[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

[David Feuer]

Did  this release fix the dataToTag# issue? I think that has a number of people concerned.

On Oct 18, 2018, 11:46 AM, at 11:46 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:17, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>> The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.4
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>> As always, the full release notes can be found in the users guide,
>>
>>
>https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.4/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.4-notes.html#base-library
>>
>> I think this base text is out of date, and could be dropped, right?
>>
>Indeed it is.
>
>> I see that stm was also bumped: though it is not listed in
>>
>https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.4/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.4-notes.html#included-libraries
>>
>Also true. However, in my mind this isn't nearly as significant as the
>`text` bump, which affects many users and fixes extremely bad
>misbehavior.
>
>Thanks for noticing these!
>
>Cheers
>
>- Ben
>
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