[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5-rc1 is now available

[Merijn Verstraaten]

There doesn't appear to be a bindist for CentOS 7 (nor for 8.6.4, despite 8.6.3 having one).

Cheers,
Merijn

> On 8 Apr 2019, at 20:28, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> 
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> Hello everyone,
> 
> The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of 8.6.5.
> The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are
> available at
> 
>    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5-rc1
> 
> This release fixes a handful of issues with 8.6.4:
> 
> - Binary distributions once again ship with Haddock documentation including
>   syntax highlighted source of core libraries (#16445)
> 
> - A build system issue where use of GCC with `-flto` broke `configure`
>   was fixed (#16440)
> 
> - An bug affecting Windows platforms wherein XMM register values could be
>   mangled when entering STG has been fixed (#16514)
> 
> - Several Windows packaging issues resulting from the recent CI rework.
>   (#16408, #16398, #16516)
> 
> Since this is a relatively small bugfix release we are bypassing the
> alpha releases and moving right to the release candidate stage. If all
> goes well the final release will be cut next week.
> 
> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
> 
> Happy testing!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 

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