ghcup-hs/docs/CHANGELOG.md

Revision history for ghcup

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.