# GHC 9.6.2 is now available
**URL:** https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [May 23, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308 "2023-05-23T21:30:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bgamari](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/bgamari)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/1 "2023-05-23T21:30:22Z")
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.2. Binary
distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at
[downloads.haskell.org](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.2).
This release is primarily a bug-fix release addressing a few issues
found in 9.6.2. These include:
- a number of simplifier and specialisation issues (#22761, #22549)
- A bug resulting in crashes of programs using the new `listThreads#` primop
(#23071).
- A compiler crash triggered by certain uses of quantified constraints
(#23171)
- Various bugs in the Javascript backend have been fixed (#23399,
#23360, #23346)
- A missing write barrier in the non-moving collector’s handling of selector
thunks, resulting in undefined behavior (#22930).
- The non-moving garbage collector’s treatment of weak pointers has been
revamped which should allow more reliable finalization of `Weak#`
closures (#22327)
- The non-moving garbage collector now bounds the amount of marking it will
do during the post-marking stop-the-world phase, greatly reducing tail
latencies in some programs (#22929)
A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.6.2/docs/users_guide/9.6.2-notes.html). As
some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to
upgrade promptly.
We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool,
Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and
other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has
facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally,
this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source
contributors whose work comprise this release.
As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new) if you see
anything amiss.
Happy compiling,
~ Ben
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### Author:  [@hasufell](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/hasufell)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/2 "2023-05-24T14:38:25Z")
[Released in ghcup-metadata](https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/compare/5cba359c78e67b1dac660fa5f726ede0c2637349%5E..e2102511b1df622cdeb8c20565f1fae4740fca79)
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### Author:  [@mpilgrem](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/mpilgrem)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/3 "2023-05-24T17:51:02Z")
I have updated Stack’s default `setup-info` dictionary for these binary distributions, and added GHC 9.6.2’s global hints to `global-hints.yaml`.
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### Author:  [@taylorfausak](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/taylorfausak)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/4 "2023-05-25T00:28:06Z")
> [@bgamari](#):
>
> This release is primarily a bug-fix release addressing a few issues
> found in 9.6.2.
I think you meant “9.6.1” 😉
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### Author:  [@juhp](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/juhp)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/5 "2023-05-29T05:54:14Z")
I updated the Fedora ghc9.6 package - the 9.6.2 builds are available now in the Fedora updates-testing and EPEL 9 testing repos.
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### Author:  [@andreasabel](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/andreasabel)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-9-6-2-is-now-available/6308/6 "2023-06-01T17:46:10Z")
I updated the actions `haskell-actions/setup` (and its precursor `haskell/actions/setup`) to be conscious of GHC 9.6.2.