[GHC-Releases] GHC 9.8.4

[Julian Ospald]

Sure

On November 15, 2024 2:54:52 PM UTC, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>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