Hello everyone,
The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.2. The
source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this
release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.2
This release is a bug-fix release, fixing numerous regressions and bugs
present in GHC 8.4.1. These include:
* A regression resulting in some uses of `Control.Exception.evaluate`
to be inappropriately optimised away (see #13930)
* A regression resulting in segmentation faults of programs compiled
with profiling (#14705)
* A bug causing runtime system panics while running programs with
retainer profiling (#14947)
* The configure scripts now accepts a `--disable-dtrace` option, again
allowing GHC to be bootstrapped on FreeBSD (#15040)
* The version number of the `base` package has been bumped to
4.11.1.0 to reflect the addition of the `GHC.IO.FixIOException` type.
This interface was added in 8.4.1 but the version bump was missed due to
an oversight.
* Support for DWARF debug information has been significantly improved
(#14894, #14779)
A more thorough list of the changes in this release can be found in the
release notes,
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.2/docs/html/users_guide/8.4.2-notes.html
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to developing, documenting, and
testing this release!
As always, let us know if you encounter trouble.
How to get it
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The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
place.
Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
system isn't available yet, please try again later.
Background
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Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of
platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
Haskell home page (see below).
On-line GHC-related resources
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Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
Supported Platforms
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The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
is here:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
new platform:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
Developers
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We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source
code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:
http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Mailing lists
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We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
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www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on
reporting bugs can be found here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
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