Thanks Ben, installed fine on my Mac running 10.14.6. For the release notes I suggest we document https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17341 which is associated with https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6262 and https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6104
I realize this will be controversial and may be rejected but I think the current status is very confusing to new / inexperienced users so I felt I should suggest it. As I mentioned in 17341, can we add a milestone and priority to this feature request? Thanks again for everybody's work on GHC Cheers George On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:58 AM Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first release > candidate of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are > available at the usual place: > > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-rc1/ > > GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: > > * The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing newtypes around unlifted > types. > > * The new StandaloneKindSignatures extension allows users to give > top-level kind signatures to type, type family, and class > declarations. > > * A new warning, -Wderiving-defaults, to draw attention to ambiguous > deriving clauses > > * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes > > * A new GHCi command, :instances, for listing the class instances > available for a type. > > * An upgraded Windows toolchain lifting the MAX_PATH limitation > > * A new, low-latency garbage collector. > > * Improved support profiling, including support for sending profiler > samples to the eventlog, allowing correlation between the profile and > other program events > > This is the first and likely final release candidate. For a variety of > reasons, it comes a few weeks later than the original schedule of > release late December. However, besides a few core libraries > book-keeping issues this candidate is believed to be in good condition > for the final release. As such, the final 8.10.1 release will likely > come in two weeks. > > Note that at the moment we still require that macOS Catalina users > exempt the binary distribution from the notarization requirement by > running `xattr -cr .` on the unpacked tree before running `make install`. > > In addition, we are still looking for any Alpine Linux to help diagnose > the correctness issues in the Alpine binary distribution [1]. If you use > Alpine any you can offer here would be greatly appreciated. > > Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any other > issues. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > > [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17508 > [2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/17418 > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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