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## Current status
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As of March 1 all of the major changes have landed in the tree. However, there are a variety of smaller tasks, including some late-breaking regression fixes, which need to be resolved. We expect that the tree should be stable again by the end of the week.
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As of March 27 all of the major changes have landed in the tree. However, there are a variety of smaller tasks, including some late-breaking regression fixes, which need to be resolved.
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## Dates
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Very tentative: Release candidate by **early March 2017**. Release in **mid-April 2017**.
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Very tentative: Release candidate by **late March 2017**. Release in **mid-April 2017**.
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## Libraries Status
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See [Libraries](status/ghc-8.2.1/libraries)
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## Release highlights (planned)
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## Release highlights
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Below are the major highlights of 8.2.
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### Compile time improvements
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TODO
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### Front-end changes
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### Back-end and runtime system
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### Build system and miscellaneous changes
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- Consolidate non-determinism changes (Bartosz).
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### Landed in `master` branch
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- A variety of compile-time improvements.
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#### Front-end changes
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### Optimiser and intermediate language
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- [Implement join points](sequent-core) (Luke Maurer)
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- [Implement join points](sequent-core) (Luke Maurer). This makes the compiler's join points optimization more robust, resulting in significantly better code generation in some cases.
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#### Library changes
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