Releases · haskell/cabal

Andrea Bedini
Andreas Abel
Ben Gamari
brandon s allbery kf8nh
Francesco Ariis
Hécate Moonlight
Javier Sagredo
Jens Petersen
Julian Ospald
Mikolaj Konarski
Ondřej Šebek
Rodrigo Mesquita
Tom Smeding

as well as the QA team, and reviewers, without whom this could not have been possible.

Assets 2

09 Nov 20:23

Kleidukos

cabal-install-v3.10.2.1

b17d6f2

cabal v3.10.2.1

The machine never stops.

This is strictly a bug-fix release. You can view the changes at:

See the release announcement here: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/cabal-install-3-10-2-0-released/8009

cabal-install-3.10.2.0 is available on ghcup, and is built with lib:Cabal-3.10.2.1.

cabal-install-3.10.2.1 is meant for source compilations and does not affect end-users.

See you next time.

Assets 2

10 Mar 09:12

Mikolaj

cabal-install-v3.10.1.0

6c95f3f

cabal v3.10.1.0

For documentation please see

https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.10

for API documentation and changelogs please see

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-3.10.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-syntax-3.10.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-3.10.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-solver-3.10.1.0

In particular, release notes for the cabal tool are at

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/release-notes/cabal-install-3.10.1.0.md

To obtain binaries, please use ghcup or download from

https://downloads.haskell.org/~cabal/cabal-install-3.10.1.0/

The release announcement is at

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/just-released-cabal-3-10-1-0/5978

Assets 2

09 Aug 22:09

Mikolaj

cabal-install-v3.8.1.0

5d18b76

cabal v3.8.1.0

For documentation please see

https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.8

for API documentation and changelogs please see

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-3.8.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-syntax-3.8.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-3.8.1.0
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-solver-3.8.1.0

and for binaries, please use ghcup or download from

https://downloads.haskell.org/~cabal/cabal-install-3.8.1.0/

Some release highlights are on these threads:

https://twitter.com/jneira/status/1557477176102031360
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/just-released-cabal-3-8-1-0/4920
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/wm656h/just_released_cabal_3810/

The currently known and not yet fixed regressions on 3.8 branch compared to cabal 3.6 are listed at

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/labels/regression%20in%203.8

and the fixed regressions (but you need a newer version, once it's released, to benefit from the fixes) are at

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues?q=label%3A%22regression+in+3.8%22+is%3Aclosed

Assets 2

07 Oct 23:02

emilypi

Cabal-v3.6.2.0

d9c8473

Cabal-3.6.2.0

Significant changes

Make Paths_ modules work with non-standard preludes again #5962
- Generate Paths_ module with qualified Data.List.last import so that compatibility with non-standard preludes is not regressed compared to cabal 3.4.
Windows: redo the fix to breakage caused by new autoconf; the wrong fix made cabal sometimes fail with old autoconf #7494 #7649
- Reverts #7510 that failed on Windows when used with pre-generated scripts included in packages such as network, time, process.
- Adds a subtler fix/workaround for the deficiencies of new autoconf versions on Windows.

Other changes

Regenerate bootstrap/ with GHC updated from 8.10.4 to 8.10.7
- This regenerates bootstrap plans using new package versions and also updating GHC from 8.10.4 to 8.10.7, as requested by GHC HQ.

Assets 2

10 Sep 01:18

emilypi

Cabal-v3.6.1.0

899dd34

Cabal-3.6.1.0

Significant Changes

Include cmm-sources when linking shared objects #7182 #7252
- Previously cmm-sources were not included in the final link when building a library as a shared object. Fix this.
Prefer canonicalized path when guessing tools from GHC path #7390 #7392

Motivation

Often times, the user facing ghc binary is
symlinked by other forces, such as the package manager,
tooling like ghcup etc. As such, the naming convention
(version suffix in particular) may not align with the
assumptions made in Cabal and it may find an incorrect ghc-pkg.

See:
Solution

Guessing the ghc-pkg path is already a hack and will be solved
more appropriately in the future, see
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4214
- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/snippets/2710
  These patches will solve the issue for future GHC versions.
As such, this patch provides a workaround for
older, already existing GHC versions by first always
following the symbolic link of the ghc binary (if it is one)
and prefering its target directory as the guess lookup
location.

Rationale

The canonicalized path of the ghc binary usually points to the
bin/ directory unpacked from a bindist, which is less likely to be
tampered with by distributions and tools. As such, prefering the
canoncialized path should get us more robust results.
Fix cabal test --enable-library-coverage for other-modules #5213 #7493
- Fix cabal test --enable-library-coverage for libraries with nonempty other-modules field.
- Due to a hack, this breaks coverage whenever the used Haskell compiler is called 't' (for a non-hacky fix we should rework HPC directories, possibly enabling multilib in the process, see #6440 and #6397).
Set PATH_SEPARATOR=";" when calling ./configure on Windows; this fix is necessary for autoconf >= 2.70 #7494 #7510
lazily decode cache files for checking invalidation #7516 #7466
- This yields a significant 15% speedup on rebuilding build plans for projects with lots of individual cabal packages.
defer build-tools-depends choices as well as setup choices #7561 #7472
- extends the existing solver pass that defers solving setup depends until top-level goals are solved to also defer build-tool-depends goals until top level goals are solved.
- constraints at the top level (on versions, flags, stanzas, etc) are applied first and only then are attempts made to build the less-constrained qualified goals, significantly streamlining the production of valid build plans.
Set -Wno-prepositive-qualified-module in Paths_*.hs #7352

Assets 2

05 Aug 20:54

emilypi

Cabal-v3.6.0.0

26b99e3

Cabal-3.6.0.0

This release marks the first release candidate for the 3.6.x Cabal series. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Cabal 3.6.0.0 Changelog

Backported to 3.4 #6964 #6968
CI setup #6959
- Remove travis scripts
Code organization #6960 #6963 #6970 #6974 #6975
- Move Cabal sources into Cabal/src
- Move cabal-install sources to cabal-install/src/
- Move doc/ to the top-level of the repository
- Add stylish-haskell config.
Documentation improvements #6813 #6971 #7047

Write highlights
Add post-checkout-command to source-package-repository #6664 #7047
Add hsc2hs-options, for specifying additional options to pass to hsc2hs #6295
Include cmm-sources when linking shared objects #7182 #7252
- Previously cmm-sources were not included in the final link when building a library as a shared object. Fix this.
Add language extensions for GHC 9.2 #7312
--dry-run and --only-download effect v2-configure, v2-freeze, v2-run, and v2-exec #7379
Alert user and suggest command on spelling mistakes