darcs weekly news #96

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.8.1 was released, the only change is a build dependency that will make it buildable with the next Haskell Platform:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-May/026506.html
   • http://hackage.haskell.org/package/darcs-2.8.1
2. Meanwhile in HEAD, a new test strategy has been implemented:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2012-May/026503.html
3. On the developers' mailing list, we are discussing how to make the darcs development process more friendly:
   
   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2012-May/013820.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1921 Owen Stephens

• return Nothing in splitOnTag if the tag isn't in the patchset
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1921

issue2095 Ganesh Sittampalam

• avoid new GHC encoding behaviour using a global setting
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2095

issue2161 Owen Stephens

• don't use a separate type-variable for recorded/tentative in WhatsNew
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2161

Patches applied in the last week (77)

See darcs wiki entry for details.