[GHC-Releases] GHC 9.10.2 preparation

[Ben Gamari]

Hi all,

Preparations are currently underway on GHC 9.10.2. We currently have
roughly 100 commits backported with another few dozen backport
candidates. If you have a merge request which you want to be backported
please do make sure it bears the ~"backport needed:9.10" label.

Additionally, we plan on performing the following boot library version
bumps:

    Cabal        3.12.0.0 -> 3.12.1.0
    Cabal-syntax 3.12.0.0 -> 3.12.1.0
    bytestring   0.12.1.0 -> 0.12.2.0
    array        0.5.7.0  -> 0.5.8.0
    deepseq      1.5.0.0  -> 1.5.1.0
    directory    1.3.8.3  -> 1.3.9.0
    filepath     1.5.2.0  -> 1.5.4.0
    hpc          0.7.0.1  -> 0.7.0.2
    process      1.6.19.0 -> 1.6.25.0
    text         2.1.1    -> 2.1.2
    unix         2.8.5.1  -> 2.8.6.0
    exceptions   0.10.7   -> 0.10.9
    Win32        2.14.0.0 -> 2.14.1.0

Naturally, if we find that any of these upgrades could cause significant
ecosystem disruption then we may reconsider and notify the list.

If things go according to plan, we expect that a prerelease will be
ready by mid-January 2025, with a final release coming a few weeks
later. Naturally, we will continue to report status updates on the
tracking ticket [1] and will keep ghc-releases apprised if plans change.

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25433
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