From daa4de1f81149c63d322a1c332662d7ff5a2a070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 19:06:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] users guide: initial commit of 8.4.3 release notes --- docs/users_guide/8.4.3-notes.rst | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/users_guide/8.4.3-notes.rst diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.4.3-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.4.3-notes.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f931c1022e9c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/users_guide/8.4.3-notes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +.. _release-8-4-3: + +Release notes for version 8.4.3 +=============================== + +Highlights +---------- + +This is a bug-fix release resolving several regressions introduced in 8.4.1. + +The highlights, since the 8.4.2 release, are: + +- A bug (:ghc-ticket:`15068`) causing GHC to produce assembler that would be rejected by + some versions of GNU Binutils, has been fixed. + +- ``GHC.Compact.compact`` now properly handles ``SmallArray``\ s (:ghc-ticket:`13857`) + +- A bug (:ghc-ticket:`15038`) resulting in memory corruption and crashes in some uses of + unboxed sums has been fixed. + +- GHC now logs a message when an :ref:`environment file <package-environments>` + is loaded (:ghc-ticket:`15145`). + +Full details +------------ + +In addition to the highlights listed above, this release resolves a number of +other issues, described below. + +Compiler +~~~~~~~~ + +No changes beyond those listed in Highlights. + + +Runtime system +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- A bug causing aggressive potentially resulting in crashes when + (:rts-flag:`nursery chunks <-n ⟨size⟩>`) are used with a changing capability + count has been fixed. + +Template Haskell +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +No changes. + +``ghc`` library +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +No changes. + +``base`` library +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +- Version bumped to 4.11.1.0 to account for the addition of + ``GHC.IO.FixIOException`` + +- Add the ``readFieldHash`` function to ``GHC.Read`` which behaves like + ``readField``, but for a field that ends with a ``#`` symbol. + +``integer-gmp`` library +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +No changes. + +Build system +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +No changes. + +Included libraries +------------------ + +The package database provided with this distribution also contains a number of +packages other than GHC itself. See the changelogs provided with these packages +for further change information. + +.. ghc-package-list:: + + libraries/array/array.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/base/base.cabal: Core library + libraries/binary/binary.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/bytestring/bytestring.cabal: Deppendency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility + libraries/containers/containers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/deepseq/deepseq.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/directory/directory.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/filepath/filepath.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + compiler/ghc.cabal: The compiler itself + libraries/ghci/ghci.cabal: The REPL interface + libraries/ghc-boot/ghc-boot.cabal: Internal compiler library + libraries/ghc-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core library + libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal: Core library + libraries/haskeline/haskeline.cabal: Dependency of ``ghci`` executable + libraries/hpc/hpc.cabal: Dependency of ``hpc`` executable + libraries/integer-gmp/integer-gmp.cabal: Core library + libraries/mtl/mtl.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/process/process.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal: Core library + libraries/text/text.cabal: Dependency of ``Cabal`` library + libraries/time/time.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/transformers/transformers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/unix/unix.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/Win32/Win32.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library + libraries/xhtml/xhtml.cabal: Dependency of ``haddock`` executable -- GitLab