[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 is now available

[Tom Ellis]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:11:04PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
>  * hackage-server needs to be updated to Cabal-3, tested, and the
>    deployment updated before the remaining boot packages can be uploaded
>    (admittedly I'm not familiar with the technical reasons for this
>    dependency, but this is what I have been told)

Perhaps Herbert could pitch in with an explanation because I think a lot of
people will be feeling quite puzzled at this point.