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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-07-08 12:08:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-07-08 15:02:48 -0400 |
| commit | 98a053a9ade695197096ba174f757b8a22079b12 (patch) | |
| tree | 56883b39dc89dd3e2241ffd04be9239cf85f9706 | |
| parent | 433341fb7fa2ae805053568d79f6e93cdbb250b7 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-98a053a9ade695197096ba174f757b8a22079b12.tar.gz | |
More release notes
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst | 18 |
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst index 06ca85c348..84bf94debf 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/8.8.4-notes.rst @@ -6,13 +6,27 @@ Release notes for version 8.8.4 GHC 8.8.4 is a minor release intended to fix regressions and minor bugs in the 8.8.1, 8.8.2 and 8.8.3 releases. +Like previous releases in the 8.8 series, the :ghc-flag:`LLVM backend <-fllvm>` +of this release is to be used with LLVM 7. + Highlights ---------- -- Fix a bug in process creation on Windows (:ghc-ticket:`17926`). +- Fixes a bug in process creation on Windows (:ghc-ticket:`17926`). + +- Works around a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`). + +- Fixes a few linking issues affecting ARM + +- Fixes "missing interface file" error triggered by some uses of ``Ordering`` (:ghc-ticket:`18185`) + +- Fixes an integer overflow in the compact-normal-form import implementation (:ghc-ticket:`16992`) + +- ``configure`` now accepts ``--enable-numa`` flag to enable/disable ``numactl`` support on Linux. -- Workaround a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`). +- Fixes potentially lost sharing due to the desugaring of left operator sections (:ghc-ticket:`18151`). +- Fixes a build-system bug resulting in potential miscompilation by unregisteised compilers (:ghc-ticket:`18024`) Known issues ------------ |