[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-rc1 is now available

2023-09-29 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-rc1 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and

Re: GHC 9.8.1-rc1 delayed

2023-09-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hi all, > > Due to a rather late-breaking boot library mix-up I will need to delay > the 9.8.1 release candidate by at least two days. I will provide a more > specific timeline tomorrow when there is more clarity on what needs to > happen to resolve the situation. > Hi all,

Re: How do you keep tabs on commits that fix issues?

2023-09-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Bryan Richter via ghc-devs writes: > I am not sure of the best ways for checking if a certain issue has been > fixed on a certain release. My past ways of using git run into certain > problems: > > The commit (or commits!) that fix an issue get rewritten once by Marge as > they are rebased onto