I get a 404 Not Found when I click on any of the darwin releases, e.g. https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.14.1-rc2/ghc-9.14.0.20251031-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz
On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM Zubin Duggal <[email protected]> wrote: > The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the > second release candidate of GHC 9.14.1. Binary distributions, source > distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org > ][]. > > The changes from the first release candidate are: > > * Bump the exceptions submodule to 0.10.11 > * Bump the os-string submodule to 2.0.8 > * Fix a driver regression causing an infinite loop with cyclic imports > > GHC 9.14 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: > > * Significant improvements in specialisation: > * The `SPECIALISE` pragma now allows use of type application syntax > * The `SPECIALISE` pragma can be used to specialise for expression > arguments > as well as type arguments. > * Specialisation is now considerably more reliable in the presence of > `newtype`s > > * Significant GHCi improvements including: > * Correctness and performance improvements in the bytecode interpreter > * Features in the GHCi debugger > * Support for multiple home units in GHCi > > * Implementation of the [Explicit Level Imports proposal][levels] > > * `RequiredTypeArguments` can now be used in more contexts > > * SSE/AVX2 support in the x86 native code generator backend > > * A major update of the Windows toolchain and improved compatibility with > macOS Tahoe > > * ... and many more > > A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes][]. Given > the > many specialisation improvements and their potential for regression, we > would > very much appreciate testing and performance characterisation on downstream > workloads. > > Note that while this release makes many improvements in the specialisation > optimisation, polymorphic specialisation will remain disabled by default > in the > final release due to concern over regressions of the sort identified in > [#26329][T26329]. Users needing more aggressive specialisation can > explicitly > enable this feature with the `-fpolymorphic-specialisation` flag. Depending > upon our experience with 9.14.1, we may enable this feature by default in a > later minor release. > > We would like to thank the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Mercury, > Channable, > Tweag I/O, Serokell, SimSpace, the Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous > contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated > GHC > maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release > would > not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors > whose > work have made the Haskell ecosystem what it is today. > > As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see > anything amiss. > > > [downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.14.1-rc2 > [release notes]: > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.14.1-rc2/docs/users_guide/9.14.1-notes.html > [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/homepage/-/issues/new > [macos]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/26166 > [T26329]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/26329 > [levels]: > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0682-explicit-level-imports.rst > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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