ghcup-hs/CHANGELOG.md

Revision history for ghcup

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.