2.8.0.0

[wz1000]

Binaries for this release are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~hls/haskell-language-server-2.8.0.0/.

All of these tarballs have associated GPG signatures. The signature should be from Zubin Duggal <zubin@well-typed.com> (key ID 588764FBE22D19C4).

The prebuilt binaries in this release support the following GHC versions:

• 9.2.8
• 9.4.8
• 9.6.5
• 9.8.2

Changelog

• Bindists for GHC 9.6.5
• New hls-notes plugin (hls-notes-plugin: Initial implementation #4126, @jvanbruegge)
• Floskell, hlint and stylish-haskell plugins enabled for GHC 9.8
• Improvements for hls-graph increasing robustness (Fix hls-graph: phantom dependencies invoke in branching deps (resolve #3423) #4087, @soulomoon)
• Improvements to multi-component support (session-loader: Don't loop forever when we don't find a file in any multi component #4096, Replace checkHomeUnitsClosed with a faster implementation #4109, Allow users to specify whether to use cabal's multi-repl feature #4179, @wz1000, @fendor)

Pull Requests

• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1
  (#4189) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1 in /.github/actions/setup-build
  (#4188) by @dependabot[bot]
• Fix ghcdie-tests CI
  (#4184) by @soulomoon
• Fix ghc and hlint warnings, fix formatting
  (#4181) by @jhrcek
• Allow users to specify whether to use cabal's multi-repl feature
  (#4179) by @fendor
• Improve parsing of import suggestions extending multiple multiline imports (fixes Exception in plugin PluginId "ghcide-code-actions-imports-exports" while processing SMethod_TextDocumentCodeAction #4175)
  (#4177) by @jhrcek
• move ghcide-tests to haskell-language-server.cabal and make it depend on hls-test-utils
  (#4176) by @soulomoon
• enable ThreadId for when testing
  (#4174) by @soulomoon
• Drop Legacy Logger from Codebase
  (#4171) by @fendor
• get rid of the unsafeInterleaveIO at start up
  (#4167) by @soulomoon
• Remove EKG
  (#4163) by @michaelpj
• Mark plugins as not buildable if the flag is disabled
  (#4160) by @michaelpj
• Fix references to old CPP names in tests, update tests
  (#4159) by @jhrcek
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0
  (#4158) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0 in /.github/actions/setup-build
  (#4157) by @dependabot[bot]
• Remove dead code in ghcide and hls-graph for priority
  (#4151) by @soulomoon
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 in /.github/actions/setup-build
  (#4150) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3
  (#4149) by @dependabot[bot]
• Run ExceptionTests in temporary directory
  (#4146) by @fendor
• hls-eval-plugin: Replicate Prelude.head: empty list eval result when main function present  #4139
  (#4140) by @mattapet
• Update comment in refactor tests
  (#4138) by @jhrcek
• Update contact info in docs
  (#4137) by @jhrcek
• hls-notes-plugin: Do not error if no note is under the cursor
  (#4136) by @jvanbruegge
• improve logging in semantic tokens rule
  (#4135) by @soulomoon
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2
  (#4133) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 25 to 26
  (#4132) by @dependabot[bot]
• Use Set.member instead of Foldable.elem
  (#4128) by @jhrcek
• hls-notes-plugin: Initial implementation
  (#4126) by @jvanbruegge
• Enable floskell and hlint plugins for ghc 9.8
  (#4125) by @jhrcek
• Integrate stylish-haskell into hls executable with ghc 9.8
  (#4124) by @jhrcek
• Reduce usage of partial functions
  (#4123) by @jhrcek
• Benchmark: Enable 9.6, 9.8
  (#4118) by @soulomoon
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 in /.github/actions/setup-build
  (#4116) by @dependabot[bot]
• Bump haskell-actions/setup from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2
  (#4115) by @dependabot[bot]
• eval: more robust way to extract comments from ParsedModule
  (#4113) by @jhrcek
• Improve isolation of build artefacts of test runs
  (#4112) by @fendor
• Improve handling of nonsense rename attempts
  (#4111) by @jhrcek
• Exit with non-zero exitcode if wrapper fails to launch
  (#4110) by @fendor
• Replace checkHomeUnitsClosed with a faster implementation
  (#4109) by @wz1000
• Don't distribute gifs or plugin readmes
  (#4107) by @fendor
• Remove locale workaround for Module name that conatins non-ascii characters
  (#4106) by @fendor
• Track extra-source-files of plugins more accurately
  (#4105) by @fendor
• remove non-ascii name
  (#4103) by @soulomoon
• Add cabal-gild as a cabal file formatter plugin
  (#4101) by @fendor
• Remove more workarounds for GHCs < 9.2 (Remove more workarounds for GHCs < 9.0 #4092)
  (#4098) by @jhrcek
• session-loader: Don't loop forever when we don't find a file in any multi component
  (#4096) by @wz1000
• Prepare release 2.7.0.0
  (#4095) by @fendor
• Remove more workarounds for GHCs < 9.0
  (#4092) by @jhrcek
• Fix hls-graph: phantom dependencies invoke in branching deps (resolve hls-graph speculatively builds all prior dependencies for a key even if they might have changed #3423)
  (#4087) by @soulomoon
• Rename only if the current module compiles (Renaming in presence of type errors #3799)
  (#3848) by @sgillespie
• Reintroduce ghc-lib flag for hlint plugin
  (#3757) by @RaoulHC

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This discussion was created from the release 2.8.0.0.