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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-01-10 11:40:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-01-10 23:58:53 -0500 |
| commit | a7fdfd95b3bc6502884149b12823ca3930647f00 (patch) | |
| tree | 91ba1d217168034c14b64001966b889111a19cea | |
| parent | 08cfa6153171d7289e799b97940f51d322d8dd32 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-wip/ghc-8.6-backports.tar.gz | |
Release notes for 8.6.4wip/ghc-8.6-backports
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.6.4-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.6.4-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..738b89b818 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/users_guide/8.6.4-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.. _release-8-6-4: + +Release notes for version 8.6.4 +=============================== + +GHC 8.6.4 is a bug-fix release, fixing a few regressions found in 8.6.3. + + +Highlights +---------- + +The highlights, since the 8.6.3 release, are: + +- 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`). + +Known issues +------------ + +Note that the LLVM code generator (:ghc-flag:`-fllvm`) in GHC 8.6, as well as +all earlier releases, are affected by :ghc-ticket:`14251`, which can result in +miscompilation of some programs calling functions with unboxed floating-point +arguments. While originally scheduled to be fixed for this release, the fix +ended up being more difficult than anticipated and, given that issue is not a +strict regression from 8.4, we decided to proceed with the release. + +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: Deppendency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility + libraries/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-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core 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/mtl/mtl.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/process/process.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal: Core 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 11718d81b1..c98434c045 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/index.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/index.rst @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Contents: 8.6.1-notes 8.6.2-notes 8.6.3-notes + 8.6.4-notes ghci runghc usage |