GHC 9.2.7 is now available

Zubin Duggal - 2023-02-27

The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.2.7. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org.

This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing a few issues found in 9.2.6. These include:

A fix for a bug with the RTS linker being unable to resolve the setKeepCafs symbol which started being used by the GHC library in 9.2.6, resulting in code depending on this symbol failing to load in GHCi or via a compile time splice when using a statically linked GHC, such as on Windows (#22961).
A fix a bug with the alignment of RTS data structures that could result in segfaults when compiled with high optimisation settings on certain platforms (#22975 , #22965).
A fix for a bug in the simplifier related to placeholder values (rubbish literals) emitted by the worker/wrapper optimisation leading to -dcore-lint errors and compiler panics in certain cases (#19882, #22914, #23000).
Easier installation of binary distribution on MacOS platforms by changing the installation Makefile to remove the quarantine attribute when installing.
… and a few more. See the release notes for a full accounting.

As some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to upgrade promptly.

We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.

As always, do give this release a try and open a ticket if you see anything amiss.

Happy compiling,

Zubin