The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.2. The source
distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org. Release notes are also available
This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.1:
-
A bug (#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 -c RTS flag) since GHC may fallback to
compacting collection during times of high memory pressure. -
A code generation bug (#17334) resulting in GHC panics has been
fixed. -
A bug in the
process
library causing builds usinghsc2hs
to fail
non-deterministically on Windows has been fixed (#17480) -
A typechecker bug (#16288) 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 (#17044) has been fixed. -
A bug causing GHC to incorrectly complain about incompatible LLVM
versions when using LLVM 7.0.1 has been fixed (#16990).
As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
Happy compiling!