[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

[James M]

There was talk from an earlier email thread of releasing the Haskell
Platform at the same time as 7.10.2.

I am referring to the weekly news of 2015/05/11:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150511

and this email thread:
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-May/008911.html


Was this plan abandoned? Or was there something unexpected that is delaying
it?

James

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Hello again!
>
> See below for an important announcement regarding the `text` issue
> described earlier.
>
>
> Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> writes:
>
> > =====================================================================
> >     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.2
> > =====================================================================
> >
> > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release of GHC,
> > 7.10.2.
> >
> > There have been a number of significant bug fixes since the 7.10.1 (with
> > over 70 defects fixed). These include fixes affecting type-checker
> > correctness, runtime stability, and compiler performance. For this
> > reason we highly recommend that users of 7.10.1 upgrade quickly.
> >
> > Note that due to changes made in this release to GHC's optimizer,
> > previously fragile-but-working rewrite rules may fail to fire. One
> > example of this was found in the widely-used `text` package late in the
> > release cycle, which manifested in long compilation times and poor code
> > generation for `Text` literals (see [Trac #10528]). Users are advised to
> > use text >=1.2.1.2 which includes more robust rewrite rules.
> >
> It has been brought to my attention that the fix included in
> text-1.2.1.2 does not in fact fix the rule issues triggered by GHC
> 7.10.2 (see the later comments on #10528 for details). I have pushed
> text-1.2.1.3 to Hackage which finally resolves this issue.
>
> Users of GHC 7.10.2 should upgrade to text >=1.2.1.3 at their earliest
> convenience.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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