The Cabal developers are happy to announce the first release candidate for cabal-install-3.4.0.0
The corresponding tag is `cabal-install-3.4-rc1`, https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases/tag/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1 and there is a handful of binaries available at https://oleg.fi/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1/ Ubuntu-16.04 bindist should work on most recent Linux distributions, (requires at least kernel 3.15, compiled against glibc-2.23). Similarly darwin-sierra bindist should work on newer macOSes as well. cabal-install-3.4 release highlights are: - Support for upcoming GHC-9.0 - Removal of sandboxes - Improved public sublibrary support - `active-repositories` configuration - Various `cabal init` improvements - Various `cabal sdist` improvements - `source-repository-package` are not treated as local packages - Added `list-bin` command Complete release notes (drafts) are at: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/master/release-notes Please do test this release and let us know if you encounter any issues: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues On 25.7.2020 13.07, Oleg Grenrus wrote: > Dear all, > > Last week I tagged Cabal-3.4 release candidate. After fixing few > immediately obvious issues with cabal-install, I have successfully used > it for a week. > > This week I have been working on improving scripts for bootstrapping and > release packaging, and as intermediate result there are > > - x86_64-darwin-sierra > - x86_64-ubuntu-14.04 > - x86_64-alpine-3.11.6 > - amd64-freebsd-12.1-RELEASE > - aarch64-ubuntu-18.04 > > bootstrapped builds at > > https://oleg.fi/cabal-install-3.4.0.0-rc1-bootstrapped/ > > The ubuntu-14.04 build works on later ubuntu, debian, and centos which I > tried (in docker). Note, alpine build is not static, i.e. it dynamically > links against musl. > > Please try these out, especially try to build cabal-install (from 3.4) > branch, and use it, so we can fix most of regressions since 3.2. > I'm specially interested whether the darwin/macos build works on newer > macos versions. > > The release notes for Cabal-3.4 and cabal-install-3.4 are available at > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/master/release-notes > > - Oleg > > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
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