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| author | Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> | 2011-11-08 18:46:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> | 2011-11-08 18:46:48 +0000 |
| commit | 78e1c3ce65af0594fd01717d3661ce8ce6d3be2e (patch) | |
| tree | 59e2ee1d9c47070df1e7ec9a629c1e7bd634a87e | |
| parent | e4c29e2c2edb0eeaa48cfdf07c6d53a0ca4f1be0 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-78e1c3ce65af0594fd01717d3661ce8ce6d3be2e.tar.gz | |
Update ANNOUNCE for 7.2.2
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@@ -1,27 +1,50 @@ ============================================================= - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.2.1 + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.2.2 ============================================================= -The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.2.1. +The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new bugfix release of GHC, 7.2.2. The 7.2 branch is intended to be more of a "technology preview" than normal GHC stable branches; in particular, it supports a significantly improved version of DPH, as well as new features such as compiler plugins and "safe Haskell". The design of these new features may evolve -as we get more experience with them. See the release notes for more -details of what's new and what's changed. +as we get more experience with them. -We are also using this branch as an opportunity to work out the best -workflows to use with git. +The changes in this release, relative to 7.2.1, are: -We expect the 7.2 branch to be short-lived, with 7.4.1 coming out -shortly after ICFP as normal. +* All packages are now trusted by default. If you wish to make use + of Safe Haskell, you will need to manually untrust packages that + you do not wish to trust. +* An optimiser bug which can cause segfaults has been fixed. -Full release notes are here: +* A native code generator bug which can cause segfaults on x86 and + amd64 has been fixed. + +* A race condition in the runtime system that can cause segfaults + has been fixed. + +* Exception handlers are now run in the mask state, rather than the + maskUninterruptible state. Fixes a bug that could cause the GHCi + debugger to hang amongst other things. + +* The shutdownHaskellAndExit function now immediately exits, even + if hs_init has been called multiple times. + +* A bug arising when using type signature declarations in Template + Haskell splices has been fixed. + +* A bug arising when using class instances in Template Haskell + splices has been fixed. + +* Incorrectly encoded text at the end of a file is now handled + correctly. + +* The base package is now version 4.4.1.0 (was 4.4.0.0). + +* Haddock is now version 2.9.4. - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.2.1/html/users_guide/release-7-2-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |