Hello everyone, The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at
http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/
This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates
leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs
found in 8.0.1 including,
* Interface file build determinism (#4012).
* Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile
position-independent executables by default
* Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797)
* A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while
compiling some packages (see #12076)
* Compatability with systems which use the gold linker
* A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system
* A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest
on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads.
* A typechecker bug which caused some programs using
-XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted.
* More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete
listing.
Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in
runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in
-rc2, which will be released in about a week.
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who
has contributed so far!
Happy testing,
- Ben
[1]
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
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