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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-02-12 13:17:02 -0500
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2019-02-12 13:17:02 -0500
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users-guide: Some more release notes for 8.6.4
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@@ -11,10 +11,22 @@ Highlights
The highlights, since the 8.6.3 release, are:
+- Inconsistencies between the versions of ``transformers`` and ``process``
+ shipped with the compiler and those present on Hackage have been resolved
+ (:ghc-ticket:`16199`).
- A patch fixing a set of linker failures on Windows has been reverted as it unfortunately caused
(:ghc-ticket:`15105`, :ghc-ticket:`15894`, :ghc-ticket:`15934`)
- A bug wherein changes in default method definitions would fail to trigger
recompilation has been fixed (:ghc-ticket:`15970`).
+- A bug wherein plugins would fail to lookup names not in scope in the module
+ being compiled has been fixed (:ghc-ticket:`16104`)
+- A bug resulting in hangs during RTS shutdown on Darwin has been resolved
+ (:ghc-ticket:`16150`)
+- A bug where some programs involving :extension:`StaticData` would be rejected
+ with either a typechecking error or internal compiler error has been fixed
+ (:ghc-ticket:`16141`)
+- A bug where compilation on Windows can fail with linker errors referring to
+ ``__chkstk_ms`` has been fixed (:ghc-ticket:`16166`)
Known issues
------------