Haskell GHC 9.4 and Stackage LTS 21
Summary
Update the GHC Haskell compiler from major version 9.2 to 9.4, and Haskell packages will be updated from Stackage LTS 20 to LTS 21 versions.
Owner
- Name: Jens Petersen
- Email: <petersen@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora Linux 39
- Last updated: 2023-09-12
- devel thread
- FESCo issue: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3055
- Tracker bug: #2233229
- Release notes tracker: #1001
Detailed Description
For Fedora 39, the GHC Haskell compiler will be updated from version 9.2.6 to the latest stable 9.4.5 release (rebasing from the ghc9.4 package). Along with this, Haskell packages in Stackage (the stable Haskell source package distribution) will be updated from the versions in LTS 20 to latest LTS 21 release. Haskell packages not in Stackage will be updated to the latest appropriate version in the upstream Hackage package repository.
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora users will have the latest stable Haskell compiler release, package tools, and current Haskell packages from Stackage LTS.
GHC 9.4.5 is the current recommended version of GHC with various enhancements and fixes (see the release notes linked in the Documentation section for more details).
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- update ghc9.2 is build against itself [done]
- rebase ghc to 9.4.5 [build]
- refresh packagings with the latest cabal-rpm release if needed [done]
- update packages to latest Stackage LTS 21 versions using cabal-rpm [done]
- build all the packages in a Koji sidetag repo in dependency order using fbrnch [f39-build-side-70691]
- push the sidetag through Bodhi [FEDORA-2023-9bb8d5a43a]
- Other developers: no actions should be needed
- Release engineering: #Releng issue number
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Community Initiatives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
Any dropped packages will have obsoletes added. Otherwise there should not be any direct upgrade impact.
Users' Haskell projects will get built with ghc-9.4 when they next build them and might need some minor code tweaks (see the release notes linked below).
How To Test
- install ghc and cabal-install
- install pandoc, ShellCheck, ghcid, git-annex, hadolint, stack, xmonad, Agda
- install ghc-*-devel or ghc-*-prof or ghc-*-doc
- cabal-rpm builddep <favouritepackage>; cabal install <favouritepackage>
- install ghc8.10, ghc9.0, ghc9.2, ghc9.6, or ghc*devel
- test upgrades of F38 Haskell packages to F39
User Experience
Users will have the most recent stable major version of ghc
and Haskell libraries and tools available to them.
This makes it easier to build the latest versions of Haskell projects.
In particular cabal-install
will also be updated from 3.6 to 3.8, and pandoc
will be updated to 3.0.
Dependencies
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism:
- Change owner will drop the new builds and revert back to the versions in the mass rebuild
- Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Documentation
- https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.4.5/docs/html/users_guide/9.4.1-notes.html
- https://www.stackage.org/blog/2023/06/announce-lts-21-nightly-ghc9.6
Release Notes
The Haskell GHC compiler has been updated from 9.2.6 to 9.4.5 with many improvements and Haskell package versions are updated from Stackage LTS 20 to 21.