GHC 8.8.4 released

bgamari - 2020-07-15

The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.4. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org.

Release notes are also available.

This release fixes a handful of issues affecting 8.8.3:

• Fixes a bug in process creation on Windows (#17926). Due to this fix we strongly encourage all Windows users to upgrade immediately.

• Works around a Linux kernel bug in the implementation of timerfd (#18033)

• Fixes a few linking issues affecting ARM

• Fixes “missing interface file” error triggered by some uses of Data.Ord.Ordering (#18185)

• Fixes an integer overflow in the compact-normal-form import implementation (#16992)

• configure now accepts a --enable-numa flag to enable/disable numactl support on Linux.

• Fixes potentially lost sharing due to the desugaring of left operator sections (#18151).

• Fixes a build-system bug resulting in potential miscompilation by unregisteised compilers (#18024)

As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.