[GHC-Releases] GHC 9.8.4

[Ben Gamari]

Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> In light of the various issues reported in 9.8.3, I have prepared a
> 9.8.4 release. What is likely to be the final release pipeline can be
> found here [1].
>
> However, before moving ahead with the release process, I would like to
> confirm that this release covers the issues raised with 9.8.3;
> specifically:
>
>  * we ship with filepath-1.4.300.2
>  * we provide manpages in all binary distributions
>
> In addition, I backported two unrelated fixes (a soundness fix related
> to prompt# and a fix affecting -Wmissing-home-modules).
>
> Julian, perhaps you could confirm that this addresses your concerns?
>
Unfortunately, my colleague Zubin points out that an unrelated issue in
`os-string` [2] may have a large impact on HLS users. As there is a
soon-to-be-merged fix for this issue I think we may need to scuttle the
release candidate proposed in this thread, wait for an `os-string`
release, and try again next week.

Julian, does this sound right to you?

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] https://github.com/haskell/os-string/issues/22
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