Current Stable Release = 8.6.2 on haskell.org

[Ben Gamari]

On December 23, 2018 7:19:41 PM EST, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
>Given that 8.6.3 does not work at all on Windows (seems to hang when TH
>is
>involved), we should probably not make it the current stable release.
>See
>16071, I also just run into that and had to revert to 8.6.2.
>
>Iavor
>
>On Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 4:08 PM Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org wrote:
>
>> Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hello devs,
>> >
>> > I assume, the version of the current release should be bumped up to
>8.6.3
>> > here [1]?
>> >
>> Yes, quite right.
>>
>> I'll handle this soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
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For the record, the plan here is to revert the regressing patch on ghc-8.6 and cut a small 8.6.4 release. Unfortunately this will mean that profiling will be broken for this release but this is the best we can do at the moment.

I've been spent a large fraction of the last several weeks improving our CI story on Windows so future releases should have significantly better coverage on this platform.

Cheers,

- Ben