The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.8.4. Binary
distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available on the
release page.
This release is a small release fixing a few issues noted in 9.8.3, including:
-
Update the
filepath
submodule to avoid a misbehavior ofsplitFileName
under Windows. -
Update the
unix
submodule to fix a compilation issue onmusl
platforms -
Fix a potential source of miscompilation when building large projects on 32-bit platforms
-
Fix unsound optimisation of
prompt#
uses
A full accounting of changes can be found in the release notes. 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 if you see
anything amiss.
Happy compiling!
- Ben