How to upgrade
ghcup upgrade
If you haven’t installed yet, follow the instructions at: https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/
Changelog
New features
- A help screen/tutorial in the TUI by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)
- Beef up
--overwrite-version, fixes #998- e.g.
ghcup compile hls -g master --overwrite-version='%v-%h' --ghc 9.4.8will produce a binary calledhaskell-language-server-wrapper-<version-from-cabal-file>-<short-git-commit-hash>… refer toghcup compile hls --helpfor more information
- e.g.
- Allow to set ghcup msys2 environment wrt #982
- Add mechanism to warn on new metadata versions, fixes #860
- Add pre-install message support via ghcup metadata, wrt #1016
- Allow to remove all unset versions, fixes #1019
- e.g.:
ghcup gc --unset
- e.g.:
Improvements and bug fixes
- Fix potential HSEC-2024-0002
- Fix TUI crash in windows terminal 1.19 #1013
- Clean up on git clone errors, fixes #1004
- Error out on empty UserSettings wrt #922
- Fix failure mode when metadata is garbage, fixes #921
- Be less confusing when user tries to ‘set’ ghcup in TUI, fixes #923
- Fix prefetch for cross bindists
- Fix misinterpretation of ‘+’ in URI paths, fixes #408
- Stricter (and better) file uri handling
- Set LD=ld.bfd on Alpine linux during bindist configure
- Add rocky/void detection
- Logging improvements
- Remove the “show all tool” config in the TUI
- Fix opening changelog on windows
- Don’t remove share dir link prematurely
- Require user to explicitly choose subcommand for ‘ghcup config’
- Don’t download twice when trying stack decoding
Refactoring and maintenance
- Large TUI code cleanup by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)… more coming up soon
- Allow building with
tarinstead oflibarchive(mainly to make contributions easier)
