[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5 is now available

[Simon Jakobi]

Hi Ben!

Thanks for the release! Can you also upload the source tarballs?

Cheers,
Simon

Am Mi., 24. Apr. 2019 um 06:56 Uhr schrieb Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.6.5. The source
> distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5
>
> Release notes are also available [1].
>
> 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)
>
> Do note that due to linking issues (see #15934) profiling will be rather
> unreliable on Windows. This will be fixed in 8.8.1.
>
> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
>
> Happy compiling!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [1]
> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5/docs/html/users_guide/8.6.5-notes.html
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