[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available

[Vanessa McHale]

Pleased to see ARM binaries :)

Thanks!
Vanessa

> On Dec 12, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of GHC
> 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation
> are available at
> 
>    https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1
> 
> Release notes are also available [1].
> 
> This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.1:
> 
> - A bug (#17088) in the compacting garbage collector resulting in
>   segmentations faults under specific circumstances. Note that this may
>   affect user programs even if they did not explicitly request the
>   compacting GC (using the -c RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to
>   compacting collection during times of high memory pressure.
> 
> - A code generation bug (#17334) resulting in GHC panics has been
>   fixed.
> 
> - A bug in the `process` library causing builds using `hsc2hs` to fail
>   non-deterministically on Windows has been fixed (Trac #17480)
> 
> - A typechecker bug (#12088) resulting in programs being unexpectedly
>   rejected has been fixed.
> 
> - A bug in the implementation of compact normal forms resulting in
>   segmentation faults in some uses (#17044) has been fixed.
> 
> - A bug causing GHC to incorrectly complain about incompatible LLVM
>   versions when using LLVM 7.0.1 has been fixed (#16990).
> 
> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
> 
> Happy compiling!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
> [1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.2-rc1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.html
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