Cabal 1.24 and 1.26 status update

Hi *, A short update on the current status of the 1.24 branch and plans for the future. Given that the GHC 8 final release is fast approaching, I've decided to create the 1.24 branch before the GHC 8 RC3 has been released. This means that some of the Cabal features initially planned for 1.24 (see

Cabal 1.24 branch created

Hi *, I've just created the 1.24 branch. I've also uploaded release candidates of Cabal and cabal-install 1.24 to Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.24.0.0/candidate/Cabal-1.24.0.0.tar.gz