[GHC-Releases] GHC 9.8.4

Julian Ospald hasufell at hasufell.de
Sun Nov 17 13:14:36 UTC 2024


I have fixed it. The fixed releases are as follows:

- filepath
   - 1.4.102.0
   - 1.4.301.0
   - 1.5.4.0
- os-string
   - 2.0.7


On 11/15/24 10:54 PM, Ben Gamari 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



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