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

[Dan Burton]

Will base-4.13.0.0 (which ships with ghc 8.8) be uploaded to hackage?

-- Dan Burton


On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:25 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1.
> The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are
> available at
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1
>
> This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred
> contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes
> relative to GHC 8.6:
>
>  * Visible kind applications are now supported (GHC Proposal #15)
>
>  * Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may
>    be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see
>    #15934)
>
>  * A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator
>    significantly improving the runtime performance of some kernels
>
>  * The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce
>    allocations significantly for some programs.
>
>  * Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the
>    Haskell AST in tooling
>
>  * Users can write `forall` in more contexts (GHC Proposal #7)
>
>  * The pattern-match checker is now more precise in the presence of
>    strict fields with uninhabited types.
>
>  * A comprehensive audit of GHC's memory ordering barriers has been
>    performed, resulting in a number of fixes that should significantly
>    improve the reliability of programs on architectures with
>    weakly-ordered memory models (e.g. PowerPC, many ARM and AArch64
>    implementations).
>
>  * A long-standing linker limitation rendering GHCi unusable with
>    projects with cyclic symbol dependencies has been fixed (#13786)
>
>  * Further work on the Hadrian build system
>
>  * Countless miscellaneous bug-fixes
>
> Unfortunately, due to a build issue (#17108) found late in the release
> process
> i386 Windows builds are currently unavailable. These will be provided in
> the coming weeks.
>
> As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
>
> Happy compiling!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [1]
> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-notes.html
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