[darcs-users] darcs 2.8.5 release

The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.8.5: Changes ------- The main purpose of this release is to add support for GHC 7.8. It's been tested with GHC 7.8.3. The new 64 bit version of GHC for Windows is not supported; 64 bit is supported on other platforms as before. Various dependencies on hackage packages have also been bumped: base, network, unix, process, array, mtl, text. The following problems have also been fixed: - Resolve issue2364 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2364> : Download problems with GHC 7.8 - Resolve issue2345 <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2345> : Erroneous message about libiconv when libcurl is missing Downloading ----------- The easiest way to install darcs 2.8.5 from source is by first installing the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform). If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this release by doing: $ cabal update $ cabal install darcs-2.8.5 Alternatively, you can download the tarball from http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.8.5.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file. The 2.8 branch is also available as a darcs repository from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.8 Binaries -------- These will be posted to http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries as they become available. Feedback -------- If you have an issue with darcs 2.8.5, you can report it via the web on http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs at darcs.net, or come to #darcs on irc.freenode.net. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users at darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users