[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

[Niklas Larsson]

Hi!

It says on the download page that the Windows versions is “excluding the Windows 10 Creator’s Update”. I’m assuming that is a copy-paste error from the release that fixed the Windows 10 CU bug. 

Regards,
Niklas

> 8 mars 2018 kl. 17:57 skrev Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:
> 
> 
> The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of
> Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Binary and source distributions can be found
> at
> 
>    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/
> 
> This is the third major release in the GHC 8 series. As such, the focus
> of this release is performance, stability, and consolidation.
> Consequently numerous cleanups can be seen throughout the compiler
> including,
> 
> * Further refinement of TypeInType, including significant improvements
>   in error messages.
> 
> * Improvements in code generation resulting in noticable performance
>   improvements in some types of programs.
> 
> * Core library improvements, including phase 2 of the Semigroup/Monoid
>   proposal
> 
> * Many improvements to instance deriving
> 
> * The resolution of nearly 300 other tickets
> 
> A more thorough list of the changes in this release can be found in the
> release notes,
> 
>  https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.1-notes.html
> 
> There are a few changes in release-engineering matters that should be
> noted,
> 
> * This is GHC's first release on it's new, accelerated release
>   schedule. From now on GHC will produce one release every six months.
> 
> * While we typically strive to produce OpenBSD builds, the gcc shipped
>   with OpenBSD 6.1 is unfortunately too old to compile this release.
> 
> * FreeBSD builds are still in progress
> 
> This release has been the result of approximately six months of work by
> over one hundred code contributors. Thanks to everyone who has helped in
> writing patches, testing, reporting bugs, and offering feedback over the
> last year.
> 
> As always, let us know if you encounter trouble.
> 
> 
> How to get it
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
> 
>        http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> 
> We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
> platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
> place.
> 
> Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
> system isn't available yet, please try again later.
> 
> 
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