[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-beta1 available

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

For Debian testing I added the following

```
    linux64-ncurses6:
      8.6.0.20180810:
        url:
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-beta1/ghc-8.6.0.20180810-x86_64-deb8-linux.tar.xz
        sha256:
69e2e5c579e71c5fed1cf9be9760af4bce5f99865211c8eb6073722b8baffbd9
```

Which points to the version I would normally download and install, and is
picked up by `stack setup`.

Alan

On 11 August 2018 at 06:03, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've generated a stack.yaml which should allow most stack users to install
> this ghc release via stack.
>
> https://gist.github.com/DanBurton/43b5f5155fdd1affd02f6e86f37da9ae
>
> e.g.
>
> $ mkdir test-new-ghc && cd test-new-ghc
> $ wget https://gist.github.com/DanBurton/43b5f5155fdd1affd02f6
> e86f37da9ae/raw/6cb25068fcfae7d70739b7927248a80518192ad6/stack.yaml
> $ stack setup
> $ stack repl
>
> Once installed in this way, you can simply use:
>
> compiler: ghc-8.6.0.20180810
> compiler-check: match-exact
>
> In any project's stack.yaml in order to build with this version of ghc.
>
> -- Dan Burton
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>
> Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:31 PM
> Subject: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-beta1 available
> To: GHC developers <ghc-devs at haskell.org>, GHC users <
> glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org>, Haskell Cafe <
> haskell-cafe at googlegroups.com>, haskell at haskell.org
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The GHC development team is very pleased to announce the first beta
> leading up to GHC 8.6.1 release. The usual release artifacts are
> available from
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-beta1
>
> This beta fixes most of the bugs reported in the first two alphas and
> brings all of the core libraries up to their final release versions.
>
> The 8.6 release fixes over 300 bugs from the 8.4 series and introduces a
> number of exciting features. These most notably include:
>
>  * Significantly better handling of macOS linker command size limits,
>    avoiding linker errors while linking large projects
>
>  * A new deriving mechanism, `deriving via`, providing a convenient way
>    for users to extend Haskell's typeclass deriving mechanism
>
>  * Quantified constraints, allowing forall quantification in contexts
>
>  * An early version of the GHCi `:doc` command
>
>  * The `ghc-heap-view` package, allowing introspection into the
>    structure of GHC's heap
>
>  * Valid hole fit hints, helping the user to find terms to fill typed
>    holes in their programs
>
>  * The BlockArguments extension, allowing the `$` operator to be omitted
>    in some unambiguous contexts
>
>  * The next phase of the MonadFail proposal, enabling
>    -XMonadFailDesugaring by default
>
> A full list of the changes in this release can be found in the
> release notes:
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-beta1/docs/html/use
> rs_guide/8.6.1-notes.html
>
> This will very likely be the last release before the final 8.6.1 so do
> give it a thorough testing and, as always, report any issues you
> encounter. Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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