the tag ghc repo tag ghc-9.6.7-release has not been created. please fix. On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM Luite Stegeman <stege...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of > GHC 9.6.7. Binary distributions, source distributions, and > documentation are available at > > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.7 > > We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly. > > GHC 9.6.7 brings number of fixes, including: > > - GHC’s internal Unique type has been widened to 64-bits on 32-bit > architectures, avoiding potential miscompilations on large projects. > - Fix a runtime crash when using the compacting GC, caused by black > holes in large objects. > - Added new flags -fspec-eval and -fspec-eval-dictfun to allow > switching off speculative evaluation. > > The following libraries have been updated since GHC 9.6.6: > > - base-4.18.3.0 > - filepath-1.4.301.0 > - unix-2.8.6.0 > - bytestring-0.11.5.4 > - array-0.5.8.0 > > A more detailed description can be found in the [release notes] and a > full list of changes in [GHC!13841] and [GHC!13891] > > Note about Haskell Language Server and building GHC 9.8+: > > The change of Unique to 64 bit [GHC#22010] adds the exported symbol > ghc_unique_counter64 to the RTS. Unfortunately it's impossible to > avoid this without breaking other things. If you encounter a linker > error related to ghc_unique_counter64 when building GHC (or building a > GHC-derived package like ghc-lib-parser) with GHC 9.6.7, you probably > have to add this [fix] to the program you're building. > > We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, > Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and > other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind > support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over > the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without > the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this > release. > > Please give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see anything > amiss. > > ~ Luite > > [release notes]: > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.7/docs/users_guide/9.6.7-notes.html > [GHC!13841]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13841 > [GHC!13891]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13891 > [GHC#22010 > <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13891%5BGHC#22010>]: > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/22010 > [fix] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13743 > [ticket] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > -- Shayne Fletcher
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