GHC 9.6.5 is now available

Zubin Duggal - 2024-04-16

The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.5. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available on the release page.

This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing some issues found in the 9.6 series. These include:

  • Bumping the bundled process library to 1.6.19.0 to avoid a potential command injection vulnerability on Windows for clients of this library. This isn’t known to affect GHC itself, but allows users who depend on the installed version of the process to avoid the issue.
  • Fixing a bug resulting in the distributed hsc2hs wrapper using flags from the compiler build environment (#24050).
  • Disabling the -fasm-shortcutting optimisation with -O2 as it is known to result in unsoundess and incorrect runtime results in some cases (#24507).
  • Ensuring we take LDFLAGS into account when configuring a linker (#24565).
  • Fixing a bug arising from incorrect parsing of paths containing spaces in the settings file (#24265).
  • And many more fixes

A full accounting of changes can be found in the release notes. As some of the fixed issues do affect correctness users are encouraged to upgrade promptly.

We would like to thank Microsoft Azure, GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool, Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, Haskell Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work comprise this release.

As always, do give this release a try and open a ticket if you see anything amiss.

Enjoy!

-Zubin