Triweekly update from the GHC DevX team at IOG.
Previous updates can be found here.
High-level Summary
The team has been working on the preparation of a GHC 9.6.7 release and on building GHC with cabal-install instead of Hadrian.
Details
Luite: Is back from vacation and has been preparing the GHC 9.6.7 release. See GHC#25559 and GHC!13740.
Sylvain: worked on building GHC with cabal-install instead of Hadrian. During the process he noticed that the Cabal flags for the RTS were wrongly set on automatic. This is now fixed by GHC!13697.
Sylvain: fixed the build of GHC with tables-next-to-code disabled. See GHC#25565 and GHC!13712
Sylvain: merged ghc-bignum package into ghc-internal. See GHC#24453 and GHC!13688
Other
Jeff: created a GHC JS Backend matrix room come chat about all things JS backend!