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Commit 98a053a9 authored by Ben Gamari's avatar Ben Gamari
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...@@ -6,13 +6,27 @@ Release notes for version 8.8.4 ...@@ -6,13 +6,27 @@ Release notes for version 8.8.4
GHC 8.8.4 is a minor release intended to fix regressions and minor bugs in the GHC 8.8.4 is a minor release intended to fix regressions and minor bugs in the
8.8.1, 8.8.2 and 8.8.3 releases. 8.8.1, 8.8.2 and 8.8.3 releases.
Like previous releases in the 8.8 series, the :ghc-flag:`LLVM backend <-fllvm>`
of this release is to be used with LLVM 7.
Highlights Highlights
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- Fix a bug in process creation on Windows (:ghc-ticket:`17926`). - Fixes a bug in process creation on Windows (:ghc-ticket:`17926`).
- Works around a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`).
- Fixes a few linking issues affecting ARM
- Fixes "missing interface file" error triggered by some uses of ``Ordering`` (:ghc-ticket:`18185`)
- Fixes an integer overflow in the compact-normal-form import implementation (:ghc-ticket:`16992`)
- ``configure`` now accepts ``--enable-numa`` flag to enable/disable ``numactl`` support on Linux.
- Workaround a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of ``timerfd``\s (:ghc-ticket:`18033`). - Fixes potentially lost sharing due to the desugaring of left operator sections (:ghc-ticket:`18151`).
- Fixes a build-system bug resulting in potential miscompilation by unregisteised compilers (:ghc-ticket:`18024`)
Known issues Known issues
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