[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
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 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:58 PM Ben Gamari wrote: > * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes > This seems like it's missing some detail. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh allber...@gmail.com ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
Yeah, like how we removed x87 support from code gen except one tiny piece in the abi, so 32bit x86 code gen is always -msse2 flavor so rounding now acts sane :) (A tiny step in a long running make floating point great effort of mine) On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:39 AM Brandon Allbery wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:58 PM Ben Gamari wrote: > >> * A number of improvements in code generation, including changes >> > > This seems like it's missing some detail. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh > allber...@gmail.com > ___ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
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 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-us...@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released
Thanks for the RC1 release! When I try to do a test build without haddocks (on Fedora), a mysterious thing happens: it still builds and installs documentation for the containers library?!? I should file a bug anyway - though I guess it is not a release blocker, just a minor annoyance I suppose. Thanks, Jens On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 12:58, Ben Gamari 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 > ___ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
