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author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-12-06 15:35:46 -0500 |
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committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-12-06 15:55:52 -0500 |
commit | 33fe8e8ca24747f71ef883b50df21f9e0e403485 (patch) | |
tree | b3d87d60abfd5ce5c2e6ef163805e50106d7bd5a | |
parent | ba46883082b97ebc12ca6ab0f1ba2abb55cbc93a (diff) | |
download | haskell-33fe8e8ca24747f71ef883b50df21f9e0e403485.tar.gz |
Add 8.8.2 release notes
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..36c3b2c28e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/users_guide/8.8.2-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.. _release-8-8-2: + +Release notes for version 8.8.2 +=============================== + +GHC 8.8.2 is a minor release intended to fix regressions and minor bugs in the 8.8.1. + +Highlights +---------- + +- A bug (:ghc-ticket:`17088`) in the compacting garbage collector resulting in + segmentations faults under specific circumstances. Note that this may affect + user programs even if they did not explicitly request the compacting GC + (using the :rts-flag:`-c` RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to compacting + collection during times of high memory pressure. + +- A code generator bug (:ghc-ticket:`17334`) resulting in GHC panics has been fixed. + +- A bug in ``process`` causing builds using ``hsc2hs`` to fail + non-deterministically on Windows has been fixed (:ghc-ticket:`17480`) + +- A typechecker bug (:ghc-ticket:`12088`) resulting in programs being + unexpectedly rejected has been fixed. + +- A bug in the implementation of compact normal forms resulting in segmentation + faults in some uses of :ghc-ticket:`17044` has been fixed. + +- A bug causing GHC to incorrectly complain about incompatible LLVM versions + when using GHC 7.0.1 has been fixed. + +Known issues +------------ + +- A long-standing bug (:ghc-ticket:`16893`) which can cause some applications + of ``unsafeCoerce`` to segmentation fault is only partially fixed in this + release. This release only avoids this issue in the uses of ``unsafeCoerce`` + in ``Data.Typeable.Internal``, which was the proximate cause of + :ghc-ticket:`16893`. + + However, it is possible that this bug could manifest in user-code using + ``unsafeCoerce`` to perform dynamic type checks. See the ticket for details. + +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/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/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/process/process.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/pretty/pretty.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/index.rst b/docs/users_guide/index.rst index 9b8a91c33c..a30d13dadc 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/index.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/index.rst @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Contents: license intro 8.8.1-notes + 8.8.2-notes ghci runghc usage |