Upcoming GHC 9.4.8 release

[Zubin Duggal]

The fix for the issue (!11254) has been marked for backport and will
be included in the release.

On 23/10/25 10:57, Kazu Yamamoto wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Thank you for your effort.
>
>How can I confirm that fix for #23746 is included in GHC 9.4.8?
>Without this, I cannot take profile on M1 mac.
>I'm now taking profile on a remote Linux machine.
>It's very inconvenient.
>
>--Kazu
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>We hope to prepare the 9.4.8 release in the coming weeks. This will
>>likely be the final release in the 9.4 series.
>>
>>The major patches currently slated for inclusion into the 9.4.8 are:
>>
>>1. A process submodule bump to 1.6.17.0 avoiding segfaults on Darwin
>>   (https://github.com/haskell/process/issues/295)
>>2. A fix for a recompilation checking bug where GHC may miss changes
>>in
>>   transitive dependencies when deciding to relink a program
>>   (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/11178) 3. A 
>>fix
>>   for a packaging bug so that we can ensure all released binaries
>>   and bundled libraries are built with `-split-sections` enabled
>>   (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/9492)
>>
>>If you would like any patches to be considered for inclusion in this
>>release please ensure that the corresponding Merge Requests are 
>>marked
>>with the ~"backport needed:9.4" by **the end of this week**.
>>
>>Please note that we will be quite conservative with the changes we
>>accept for this branch at this point in its lifecycle.
>>
>>The current set of all MRs being considered for inclusion can be
>>viewed at
>>https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests?scope=all&state=all&label_name[]=backport%20needed%3A9.4
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Zubin
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