Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.3. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.3
This release includes a few bug fixes including:
* A code generation bug resulting in crashing of some programs using
UnboxedSums has been fixed (#15038).
* #14381, where Cabal and GHC would disagree about abi-depends,
resulting in build failures, has been worked around. Note that the
work-around patch has already been shipped by several distributions
in previous releases, so this change may not be visible to you.
* By popular demand, GHC now logs a message when it reads a package
environment file, hopefully eliminating some of the confusion wrought
by this feature.
* GHC now emits assembler agreeable to newer versions of Gnu binutils,
fixing #15068.
* SmallArray#s can now be compacted into a compact region
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to developing, documenting, and
testing this release!
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble.
How to get it
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The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
place.
Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
system isn't available yet, please try again later.
Background
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Haskell is a standardized lazy functional programming language.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an
optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of platforms,
together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The
distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of
libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency,
exceptions, and foreign language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a
BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact
information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page
(see below).
On-line GHC-related resources
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Relevant URLs:
GHC home page https://www.haskell.org/ghc/
GHC developers' home page https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Haskell home page https://www.haskell.org/
Supported Platforms
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The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The
Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
Developers
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We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code
repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the
GHC's developer's site:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Mailing lists
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We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web
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https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-tickets
There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
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Many GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC:
https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs
can be found here:
https://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
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