[Git][ghc/ghc][ghc-9.8] docs: Release notes for 9.8.3

Ben Gamari (@bgamari) gitlab at gitlab.haskell.org
Mon Oct 14 02:53:26 UTC 2024



Ben Gamari pushed to branch ghc-9.8 at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC


Commits:
846acd22 by Ben Gamari at 2024-10-13T22:13:57-04:00
docs: Release notes for 9.8.3

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- docs/users_guide/9.8.3-notes.rst


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docs/users_guide/9.8.3-notes.rst
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@@ -16,13 +16,98 @@ Compiler
 
 - Fixed a bug that caused GHC to panic when using the AArch64 ncg and :ghc-flag:`-fregs-graph`
   on certain programs (:ghc-ticket:`24941`).
+- Fix invalid optimisation of Cmm programs on 32-bit platforms when targetting 64-bit targets (:ghc-ticket:`24893` and :ghc-ticket:`24700`)
+- Improve float-out surrounding applications of ``runRW#`` (:ghc-ticket:`25055`)
+- Fix :ghc-flag:`-fregs-graph` crash when targetting AArch64 (:ghc-ticket:`24941`)
+- Fix native code generator miscompilation of signed sub-word arguments of FFI calls on x86 (:ghc-ticket:`25018`)
+- Fix code generation of foreign exports with more than 6 arguments when some are subword-width (:ghc-ticket:`24314`)
+- Fix recompilation avoidance behavior of :ghc-flag:`-fwrite-if-simplified-core` (:ghc-ticket:`24656`)
+- Fix linking error when :extension:`TypeData` and :extension:`StrictData` are in use (:ghc-ticket:`24620`)
+- Fix miscompilation by x86 native code generator due to shortcutting (:ghc-ticket:`24507`)
+- Fix uses of ``(~)`` and ``(@)`` being rejected in :extension:`TemplateHaskell` splices (:ghc-ticket:`23748`)
 
 Runtime system
 --------------
 
-- Internal fragmentation incurred by the non-moving GC's allocator has been reduced for small objects.
+- Significantly improve performance of code loading via dynamic linking (:ghc-ticket:`23415`)
+- Internal fragmentation incurred by the non-moving garbage collector's allocator has been reduced for small objects.
   In one real-world application, this has reduced resident set size by about 20% and modestly improved run-time.
   See :ghc-ticket:`23340`.
   :rts-flag:`--nonmoving-dense-allocator-count=⟨count⟩` has been added to fine-tune this behaviour.
+- Fix runtime crash of the :rts-flag:`nonmoving garbage collector <--nonmoving-gc>` due to weak pointers with static key (:ghc-ticket:`24492`)
+- Allow heap profiling when the :rts-flag:`--nonmoving-gc` is in use
 
+GHCi
+----
+
+- Fix a crash involving use of field selectors in GHCi (:ghc-ticket:`25109`)
+
+JavaScript backend
+------------------
+
+- Fix compiler crash involving rubbish literals (:ghc-ticket:`25177`, :ghc-ticket:`24664`)
+
+``base``
+--------
+
+- Fix spurious closing of file descriptors after ``fork`` on platforms using the KQueue event manager backend (:ghc-ticket:`24672`)
+
+Haddock
+-------
+- Fix source links to hyperlinked sources output (:ghc-ticket:`24086`)
+
+Other Core Libraries
+--------------------
+
+- Bump ``stm`` to 2.5.3.1
+- Bump ``deepseq`` to 1.5.1.0
+- Bump ``array`` to 0.5.8.0
+- Bump ``Cabal`` to 3.10.3.0
+- Bump ``directory`` to 1.3.8.5
+- Bump ``process`` to 1.6.25.0
+
+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/Cabal/Cabal-syntax/Cabal-syntax.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/exceptions/exceptions.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` and ``haskeline`` 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/mtl/mtl.cabal:                 Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal:           Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/pretty/pretty.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/process/process.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/semaphore-compat/semaphore-compat.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
 



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