ANNOUNCE: Haskell Platform 7.10.2

[George Colpitts]

Installed on Mac, no problems. Did cabal install species, no problems.
Great to have at the same time as GHC release!

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Haskellers, we are pleased to announce the release of
>
> Haskell Platform 7.10.2
> *get it here... <https://www.haskell.org/platform/>*
>
> Highlights include:
>
>    - GHC 7.10.2
>    - packages & tools bumped to very latest
>    - major package updates to:
>       - attoparsec
>       - case-insensitive
>       - cgi
>       - GLUT, GLURaw, OpenGL, & OpenGLRaw
>       - mtl
>       - network
>       - primitive & vector
>       - QuickCheck
>       - random
>       - syb
>       - text
>    - new website
>    - new installer script for linux
>    - 10 bugs closed: Issues · haskell/haskell-platform
>    <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A7.10.2+>
>
> This is our first release concurrent with GHC's release. You'll notice
> that the version number has changed to reflect that from now on, our aim is
> to keep HP releases sync'd to GHC releases.
>
> *Note:* Haskell Platform download pages are often cached - you may need
> to hit reload to see the release.
>
> *About the last minute update to text package:*
>
> *tl;dr: Vast majority of code will never notice the difference. Go ahead
> and get the HP now and start enjoying 7.10.2 You can always update to the
> point release when it comes out.*
>
> Despite all the testing, GHC central noticed just a day before release
> that there was a regression with text literals in 7.10.2. It was possible
> to work around the issue via a change to the text package, and text-1.2.1.3
> was released just today. Alas, there wasn't enough time to re-build and
> test the platform installers between then and now, so this release has
> text-1.2.1.1. There will be a point release (7.10.2.1) of the Platform this
> weekend or next with the updated text package.
>
> The issue does not result in incorrect code, only slow compilation times
> for very text literal laden code (as in thousands of literals), and
> slightly higher one-time construction cost at run-time. In full stack
> builds and many other test builds, these slow downs were inconsequential.
>
>
> *Windows Notes:*
>
> The Haskell Platform on Windows now provides the MSys2 tools. These tools
> are needed when installing packages that use conf-tools (generally rare).
> These tools are not automatically placed onto the PATH in order avoid
> troubles due to MSys2 tools which have the same name as a standard
> Windows tool (e.g., echo, find, dir).
>
>
> - Mark "release monad" Lentczner
>
> Special thanks to Erik Rantappa, Wasif Hasan Baig, & Ben Gamari for the
> new web site. Randy Polen for Windows build wrangling.
>
>
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