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@borsboom borsboom released this 07 Dec 05:21
v1.6.1

See https://haskellstack.org for installation and upgrade instructions.

Note: we are releasing a bit earlier than planned due to #3624. As such, not all the binaries have been built yet, but the commonly used 64-bit binaries of Linux static, macOS, and Windows are available.

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Changes since v1.5.1

Major changes:

  • Complete overhaul of how snapshots are defined, the packages and
    extra-deps fields, and a number of related items. For full
    details, please see
    the writeup on these changes. PR #3249,
    see the PR description for a number of related issues.
  • Upgraded to version 2.0 of the Cabal library.

Behavior changes:

  • The --install-ghc flag is now on by default. For example, if you
    run stack build in a directory requiring a GHC that you do not
    currently have, Stack will automatically download and install that
    GHC. You can explicitly set install-ghc: false or pass the flag
    --no-install-ghc to regain the previous behavior.
  • stack ghci no longer loads modules grouped by package. This is
    always an improvement for plain ghci - it makes loading faster and
    less noisy. For intero, this has the side-effect that it will no
    longer load multiple packages that depend on TH loading relative
    paths. TH relative paths will still work when loading a single
    package into intero. See
    #3309
  • Setting GHC options for a package via ghc-options: in your
    stack.yaml will promote it to a local package, providing for more
    consistency with flags and better reproducibility. See:
    #849
  • The package-indices setting with Hackage no longer works with the
    00-index.tar.gz tarball, but must use the 01-index.tar.gz file
    to allow revised packages to be found.
  • Options passsed via --ghci-options are now passed to the end of the
    invocation of ghci, instead of the middle. This allows using +RTS
    without an accompanying -RTS.
  • When auto-detecting --ghc-build, tinfo6 is now preferred over
    standard if both versions of libtinfo are installed
  • Addition of stack build --copy-compiler-tool, to allow tools like
    intero to be installed globally for a particular compiler.
    #2643
  • Stack will ask before saving hackage credentials to file. This new
    prompt can be avoided by using the save-hackage-creds setting. Please
    see #2159.
  • The GHCRTS environment variable will no longer be passed through to
    every program stack runs. Instead, it will only be passed through
    commands like exec, runghc, script, ghci, etc.
    See #3444.
  • ghc-options: for specific packages will now come after the options
    specified for all packages / particular sets of packages. See
    #3573.
  • The pvp-bounds feature is no longer fully functional, due to some
    issues with the Cabal library's printer. See
    #3550.

Other enhancements:

  • The with-hpack configuration option specifies an Hpack executable to use
    instead of the Hpack bundled with Stack. Please
    see #3179.
  • It's now possible to skip tests and benchmarks using --skip
    flag
  • GitSHA1 is now StaticSHA256 and is implemented using the StaticSize 64 ByteString for improved performance.
    See #3006
  • Dependencies via HTTP(S) archives have been generalized to allow
    local file path archives, as well as to support setting a
    cryptographic hash (SHA256) of the contents for better
    reproducibility.
  • Allow specifying --git-branch when upgrading
  • When running stack upgrade from a file which is different from the
    default executable path (e.g., on POSIX systems,
    ~/.local/bin/stack), it will now additionally copy the new
    executable over the currently running stack executable. If
    permission is denied (such as in /usr/local/bin/stack), the user
    will be prompted to try again using sudo. This is intended to
    assist with the user experience when the PATH environment variable
    has not been properly configured, see
    #3232.
  • stack setup for ghcjs will now install alex and happy if
    they are not present. See
    #3109.
  • Added stack ghci --only-main flag, to skip loading / importing
    all but main modules. See the ghci documentation page
    for further info.
  • Allow GHC's colored output to show through. GHC colors output
    starting with version 8.2.1, for older GHC this does nothing.
    Sometimes GHC's heuristics would work fine even before this change,
    for example in stack ghci, but this override's GHC's heuristics
    when they're broken by our collecting and processing GHC's output.
  • Extended the ghc-options field to support $locals, $targets,
    and $everything. See:
    #3329
  • Better error message for case that stack ghci file targets are
    combined with invalid package targets. See:
    #3342
  • For profiling now uses -fprof-auto -fprof-cafs instead of
    the deprecated -auto-all -caf-all. See:
    #3360
  • Better descriptions are now available for stack upgrade --help. See:
    #3070
  • When using Nix, nix-shell now depends always on gcc to prevent build errors
    when using the FFI. As ghc depends on gcc anyway, this doesn't increase the
    dependency footprint.
  • --cwd DIR can now be passed to stack exec in order to execute the
    program in a different directory. See:
    #3264
  • Plan construction will detect if you add an executable-only package
    as a library dependency, resulting in much clearer error
    messages. See:
    #2195.
  • Addition of --ghc-options to stack script to pass options directly
    to GHC. See:
    #3454
  • Add hpack package.yaml to build Stack itself
  • Add ignore-revision-mismatch setting. See:
    #3520.
  • Log when each individual test suite finishes. See:
    #3552.
  • Avoid spurious rebuilds when using --file-watch by not watching files for
    executable, test and benchmark components that aren't a target. See:
    #3483.
  • Stack will now try to detect the width of the running terminal
    (only on POSIX for the moment) and use that to better display
    output messages. Work is ongoing, so some messages will not
    be optimal yet. The terminal width can be overriden with the
    new --terminal-width command-line option (this works even on
    non-POSIX).
  • Passing non local packages as targets to stack ghci will now
    cause them to be used as -package args along with package
    hiding.
  • Detect when user changed .cabal file instead of package.yaml. This
    was implemented upstream in hpack. See
    #3383.
  • Automatically run autoreconf -i as necessary when a configure
    script is missing. See
    #3534
  • GHC bindists can now be identified by their SHA256 checksum in addition to
    their SHA1 checksum, allowing for more security in download.
  • For filesystem setup-info paths, it's no longer assumed that the
    directory is writable, instead a temp dir is used. See
    #3188.

Bug fixes:

  • stack hoogle correctly generates Hoogle databases. See:
    #3362
  • stack --docker-help is now clearer about --docker implying
    system-ghc: true, rather than both --docker and --no-docker.
  • stack haddock now includes package names for all modules in the
    Haddock index page. See:
    #2886
  • Fixed an issue where Stack wouldn't detect missing Docker images
    properly with newer Docker versions.
    #3171
  • Previously, cabal files with just test-suite could cause build to fail
    (#2862)
  • If an invalid snapshot file has been detected (usually due to
    mismatched hashes), Stack will delete the downloaded file and
    recommend either retrying or filing an issue upstream. See
    #3319.
  • Modified the flag parser within Stack to match the behavior of
    Cabal's flag parser, which allows multiple sequential dashes. See
    #3345
  • Now clears the hackage index cache if it is older than the
    downloaded index. Fixes potential issue if stack was interrupted when
    updating index.
    See #3033
  • The Stack install script now respects the -d option.
    See #3366.
  • stack script can now handle relative paths to source files.
    See #3372.
  • Fixes explanation of why a target is needed by the build plan, when the
    target is an extra dependency from the commandline.
    See #3378.
  • Previously, if you delete a yaml file from ~/.stack/build-plan, it would
    trust the etag and not re-download. Fixed in this version.
  • Invoking stack --docker in parallel now correctly locks the sqlite database.
    See #3400.
  • docs.haskellstack.org RTD documentation search is replaced by the mkdocs
    search. Please see
    #3376.
  • stack clean now works with nix. See
    #3468.
  • stack build --only-dependencies no longer builds local project packages
    that are depended on. See
    #3476.
  • Properly handle relative paths stored in the precompiled cache files. See
    #3431.
  • In some cases, Cabal does not realize that it needs to reconfigure, and must
    be told to do so automatically. This would manifest as a "shadowed
    dependency" error message. We now force a reconfigure whenever a dependency is
    built, even if the package ID remained the same. See
    #2781.
  • When --pvp-bounds is enabled for sdist or upload, internal
    dependencies could cause errors when uploaded to hackage. This is
    fixed, see #3290
  • Fixes a bug where nonexistent hackage versions would cause stack to
    suggest the same package name, without giving version info. See
    #3562
  • Fixes a bug that has existed since 1.5.0, where
    stack setup --upgrade-cabal would say that Cabal is already the latest
    version, when it wasn't.
  • Ensure that an extra-dep from a local directory is not treated as
    a $locals for GHC options purposes. See
    #3574.
  • Building all executables only happens once instead of every
    time. See
    #3229 for
    more info.

Thanks to all our contributors for this release:

  • Aaron McDaid
  • Adam McCullough
  • Alexey Zabelin
  • Andy
  • Ashley Towns
  • Chris Done
  • Chris Martin
  • d-dorazio
  • Deni Bertovic
  • Dmitry Ivanov
  • Echo Nolan
  • Emanuel Borsboom
  • Felix Yan
  • Filippo Vitale
  • Gábor Lipták
  • Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
  • Joshua Simmons
  • Judah Jacobson
  • Khan Thompson
  • Lizao Li
  • Luke Murphy
  • Martin Kolinek
  • Mathieu Boespflug
  • Matt Audesse
  • Matthias Heinzel
  • Michael Sloan
  • Michael Snoyman
  • mrkkrp
  • Neil Mitchell
  • Oleg Grenrus
  • OvermindDL1
  • Paolo G. Giarrusso
  • Rafe
  • Reuben D'Netto
  • Roman Cheplyaka
  • Samuli Thomasson
  • Schlueter
  • Scott Fleischman
  • Shea Levy
  • Simon Jakobi
  • Tom Sydney Kerckhove
  • tswelsh
  • Walter Franzini