[Haskell-cafe] Announce: Haskell Platform 8.2.1

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.2.1 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.2.1, cabal-install 2.0.0.0, and stack 1.5.1, all with many bugfixes and improvements since the last platform release. A full list of contents is available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC team for all their hard work. Due to GHC bug #14081 (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14081), we do not have Win32 builds in this release. We anticipate resuming support for Win32 once the current issues with GHC on Win32 are fixed in the next release. A list of new GHC changes is available at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/ghc-8.2.11-released A list of cabal changes is available at: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-2.0.0.0/changelog (note the support for the Backpack module system, as described at: https://github.com/ezyang/ghc-proposals/blob/backpack/proposals/0000-backpack.rst) The cabal documentation page is at: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ A list of stack changes is at: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/ChangeLog/ The stack documentation page is at: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/ Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom (Note -- one feature we still have not implemented yet for the platform but would like to is a generic linux installer that allows one to set a custom location and does not require root. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this, please get in touch!)