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author | Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> | 2022-12-15 11:28:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> | 2022-12-15 11:35:01 +0000 |
commit | f6aee84621a2d91649258a29078921c80828fafe (patch) | |
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Add 9.4.4 release notes
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/9.4.4-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/9.4.4-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e2b355e499 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/users_guide/9.4.4-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +.. _release-9-4-4: + +Version 9.4.4 +============== + +The significant changes to the various parts of the compiler are listed in the +following sections. + +The :ghc-flag:`LLVM backend <-fllvm>` of this release is to be used with LLVM +10, 11, 12, or 13. + +Significant Changes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Issues fixed in this release include: + +* An issue where the wrong labels were used in the eventlog for events emitted when using info table profiling which was broken in 9.4.3. (:ghc-ticket:`22452`) +* Fix a long standing bug where invalid eventlogs would be produced with long command lines. (:ghc-ticket:`20221`) +* Fix another mistake in eta-expansion which resulted in serious performance regressions in 9.4.3. (:ghc-ticket:`22424`) +* Fix the :ghc-flag:`-fdefer-diagnostics`. (:ghc-ticket:`22391`) +* Fixes to several subtle compiler panics. (:ghc-ticket:`22491`, :ghc-ticket:`22416`, :ghc-ticket:`22549`, :ghc-ticket:`22475`, :ghc-ticket:`22039`) +* Add correct write barries to IORef operations. (:ghc-ticket:`22468`) + + +Included libraries +------------------ + +The package database provided with this distribution also contains a number of +packages other than GHC itself. See the changelogs provided with these packages +for further change information. + +.. ghc-package-list:: + + libraries/array/array.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/base/base.cabal: Core library + libraries/binary/binary.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/bytestring/bytestring.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility + libraries/Cabal/Cabal-syntax/Cabal-syntax.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility + libraries/containers/containers/containers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/deepseq/deepseq.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/directory/directory.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/exceptions/exceptions.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` and ``haskeline`` library + libraries/filepath/filepath.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + compiler/ghc.cabal: The compiler itself + libraries/ghci/ghci.cabal: The REPL interface + libraries/ghc-boot/ghc-boot.cabal: Internal compiler library + libraries/ghc-boot-th/ghc-boot-th.cabal: Internal compiler library + libraries/ghc-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core library + libraries/ghc-heap/ghc-heap.cabal: GHC heap-walking library + libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal: Core library + libraries/haskeline/haskeline.cabal: Dependency of ``ghci`` executable + libraries/hpc/hpc.cabal: Dependency of ``hpc`` executable + libraries/integer-gmp/integer-gmp.cabal: Core library + libraries/libiserv/libiserv.cabal: Internal compiler library + libraries/mtl/mtl.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/pretty/pretty.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/process/process.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/stm/stm.cabal: Dependency of ``haskeline`` library + libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal: Core library + libraries/terminfo/terminfo.cabal: Dependency of ``haskeline`` library + libraries/text/text.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/time/time.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/transformers/transformers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/unix/unix.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/Win32/Win32.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/xhtml/xhtml.cabal: Dependency of ``haddock`` executable + diff --git a/docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst index 042e049cb1..145b33adb7 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/release-notes.rst @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Release notes .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 + 9.4.4-notes 9.4.3-notes 9.4.2-notes 9.4.1-notes |