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Alexander Kaznacheev
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<sect1
id=
"release-7-6-2"
>
<title>
Release notes for version 7.6.2
</title>
<para>
The 7.6.2 release is a bugfix release. The changes relative to
7.6.1 are listed below.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>
GHC
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
A long-standing typechecker bug which allowed
<literal>
unsafeCoerce
</literal>
to be written has been
fixed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug has been fixed that caused GHC to sometimes not
realise that recompilation was necessary.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If both
<literal>
-H
</literal>
and a
<literal>
-M
<
size
>
</literal>
flag are given, then
GHC will no longer exceed the maximum heap size.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
An off-by-one error, which could cause segfaults, in the
RTS flag parsing has been fixed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Various bugs that could cause GHC to panic when compiling
certain source files have been fixed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Some bugs in type checking the
<literal>
DataKinds
</literal>
and
<literal>
PolyKinds
</literal>
extensions have been fixed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Performance of compiled programs has been improved in
some cases.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug in the RTS, which caused programs to keep waking up
when they should be idle, has been fixed. This will
particularly help long-running often-idle programs such as
xmonad.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
It is now possible to build on Sparc/Solaris with a
non-GNU linker.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug which caused GHCi to fail to start on some 64bit
Windows installations has been fixed. GHCi can now only
use a 32bit address space on 64bit Windows.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>
Haddock
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Haddock now handles deprecation messages for re-exported
entities correctly.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>
Hsc2hs
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Hsc2hs now handles absolute filenames on Windows correctly.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>
Libraries
</title>
<sect3>
<title>
base
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Version number 4.6.0.1 (was 4.6.0.0)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug in division of 64bit values on 32bit platforms has
been fixed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
The
<literal>
labelThread
</literal>
function now handles
Unicode values correctly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
There have been some build fixes for building on NetBSD.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>
bytestring
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Version number 0.10.0.2 (was 0.10.0.0)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
A bug has been fixed that could cause programs using
<literal>
ByteString
</literal>
s to give the wrong
result.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>
directory
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Version number 1.2.0.1 (was 1.2.0.0)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>
unix
</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Version number 2.6.0.1 (was 2.6.0.0)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fixed a bug which caused memory corruption when
<literal>
putEnv
</literal>
is used.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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