:00
gitlab-ci: Introduce DWARF release jobs for Deb10 and Fedora 27

(cherry picked from commit 481e31740672a37c5b3a8924bba7e15c4080bc2e)

- - - - -


3 changed files:

- .gitlab-ci.yml
- + docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst
- docs/users_guide/index.rst


Changes:

=====================================
.gitlab-ci.yml
=====================================
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ stages:
 #
 
 
+.release: &release
+  variables:
+    BUILD_FLAVOUR: "perf"
+    FLAVOUR: "perf"
+  artifacts:
+    when: always
+    expire_in: 1 year
+  rules:
+    - if: '$RELEASE == "yes"'
+
+
 ############################################################
 # Linting
 ############################################################
@@ -413,6 +424,15 @@ release-x86_64-linux-deb9-dwarf:
     key: linux-x86_64-deb9
 
 
+release-x86_64-linux-deb10-dwarf:
+  <<: *release
+  extends: .build-x86_64-linux-deb10
+  variables:
+    CONFIGURE_ARGS: "--enable-dwarf-unwind"
+    BUILD_FLAVOUR: dwarf
+    TEST_ENV: "x86_64-linux-deb10-dwarf"
+    BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR_COMP: "ghc-x86_64-deb10-linux-dwarf.tar.xz"
+
 #################################
 # x86_64-linux-deb8
 #################################
@@ -463,7 +483,7 @@ release-x86_64-linux-centos7:
 # x86_64-linux-fedora27
 #################################
 
-validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27:
+.build-x86_64-linux-fedora27:
   extends: .validate-linux
   stage: full-build
   image: "registry.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ci-images/x86_64-linux-fedora27:$DOCKER_REV"
@@ -472,12 +492,28 @@ validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27:
     BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR_COMP: "bindistprep/ghc-x86_64-fedora27-linux.tar.xz"
   cache:
     key: linux-x86_64-fedora27
+
+validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27:
+  extends: .build-x86_64-linux-fedora27
   artifacts:
     when: always
     # These are used for head.hackage jobs therefore we keep them around for
     # longer.
     expire_in: 8 week
 
+release-x86_64-linux-fedora27:
+  <<: *release
+  extends: .build-x86_64-linux-fedora27
+
+release-x86_64-linux-fedora27-dwarf:
+  <<: *release
+  extends: .build-x86_64-linux-fedora27
+  variables:
+    CONFIGURE_ARGS: "--enable-dwarf-unwind"
+    BUILD_FLAVOUR: dwarf
+    TEST_ENV: "x86_64-linux-fedora27-dwarf"
+    BIN_DIST_PREP_TAR_COMP: "ghc-x86_64-fedora27-linux-dwarf.tar.xz"
+
 ############################################################
 # Validation via Pipelines (Windows)
 ############################################################


=====================================
docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst
=====================================
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+.. _release-8-8-4:
+
+Release notes for version 8.8.4
+===============================
+
+GHC 8.8.4 is a minor release intended to fix regressions and minor bugs in the
+8.8.1, 8.8.2 and 8.8.3 releases.
+
+Highlights
+----------
+
+- Fix a bug in process creation on Windows (:ghc-ticket:`17926`).
+
+- Workaround a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`).
+
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+- A long-standing bug (:ghc-ticket:`16893`) which can cause some applications
+  of ``unsafeCoerce`` to segmentation fault is only partially fixed in this
+  release. This release only avoids this issue in the uses of ``unsafeCoerce``
+  in ``Data.Typeable.Internal``, which was the proximate cause of
+  :ghc-ticket:`16893`.
+
+  However, it is possible that this bug could manifest in user-code using
+  ``unsafeCoerce`` to perform dynamic type checks. See the :ghc-ticket:`ticket
+  <16893>` for details.
+
+- The simplifier can optimise away some applications of the ``touch#`` primop
+  when it can prove that the ``touch#`` is unreachable due to divergence or
+  synchronous exception, resulting in memory unsoundness. Users requiring
+  ``touch#`` behavior are advised to only use ``touch#`` to implement
+  continuation-passing-style primitives (e.g. in the style of
+  ``withForeignPtr``) bearing ``NOINLINE`` pragmas (to avoid inappropriate
+  simplification). See :ghc-ticket:`17760` for details.
+
+Included libraries
+------------------
+
+The package database provided with this distribution also contains a number of
+packages other than GHC itself. See the changelogs provided with these packages
+for further change information.
+
+.. ghc-package-list::
+
+    libraries/array/array.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/base/base.cabal:               Core library
+    libraries/binary/binary.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/bytestring/bytestring.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility
+    libraries/containers/containers/containers.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/deepseq/deepseq.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/directory/directory.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/filepath/filepath.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    compiler/ghc.cabal:                      The compiler itself
+    libraries/ghci/ghci.cabal:               The REPL interface
+    libraries/ghc-boot/ghc-boot.cabal:       Internal compiler library
+    libraries/ghc-boot-th/ghc-boot-th.cabal: Internal compiler library
+    libraries/ghc-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal:       GHC heap-walking library
+    libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal:       Core library
+    libraries/haskeline/haskeline.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghci`` executable
+    libraries/hpc/hpc.cabal:                 Dependency of ``hpc`` executable
+    libraries/integer-gmp/integer-gmp.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/libiserv/libiserv.cabal:       Internal compiler library
+    libraries/mtl/mtl.cabal:                 Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal:           Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/process/process.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/pretty/pretty.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/stm/stm.cabal:                 Dependency of ``haskeline`` library
+    libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal:     Core library
+    libraries/terminfo/terminfo.cabal:       Dependency of ``haskeline`` library
+    libraries/text/text.cabal:               Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/time/time.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/transformers/transformers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/unix/unix.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Win32/Win32.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/xhtml/xhtml.cabal:             Dependency of ``haddock`` executable
+


=====================================
docs/users_guide/index.rst
=====================================
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Contents:
    8.8.1-notes
    8.8.2-notes
    8.8.3-notes
+   8.8.4-notes
    ghci
    runghc
    usage



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