[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 2

[George Colpitts]

compiled from source with no issues on Mac OS 10.12.2 with XCode 8.2.1.
Compiled vector package with it, did some smoke testing of the runtime,
seems fine

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The GHC team is happy to announce the second candiate of the
> 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary
> distributions are available at
>
>     http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc2/
>
> This is the second and likely final release candidate leading up the
> 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number of bugs found in 8.0.1
> including,
>
>   * Interface file build determinism (#4012).
>
>   * Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile
>     position-independent executables by default
>
>   * Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)
>
>   * A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while
>     compiling some packages (see #12076)
>
>   * Compatability with systems which use the gold linker
>
>   * A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system
>
>   * A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest
>     on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.
>
>   * A typechecker bug which caused some programs using
>     -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.
>
>   * More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete
>     listing.
>
> This release candidate fixes a number of issues present in -rc1,
>
>   * #12757, which lead to broken runtime behavior and even crashes in
>     the presence of primitive strings.
>
>   * #12844, a type inference issue affecting partial type signatures.
>
>   * A bump of the `directory` library, fixing buggy path
>     canonicalization behavior (#12894). Unfortunately this required a
>     major version bump in `directory` and minor bumps in several other
>     libraries.
>
>   * #12912, where use of the `select` system call would lead to runtime
>     system failures with large numbers of open file handles.
>
> If all goes well we should have a final 8.0.2 release out shortly after
> the new year. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to
> everyone who has contributed so far!
>
> Happy testing,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [1]
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
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