[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.2 release candidate 1

Hello everyone, The GHC team is happy to (finally!) announce the first candiate of the 8.0.2 release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Source and binary distributions are available at http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2-rc1/ This is the first of what will hopefully be only two release candidates leading up the final 8.0.2 release. This release will fix a number bugs found in 8.0.1 including, * Interface file build determinism (#4012). * Compatibility with macOS Sierra and GCC compilers which compile position-independent executables by default * Runtime linker fixes on Windows (see #12797) * A compiler bug which resulted in undefined reference errors while compiling some packages (see #12076) * Compatability with systems which use the gold linker * A number of memory consistency bugs in the runtime system * A number of efficiency issues in the threaded runtime which manifest on larger core counts and large numbers of bound threads. * A typechecker bug which caused some programs using -XDefaultSignatures to be incorrectly accepted. * More than two-hundred other bugs. See Trac [1] for a complete listing. Unfortunately there is one known bug (#12757) which can result in runtime crashes which is still lurking in -rc1. This will be fixed in -rc2, which will be released in about a week. As always, let us know if you encounter trouble. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far! Happy testing, - Ben [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&milestone=8.0.2&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 454 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/attachments/20161125/990e68c7/attachment.sig>