ghcup-hs/CHANGELOG.md

Revision history for ghcup

0.1.22.0 -- 2024-03-13

New features

• A help screen/tutorial in the TUI by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)
• Beef up --overwrite-version, fixes #998
  • e.g. ghcup compile hls -g master --overwrite-version='%v-%h' --ghc 9.4.8 will produce a binary called haskell-language-server-wrapper-<version-from-cabal-file>-<short-git-commit-hash>... refer to ghcup compile hls --help for more information
• Allow to set ghcup msys2 environment wrt #982
• Add mechanism to warn on new metadata versions, fixes #860
• Add pre-install message support via ghcup metadata, wrt #1016
• Allow to remove all unset versions, fixes #1019
  • e.g.: ghcup gc --unset

Improvements and bug fixes

• Fix potential HSEC-2024-0002
• Fix TUI crash in windows terminal 1.19 #1013
• Clean up on git clone errors, fixes #1004
• Error out on empty UserSettings wrt #922
• Fix failure mode when metadata is garbage, fixes #921
• Be less confusing when user tries to 'set' ghcup in TUI, fixes #923
• Fix prefetch for cross bindists
• Fix misinterpretation of '+' in URI paths, fixes #408
• Stricter (and better) file uri handling
• Set LD=ld.bfd on Alpine linux during bindist configure
• Add rocky/void detection
• Logging improvements
• Remove the "show all tool" config in the TUI
• Fix opening changelog on windows
• Don't remove share dir link prematurely
• Require user to explicitly choose subcommand for 'ghcup config'
• Don't download twice when trying stack decoding

Refactoring and maintenance

• Large TUI code cleanup by @lsmor (Luis Morillo)... more coming up soon
• Allow building with tar instead of libarchive (mainly to make contributions easier)

0.1.20.0 -- 2023-11-10

New features

• support TUI on windows thanks to the work from vty and brick maintainers (Chris Hackett, Timofey Zakrevskiy, Jonathan Daugherty, ...), wrt #912
• support JS and wasm cross compilers wrt #838, thanks to Sylvain Henry and IOG
• Support stacks installation strategy and metadata wrt #892
  • you can now enable stacks installation method via ghcup config set url-source '["GHCupURL", "StackSetupURL"]'... for more information, check the documentation

Improvements and bug fixes

• fix segfault in TUI when hitting enter early wrt #887
• Improve key handling in TUI, fixes #875
• add explicit support for Void Linux and Rocky Linux (this requires a metadata version bump to ghcup-0.0.8.yaml)
• optparse cli interface now has a test suite thanks to Lei Zhu, wrt #862

0.1.19.4 -- 2023-7-02

• fix missing TUI for aarch64 linux binaries

0.1.19.3 -- 2023-6-29

• Implement support for nightlies, wrt #824
• Fix GC with XDG dirs, fixes #810

0.1.19.2 -- 2023-2-24

• Follow-up fix for JFS/ReiserFS and other filesystem that don't support d_type, fixes #787
  • the previous release had a bug that invalidated that broke it
• Implement 'latest-prerelease' tag wrt #788
• Fix 'Could not parse version of stray directory.DS_Store' warnings on macOs wrt #797

0.1.19.1 -- 2023-2-19

• Fix GHCup on JFS/ReiserFS and other filesystem that don't support d_type, fixes #766
• Don't fail on setModificationTime, fixes #784 and many GitHub actions issues
• Make armv7/aarch64 linux binaries more portable (built on Debian buster)
• Improve usability on 'ghcup config add-release-channel', fixes #751
• Make version shortcuts work with 'ghcup set', fixes #757
• Don't implicitly smuggle in config options in ghcup config set wrt #775
• Fix build on unix with -ftui

0.1.19.0 -- 2023-1-13

• restore proper support for FreeBSD and Linux armv7
• integrate with errors.haskell.org, wrt #434
• allow to overwrite distro detection via config wrt #421
  • this is particularly useful for e.g. Ubuntu derivates, where ghcup doesn't pick the optimal bindist, also see the GHCup documentation on overriding distro detection
• Add proper support for mirrors wrt #357
• fix a (harmless) bug in ghcup nuke on windows
• improvements to ghcup add-release-channel wrt #708
• fix building newer GHC from source wrt #433
• Fix ghcup install hls -u on windows
• Fix failure with --isolate=dir --force
• Add --metadata-fetching-mode arg, fixes #440
• Add content-length property to downloads
• Fix a grave bug on armv7 during installation wrt #415
• improve many warning/error messages (contributions by @taylorfausak)
• some minor optimization in ghcup whereis ghcup
• improve --keep=always to not clean up directories in certain circumstances

0.1.18.1 -- 2022-08-06

• fix sdist and unbreak hackage, wrt #399

0.1.18.0 -- 2022-07-30

• Fix tui set wrt #266 by Arjun Kathuria
  • Ask the user to install the tool via prompt when setting an non-installed version
• improvements to safe (un-)installations
  • bindists that don't support make DESTDIR=/some/tmp/dir install are now unsupported
  • installed GHC files are now recorded to avoid use of removePathForcibly
  • internally uses a newtype wrapper for user-input paths and restrict destructive operations to validated paths
• Add --disable-ld-override for darwin bindists wrt #391
• Allow passing bindist configure args wrt #377
• use of TMPDIR is dropped... now uses an internal tmp dir ~/.ghcup/tmp
• improvements to error handling and warnings
• Require --isolate to have an absolute directory, fixes #367
• Fix mingw PATH handling wrt #371
• Add --mingw-path switch to ghcup run
• Fix ghcup run on windows, fixes #375
• Improve ghcup compile <hls|ghc>
  • short hashes now work
  • print the long hash in addition to the detected version
• Improve ghcup compile hls
  • add --git-describe-version switch as an alternative to --overwrite-version
  • Allow to build HLS from hackage (now is the default)
  • Allow to run 'cabal update' automatically before the HLS build
  • Fix parser and completer for 'ghcup compile hls --version'
• Improve ghcup compile ghc
  • Allow to build from arbitrary GHC source dists

0.1.17.10 -- 2022-05-12

• windows hotfix (hackage-only release)

0.1.17.9 -- 2022-05-12

• broken sdist (hackage-only release)

0.1.17.8 -- 2022-05-11

• Fix a serious (but hard to trigger) bug when combining --isolate <DIR> with --force, please make sure to upgrade or avoid --force
• Fix HLS build not cleaning up properly on failed installations, fixes #361
• Fix parsing of symlinks with multiple slashes, wrt #353
• Re-enable upgrade functionality for all configurations wrt MR #250 and VSCode haskell issue #601
• Fix ghcup run --ghc 8.10 (for short versions) wrt #360
  • this also introduces a --quick switch for ghcup run

0.1.17.7 -- 2022-04-21

• Fix ghcup run on windows wrt #345

0.1.17.6 -- 2022-03-18

• Vastly improve shell completions wrt #242
• Fix 'ghcup install cabal/hls/stack --set' wrt #324
• Fix bad error message wrt #323
• Use predictable /tmp names for ghcup run, fixes #329
• Fix bug with isolated installation of not previously installed versions
• Add --no-set to install commands, fixes #330
• Fix serious bug in ghcup list --raw-format -t <tool> -c installed
• Overhaul metadata merging and add ghcup config add-release-channel URI wrt #328
• Fix max path issues on windows with ghcup run

0.1.17.5 -- 2022-02-26

• Implement ghcup run subcommand wrt #137
• Support installation of dynamic HLS bindists wrt HLS #2675 and #237
• Fix XDG support when ~/.local/bin is a symlink wrt #311
• Add support for quilt-style patches wrt #230, by James Hobson
• Fix redundant upgrade warnings in ghcup upgrade
• Fix ghcup whereis ghc for non-standard versions wrt #289
• Don't print logs to stdout, but stderr
• Allow unpacking legacy lzma archives wrt #307
• Allow to disable self-upgrade functionality wrt #305
• Fix ghcup install ghc --set when ghc is already installed wrt #291

0.1.17.4 -- 2021-11-13

• add --metadata-caching option, allowing to also disable yaml metadata caching wrt #278
• make upgrading ghcup in TUI more pleasant wrt #276
• fix parsing of atypical GHC versions (e.g. 8.10.5-patch1)
• fix compiling HLS dynamically linked, also see #245
• redo (and break) some of the ghcup compile <tool> interface, improving patch options and setting custom cabal.project files
• avoid redundant update warnings wrt #283

0.1.17.3 -- 2021-10-27

• clean up during unpack failures as well
• migrate te aeson-2.0.1.0
• switch to yaml-streamly to fix performance regression wrt #270
• use github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata for metadata file download (better caching)

0.1.17.2 -- 2021-09-30

• Honour GHC bootstrap compiler during git clone stages wrt #250
• Speed up unset command
• Fix --overwrite-version for ghcup compile ghc wrt #253
• Apply patches before bootstrap

0.1.17.1 -- 2021-09-26

• Fix NO_COLOR
• Fix ghcup list -t for hls/stack, wrt #244
• Get rid of concurrent-output
• Improve cli interface with partial versions (e.g. ghcup install ghc 8)
• Fix HLS compilation builds
• Implement ghcup gc (garbage collection) command

0.1.17 -- 2021-09-20

• Add --force option to install/compile wrt #210 by Arjun Kathuria
• Implement compiling HLS from source wrt #201
• Implement experimental GPG verification of the metadata file (see README) wrt #263
• Add ghcup unset command wrt #145
• Add ghcup whereis bindir etc wrt #221
• Greatly reduce dependency footprint wrt #212
• Add ghcup --plan-json
• Improve --patchdir option for GHC compilation wrt #226
• Try to improve logging and failure modes, especially during downloads
• Add descriptive warnings when HLS and GHC versions are incompatible
• Improve curl header parsing wrt #213

0.1.16.2 -- 2021-08-12

• Add isolated installations wrt #141 by Arjun Kathuria
• Implement config cli MVP wrt #134 by Oleksii Dorozhkin
• Fix ghcup compile ghc --flavor
• Fix minor installation bug causing increased disk space wrt #139
• Improved error handling wrt #136
• Various improvements to metadata download when using file:// and --offline wrt #137

0.1.16.1 -- 2021-07-29

• Add 'nuke' subcommand wrt #135, implemented by Arjun Kathuria
• Add uninstallation powershell script on windows wrt #150
• Improve logging
• Fix building GHC cross compiler wrt #180
• Allow to use hadrian as build system (for git based versions only) wrt #35
• Allow passing --flavor to ghcup compile ghc
• Support new GHC bin/ directory format wrt ghc/ghc#20074
• Implement whereis subcommand wrt #173
• Add --offline switch and prefetch subcommand wrt #186
• Implement ETAGs hashing for metadata downloads to speed up ghcup list wrt #193
• Avoid unnecessary fetching of ghcup metadata in some commands
• Avoid unnecessary update checks for some commands
• Preserve mtimes on unpacked GHC tarballs on windows wrt #187, fixing issues with ghc-pkg
• Fix lesser bug in ghcup list for stray stack versions wrt #183
• Major redo on how file removal on windows works, avoiding partial removals etc, wrt #165
• Improve ghcup tui for screen readers wrt github/#4, thanks to Mario Lang

0.1.15.2 -- 2021-06-13

• Remove legacy handling of cabal binary and be more graceful about binaries not installed by ghcup (e.g. stack)
• Fix GHC compilation from git
• Fix 'ghcup upgrade' on windows
• Allow to skip update checks via GHCUP_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK
• Use libarchive on windows as well, fixing unpack errors wrt #147

0.1.15.1 -- 2021-06-11

• Add Apple Silicon support
• Add windows support wrt #130
• Add stack support
• Warn when /tmp doesn't have 5GB or more of disk space
• Allow to compile GHC from git repo wrt #126
• Allow to set custom ghc version when running 'ghcup compile ghc' wrt #136
• Add date to GHC bindist names created by ghcup

0.1.14.2 -- 2021-05-12

• Remove dead dependency on ascii-string

0.1.14.1 -- 2021-04-11

• Make internal symlink target parser more lax, fixes #119
• Prepare for hackage release

0.1.14 -- 2021-03-07

• Major bugfix: fix handling of stray versions wrt #116
• Fix error messages and overhaul pretty printing wrt #115

0.1.13 -- 2021-02-26

• Support ARMv7/AARCH64
• Add command line completions for installed and available versions wrt MR #70
• Allow to cycle through set tools wrt #114
• Fix item selection with unavailable versions wrt #107
• Allow for dynamic post-install, post-remove and pre-compile msgs wrt MR #68
• Alert user if upgraded ghcup is shadowed by old ghcup wrt #111
• Fix to ghcup directory creation and placement for the XDG install mode (MR #49)
• Do 755 permissions on executables, wrt #97
• Add NO_COLOR support wrt MR #47

0.1.12 -- 2020-11-21

• Fix disappearing HLS symlinks wrt #91
• improve TUI:
  • separators between tools sections
  • reverse list order so latest is on top
  • expand the blues selected bar
  • show new latest versions in bright white
• allow configuration file and setting TUI hotkeys wrt #41
  • see https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs#configuration for a more in-depth explanation
• add a --set switch to ghcup install ghc to automatically set as default after install
• emit warnings when CC/LD is set wrt #82
• add support for version ranges in distro specifiers wrt #84
  • e.g. "(>= 19 && <= 20) || ==0.2.2" is a valid version key for distro

0.1.11 -- 2020-09-23

• Add support for installing haskell-language-server, wrt #65
• When compiling GHC from source create a bindist first, store that bindist in ~/.ghcup/cache and install it, wrt #51
• Allow to compile over existing version (ghcup compile ghc -v 8.6.5 -b 8.6.5) and replace it wrt #59
• simplify installing from custom bindist wrt #60
  • ghcup install ghc -u <url> <version>
• fix bug when cabal isn't marked executable in bindist
• fix bug when ~/.ghcup is a valid symlink wrt #49
• Drop support for compiling cabal from source (the old bootstrap script is discontinued)

0.1.10 -- 2020-08-14

• Show stray Cabals (useful for pre-releases or compiled ones)

0.1.9 -- 2020-08-14

• Fix bug when uninstalling all cabal versions
• Fix bug when setting a non-installed ghc version as current default
• Use yaml instead of generated json for download info for ease of adding new GHC versions #44
• Allow pre-release versions of GHC/cabal
• Add XDG dirs support (set GHCUP_USE_XDG_DIRS) wrt #39
• Allow to specify regex for tarball subdir (e.g. ghc-.*)
• Allow installing arbitrary bindists more seamlessly:
  • e.g. installing GHC HEAD: ghcup -n install ghc -u '{"dlHash": "", "dlSubdir": { "RegexDir": "ghc-.*"}, "dlUri": "https://gitlab.haskell.org/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/artifacts/master/raw/ghc-x86_64-fedora27-linux.tar.xz?job=validate-x86_64-linux-fedora27" }' head
• Avoid duplicate edits to .bashrc/.zshrc wrt #43

0.1.8 -- 2020-07-21

• Fix bug in logging thread dying on newlines
• Allow to install from arbitrary bindists: ghcup -n install ghc -u '{"dlHash": "", "dlSubdir": "ghc-8.10.1", "dlUri": "https://github.com/commercialhaskell/ghc/releases/download/ghc-8.10.1-release/ghc-8.10.1-x86_64-deb9-linux.tar.xz"}' 8.10.1

0.1.7 -- 2020-07-20

• Fix a bug in libarchive not unpacking some uncleanly packed bindists
• Improved fish support in bootstrap-haskell
• Only check for upgrades when not upgrading
• Fix platform detection for i386 docker images
• Improve alpine support
  • more/proper bindists
  • don't fall back to glibc based bindists
  • install bindists with --disable-ld-override to avoid ld.gold bugs

0.1.6 -- 2020-07-13

• Create a new curses (brick) based TUI, accessible via ghcup tui #24
• Support multiple installed versions of cabal #23
• Improvements to ghcup list (show unavailable bindists for platform)
• Fix redhat downloads #29
• Support for hadrian bindists (fixes alpine-8.10.1) #31
• Add FreeBSD bindists 8.6.5 and 8.8.3
• Fix memory leak during unpack

0.1.5 -- 2020-04-30

• Fix errors when PATH variable contains path components that are actually files
• Add --version and --numeric-version options
• Add changelog command
• Also check for available GHC and Cabal updates on start
• Add base versions as tags for every GHC version (these are "installable" tags and the latest GHC version matching the tag will be picked)
• Added --format-raw to list subcommand
• Allow to install X.Y versions (e.g.: ghcup install 8.8)
• Implement --keep=<always|errors|never> to control temporary build directories cleanup
• Add proper shell completions to the repo
• Fix building of documentation
• Allow to work in offline mode and use cached files if possible
• Allow to set the downloader via --downloader=<curl|wget>
• Support for compiling and installing a cross GHC (see README). This is experimental.

0.1.4 -- 2020-04-16

• build on all platforms with curl (as a binary), wrt https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/6
• Fix unlinking of ghc symlinks after new installation, wrt https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/ghcup-hs/issues/7

0.1.3 -- 2020-04-15

• Fix lesser bug when skipping ghcup update

0.1.2 -- 2020-04-15

• Fix bug when removing the set GHC version
• Fix use of undocumented GHCUP_INSTALL_BASE_PREFIX variable
• skip upgrade if ghcup is already latest version

0.1.1 -- 2020-04-15

• fix awful fdopendir bug on mac bug by updating hpath-posix

0.1.0

• First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.