ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

[Ian Lynagh]

We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.3.

    Snapshots beginning with 6.8.2.20080527 are release candidates for 6.8.3

You can download snapshots from here:

    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/

Right now we have the source bundles:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src-extralibs.tar.bz2


Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains
various extra packages that are often supplied with GHC - unpack the
extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will
be included in the build automatically.

There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary
distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.

Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
before the release!

We expect to release in a few days, assuming no major issues are
discovered.


Thanks
Ian, on behalf of the GHC team