Release Status - 9.4.1-alpha2/9.2.3/9.0.* series

[Matthew Pickering]

Blog post: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20220523-release-status.html

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 10:33 AM Matthew Pickering
<matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I will shortly prepare a blog post which describes the situation in
> more detail for a general audience but for the subscribers here is a
> summary of the release status.
>
> 9.4.1-alpha2: The release is imminent, and fixes a number of packaging
> issues identified with alpha1. Slightly delayed due to regression
> involving deb9 toolchains. (Ben)
>
> 9.2.3: The release will follow shortly (within 1 week) after the
> 9.4.1-alpha2 release. Slightly delayed due to 9.4.1-alpha2 delay. (Zubin)
>
> 9.4.1: The target for the final release is end of July.
>
> 9.0.* series: We do not intend to do any more releases in the 9.0.* series.
>  - The 9.2 series is more stable
>  - The 9.2 series does not contain significant breakage (when
> upgrading from 9.0)
>  - Anecdotal evidence suggests users are upgrading straight from 8.10.7 to 9.2.2
>  - We do not have capacity to manage 4 active branches.
>
> Any thoughts, please reply promptly before I communicate these facts
> with the community.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Matt