Hello everyone, The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.3, a bugfix release in the GHC 8.6 series. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.3
The 8.6 release fixes several regressions present in 8.6.2 including:
- A code generation bug resulting in segmentations faults in some
programs (#15892)
- Darwin binary distributions are now correctly built against an
in-tree GMP (#15404)
- Three bugs leading to linker failures on Windows (#15105, #15894,
#15934)
- A bug leading to programs with deep stacks crashing when run with
retainer profiling enabled (#14758)
- A bug resulting in potential heap corruption during stable name
allocation (#15906)
- Plugins are now loaded during GHCi sessions (#15633)
As a few of these issues are rather serious users are strongly
encouraged to upgrade. See Trac [1] for a full list of issues resolved
in this release.
Note that this release ships with one significant but long-standing bug
(#14251): Calls to functions taking both Float# and Double# may result
in incorrect code generation when compiled using the LLVM code generator.
This is not a new issue, it has existed as long as the LLVM code
generator has existed; however, changes in code generation in 8.6 made
it more likely that user code using only lifted types will trigger it.
Happy compiling!
Cheers,
- Ben
[1]
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.6.3&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority
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