[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

Sat Sep 22 10:37:29 UTC 2018

Thanks to everyone involved with the release!

It's a bit sad that we don't have DWARF bindists this time (we had those for
8.4.2 and 8.4.3). DWARF builds make debugging GHC much easier, and because
runtime panics also include stack traces in DWARF builds tickets reported for
those bindists tend to be more helpful.

Would it be possible to provide DWARF bindists at a later date?

Ömer

Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>, 22 Eyl 2018 Cmt, 03:57 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.1, the
> fourth major release in the GHC 8 series. The source distribution, binary
> distributions, and documentation for this release are available at
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1
>
> The 8.6 release fixes over 400 bugs from the 8.4 series and introduces a
> number of exciting features. These most notably include:
>
>  * A new deriving mechanism, `deriving via`, providing a convenient way
>    for users to extend Haskell's typeclass deriving mechanism
>
>  * Quantified constraints, allowing forall quantification in constraint contexts
>
>  * An early version of the GHCi `:doc` command
>
>  * The `ghc-heap-view` package, allowing introspection into the
>    structure of GHC's heap
>
>  * Valid hole fit hints, helping the user to find terms to fill typed
>    holes in their programs
>
>  * The BlockArguments extension, allowing the `$` operator to be omitted
>    in some unambiguous contexts
>
>  * An exciting new plugin mechanism, source plugins, allowing plugins to
>    inspect and modify a wide variety of compiler representations.
>
>  * Improved recompilation checking when plugins are used
>
>  * Significantly better handling of macOS linker command size limits,
>    avoiding linker errors while linking large projects
>
>  * The next phase of the MonadFail proposal, enabling
>    -XMonadFailDesugaring by default
>
> A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the
> release notes:
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.6.1-notes.html
>
> Perhaps of equal importance, GHC 8.6 is the second major release made
> under GHC's accelerated six-month release schedule and the first set of
> binary distributions built primarily using our new continuous
> integration scheme. While the final 8.6 release is around three weeks
> later than initially scheduled due to late-breaking bug reports, we
> expect that the 8.8 release schedule shouldn't be affected.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to developing, documenting, and
> testing this release!
>
> 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:
>
>         https://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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