The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.12.4.
Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at
[downloads.haskell.org][] and via [GHCup](https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/).

GHC 9.12.4 is a bug-fix release fixing many issues of a variety of
severities and scopes, including:

* Fixed a critical code generation regression where sub-word division produced
  incorrect results (#26711, #26668), similar to the bug fixed in 9.12.2

* Numerous fixes for register allocation bugs, preventing data corruption
  when spilling and reloading registers
  (#26411, #26526, #26537, #26542, #26550)

* Fixes for several compiler crashes, including issues with CSE (#25468),
  and the simplifier(#26681), implicit parameters (#26451), and the type-class
  specialiser (#26682)

* Fixed cast worker/wrapper incorrectly firing on INLINE functions (#26903)
* Fixed LLVM backend miscompilation of bit manipulation operations
  (#20645, #26065, #26109)

* Fixed associated type family and data family instance changes not triggering
  recompilation (#26183, #26705)

* Fixed negative type literals causing the compiler to hang (#26861)

* Improvements to determinism of compiler output (#26846, #26858)

* Fixes for eventlog shutdown deadlocks (#26573)
  and lost wakeups in the RTS (#26324)

* Fixed split sections support on Windows (#26696, #26494) and the LLVM backend 
(#26770)

* Fixes for the bytecode compiler, PPC native code generator, and Wasm backend

* The runtime linker now supports COMMON symbols (#6107)

* Improved backtrace support: backtraces for `error` exceptions are now
  evaluated at throw time

* `NamedDefaults` now correctly requires the class to be standard or have an
  in-scope default declaration, and handles poly-kinded classes (#25775, 
#25778, #25882)

* ... and many more

A full accounting of these fixes can be found in the [release notes][]. As
always, GHC's release status, including planned future releases, can be found on
the GHC Wiki [status][].

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We would like to thank these sponsors 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.

As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see
anything amiss.

[release notes]: 
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/ghc-9.12/docs/users_guide/9.12.4-notes.rst?ref_type=heads&plain=1
[status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status
[downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.4
[ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new

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