Release notes:
- This release fixes potential bugs.
- The hash that Stack uses to distinguish one build plan from another has changed for plans that set (as opposed to unset) manually Cabal flags for immutable dependencies. This will cause Stack to rebuild dependencies for such plans.
Changes since v2.15.5:
Major changes:
- Stack 2.15.5 and earlier cannot build with Cabal (the library) version
3.12.0.0
. Stack can now build with that Cabal version.
Behavior changes:
- Stack's
StackSetupShim
executable, when called withrepl
andstack-initial-build-steps
, no longer uses Cabal'sreplHook
to applyinitialBuildSteps
but takes a more direct approach.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a regression introduced in Stack 2.15.1 that caused a 'no operation'
stack build
to be slower than previously. - The hashes that Stack uses to distinguish one build plan from another now include the Cabal flags for immutable dependencies set manually. Previously, in error, only such flags that were unset manually were included.
Release notes:
- This release fixes potential bugs.
Changes since v2.15.3:
Behavior changes:
- Following the handover of the Stackage project to the Haskell Foundation, the
default value of the
urls
key islatest-snapshot: https://stackage-haddock.haskell.org/snapshots.json
. - Stack no longer includes the snapshot package database when compiling the
setup executable for a package with
build-type: Configure
.
Release notes:
- With one exception, this release fixes bugs.
Changes since v2.15.1:
Behavior changes:
stack path --global-config
,--programs
, and--local-bin
no longer set up Stack's environment.
Bug fixes:
- Due to a bug, Stack 2.15.1 did not support versions of GHC before 8.2. Stack now supports GHC versions from 8.0.
--haddock-for-hackage
does not ignore--haddock-arguments
.- On Windows, package locations that are Git repositories with submodules now work as intended.
- The
ghc
,runghc
andrunhaskell
commands accept--package
values that are a list of package names or package identifiers separated by spaces and, in the case of package identifiers, in the same way as if they were specified as targets tostack build
.
Release notes:
- After an upgrade from an earlier version of Stack, on first use only, Stack 2.15.1 may warn that it had trouble loading the CompilerPaths cache.
- The hash used as a key for Stack's pre-compiled package cache has changed,
following the dropping of support for Cabal versions older than
1.24.0.0
.
Changes since v2.13.1:
Behavior changes:
- Stack does not leave
*.hi
or*.o
files in thesetup-exe-src
directory of the Stack root, and deletes any corresponding to asetup-<hash>.hs
orsetup-shim-<hash>.hs
file, to avoid GHC issue #21250. - If Stack's Nix integration is not enabled, Stack will notify the user if a
nix
executable is on the PATH. This usually indicates the Nix package manager is available. In YAML configuration files, thenotify-if-nix-on-path
key is introduced, to allow the notification to be muted if unwanted. - Drop support for Intero (end of life in November 2019).
stack path --stack-root
no longer sets up Stack's environment and does not load Stack's configuration.- Stack no longer locks on configuration, so packages (remote and local) can
be configured in parallel. This increases the effective concurrency of builds
that before would use fewer threads. Reconsider your
--jobs
setting accordingly. See #84. - Stack warns that its support for Cabal versions before
2.2.0.0
is deprecated and may be removed in the next version of Stack. Removal would mean that projects using snapshots earlier thanlts-12.0
ornightly-2018-03-18
(GHC 8.4.1) might no longer build. See #6377. - If Stack's
--resolver
option is not specified, Stack'sunpack
command with a package name will seek to update the package index before seeking to download the most recent version of the package in the index. - If the version of Cabal (the library) provided with the specified GHC can copy specific components, Stack will copy only the components built and will not build all executable components at least once.
Other enhancements:
- Consider GHC 9.8 to be a tested compiler and remove warnings.
- Stack can build packages with dependencies on public sub-libraries of other packages.
- Add flag
--no-init
to Stack'snew
command to skip the initialisation of the newly-created project for use with Stack. - The HTML file paths produced at the end of
stack haddock
are printed on separate lines and without a trailing dot. - Add option of the form
--doctest-option=<argument>
tostack build
, wheredoctest
is a program recognised by versions of the Cabal library from1.24.0.0
. - Experimental: Add flag
--haddock-for-hackage
to Stack'sbuild
command (including thehaddock
synonym forbuild --haddock
) to enable building project packages with flags to generate Haddock documentation, and an archive file, suitable for upload to Hackage. The form of the Haddock documentation generated for other packages is unaffected. - Experimental: Add flag
--documentation
(-d
for short) to Stack'supload
command to allow uploading of documentation for packages to Hackage. stack new
no longer rejects project templates that specify apackage.yaml
in a subdirectory of the project directory.- Stack will notify the user if Stack has not been tested with the version of
GHC that is being user or a version of Cabal (the library) that has been
found. In YAML configuration files, the
notify-if-ghc-untested
andnotify-if-cabal-untested
keys are introduced, to allow the notification to be muted if unwanted. - The compiler version is included in Stack's build message (e.g.
stack> build (lib + exe + test) with ghc-9.6.4
). - Add flag
--candidate
to Stack'sunpack
command, to allow package candidates to be unpacked locally. - Stack will notify the user if a specified architecture value is unknown to
Cabal (the library). In YAML configuration files, the
notify-if-arch-unknown
key is introduced, to allow the notification to be muted if unwanted. - Add option
--filter <item>
to Stack'sls dependencies text
command to filter out an item from the results, if present. The item can be$locals
for all project packages. - Add option
--snapshot
as synonym for--resolver
. - Add the
config set snapshot
command, corresponding to theconfig set resolver
command.
Bug fixes:
- Fix the
Curator
instance ofToJSON
, as regardsexpect-haddock-failure
. - Better error message if a
resolver:
orsnapshot:
value is, in error, a YAML number. - Stack accepts all package names that are, in fact, acceptable to Cabal.
- Stack's
sdist
command can check packages with names that include non-ASCII characters.
Release notes:
- Further to the release notes for Stack 2.3.1, the
-static
suffix has been removed from the statically linked Linux/x86_64 binaries. - The binaries for Linux/Aarch64 are now statically linked.
- Binaries are now provided for macOS/AArch64.
Changes since v2.11.1:
Behavior changes:
- Build artefacts are placed in
.stack-work/dist/<platform>/<GHC_version>
(hashed to a shorter path on Windows), rather than.stack-work/dist/<platform>/<Cabal_version>
. This allows build artifacts to be distinguished by GHC version. - By default, the
stack build
progress bar is capped to a length equal to the terminal width. - When building GHC from source, Stack no longer uses Hadrian's deprecated
--configure
\-c
flag and, instead, seeks to run GHC's Pythonboot
and shconfigure
scripts, and ensure that thehappy
andalex
executables are on the PATH. - When auto-detecting
--ghc-build
on Linux, themusl
GHC build only is considered a possible GHC build iflibc.musl-x86_64.so.1
is found in\lib
or\lib64
. - No longer supports Cabal versions older than
1.24.0.0
. This means projects using snapshots earlier thanlts-7.0
ornightly-2016-05-26
(GHC 8.0.1) will no longer build. GHC 8.0.1 comes with Haddock 2.17.2. - When unregistering many packages in a single step, Stack can now do that
efficiently. Stack no longer uses GHC-supplied
ghc-pkg unregister
(which is, currently, slower). stack hpc report
,stack list
,stack templates
andstack uninstall
output their information to the standard output stream rather than to the standard error stream. Logging is still to the standard error stream.stack upgrade
no longer assumes that binary upgrade is not supported on a AArch64 machine architecture.
Other enhancements:
- Consider GHC 9.6 to be a tested compiler and remove warnings.
- Consider Cabal 3.10 to be a tested library and remove warnings.
- Bump to Hpack 0.36.0.
- Depend on
pantry-0.9.2
, for support for long filenames and directory names in archives created bygit archive
. - Avoid the duplicate resolving of usage files when parsing
*.hi
files into a set of modules and a collection of resolved usage files. See #6123. - Add composable component type flags
--exes
,--tests
and--benchmarks
to Stack'side targets
command, to list only those components. stack --verbose
excludes lengthy information about build plan construction in the debug output by default. The newstack --[no-]plan-in-log
flag enables or disables the inclusion of the information in the debug output.- In YAML configuration files, the
casa
key is introduced, which takes precedence over the existingcasa-repo-prefix
key. The latter is deprecated. The new key also allows Stack's use of a Casa (content-addressable storage archive) server to be disabled and the maximum number of keys per request to be configured. The default Casa prefix references https://casa.stackage.org, instead of https://casa.fpcomplete.com. - Add option
--progress-bar=<format>
to Stack'sbuild
command to configure the format of the progress bar, where<format>
is one ofnone
,count-only
(only the package count),capped
(capped to a length equal to the terminal width) andfull
(the previous format).
Bug fixes:
- Restore
stack sdist --pvp-bounds lower
(broken with Stack 2.9.1). - Restore building of Stack with Cabal flag
disable-git-info
(broken with Stack 2.11.1). - With
stack hoogle
, avoid the messageMinimum version is hoogle-5.0. Found acceptable hoogle-<x.y.z> in your index, requiring its installation.
when ahoogle
executable has already been found on thePATH
. - Stack's sanity check on a selected GHC now passes GHC flag
-hide-all-packages
, stopping GHC from looking for a package environment in default locations. - Restore Stack script files without extensions (broken with Stack 2.11.1).
- Restore message suffix
due to warnings
withdump-logs: warning
(broken with Stack 2.11.1). - On Windows, the
local-programs-path
directory can now be on a different drive to the system temporary directory and MSYS2 will still be installed.
Changes since v2.9.3:
Behavior changes:
- Add flag
--[no-]-only-local-bin
to Stack'supgrade
command for a binary upgrade. If the Stack executable ismy-stack
, the default ismy-stack upgrade --only-local-bin
where previously it was, effectively,my-stack upgrade --no-only-local-bin
. If the Stack executable isstack
, the default isstack upgrade --no-only-local-bin
, the same behaviour as previously. - Use
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/stack/ghci-script
, rather than<temp>/haskell-stack-ghci
(where<temp>
is the directory yielded by thetemporary
package'sSystem.IO.Temp.getCanonicalTemporaryDirectory
), as the base location for GHCi script files generated bystack ghci
orstack repl
. See #5203 - Drop support for
Cabal
versions before 1.22 and, consequently, GHC versions before 7.10. stack ghci
andstack repl
now take into account the values ofdefault-language
keys in Cabal files, like they take into account the values ofdefault-extensions
keys.- Removed
--ghc-paths
,--global-stack-root
and--local-bin-path
flags forstack path
, deprecated in Stack 1.1.0 in favour of--programs
,--stack-root
andlocal-bin
respectively. - On Windows,
stack upgrade
always renames the file of the running Stack executable (adding extension.old
) before attempting to write to the original file name. - On Windows,
stack upgrade
does not offersudo
command alternatives if attempting to write to the original file name of the running Stack exectuable results in a 'Permission' error.
Other enhancements:
- Add options of the form
--PROG-option=<argument>
tostack build
, wherePROG
is a program recognised by the Cabal library and one ofalex
,ar
,c2hs
,cpphs
,gcc
,greencard
,happy
,hsc2hs
,hscolour
,ld
,pkg-config
,strip
andtar
. If Cabal uses the program during the configuration step, the argument is passed to it. - By default all
--PROG-option
options are applied to all project packages. This behaviour can be changed with new configuration optionapply-prog-options
. - Add flag
--[no-]use-root
tostack script
(default disabled). Used with--compile
or--optimize
, when enabled all compilation outputs (including the executable) are written to a script-specific location in thescripts
directory of the Stack root rather than the script's directory, avoiding clutter of the latter directory. - Better error message if the value of the
STACK_WORK
environment variable or--work-dir
option is not a valid relative path. - Stack will use the value of the
GH_TOKEN
, orGITHUB_TOKEN
, environment variable as credentials to authenticate its GitHub REST API requests. stack uninstall
also shows how to uninstall Stack-supplied tools.
Bug fixes:
- Fix incorrect warning if
allow-newer-deps
are specified butallow-newer
isfalse
. See #6068. stack build
with--file-watch
or--file-watch-poll
outputs 'pretty' error messages, as intended. See #5978.stack build
unregisters any project packages for the sub libraries of a project package that is to be unregistered. See #6046.- The warning that sublibrary dependency is not supported is no longer triggered by internal libraries.
Hackage-only release of the stack
package:
- Supports building against snapshot Stackage LTS Haskell 21.0 (GHC 9.4.5), without extra-deps.
- Supports build with
persistent-2.14.5.0
, using CPP directives. - Supports build with
unix-compat-0.7
, by removing reliance on the moduleSystem.PosixCompat.User
removed in that package. - Includes
cabal.project
andcabal.config
files in the package.
Changes since v2.9.1:
Behavior changes:
- In YAML configuration files, the
package-index
key is introduced which takes precedence over the existingpackage-indices
key. The latter is deprecated. - In YAML configuration files, the
hackage-security
key of thepackage-index
key or thepackage-indices
item can be omitted, and the Hackage Security configuration for the item will default to that for the official Hackage server. See #5870. - Add the
stack config set package-index download-prefix
command to set the location of Stack's package index in YAML configuration files. stack setup
with the--no-install-ghc
flag warns that the flag and the command are inconsistent and now takes no action. Previously the flag was silently ignored.- To support the Haskell Foundation's
Haskell Error Index initiative, all Stack
error messages generated by Stack itself begin with an unique code in the
form
[S-nnnn]
, wherennnn
is a four-digit number. - Test suite executables that seek input on the standard input stream (
stdin
) will not throw an exception. Previously, they would thow an exception, consistent with Cabal's 'exitcode-stdio-1.0' test suite interface specification. Pass the flag--no-tests-allow-stdin
tostack build
to enforce Cabal's specification. See #5897
Other enhancements:
- Help documentation for
stack upgrade
warns that if GHCup is used to install Stack, only GHCup should be used to upgrade Stack. That is because GHCup uses an executable namedstack
to manage versions of Stack, that Stack will likely overwrite on upgrade. - Add
stack ls dependencies cabal
command, which lists dependencies in the format of exact Cabal constraints. - Add
STACK_XDG
environment variable to use the XDG Base Directory Specification for the Stack root and Stack's global YAML configuration file, if the Stack root location is not set on the command line or by using theSTACK_ROOT
environment variable. - Add
stack path --global-config
, to yield the full path of Stack's user-specific global YAML configuration file (config.yaml
). - Experimental: Add option
allow-newer-deps
, which allows users to specify a subset of dependencies for which version bounds should be ignored (allow-newer-deps: ['foo', 'bar']
). This field has no effect unlessallow-newer
is enabled.
Bug fixes:
- Fix ambiguous module name
Distribution.PackageDescription
, if compilingStackSetupShim
withCabal-syntax-3.8.1.0
in package database. See #5886. - In YAML configuration files, if the
package-indices
key (or thehackage-security
key of its item) is omitted, the expiration of timestamps is now ignored, as intended. See Pantry #63
Changes since v2.7.5:
Release notes:
-
After an upgrade from an earlier version of Stack, on first use only, Stack 2.9.1 may warn that it had trouble loading the CompilerPaths cache.
-
The support from the Stack team for binary releases now includes Linux/AArch64 and is limited to:
- Linux 64-bit/x86_64 (statically linked)
- Linux AArch64 (dynamically linked)
- macOS x86_64
- Windows 64-bit/x86_64
Behavior changes:
stack build --coverage
will generate a unified coverage report, even if there is only one*.tix
file, in case a package has tested the library of another package that has not tested its own library. See #5713stack --verbose
no longer includes the lengthy raw snapshot layer (rsl) in the debug output by default. The newstack --[no-]rsl-in-log
flag enables or disables the inclusion of the rsl in the debug output.
Other enhancements:
- Consider GHC 9.2 and 9.4 to be tested compilers and remove warnings.
- Consider Cabal 3.6 and 3.8 to be a tested libraries and remove warnings.
- Bump to Hpack 0.35.0.
- On Windows, the installer now sets
DisplayVersion
in the registry, enabling tools likewinget
to properly read the version number. - Adds flag
--script-no-run-compile
(disabled by default) that uses the--no-run
option withstack script
(and forces the--compile
option). This enables a command likestack --script-no-run-compile Script.hs
to behave likestack script <arguments> --no-run --compile -- Script.hs
but without having to list all the<arguments>
in the Stack interpreter options comment inScript.hs
on the command line. That may help test that scripts compile in CI (continuous integration). See #5755 - Fuller help is provided at the command line if a subcommand is missing (for
example,
stack ls
now yields the equivalent ofstack ls --help
). See #809 - Add build option
--cabal-verbosity=VERBOSITY
to specify the Cabal verbosity level (the option accepts Cabal's numerical and extended syntax). See #1369 - Add the possibility of a
sh
script to customise fully GHC installation. See #5585 tools
subcommand added tostack ls
, to list stack's installed tools.stack uninstall
shows how to uninstall Stack.--ghc-variant
acceptsint-native
as a variant.
Bug fixes:
- Fix
stack clean --full
, so that the files to be deleted are not in use. See #5714 - Fix an inconsistency in the pretty formatting of the output of
stack build --coverage
- Fix repeated warning about missing parameters when using
stack new
- Include
pantry-0.5.6
: Remove operational and mirror keys from bootstrap key set #53 - Pass any CPP options specified via
cpp-options:
in the Cabal file to GHCi using GHC's-optP
flag. See #5608 - On Unix-like operating systems, respect the
with-gcc
option when installing GHC. See #5609 - Fixed logic in
get_isa()
inget-stack.sh
to exclude systems that don't have x86 in theiruname -m
output. See 5792. - Fixed output of
stack ls snapshots local
on Windows, to behave like that on Unix-like operating systems. - Fix non-deterministic test failures when executing a test suite for a multi-project repository with parallelism enabled. See #5024
Changes since v2.7.3:
Behavior changes:
- Cloning git repositories isn't per sub-directory anymore, see #5411
Other enhancements:
stack setup
supports installing GHC for macOS aarch64 (M1)stack upload
supports authentication with a Hackage API key (viaHACKAGE_KEY
environment variable).
Bug fixes:
- Ensure that
extra-path
works for case-insensitivePATH
s on Windows. See rio#237 - Fix handling of overwritten
ghc
andghc-pkg
locations. #5597 - Fix failure to find package when a dependency is shared between projects. #5680
stack ghci
now uses package flags instack.yaml
#5434
Changes since v2.7.1:
Other enhancements:
stack upgrade
will download fromhaskellstack.org
before tryinggithub.com
. See #5288stack upgrade
makes less assumptions about archive format. See #5288- Add a
--no-run
flag to thescript
command when compiling.
Bug fixes:
- GHC source builds work properly for recent GHC versions again. See #5528
stack setup
always looks for the unpacked directory name to support different tar file naming conventions. See #5545- Bump
pantry
version for better OS support. See pantry#33 - When building the sanity check for a new GHC install, make sure to clear
GHC_PACKAGE_PATH
. - Specifying GHC RTS flags in the
stack.yaml
no longer fails with an error. #5568 stack setup
will look in sandboxed directories for executables, not relying on `findExecutables. See GHC issue 20074- Track changes to
setup-config
properly to avoid reconfiguring on every change. See #5578
Changes since v2.5.1.1:
Behavior changes:
stack repl
now always warns about GHCi problems with loading multiple packages. It also sets now proper working directory when invoked with one package. See #5421custom-setup
dependencies are now properly initialized forstack dist
. This makesexplicit-setup-deps
no longer required and that option was removed. See #4006
Other enhancements:
- Consider GHC 9.0 to be a tested compiler and remove warnings.
- Consider Cabal 3.6 to be a tested library and remove warnings.
- Nix integration now passes
ghcVersion
(in addition to existingghc
) toshell-file
as an identifier that can be looked up in a compiler attribute set. - Nix integration now allows Nix integration if the user is ready in nix-shell. This gets rid of "In Nix shell but reExecL is False" error.
stack list
is a new command to list package versions in a snapshot. See #5431custom-preprocessor-extensions
is a new configuration option for allowing Stack to be aware of any custom preprocessors you have added toSetup.hs
. See #3491- Added
--candidate
flag toupload
command to upload a package candidate rather than publishing the package. - Error output using
--no-interleaved-output
no longer prepends indenting whitespace. This allows emacs compilation-mode and vim quickfix to locate and track errors. See #5523
Bug fixes:
stack new
now supports branches other thanmaster
as default for GitHub repositories. See #5422- Ignore all errors from
hi-file-parser
. See #5445 and #5486. - Support basic auth in package-indices. See #5509.
- Add support for parsing
.hi
. files from GHC 8.10 and 9.0. See hi-file-parser#2.
Hackage-only release:
- Support build with persistent-2.11.x and optparse-applicative-0.16.x
Changes since v2.3.3
Major changes:
- Add the
snapshot-location-base
yaml configuration option, which allows to override the default location of snapshot configuration files. This option affects how snapshot synonyms (LTS/Nightly) are expanded to URLs by thepantry
library. docker-network
configuration key added to override docker--net
arg
Behavior changes:
- File watching now takes into account specified targets, old behavior could be
restored using the new flag
--watch-all
#5310
Other enhancements:
stack ls dependencies json
now includes fieldssha256
andsize
for dependencies oftype
archive
inlocation
. #5280- Build failures now show a hint to scroll up to the corresponding section #5279
- Customisable output styles (see
stack --help
and the--stack-colors
option, andstack ls stack-colors --help
) now includeinfo
,debug
,other-level
,secondary
andhighlight
, used with verbose output.
Bug fixes:
- Fix
stack test --coverage
when using Cabal 3 stack new
now generates PascalCase'd module name correctly. #5376- Connection issues to Casa server no longer cause builds to failure. Casa acts only as an optimizing cache layer, not a critical piece of infrastructure.
- Fix modified time busting caches by always calculating sha256 digest during the build process. #5125
Changes since v2.3.1
Other enhancements:
- Add the
stack-developer-mode
flag
Bug fixes:
- When using the
STACK_YAML
env var with Docker, make the path absolute. - Fix the problem of
stack repl foo:test:bar
failing without a project build before that. See #5213 - Fix
stack sdist
introducing unnecessary sublibrary syntax when using pvp-bounds. See #5289
Release notes:
-
We have reduced the number of platforms that we support with binary releases. The reason behind this is that we've been slowed down in our release process until now with issues trying to build binaries for less common platforms. In order to make sure we can address issues more quickly (like supporting new GHC versions), we're limiting support from the Stack team to:
- Linux 64-bit/x86_64 (statically linked)
- macOS x86_64
- Windows 64-bit/x86_64
If others want to provide additional binaries, we will definitely be happy for the support. But since our CI system is currently able to produce these three bindists only, that's what we will be providing with the next release.
-
Since we no longer have dynamically linked Linux binaries, we are removing the
-static
suffix from the static Linux/x86_64 binaries. If you have scripts to download the latest stable Linux/x86_64 binary, update them to uselinux-x86_64
instead oflinux-x86_64-static
(if you are already using the former, nothing needs to change). For this release, both are supported, but the next release will no longer have the-static
variant. -
We are also deprecating the download links at https://stackage.org/stack. See this page for the current installation instructions: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/install_and_upgrade/.
-
These are the canonical locations to download the latest stable binaries from, and will continue to be supported going forward:
- Linux 64-bit/x86_64 (static): https://get.haskellstack.org/stable/linux-x86_64.tar.gz
- macOS x86_64: https://get.haskellstack.org/stable/osx-x86_64.tar.gz
- Windows 64-bit/x86_64: https://get.haskellstack.org/stable/windows-x86_64.zip
As always, binaries for specific versions are available from the GitHub releases: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/releases.
Changes since v2.1.3.1
Major changes:
-
setup-info-locations
yaml configuration now allows overwriting the default locations ofstack-setup-2.yaml
. #5031 #2983 #2913 -
The
setup-info
configuration key now allows overwriting parts of the defaultsetup-info
-
The
--setup-info-yaml
command line flag now may be used in all Stack commands such asstack build
, and not only instack setup
-
The
--setup-info-yaml
may specify multiple locations forstack-setup.yaml
files. -
The
stack upload
can read first reads environment Variable$HACKAGE_USERNAME
and$HACKAGE_PASSWORD
if they are missing only then asks forusername
orpassword
-
Fully remove GHCJS support.
-
Remove the
freeze
command. It has been replaced by lock files.
Behavior changes:
-
Remove the deprecated
--stack-setup-yaml
command line argument in favor of--setup-info-yaml
. See #2647 -
We now recommend checking in generated Cabal files for repos. When generating lock files for extra-deps that only include
package.yaml
files, a deprecation warning will be generated. Also, those packages will no longer be included in the generated lock files. See #5210.
Other enhancements:
-
Add
build-output-timestamps
flag in yaml. Setting it to true prefixes each build log output line with a timestamp. -
Show warning about
local-programs-path
with spaces on windows when running scripts. See #5013 -
Add
ls dependencies json
which will print dependencies as JSON.ls dependencies --tree
is nowls dependencies tree
. See #4424 -
Remove warning for using Stack with GHC 8.8-8.10, and Cabal 3.0-3.2.
-
Allow relative paths in
--setup-info-yaml
and tool paths #3394 -
Added the
--only-locals
flag. See #5272
Bug fixes:
-
Upgrade
pantry
: module mapping insertions into the database are now atomic. Previously, if you SIGTERMed at the wrong time while running a script, you could end up with an inconsistent database state. -
--resolver global
doesn't retrieve snapshots list from the internet because doesn't need it. See #5103 -
Fix using relative links in haddocks output. See #4971.
-
Do not include generated Cabal file information in lock files. See #5045.
-
Use proper Hoogle executable path when installed automatically. See #4905
-
Fix GHC version for batched package unregistration. See #4951
-
Use Hoogle from the snapshot used and not the latest version. See #4905
-
Resolve "'stty' is not recognized". See #4901
-
Fix missing reconfigure check causing errors when a package gets used in multiple projects. See #5147
Hackage-only release:
- Support persistent-template-2.7.x
- Support rio-0.1.11.0
- Add
stack.yaml
back to hackage sdist, and addsnapshot.yaml
Changes since v2.1.1
Behavior changes:
-
Disable WAL mode for SQLite3 databases, to improve compatibility with some platforms and filesystems. See #4876.
-
By default, do not perform expiry checks in Hackage Security. See #4928.
Other enhancements:
-
Do not rerun expected test failures. This is mostly a change that will only affect the Stackage Curator use case, but there is now an additional message letting the user know when a previously-failed test case is being rerun.
-
Move configure information for project packages back to .stack-work to improve caching. See #4893.
Bug fixes:
-
Fix to allow dependencies on specific versions of local git repositories. See #4862
-
Allow Stack commands to be run in Nix mode without having a project file available. See #4854.
-
Removes dependency on gnu-tar for OSX and Linux environment. The
--force-local
option was required only for windows environment. -
Properly wait for the
tar
subprocess to complete before returning, thereby avoiding a SIGTERM screwing up GHC installation. See #4888. -
Use package complete locations from lock files when resolving dependencies in
extra-deps
. See #4887. -
Set the
HASKELL_DIST_DIR
environment to a proper package dist directory sodoctest
is able to load modules autogenerated by Cabal. -
Expose package library when running tests.
-
Fix support for non-ASCII module names. See #4938
Other changes:
- Rename
pantry-tmp
package back topantry
, now that we have gained maintainership (which had been used by someone else for a candidate-only test that made it look like the name was free but prevented uploading a real package).
Hackage-only release that removes stack.yaml
from the sdist. This is because
stack.yaml
now defines a multi-package project, whereas Hackage works on the
basis on individual packages (see
#4860)
If building a stack
executable for distribution, please download the source
code from https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/releases/tag/v2.1.1 and
build it using Stack itself in order to ensure identical behaviour to official
binaries. This package on Hackage is provided for convenience and bootstrapping
purposes.
The Stack 2 release represents a series of significant changes to how Stack works internally. For the vast majority of cases, these changes are backwards compatible, in that existing projects will continue to build in the same way with Stack 2 as they did with Stack 1. The large version bump is due to the fundamental internal changes to cache handling, database storage (using SQLite in place of binary files), implicit snapshots (which greatly improve the precompiled cache), and moving to Pantry. We have also removed some less used features, as listed below.
Changes since v1.9.3
Major changes:
- Switch over to pantry for managing packages. This is a major change to Stack's
internals, and affects user-visible behavior in a few places. Some highlights:
- Drop support for multiple package indices and legacy
00-index.tar
style indices. See #4137. - Support for archives and repos in the
packages
section has been removed. Instead, you must useextra-deps
for such dependencies.packages
now only supports local filepaths. - Add support for Git repositories containing (recursive) submodules.
- Addition of new configuration options for specifying a "pantry
tree" key, which provides more reproducibility around builds,
and (in the future) will be used for more efficient package
content downloads. You can also specify package name and version
for more efficient config parsing.
* NOTE The new
stack freeze
command provides support for automatically generating this additional information. - Package contents and metadata are stored in an SQLite database
in place of files on the filesystem. The
pantry
library can be used for interacting with these contents. - Internally, Stack has changed many datatypes, including moving to Cabal's definition of many data types. As a result of such changes, existing cache files will in general be invalidated, resulting in Stack needing to rebuild many previously cached builds in the new version. Sorry :(.
- A new command,
stack freeze
has been added which outputs project and snapshot definitions with dependencies pinned to their exact versions. - The
ignore-revision-mismatch
setting is no longer needed, and has been removed. - Overriding GHC boot packages results in any other GHC boot packages depending on it being no longer available as a dependency, such packages need to be added explicitly when needed. See [#4510] (commercialhaskell#4510).
- Cabal solver integration was not updated to support newer
cabal-install
versions sostack solver
command was removed as well as a related option--solver
fromstack new
andstack init
.
- Drop support for multiple package indices and legacy
- Upgrade to Cabal 2.4
- Note that, in this process, the behavior of file globbing has
been modified to match that of Cabal. In particular, this means
that for Cabal spec versions less than 2.4,
*.txt
will matchfoo.txt
, but notfoo.2.txt
.
- Note that, in this process, the behavior of file globbing has
been modified to match that of Cabal. In particular, this means
that for Cabal spec versions less than 2.4,
- Remove the
stack image
command. With the advent of Docker multistage builds, this functionality is no longer useful. For an example, please see Building Haskell Apps with Docker. - Experimental: Support building GHC from source
- Stack now supports building and installing GHC from source. The built GHC
is uniquely identified by a commit id and an Hadrian "flavour" (Hadrian is
the newer GHC build system), hence
compiler
can be set to use a GHC built from source withghc-git-COMMIT-FLAVOUR
- Stack now supports building and installing GHC from source. The built GHC
is uniquely identified by a commit id and an Hadrian "flavour" (Hadrian is
the newer GHC build system), hence
stack.yaml
now supports aconfigure-options
, which are passed directly to theconfigure
step in the Cabal build process. See #1438- Remove support for building GHCJS itself. Future releases of Stack may remove GHCJS support entirely.
- Support for lock files for pinning exact project dependency versions
Behavior changes:
stack.yaml
now supportssnapshot
: a synonym forresolver
. See #4256stack script
now passes-i -idir
in to theghc
invocation. This makes it so that the script can import local modules, and fixes an issue where.hs
files in the current directory could affect interpretation of the script. See #4538- When using
stack script
, custom snapshot files will be resolved relative to the directory containing the script. - Remove the deprecated
--upgrade-cabal
flag tostack setup
. - Support the
drop-packages
field instack.yaml
- Remove the GPG signing code during uploads. The GPG signatures have never been used yet, and there are no plans to implement signature verification.
- Remove the
--plain
option for theexec
family of commands - Always use the
--exact-configuration
Cabal configuration option when building (should mostly be a non-user-visible enhancement). - No longer supports Cabal versions older than
1.19.2
. This means projects using snapshots earlier thanlts-3.0
ornightly-2015-05-05
will no longer build. - Remove the
stack docker cleanup
command. Docker itself now hasdocker image prune
anddocker container prune
, which you can use instead. - Interleaved output is now turned on by default, see
#4702. In
addition, the
packagename>
prefix is no longer included in interleaved mode when only building a single target. - The
-fhide-source-paths
GHC option is now enabled by default and can be disabled via thehide-source-paths
configuration option instack.yaml
. See #3784 - Stack will reconfigure a package if you modify your
PATH
environment variable. See #3138. - For GHC 8.4 and later, disable the "shadowed dependencies" workaround. This means that Stack will no longer have to force reconfigures as often. See #3554.
- When building a package, Stack takes a lock on the dist directory in use to avoid multiple runs of Stack from trampling each others' files. See #2730.
- Stack will check occasionally if there is a new version available and prompt
the user to upgrade. This will not incur any additional network traffic, as
it will piggy-back on the existing Hackage index updates. You can set
recommend-stack-upgrade: false
to bypass this. See #1681. stack list-dependencies
has been removed in favour ofstack ls dependencies
.- The new default for
--docker-auto-pull
is enabled. See #3332.
Other enhancements:
- Support MX Linux in get-stack.sh. Fixes #4769.
- Defer loading up of files for project packages. This allows us to get plan construction errors much faster, and avoid some unnecessary work when only building a subset of packages. This is especially useful for the curator use case.
- Existing global option
--color=WHEN
is now also available as a non-project-specific yaml configuration parametercolor:
. - Adopt the standard proposed at http://no-color.org/, that color should not be
added by default if the
NO_COLOR
environment variable is present. - New command
stack ls stack-colors
lists the styles and the associated 'ANSI' control character sequences that Stack uses to color some of its output. Seestack ls stack-colors --help
for more information. - New global option
--stack-colors=STYLES
, also available as a non-project-specific yaml configuration parameter, allows a Stack user to redefine the default styles that Stack uses to color some of its output. Seestack --help
for more information. - British English spelling of 'color' (colour) accepted as an alias for
--color
,--stack-colors
,stack ls stack-colors
at the command line and forcolor:
andstack-colors:
in yaml configuration files. - New build option
--ddump-dir
. (See #4225) - Stack parses and respects the
preferred-versions
information from Hackage for choosing latest version of a package in some cases, e.g.stack unpack packagename
. - The components output in the
The main module to load is ambiguous
message now include package names so they can be more easily copy-pasted. - Git repos are shared across multiple projects. See #3551
- Use en_US.UTF-8 locale by default in pure Nix mode so programs won't crash because of Unicode in their output #4095
- Add
--tree
tols dependencies
to list dependencies as tree. #4101 - Add
--pedantic
toghci
to run with-Wall
and-Werror
#4463 - Add
--cabal-files
flag tostack ide targets
command. - Add
--stdout
flag to allstack ide
subcommands. - Use batches when unregistering packages with
ghc-pkg
. (See #2662) get-stack
script now works on Windows CI machines of Appveyor, Travis and Azure Pipelines. See #4535/- Show snapshot being used when
stack ghci
is invoked outside of a project directory. See #3651 - The script interpreter now accepts a
--extra-dep
flag for adding packages not present in the snapshot. Currently, this only works with packages from Hackage, not Git repos or archives. - When using the script interpreter with
--optimize
or--compile
, Stack will perform an optimization of checking whether a newer executable exists, making reruns significantly faster. There's a downside to this, however: if you have a multifile script, and change one of the dependency modules, Stack will not automatically detect and recompile. stack clean
will delete the entire.stack-work/dist
directory, not just the relevant subdirectory for the current GHC version. See #4480.- Add
stack purge
as a shortcut forstack clean --full
. See #3863. - Both
stack dot
andstack ls dependencies
accept a--global-hints
flag to bypass the need for an installed GHC. See #4390. - Add the
stack config env
command for getting shell script environment variables. See #620. - Less verbose output from
stack setup
on Windows. See #1212. - Add an optional
ignore-expiry
flag to thehackage-security
section of the~/.stack/config.yaml
. It allows to disable timestamp expiration verification just likecabal --ignore-expiry
does. The flag is not enabled by default so that the default functionality is not changed. - Include default values for most command line flags in the
--help
output. See #893. - Set the
GHC_ENVIRONMENT
environment variable to specify dependency packages explicitly when running test. This is done to prevent ambiguous module name errors indoctest
tests. get-stack
script now works on Windows CI machines of Appveyor, Travis and Azure Pipelines. See #4535- Warn when a Docker image does not include a
PATH
environment variable. See #2472 - When using
system-ghc: true
, Stack will now find the appropriate GHC installation based on the version suffix, allowing you to more easily switch between various system-installed GHCs. See #2433. stack init
will now support create astack.yaml
file without any local packages. See #2465- Store caches in SQLite database instead of files.
- No longer use "global" Docker image database (
docker.db
). - User config files are respected for the script command. See #3705, #3887.
- Set the
GHC_ENVIRONMENT
environment variable to-
to tell GHC to ignore any such files when GHC is new enough (>= 8.4.4), otherwise simply unset the variable. This allows Stack to have control of package databases when running commands likestack exec ghci
, even in the presence of implicit environment files created bycabal new-build
. See #4706. - Use a database cache table to speed up discovery of installed GHCs
- You can specify multiple
--test-arguments
options. See #2226 - Windows terminal width detection is now done. See #3588
- On Windows, informs users if the 'programs' path contains a space character
and further warns users if that path does not have an alternative short
('8 dot 3') name, referencing the
local-programs-path
configuration option. See #4726 - Add
--docker-mount-mode
option to set the Docker volume mount mode for performance tuning on macOS.
Bug fixes:
- Ignore duplicate files for a single module when a Haskell module was generated from a preprocessor file. See #4076.
- Only track down components in current directory if there are no hs-source-dirs found. This eliminates a number of false-positive warnings, similar to #4076.
- Handle a change in GHC's hi-dump format around
addDependentFile
, which now includes a hash. See yesodweb/yesod#1551 - Fix
subdirs
for git repos inextra-deps
to match whole directory names. Also fixes forsubdirs: .
. See #4292 - Fix for git packages to update submodules to the correct state. See #4314
- Add
--cabal-files
flag tostack ide targets
command. - Don't download ghc when using
stack clean
. - Support loading in GHCi definitions from symlinked C files. Without this patch, Stack will try to find object files in the directory pointed to by symlinks, while GCC will produce the object files in the original directory. See #4402
- Fix handling of GitHub and URL templates on Windows. See #4394
- Fix
--file-watch
not responding to file modifications when running inside docker on Mac. See #4506 - Using
--ghc-options
withstack script --compile
now works. - Ensure the detailed-0.9 type tests work. See #4453.
- Extra include and lib dirs are now order-dependent. See #4527.
- Apply GHC options when building a
Setup.hs
file. See #4526. - Stack handles ABI changes in FreeBSD 12 by differentiating that version from previous.
- Help text for the
templates
subcommand now reflects behaviour in Stack 1.9 — that it downloads and shows a help file, rather than listing available templates. - Fix detection of aarch64 platform (this broke when we upgraded to a newer Cabal version).
- Docker: fix detecting and pulling missing images with
--docker-auto-pull
. See #4598 - Hackage credentials are not world-readable. See #2159.
- Warnings are dumped from logs even when color is enabled. See #2997
stack init
will now work for Cabal files with sublibraries. See #4408- When the Cabal spec version is newer than the global Cabal version, build against the snapshot's Cabal library. See #4488
- Docker: fix detection of expected subprocess failures. This fixes
downloading a compatible
stack
executable when the hoststack
is not compatible with the Docker image (on Linux), and doesn't show an unnecessary extra error when the in-container re-exec'edstack
exits with failure. - The
stack ghci
command's--ghc-options
flag now parses multiple options. See #3315.
Hackage-only release with no user facing changes (added compatibility
with rio-0.1.9.2
).
Bug fixes:
- Stack can now be compiled again inside a directory that does not
contain a
.git
directory. See #4364 - Handle a change in GHC's hi-dump format around
addDependentFile
, which now includes a hash. See yesodweb/yesod#1551 - Allow variables to appear in template file names.
Hackage-only release with no user facing changes.
- Stack can now be compiled again inside a directory that does not
contain a
.git
directory. See #4364
Release notes:
- Statically linked Linux bindists are back again, thanks to @nh2.
- We will be deleting the Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, and Arch package repos
from
download.fpcomplete.com
soon. These have been deprecated for over a year and have not received new releases, but were left in place for compatibility with older scripts.
Major changes:
- Upgrade to Cabal 2.4
- Note that, in this process, the behavior of file globbing has
been modified to match that of Cabal. In particular, this means
that for Cabal spec versions less than 2.4,
*.txt
will matchfoo.txt
, but notfoo.2.txt
.
- Note that, in this process, the behavior of file globbing has
been modified to match that of Cabal. In particular, this means
that for Cabal spec versions less than 2.4,
GHCJS
support is being downgraded to 'experimental'. A warning notifying the user of the experimental status ofGHCJS
will be displayed.
Behavior changes:
ghc-options
fromstack.yaml
are now appended toghc-options
fromconfig.yaml
, whereas before they would be replaced.stack build
will now announce when sublibraries of a package are being build, in the same way executables, tests, benchmarks and libraries are announcedstack sdist
will now announce the destination of the generated tarball, regardless of whether or not it passed the sanity checks- The
--upgrade-cabal
option tostack setup
has been deprecated. This feature no longer works with GHC 8.2 and later. Furthermore, the reason for this flag originally being implemented was drastically lessened once Stack started using the snapshot'sCabal
library for custom setups. See: #4070. - With the new namespaced template feature,
stack templates
is no longer able to meaningfully display a list of all templates available. Instead, the command will download and display a help file with more information on how to discover templates. See: #4039 - Build tools are now handled in a similar way to
cabal-install
. In particular, for legacybuild-tools
fields, we use a hard-coded list of build tools in place of looking up build tool packages in a tool map. This both brings Stack's behavior closer into line withcabal-install
, avoids some bugs, and opens up some possible optimizations/laziness. See: #4125. - Mustache templating is not applied to large files (over 50kb) to avoid performance degradation. See: #4133.
stack upload
signs the package by default, as documented.--no-signature
turns the signing off. #3739- In case there is a network connectivity issue while trying to download a template, Stack will check whether that template had been downloaded before. In that case, the cached version will be used. See #3850.
- In Stack's script interpreter,
-- stack --verbosity=info script
and-- stack script --verbosity=info
now have the same effect and both override the--verbosity=error
default in the interpreter. Previously the default meant the former was equivalent to-- stack --verbosity=info script --verbosity=error
and the latter was equivalent to-- stack --verbosity=error script --verbosity=info
, with the subcommand's global option having precedence over the Stack command's global option in each case. See #5326.
Other enhancements:
- On Windows before Windows 10, --color=never is the default on terminals that can support ANSI color codes in output only by emulation
- On Windows, recognise a 'mintty' (false) terminal as a terminal, by default
stack build
issues a warning whenbase
is explicitly listed inextra-deps
ofstack.yaml
stack build
suggests trying another GHC version should the build plan end up requiring unattainablebase
version.- A new sub command
run
has been introduced to build and run a specified executable similar tocabal run
. If no executable is provided as the first argument, it defaults to the first available executable in the project. stack build
missing dependency suggestions (on failure to construct a valid build plan because of missing deps) are now printed with their latest Cabal file revision hash. See #4068.- Added new
--tar-dir
option tostack sdist
, that allows to copy the resulting tarball to the specified directory. - Introduced the
--interleaved-output
command line option andbuild.interleaved-output
config value which causes multiple concurrent builds to dump to stderr at the same time with apackagename>
prefix. See #3225. - The default retry strategy has changed to exponential backoff. This should help with #3510.
stack new
now allows template names of the formusername/foo
to download from a user other thancommercialstack
on GitHub, and can be prefixed with the servicegithub:
,gitlab:
, orbitbucket:
. See #4039- Switch to
githash
to include some unmerged bugfixes ingitrev
Suggestion to add'allow-newer': true
now shows path to user config file where this flag should be put into #3685 stack ghci
now asks which main target to load before doing the build, rather than after- Bump to Hpack 0.29.0
- With GHC 8.4 and later, Haddock is given the
--quickjump
flag. - It is possible to specify the Hackage base URL to upload packages to, instead
of the default of
https://hackage.haskell.org/
, by usinghackage-base-url
configuration option. - When using Nix, if a specific minor version of GHC is not requested, the latest minor version in the given major branch will be used automatically.
Bug fixes:
stack ghci
now does not invalidate.o
files on repeated runs, meaning any modules compiled with-fobject-code
will be cached between ghci runs. See #4038.~/.stack/config.yaml
andstack.yaml
terminating by newline- The previous released caused a regression where some
stderr
from theghc-pkg
command showed up in the terminal. This output is now silenced. - A regression in recompilation checking introduced in v1.7.1 has been fixed. See #4001
stack ghci
on a package with internal libraries was erroneously looking for a wrong package corresponding to the internal library and failing to load any module. This has been fixed now and changes to the code in the library and the sublibrary are properly tracked. See #3926.- For packages with internal libraries not depended upon,
stack build
used to fail the build process since the internal library was not built but it was tried to be registered. This is now fixed by always building internal libraries. See #3996. --no-nix
was not respected under NixOS- Fix a regression which might use a lot of RAM. See #4027.
- Order of commandline arguments does not matter anymore. See #3959
- When prompting users about saving their Hackage credentials on upload, flush to stdout before waiting for the response so the prompt actually displays. Also fixes a similar issue with ghci target selection prompt.
- If
cabal
is not on PATH, runningstack solver
now prompts the user to runstack install cabal-install
stack build
now succeeds in building packages which contain sublibraries which are dependencies of executables, tests or benchmarks but not of the main library. See #3787.- Sublibraries are now properly considered for coverage reports when the test suite depends on the internal library. Before, Stack was erroring when trying to generate the coverage report, see #4105.
- Sublibraries are now added to the precompiled cache and recovered from there when the snapshot gets updated. Previously, updating the snapshot when there was a package with a sublibrary in the snapshot resulted in broken builds. This is now fixed, see #4071.
- #4114 Stack pretty
prints error messages with proper
error
logging level instead ofwarning
now. This also fixes self-executing scripts not piping plan construction errors from runhaskell to terminal (issue #3942). - Fix invalid "While building Setup.hs" when Cabal calls fail. See: #3934
stack upload
signs the package by default, as documented.--no-signature
turns the signing off. #3739
Release notes:
- aarch64 (64-bit ARM) bindists are now available for the first time.
- Statically linked Linux bindists are no longer available, due to difficulty with GHC 8.2.2 on Alpine Linux.
- 32-bit Linux GMP4 bindists for CentOS 6 are no longer available, since GHC 8.2.2 is no longer being built for that platform.
Major changes:
- Upgrade from Cabal 2.0 to Cabal 2.2
Behavior changes:
stack setup
no longer uses different GHC configure options on Linux distributions that use GCC with PIE enabled by default. GHC detects this itself since ghc-8.0.2, and Stack's attempted workaround for older versions caused more problems than it solved.stack new
no longer initializes a project if the project template contains astack.yaml
file.
Other enhancements:
- A new sub command
ls
has been introduced to Stack to view local and remote snapshots present in the system. Usestack ls snapshots --help
to get more details about it. list-dependencies
has been deprecated. The functionality has to accessed through the newls dependencies
interface. See #3669 for details.- Specify User-Agent HTTP request header on every HTTP request. See #3628 for details.
stack setup
looks for GHC bindists and installations by any OS key that is compatible (rather than only checking a single one). This is relevant on Linux where different distributions may have different combinations of libtinfo 5/6, ncurses 5/6, and gmp 4/5, and will allow simplifying the setup-info metadata YAML for future GHC releases.- The build progress bar reports names of packages currently building.
stack setup --verbose
causes verbose output of GHC configure process. See #3716- Improve the error message when an
extra-dep
from a path or git reference can't be found. See #3808 - Nix integration is now disabled on windows even if explicitly enabled, since it isn't supported. See #3600
stack build
now supports a new flag--keep-tmp-files
to retain intermediate files and directories for the purpose of debugging. It is best used with ghc's equivalent flag, i.e.stack build --keep-tmp-files --ghc-options=-keep-tmp-files
. See #3857- Improved error messages for snapshot parse exceptions
stack unpack
now supports a--to /target/directory
option to specify where to unpack the package intostack hoogle
now supports a new flag--server
that launches local Hoogle server on port 8080. See #2310
Bug fixes:
- The script interpreter's implicit file arguments are now passed before other
arguments. See
#3658.
In particular, this makes it possible to pass
-- +RTS ... -RTS
to specify RTS arguments used when running the script. - Don't ignore the template
year
parameter in config files, and clarify the surrounding documentation. See #2275. - Benchmarks used to be run concurrently with other benchmarks and build steps. This is non-ideal because CPU usage of other processes may interfere with benchmarks. It also prevented benchmark output from being displayed by default. This is now fixed. See #3663.
stack ghci
now allows loading multiple packages with the same module name, as long as they have the same filepath. See #3776.stack ghci
no longer always adds a dependency onbase
. It is now only added when there are no local targets. This allows it to be to load code that uses replacements forbase
. See #3589stack ghci
now uses correct paths for autogen files with #3791- When a package contained sublibraries, Stack was always recompiling the package. This has been fixed now, no recompilation is being done because of sublibraries. See #3899.
- The
get-stack.sh
install script now matches manual instructions when it comes to Debian/Fedora/CentOS install dependencies. - Compile Cabal-simple with gmp when using Nix. See #2944
stack ghci
now replaces the Stack process with ghci. This improves signal handling behavior. In particular, handling of Ctrl-C. To make this possible, the generated files are now left behind after exit. The paths are based on hashing file contents, and it's stored in the system temporary directory, so this shouldn't result in too much garbage. See #3821.
Bug fixes:
- Some unnecessary rebuilds when no files were changed are now avoided, by having a separate build cache for each component of a package. See #3732.
- Correct the behavior of promoting a package from snapshot to local package. This would get triggered when version bounds conflicted in a snapshot, which could be triggered via Hackage revisions for old packages. This also should allow custom snapshots to define conflicting versions of packages without issue. See Stackage issue #3185.
- When promoting packages from snapshot to local, we were occasionally discarding the actual package location content and instead defaulting to pulling the package from the index. We now correctly retain this information. Note that if you were affected by this bug, you will likely need to delete the binary build cache associated with the relevant custom snapshot. See #3714.
--no-rerun-tests
has been fixed. Previously, after running a test we were forgetting to record the result, which meant that all tests always ran even if they had already passed before. See #3770.- Includes a patched version of
hackage-security
which fixes both some issues around asynchronous exception handling, and moves from directory locking to file locking, making the update mechanism resilient against SIGKILL and machine failure. Seehackage-security
issue #187 and Stack issue #3073.
Hackage-only release with no user facing changes (updated to build with newer version of Hpack dependency).
Enhancements:
- In addition to supporting
.tar.gz
and.zip
files as remote archives, plain.tar
files are now accepted too. This will additionally help with cases where HTTP servers mistakenly set the transfer encoding togzip
. See #3647. - Links to docs.haskellstack.org ignore Stack version patchlevel.
- Downloading Docker-compatible
stack
binary ignores Stack version patchlevel.
Bug fixes:
- For versions of Cabal before 1.24, ensure that the dependencies of non-buildable components are part of the build plan to work around an old Cabal bug. See #3631.
- Run the Cabal file checking in the
sdist
command more reliably by allowing the Cabal library to flatten theGenericPackageDescription
itself.
Hackage-only release with no user facing changes (updated to build with newer dependency versions).
Major changes:
- Complete overhaul of how snapshots are defined, the
packages
andextra-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 runstack build
in a directory requiring a GHC that you do not currently have, Stack will automatically download and install that GHC. You can explicitly setinstall-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 yourstack.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 the00-index.tar.gz
tarball, but must use the01-index.tar.gz
file to allow revised packages to be found. - Options passed 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 overstandard
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 likeexec
,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 nowStaticSHA256
and is implemented using theStaticSize 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 runningstack
executable. If permission is denied (such as in/usr/local/bin/stack
), the user will be prompted to try again usingsudo
. This is intended to assist with the user experience when thePATH
environment variable has not been properly configured, see #3232. stack setup
for ghcjs will now installalex
andhappy
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 tostack 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
tostack 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 overridden 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 aconfigure
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: #3362stack --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-dep 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.
Bug fixes:
- Stack eagerly tries to parse all Cabal files related to a
snapshot. Starting with Stackage Nightly 2017-07-31, snapshots are
using GHC 8.2.1, and the
ghc.cabal
file implicitly referenced uses the (not yet supported) Cabal 2.0 file format. Future releases of Stack will both be less eager about Cabal file parsing and support Cabal 2.0. This patch simply bypasses the error for invalid parsing.
Behavior changes:
stack profile
andstack trace
now add their extra RTS arguments for benchmarks and tests to the beginning of the args, instead of the end. See #2399- Support for Git-based indices has been removed.
Other enhancements:
stack setup
allow to control options passed to ghcjs-boot with--ghcjs-boot-options
(one word at a time) and--[no-]ghcjs-boot-clean
stack setup
now accepts a--install-cabal VERSION
option which will install a specific version of the Cabal library globally.- Updates to store-0.4.1, which has improved performance and better error reporting for version tags. A side-effect of this is that all of stack's binary caches will be invalidated.
stack solver
will now warn about unexpectedcabal-install
versions. See #3044- Upstream packages unpacked to a temp dir are now deleted as soon as
possible to avoid running out of space in
/tmp
. See #3018 - Add short synonyms for
test-arguments
andbenchmark-arguments
options. - Adds
STACK_WORK
environment variable, to specify work dir. See #3063 - Can now use relative paths for
extra-include-dirs
andextra-lib-dirs
. See #2830 - Improved bash completion for many options, including
--ghc-options
,--flag
, targets, and project executables forexec
. --haddock-arguments
is actually used now whenhaddock
is invoked during documentation generation.--[no-]haddock-hyperlink-source
flag added which allows toggling of sources being included in Haddock output. See #3099stack ghci
will now skip building all local targets, even if they have downstream deps, as long as it's registered in the DB.- The
pvp-bounds
feature now supports adding-revision
to the end of each value, e.g.pvp-bounds: both-revision
. This means that, when uploading to Hackage, Stack will first upload your tarball with an unmodified Cabal file, and then upload a Cabal file revision with the PVP bounds added. This can be useful - especially combined with the Stackage no-revisions feature - as a method to ensure PVP compliance without having to proactively fix bounds issues for Stackage maintenance. - Expose a
save-hackage-creds
configuration option - On GHC <= 7.8, filters out spurious linker warnings on windows See #3127
- Better error messages when creating or building packages which alias wired-in packages. See #3172.
- MinGW bin folder now is searched for dynamic libraries. See #3126
- When using Nix, nix-shell now depends always on git to prevent runtime errors while fetching metadata
- Experimental: The
stack unpack
command now accepts a form where an explicit Hackage revision hash is specified, e.g.stack unpack foo-1.2.3@gitsha1:deadbeef
. Note that Stack will likely move towards a different hash format in the future. - Binary "stack upgrade" will now warn if the installed executable is not on the PATH or shadowed by another entry.
- Allow running tests on tarball created by sdist and upload #717.
Bug fixes:
- Fixes case where
stack build --profile
might not cause executables / tests / benchmarks to be rebuilt. See #2984 stack ghci file.hs
now loads the file even if it isn't part of your project.stack clean --full
now works when docker is enabled. See #2010- Fixes an issue where cyclic deps can cause benchmarks or tests to be run before they are built. See #2153
- Fixes
stack build --file-watch
in cases where a directory is removed See #1838 - Fixes
stack dot
andstack list-dependencies
to use info from the package database for wired-in-packages (ghc, base, etc). See #3084 - Fixes
stack --docker build
when user is part of libvirt/libvirtd groups on Ubuntu Yakkety (16.10). See #3092 - Switching a package between extra-dep and local package now forces rebuild (previously it wouldn't if versions were the same). See #2147
stack upload
no longer reveals your password when you type it on MinTTY-based Windows shells, such as Cygwin and MSYS2. See #3142stack script
's import parser will now properly parse files that have Windows-style line endings (CRLF)
Release notes:
- Docker images: fpco/stack-full and fpco/stack-run are no longer being built for LTS 8.0 and above. fpco/stack-build images continue to be built with a simplified process. #624
Major changes:
- A new command,
script
, has been added, intended to make the script interpreter workflow more reliable, easier to use, and more efficient. This command forces the user to provide a--resolver
value, ignores all config files for more reproducible results, and optimizes the existing package check to make the common case of all packages already being present much faster. This mode does require that all packages be present in a snapshot, however. #2805
Behavior changes:
-
The default package metadata backend has been changed from Git to the 01-index.tar.gz file, from the hackage-security project. This is intended to address some download speed issues from GitHub for people in certain geographic regions. There is now full support for checking out specific Cabal file revisions from downloaded tarballs as well. If you manually specify a package index with only a Git URL, Git will still be used. See #2780
-
When you provide the
--resolver
argument to thestack unpack
command, any packages passed in by name only will be looked up in the given snapshot instead of taking the latest version. For example,stack --resolver lts-7.14 unpack mtl
will get version 2.2.1 ofmtl
, regardless of the latest version available in the package indices. This will also force the same Cabal file revision to be used as is specified in the snapshot.Unpacking via a package identifier (e.g.
stack --resolver lts-7.14 unpack mtl-2.2.1
) will ignore any settings in the snapshot and take the most recent revision.For backwards compatibility with tools relying on the presence of a
00-index.tar
, Stack will copy the01-index.tar
file to00-index.tar
. Note, however, that these files are different; most importantly, 00-index contains only the newest revisions of Cabal files, while 01-index contains all versions. You may still need to update your tooling. -
Passing
--(no-)nix-*
options now no longer implies--nix
, except for--nix-pure
, so that the user preference whether or not to use Nix is honored even in the presence of options that change the Nix behavior.
Other enhancements:
- Internal cleanup: configuration types are now based much more on lenses
stack build
and related commands now allow the user to disable debug symbol stripping with new--no-strip
,--no-library-stripping
, and--no-executable-shipping
flags, closing #877. Also turned error message for missing targets more readable (#2384)stack haddock
now shows index.html paths when documentation is already up to date. Resolved #781- Respects the
custom-setup
field introduced in Cabal 1.24. This supercedes anyexplicit-setup-deps
settings in yourstack.yaml
and trusts the package's Cabal file to explicitly state all its dependencies. - If system package installation fails,
get-stack.sh
will fail as well. Also shows warning suggesting to runapt-get update
or similar, depending on the OS. (#2898) - When
stack ghci
is run with a config with no packages (e.g. global project), it will now look for source files in the current work dir. (#2878) - Bump to Hpack 0.17.0 to allow
custom-setup
and!include "..."
inpackage.yaml
. - The script interpreter will now output error logging. In particular, this means it will output info about plan construction errors. (#2879)
stack ghci
now takes--flag
and--ghc-options
again (inadvertently removed in 1.3.0). (#2986)stack exec
now takes--rts-options
which passes the given arguments inside of+RTS ... args .. -RTS
to the executable. This works around Stack itself consuming the RTS flags on Windows. (#2640)- Upgraded
http-client-tls
version, which now offers support for thesocks5://
andsocks5h://
values in thehttp_proxy
andhttps_proxy
environment variables.
Bug fixes:
- Bump to Hpack 0.16.0 to avoid character encoding issues when reading and writing on non-UTF8 systems.
stack ghci
will no longer ignore hsSourceDirs that contain..
. (#2895)stack list-dependencies --license
now works for wired-in-packages, like base. (#2871)stack setup
now correctly indicates when it uses system ghc (#2963)- Fix to
stack config set
, in 1.3.2 it always applied to the global project. (#2709) - Previously, Cabal files without exe or lib would fail on the "copy" step. (#2862)
stack upgrade --git
now works properly. Workaround for affected versions (>= 1.3.0) is to instead runstack upgrade --git --source-only
. (#2977)- Added support for GHC 8's slightly different warning format for dumping warnings from logs.
- Work around a bug in Cabal/GHC in which package IDs are not unique for different source code, leading to Stack not always rebuilding packages depending on local packages which have changed. (#2904)
Bug fixes:
stack config set
can now be used without a compiler installed #2852.get-stack.sh
now installs correct binary on ARM for generic linux and raspbian, closing #2856.- Correct the testing of whether a package database exists by checking
for the
package.cache
file itself instead of the containing directory. - Revert a change in the previous release which made it impossible to set local extra-dep packages as targets. This was overkill; we really only wanted to disable their test suites, which was already handled by a later patch. #2849
stack new
always treats templates as being UTF-8 encoding, ignoring locale settings on a local machine. See Yesod mailing list discussion
Release notes:
- For the next Stack release after this one, we are planning
changes to our Linux releases, including dropping our Ubuntu,
Debian, CentOS, and Fedora package repositories and switching to
statically linked binaries. See
#2534.
Note that upgrading without a package manager has gotten easier
with new binary upgrade support in
stack upgrade
(see the Major Changes section below for more information). In addition, the get.haskellstack.org script no longer installs from Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, or Fedora package repositories. Instead it places a generic binary in /usr/local/bin.
Major changes:
-
Stack will now always use its own GHC installation, even when a suitable GHC installation is available on the PATH. To get the old behaviour, use the
--system-ghc
flag or runstack config set system-ghc --global true
. Docker- and Nix-enabled projects continue to use the GHC installations in their environment by default.NB: Scripts that previously used Stack in combination with a system GHC installation should now include a
stack setup
line or use the--install-ghc
flag. #2221 -
stack ghci
now defaults to skipping the build of target packages, because support has been added for invoking "initial build steps", which create autogen files and run preprocessors. The--no-build
flag is now deprecated because it should no longer be necessary. See #1364 -
Stack is now capable of doing binary upgrades instead of always recompiling a new version from source. Running
stack upgrade
will now default to downloading a binary version of Stack from the most recent release, if one is available. Seestack upgrade --help
for more options. #1238
Behavior changes:
-
Passing
--resolver X
with a Stack command which forces creation of a global project config, will pass resolver X into the initial config. See #2579. -
Switch the "Run from outside project" messages to debug-level, to avoid spamming users in the normal case of non-project usage
-
If a remote package is specified (such as a Git repo) without an explicit
extra-dep
setting, a warning is given to the user to provide one explicitly.
Other enhancements:
stack haddock
now supports--haddock-internal
. See #2229- Add support for
system-ghc
andinstall-ghc
fields tostack config set
command. - Add
ghc-build
option to override autodetected GHC build to use (e.g. gmp4, tinfo6, nopie) on Linux. stack setup
detects systems where gcc enables PIE by default (such as Ubuntu 16.10 and Hardened Gentoo) and adjusts the GHCconfigure
options accordingly. #2542- Upload to Hackage with HTTP digest instead of HTTP basic.
- Make
stack list-dependencies
understand all of thestack dot
options too. - Add the ability for
stack list-dependencies
to list dependency licenses by passing the--license
flag. - Dump logs that contain warnings for any local non-dependency packages #2545
- Add the
dump-logs
config option and--dump-logs
command line option to get full build output on the console. #426 - Add the
--open
option to "stack hpc report" command, causing the report to be opened in the browser. - The
stack config set
command now accepts a--global
flag for suitable fields which causes it to modify the global user configuration (~/.stack/config.yaml
) instead of the project configuration. #2675 - Information on the latest available snapshots is now downloaded from S3 instead of stackage.org, increasing reliability in case of stackage.org outages. #2653
stack dot
andstack list-dependencies
now take targets and flags. #1919- Deprecate
stack setup --stack-setup-yaml
for--setup-info-yaml
based on discussion in #2647. - The
--main-is
flag for GHCI now implies the TARGET, fixing #1845. stack ghci
no longer takes all build options, as many weren't useful #2199--no-time-in-log
option, to make verbose logs more diffable #2727--color
option added to override auto-detection of ANSI support #2725- Missing extra-deps are now warned about, adding a degree of typo detection #1521
- No longer warns about missing build-tools if they are on the PATH. #2235
- Replace enclosed-exceptions with safe-exceptions. #2768
- The install location for GHC and other programs can now be configured with the
local-programs-path
option inconfig.yaml
. #1644 - Added option to add nix dependencies as nix GC roots
- Proper pid 1 (init) process for
stack exec
with Docker - Dump build logs if they contain warnings. #2545
- Docker: redirect stdout of
docker pull
to stderr so that it will not interfere with output of other commands. - Nix & docker can be activated at the same time, in order to run Stack in a nix-shell in a container, preferably from an image already containing the nix dependencies in its /nix/store
- Stack/nix: Dependencies can be added as nix GC roots, so they are not removed
when running
nix-collect-garbage
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a gnarly bug where programs and package tarballs sometimes have corrupted downloads. See #2657.
- Add proper support for non-ASCII characters in file paths for the
sdist
command. See #2549 - Never treat
extra-dep
local packages as targets. This ensures things like test suites are not run for these packages, and that build output is not hidden due to their presence. - Fix a resource leak in
sinkProcessStderrStdout
which could affect much of the codebase, in particular copying precompiled packages. #1979 - Docker: ensure that interrupted extraction process does not cause corrupt file when downloading a Docker-compatible Stack executable #2568
- Fixed running
stack hpc report
on package targets. #2664 - Fix a long-standing performance regression where Stack would parse the
.dump-hi
files of the library components of local packages twice. #2658 - Fixed a regression in "stack ghci --no-load", where it would prompt for a main module to load. #2603
- Build Setup.hs files with the threaded RTS, mirroring the behavior of
cabal-install
and enabling more complex build systems in those files. - Fixed a bug in passing along
--ghc-options
to ghcjs. They were being provided as--ghc-options
to Cabal, when it needs to be--ghcjs-options
. #2714 - Launch Docker from the project root regardless of the working
directory Stack is invoked from. This means paths relative to the project root
(e.g. environment files) can be specified in
stack.yaml
's dockerrun-args
. stack setup --reinstall
now behaves as expected. #2554
Release notes:
-
On many Un*x systems, Stack can now be installed with a simple one-liner:
wget -qO- https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh
-
The fix for #2175 entails that Stack must perform a full clone of a large Git repo of Hackage meta-information. The total download size is about 200 MB. Please be aware of this when upgrading your Stack installation.
-
If you use Mac OS X, you may want to delay upgrading to macOS Sierra as there are reports of GHC panics when building some packages (including Stack itself). See #2577
-
This version of Stack does not build on ARM or PowerPC systems (see store#37). Please stay with version 1.1.2 for now on those architectures. This will be rectified soon!
-
We are now releasing a statically linked Stack binary for 64-bit Linux. Please try it and let us know if you run into any trouble on your platform.
-
We are planning some changes to our Linux releases, including dropping our Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and Fedora package repositories and switching to statically linked binaries. We would value your feedback in #2534.
Major changes:
- Add
stack hoogle
command. #55 - Support for absolute file path in
url
field ofsetup-info
or--ghc-bindist
- Add support for rendering GHCi scripts targeting different GHCi like applications #2457
Behavior changes:
- Remove
stack ide start
andstack ide load-targets
commands. #2178 - Support .buildinfo files in
stack ghci
. #2242 - Support -ferror-spans syntax in GHC error messages.
- Avoid unpacking ghc to
/tmp
#996 - The Linux
gmp4
GHC bindist is no longer considered a full-fledged GHC variant and can no longer be specified using theghc-variant
option, and instead is treated more like a slightly different platform.
Other enhancements:
- Use the
store
package for binary serialization of most caches. - Only require minor version match for Docker Stack exe. This way, we can make patch releases for version bounds and similar build issues without needing to upload new binaries for Docker.
- Stack/Nix: Passes the right ghc derivation as an argument to the
shell.nix
when a customshell.nix
is used. See #2243 - Stack/Nix: Sets
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
so packages using C libs for Template Haskell can work (See e.g. this HaskellR issue) - Parse CLI arguments and configuration files into less permissive types, improving error messages for bad inputs. #2267
- Add the ability to explicitly specify a gcc executable. #593
- Nix: No longer uses LTS mirroring in nixpkgs. Gives to nix-shell a derivation
like
haskell.compiler.ghc801
See #2259 - Perform some subprocesses during setup concurrently, slightly speeding up most commands. #2346
stack setup
no longer unpacks to the system temp dir on posix systems. #996stack setup
detects libtinfo6 and ncurses6 and can download alternate GHC bindists #257 #2302.stack setup
detects Linux ARMv7 downloads appropriate GHC bindist #2103- Custom
stack
binaries list dependency versions in output for--version
. See #2222 and #2450. - Use a pretty printer to output dependency resolution errors. #1912
- Remove the
--os
flag #2227 - Add 'netbase' and 'ca-certificates' as dependency for .deb packages. #2293.
- Add
stack ide targets
command. - Enhance debug logging with subprocess timings.
- Pretty-print YAML parse errors #2374
- Clarify confusing
stack setup
output #2314 - Delete
Stack.Types
multimodule to improve build times #2405 - Remove spurious newlines in build logs #2418
- Interpreter: Provide a way to hide implicit packages #1208
- Check executability in exec lookup #2489
Bug fixes:
- Fix Cabal warning about use of a deprecated Cabal flag #2350
- Support most executable extensions on Windows #2225
- Detect resolver change in
stack solver
#2252 - Fix a bug in docker image creation where the wrong base image was selected #2376
- Ignore special entries when unpacking tarballs #2361
- Fixes src directory pollution of
style.css
andhighlight.js
with GHC 8's haddock #2429 - Handle filepaths with spaces in
stack ghci
#2266 - Apply ghc-options to snapshot packages #2289
stack sdist
: Fix timestamp in tarball #2394- Allow global Stack arguments with a script #2316
- Inconsistency between ToJSON and FromJSON instances of PackageLocation #2412
- Perform Unicode normalization on filepaths #1810
- Solver: always keep ghc wired-in as hard constraints #2453
- Support OpenBSD's tar where possible, require GNU tar for xz support #2283
- Fix using --coverage with Cabal-1.24 #2424
- When marking exe installed, remove old version #2373
- Stop truncating
all-cabal-hashes
git repo #2175 - Handle non-ASCII filenames on Windows #2491
- Avoid using multiple versions of a package in script interpreter by passing package-id to ghc/runghc #1957
- Only pre-load compiler version when using nix integration #2459
- Solver: parse Cabal errors also on Windows #2502
- Allow exec and ghci commands in interpreter mode.
Scripts can now automatically open in the repl by using
exec ghci
instead ofrunghc
in the shebang command. #2510 - Now consider a package to be dirty when an extra-source-file is changed. See #2040
Release notes:
- Official FreeBSD binaries are now available #1253.
Major changes:
- Extensible custom snapshots implemented. These allow you to define snapshots which extend other snapshots. See #863. Local file custom snapshots can now be safely updated without changing their name. Remote custom snapshots should still be treated as immutable.
Behavior changes:
stack path --compiler
was added in the last release, to yield a path to the compiler. Unfortunately,--compiler
is a global option that is useful to use withstack path
. The same functionality is now provided bystack path --compiler-exe
. See #2123- For packages specified in terms of a git or hg repo, the hash used in the location has changed. This means that existing downloads from older stack versions won't be used. This is a side-effect of the fix to #2133
stack upgrade
no longer pays attention to localstack.yaml
files, just the global config and CLI options. #1392stack ghci
now uses:add
instead of:load
, making it potentially work better with user scripts. See #1888
Other enhancements:
- Grab Cabal files via Git SHA to avoid regressions from Hackage revisions #2070
- Custom snapshots now support
ghc-options
. - Package git repos are now re-used rather than re-cloned. See #1620
DESTDIR
is filtered from environment when installing GHC. See #1460stack haddock
now supports--haddock-arguments
. See #2144- Signing: warn if GPG_TTY is not set as per
man gpg-agent
Bug fixes:
- Now ignore project config when doing
stack init
orstack new
. See #2110 - Packages specified by git repo can now have submodules. See #2133
- Fix of hackage index fetch retry. See re-opening of #1418
- HPack now picks up changes to filesystem other than package.yaml. See #2051
- "stack solver" no longer suggests --omit-packages. See #2031
- Fixed an issue with building Cabal's Setup.hs. See #1356
- Package dirtiness now pays attention to deleted files. See #1841
stack ghci
now usesextra-lib-dirs
andextra-include-dirs
. See #1656- Relative paths outside of source dir added via
qAddDependentFile
are now checked for dirtiness. See #1982 - Signing: always use
--with-fingerprints
Release notes:
- Added Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) Apt repo.
- No longer uploading new versions to Fedora 21 repo.
Behavior changes:
- Snapshot packages are no longer built with executable profiling. See #1179.
stack init
now ignores symlinks when searching for Cabal files. It also now ignores any directory that begins with.
(as well asdist
dirs) - before it would only ignore.git
,.stack-work
, anddist
.- The Stack executable is no longer built with
-rtsopts
. Before, when-rtsopts
was enabled, Stack would process+RTS
options even when intended for some other program, such as when used withstack exec -- prog +RTS
. See #2022. - The
stack path --ghc-paths
option is deprecated and renamed to--programs
.--compiler
is added, which points directly at the compiler used in the current project.--compiler-bin
points to the compiler's bin dir. - For consistency with the
$STACK_ROOT
environment variable, thestack path --global-stack-root
flag and theglobal-stack-root
field in the output ofstack path
are being deprecated and replaced with thestack-root
flag and output field. Additionally, the Stack root can now be specified via the--stack-root
command-line flag. See #1148. stack sig
GPG-related sub-commands were removed (folded intoupload
andsdist
)- GPG signing of packages while uploading to Hackage is now the default. Use
upload --no-signature
if you would rather not contribute your package signature. If you don't yet have a GPG keyset, read this blog post on GPG keys. We can add astack.yaml
config setting to disable signing if some people desire it. We hope that people will sign. Later we will be adding GPG signature verification options. stack build pkg-1.2.3
will now build even if the snapshot has a different package version - it is treated as an extra-dep.stack build local-pkg-1.2.3
is an error even if the version number matches the local package #2028.- Having a
nix:
section no longer implies enabling nix build. This allows the user to globally configure whether nix is used (unless the project overrides the default explicitly). See #1924. - Remove deprecated valid-wanted field.
- Docker: mount home directory in container #1949.
- Deprecate
stack path --local-bin-path
; instead use--local-bin
. stack image
: allow absolute source paths foradd
.
Other enhancements:
-
stack haddock --open [PACKAGE]
opens the local haddocks in the browser. -
Fix too much rebuilding when enabling/disabling profiling flags.
-
stack build pkg-1.0
will now buildpkg-1.0
even if the snapshot specifies a different version (it introduces a temporary extra-dep) -
Experimental: Support for
--split-objs
added #1284. -
git
packages with submodules are supported by passing the--recursive
flag togit clone
. -
When using Hpack, only regenerate Cabal files when Hpack files change.
-
Hpack files can now be used in templates
-
stack ghci
now runs ghci as a separate process #1306 -
Retry when downloading snapshots and package indices
-
Many build options are configurable now in
stack.yaml
:build: library-profiling: true executable-profiling: true haddock: true haddock-deps: true copy-bins: true prefetch: true force-dirty: true keep-going: true test: true test-arguments: rerun-tests: true additional-args: ['-fprof'] coverage: true no-run-tests: true bench: true benchmark-opts: benchmark-arguments: -O2 no-run-benchmarks: true reconfigure: true cabal-verbose: true
-
A number of URLs are now configurable, useful for firewalls. See #1794.
-
Suggest causes when executables are missing.
-
Allow
--omit-packages
even without--solver
. -
Improve the generated
stack.yaml
. -
Improve ghci results after :load Main module collision with main file path.
-
init: allow local packages to be deps of deps #1965.
-
Always use full fingerprints from GPG #1952.
-
Default to using
gpg2
and fall back togpg
#1976. -
Add a flag for --verbosity silent.
-
Add
haddock --open
flag #1396.
Bug fixes:
- Package tarballs would fail to unpack. #1884.
- Fixed errant warnings about missing modules, after deleted and removed from Cabal file #921 #1805.
- Now considers a package to dirty when the Hpack file is changed #1819.
- Nix: cancelling a Stack build now exits properly rather than dropping into a nix-shell #1778.
allow-newer: true
now causes--exact-configuration
to be passed to Cabal. See #1579.stack solver
no longer fails withInvalidRelFile
for relative package paths including..
. See #1954.- Ignore emacs lock files when finding Cabal files #1897.
- Use lenient UTF-8 decode for build output #1945.
- Clear index cache whenever index updated #1962.
- Fix: Building a container image drops a .stack-work dir in the current working (sub)directory #1975.
- Fix: Rebuilding when disabling profiling #2023.
Bug fixes:
- Don't delete contents of ~/.ssh when using
stack clean --full
with Docker enabled #2000
Build with path-io-1.0.0
. There are no changes in behaviour from 1.0.4, so no
binaries are released for this version.
Fixes build with aeson-0.11.0.0
. There are no changes in behaviour from 1.0.4,
so no binaries are released for this version.
Major changes:
- Some notable changes in
stack init
:- Overall it should now be able to initialize almost all existing Cabal packages out of the box as long as the package itself is consistently defined.
- Choose the best possible snapshot and add extra-deps on top of a snapshot other than a compiler snapshot - #1583
- Automatically omit a package (
--omit-packages
) when it is compiler incompatible or when there are packages with conflicting dependency requirements. See #1674. - Some more changes for a better user experience. Please refer to the doc guide for details.
- Add support for Hpack, alternative package description format #1679
Other enhancements:
- Docker: pass ~/.ssh and SSH auth socket into container, so that git repos work #1358.
- Docker: strip suffix from docker --version. #1653
- Docker: pass USER and PWD environment variables into container.
- On each run, Stack will test the Stack root directory (
/.stack), and the project and package work directories (.stack-work) for whether they are owned by the current user and abort if they are not. This precaution can be disabled with the/.stack/config.yaml). #471--allow-different-user
flag orallow-different-user
option in the global config ( - Added
stack clean --full
option for full working dir cleanup. - YAML config: support Zip archives.
- Redownload build plan if parsing fails #1702.
- Give mustache templates access to a 'year' tag #1716.
- Have "stack ghci" warn about module name aliasing.
- Add "stack ghci --load-local-deps".
- Build Setup.hs with -rtsopts #1687.
stack init
accepts a list of directories.- Add flag infos to DependencyPlanFailures (for better error output in case of flags) #713
stack new --bare
complains for overwrites, and add--force
option #1597.
Bug fixes:
- Previously,
stack ghci
would fail withcannot satisfy -package-id
when the implicit build step changes the package key of some dependency. - Fix: Building with ghcjs: "ghc-pkg: Prelude.chr: bad argument: 2980338" #1665.
- Fix running test / bench with
--profile
/--trace
. - Fix: build progress counter is no longer visible #1685.
- Use "-RTS" w/ profiling to allow extra args #1772.
- Fix withUnpackedTarball7z to find name of srcDir after unpacking
(fixes
stack setup
fails for ghcjs project on windows) #1774. - Add space before auto-generated bench opts (makes profiling options work uniformly for applications and benchmark suites) #1771.
- Don't try to find plugin if it resembles flag.
- Setup.hs changes cause package dirtiness #1711.
- Send "stack templates" output to stdout #1792.
Release notes:
- Arch Linux: Stack has been adopted into the official community repository, so we will no longer be updating the AUR with new versions. See the install/upgrade guide for current download instructions.
Major changes:
stack init
andsolver
overhaul #1583
Other enhancements:
- Disable locale/codepage hacks when GHC >=7.10.3 #1552
- Specify multiple images to build for
stack image container
docs - Specify which executables to include in images for
stack image container
docs - Docker: pass supplementary groups and umask into container
- If git fetch fails wipe the directory and try again from scratch #1418
- Warn if newly installed executables won't be available on the PATH #1362
stack.yaml
: forstack image container
, specify multiple images to generate, and which executables should be added to those images- GHCI: add interactive Main selection #1068
- Care less about the particular name of a GHCJS sdist folder #1622
- Unified Enable/disable help messaging #1613
Bug fixes:
- Don't share precompiled packages between GHC/platform variants and Docker #1551
- Properly redownload corrupted downloads with the correct file size. Mailing list discussion
- Gracefully handle invalid paths in error/warning messages #1561
- Nix: select the correct GHC version corresponding to the snapshot
even when an abstract resolver is passed via
--resolver
on the command-line. #1641 - Fix: Stack does not allow using an external package from ghci #1557
- Disable ambiguous global '--resolver' option for 'stack init' #1531
- Obey
--no-nix
flag - Fix: GHCJS Execute.hs: Non-exhaustive patterns in lambda #1591
- Send file-watch and sticky logger messages to stderr #1302 #1635
- Use globaldb path for querying Cabal version #1647
Release notes:
- We're calling this version 1.0.0 in preparation for Stackage LTS 4. Note, however, that this does not mean the code's API will be stable as this is primarily an end-user tool.
Enhancements:
- Added flag
--profile
flag: passed withstack build
, it will enable profiling, and for--bench
and--test
it will generate a profiling report by passing+RTS -p
to the executable(s). Great for using likestack build --bench --profile
(remember that enabling profile will slow down your benchmarks by >4x). Runstack build --bench
again to disable the profiling and get proper speeds - Added flag
--trace
flag: just like--profile
, it enables profiling, but instead of generating a report for--bench
and--test
, prints out a stack trace on exception. Great for using likestack build --test --trace
- Nix: all options can be overridden on command line #1483
- Nix: build environments (shells) are now pure by default.
- Make verbosity silent by default in script interpreter mode #1472
- Show a message when resetting git commit fails #1453
- Improve Unicode handling in project/package names #1337
- Fix ambiguity between a Stack command and a filename to execute (prefer
stack
subcommands) #1471 - Support multi line interpreter directive comments #1394
- Handle space separated pids in ghc-pkg dump (for GHC HEAD) #1509
- Add ghci --no-package-hiding option #1517
stack new
can download templates from URL #1466
Bug fixes:
- Nix:
stack exec
options are passed properly to the Stack sub process #1538 - Nix: specifying a shell-file works in any current working directory #1547
- Nix: use
--resolver
argument - Docker: fix missing image message and '--docker-auto-pull'
- No HTML escaping for "stack new" template params #1475
- Set permissions for generated .ghci script #1480
- Restrict commands allowed in interpreter mode #1504
stack ghci
doesn't see preprocessed files for executables #1347- All test suites run even when only one is requested #1550
- Edge cases in broken templates give odd errors #1535
- Fix test coverage bug on windows
Bug fixes:
stack image container
did not actually build an image #1473
Release notes:
- The Stack home page is now at haskellstack.org, which shows the documentation rendered by readthedocs.org. Note: this has necessitated some changes to the links in the documentation's markdown source code, so please check the links on the website before submitting a PR to fix them.
- The locations of the
Ubuntu
and
Debian
package repositories have changed to have correct URL semantics according to
Debian's guidelines
#1378. The old
locations will continue to work for some months, but we suggest that you
adjust your
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/fpco.list
to the new location to avoid future disruption. - openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise packages are now available, thanks to @mimi1vx. Note: there will be some lag before these pick up new versions, as they are based on Stackage LTS.
Major changes:
- Support for building inside a Nix-shell providing system dependencies #1285
- Add optional GPG signing on
stack upload --sign
or withstack sig sign ...
Other enhancements:
- Print latest applicable version of packages on conflicts #508
- Support for packages located in Mercurial repositories #1397
- Only run benchmarks specified as build targets #1412
- Support git-style executable fall-through (
stack something
executesstack-something
if present) #1433 - GHCi now loads intermediate dependencies #584
--work-dir
option for overriding.stack-work
#1178- Support
detailed-0.9
tests #1429 - Docker: improved POSIX signal proxying to containers #547
Bug fixes:
- Show absolute paths in error messages in multi-package builds #1348
- Docker-built binaries and libraries in different path #911 #1367
- Docker:
--resolver
argument didn't effect selected image tag - GHCi: Spaces in filepaths caused module loading issues #1401
- GHCi: cpp-options in Cabal files weren't used #1419
- Benchmarks couldn't be run independently of each other #1412
- Send output of building setup to stderr #1410
Major changes:
- GHCJS can now be used with stackage snapshots via the new
compiler
field. - Windows installers are now available: download them here #613
- Docker integration works with non-FPComplete generated images #531
Other enhancements:
- Added an
allow-newer
config option #922 #770 - When a Hackage revision invalidates a build plan in a snapshot, trust the snapshot #770
- Added a
stack config set resolver RESOLVER
command. Part of work on #115 stack setup
can now install GHCJS on windows. See #1145 and #749stack hpc report
command added, which generates reports for HPC tix filesstack ghci
now accepts all the flags accepted bystack build
. See #1186stack ghci
builds the project before launching GHCi. If the build fails, try to launch GHCi anyway. Usestack ghci --no-build
option to disable #1065stack ghci
now detects and warns about various circumstances where it is liable to fail. See #1270- Added
require-docker-version
configuration option - Packages will now usually be built along with their tests and benchmarks. See #1166
- Relative
local-bin-path
paths will be relative to the project's root directory, not the current working directory. #1340 stack clean
now takes an optional[PACKAGE]
argument for use in multi-package projects. See #583- Ignore cabal_macros.h as a dependency #1195
- Pad timestamps and show local time in --verbose output #1226
- GHCi: Import all modules after loading them #995
- Add subcommand aliases:
repl
forghci
, andrunhaskell
forrunghc
#1241 - Add typo recommendations for unknown package identifiers #158
- Add
stack path --local-hpc-root
option - Overhaul dependencies' haddocks copying #1231
- Support for extra-package-dbs in 'stack ghci' #1229
stack new
disallows package names with "words" consisting solely of numbers #1336stack build --fast
turns off optimizations- Show progress while downloading package index #1223.
Bug fixes:
- Fix: Haddocks not copied for dependencies #1105
- Fix: Global options did not work consistently after subcommand #519
- Fix: 'stack ghci' doesn't notice that a module got deleted #1180
- Rebuild when Cabal file is changed
- Fix: Paths in GHC warnings not canonicalized, nor those for packages in subdirectories or outside the project root #1259
- Fix: unlisted files in tests and benchmarks trigger extraneous second build #838
Major changes:
stack setup
now supports building and booting GHCJS from source tarball.- On Windows, build directories no longer display "pretty" information (like x86_64-windows/Cabal-1.22.4.0), but rather a hash of that content. The reason is to avoid the 260 character path limitation on Windows. See #1027
- Rename config files and clarify their purposes
#969
~/.stack/stack.yaml
-->~/.stack/config.yaml
~/.stack/global
-->~/.stack/global-project
/etc/stack/config
-->/etc/stack/config.yaml
- Old locations still supported, with deprecation warnings
- New command "stack eval CODE", which evaluates to "stack exec ghc -- -e CODE".
Other enhancements:
- No longer install
git
on Windows #1046. You can still get this behavior by running the following yourself:stack exec -- pacman -Sy --noconfirm git
. - Typing enter during --file-watch triggers a rebuild #1023
- Use Haddock's
--hyperlinked-source
(crosslinked source), if available #1070 - Use Stack-installed GHCs for
stack init --solver
#1072 - Experimental: Add
stack query
command #1087 - By default, Stack no longer rebuilds a package due to GHC options changes.
This behavior can be tweaked with the
rebuild-ghc-options
setting. #1089 - By default, ghc-options are applied to all local packages, not just targets.
This behavior can be tweaked with the
apply-ghc-options
setting. #1089 - Docker: download or override location of Stack executable to re-run in container #974
- Docker: when Docker Engine is remote, don't run containerized processes as host's UID/GID #194
- Docker:
set-user
option to enable/disable running containerized processes as host's UID/GID #194 - Custom Setup.hs files are now precompiled instead of interpreted. This should be a major performance win for certain edge cases (biggest example: building Cabal itself) while being either neutral or a minor slowdown for more common cases.
stack test --coverage
now also generates a unified coverage report for multiple test-suites / packages. In the unified report, test-suites can contribute to the coverage of other packages.
Bug fixes:
- Ignore stack-built executables named
ghc
#1052 - Fix quoting of output failed command line arguments
- Mark executable-only packages as installed when copied from cache #1043
- Canonicalize temporary directory paths #1047
- Put code page fix inside the build function itself #1066
- Add
explicit-setup-deps
option #1110, and change the default to the old behavior of using any package in the global and snapshot database #1025 - Precompiled cache checks full package IDs on Cabal < 1.22 #1103
- Pass -package-id to ghci #867
- Ignore global packages when copying precompiled packages #1146
Major changes:
- On Windows, we now use a full MSYS2 installation in place of the previous PortableGit. This gives you access to the pacman package manager for more easily installing libraries.
- Support for custom GHC binary distributions
#530
ghc-variant
option instack.yaml
to specify the variant (also--ghc-variant
command-line option)setup-info
instack.yaml
, to specify where to download custom binary distributions (also--ghc-bindist
command-line option)- Note: On systems with libgmp4 (aka
libgmp.so.3
), such as CentOS 6, you may need to re-runstack setup
due to the centos6 GHC bindist being treated like a variant
- A new
--pvp-bounds
flag to the sdist and upload commands allows automatic adding of PVP upper and/or lower bounds to your dependencies
Other enhancements:
- Adapt to upcoming Cabal installed package identifier format change #851
stack setup
takes a--stack-setup-yaml
argument--file-watch
is more discerning about which files to rebuild for #912stack path
now supports--global-pkg-db
and--ghc-package-path
--reconfigure
flag #914 #946- Cached data is written with a checksum of its structure #889
- Fully removed
--optimizations
flag - Added
--cabal-verbose
flag - Added
--file-watch-poll
flag for polling instead of using filesystem events (useful for running tests in a Docker container while modifying code in the host environment. When code is injected into the container via a volume, the container won't propagate filesystem events). - Give a preemptive error message when
-prof
is given as a GHC option #1015 - Locking is now optional, and will be turned on by setting the
STACK_LOCK
environment variable totrue
#950 - Create default
stack.yaml
with documentation comments and commented out options #226 - Out of memory warning if Cabal exits with -9 #947
Bug fixes:
- Hacky workaround for optparse-applicative issue with
stack exec --help
#806 - Build executables for local extra-deps #920
- copyFile can't handle directories #942
- Support for spaces in Haddock interface files fpco/minghc#85
- Temporarily building against a "shadowing" local package? #992
- Fix
Setup.exe
name for--upgrade-cabal
on Windows #1002 - Unlisted dependencies no longer trigger extraneous second build #838
Fix stack's own Haddocks. No changes to functionality (only comments updated).
Major changes:
- You now have more control over how GHC versions are matched, e.g. "use exactly this version," "use the specified minor version, but allow patches," or "use the given minor version or any later minor in the given major release." The default has switched from allowing newer later minor versions to a specific minor version allowing patches. For more information, see #736 and #784.
- Support added for compiling with GHCJS
- Stack can now reuse prebuilt binaries between snapshots. That means that, if you build package foo in LTS-3.1, that binary version can be reused in LTS-3.2, assuming it uses the same dependencies and flags. #878
Other enhancements:
- Added the
--docker-env
argument, to set environment variables in Docker container. - Set locale environment variables to UTF-8 encoding for builds to avoid "commitBuffer: invalid argument" errors from GHC #793
- Enable transliteration for encoding on stdout and stderr #824
- By default,
stack upgrade
automatically installs GHC as necessary #797 - Added the
ghc-options
field tostack.yaml
#796 - Added the
extra-path
field tostack.yaml
- Code page changes on Windows only apply to the build command (and its synonyms), and can be controlled via a command line flag (still defaults to on) #757
- Implicitly add packages to extra-deps when a flag for them is set #807
- Use a precompiled Setup.hs for simple build types #801
- Set --enable-tests and --enable-benchmarks optimistically #805
--only-configure
option added #820- Check for duplicate local package names
- Stop nagging people that call
stack test
#845 --file-watch
will ignore files that are in your VCS boring/ignore files #703- Add
--numeric-version
option
Bug fixes:
stack init --solver
fails ifGHC_PACKAGE_PATH
is present #860stack solver
andstack init --solver
check for test suite and benchmark dependencies #862- More intelligent logic for setting UTF-8 locale environment variables #856
- Create missing directories for
stack sdist
- Don't ignore Cabal files with extra periods #895
- Deprecate unused
--optimizations
flag - Truncated output on slow terminals #413
Bug fixes:
- Ignore disabled executables #763
Major changes:
- Detect when a module is compiled but not listed in the Cabal file
(#32)
- A warning is displayed for any modules that should be added to
other-modules
in the Cabal file - These modules are taken into account when determining whether a package needs to be built
- A warning is displayed for any modules that should be added to
- Respect TemplateHaskell addDependentFile dependency changes
(#105)
- TH dependent files are taken into account when determining whether a package needs to be built.
- Overhauled target parsing, added
--test
and--bench
options #651- For details, see Build commands documentation
Other enhancements:
- Set the
HASKELL_DIST_DIR
environment variable #524 - Track build status of tests and benchmarks #525
--no-run-tests
#517- Targets outside of root dir don't build #366
- Upper limit on number of flag combinations to test #543
- Fuzzy matching support to give better error messages for close version numbers #504
--local-bin-path
global option. Use to change where binaries get placed on a--copy-bins
#342- Custom snapshots #111
- --force-dirty flag: Force treating all local packages as having dirty files (useful for cases where Stack can't detect a file change)
- GHC error messages: display file paths as absolute instead of relative for better editor integration
- Add the
--copy-bins
option #569 - Give warnings on unexpected config keys #48
- Remove Docker
pass-host
option - Don't require
cabal-install
to upload #313 - Generate indexes for all deps and all installed snapshot packages #143
- Provide
--resolver global
option #645- Also supports
--resolver nightly
,--resolver lts
, and--resolver lts-X
- Also supports
- Make
stack build --flag
error when flag or package is unknown #617 - Preserve file permissions when unpacking sources #666
stack build
etc work outside of a projectlist-dependencies
command #638--upgrade-cabal
option tostack setup
#174--exec
option #651--only-dependencies
implemented correctly #387
Bug fixes:
- Extensions from the
other-extensions
field no longer enabled by default #449 - Fix: haddock forces rebuild of empty packages #452
- Don't copy over executables excluded by component selection #605
- Fix: Stack fails on Windows with git package in
stack.yaml
and no git binary on path #712 - Fixed GHCi issue: Specifying explicit package versions (#678)
- Fixed GHCi issue: Specifying -odir and -hidir as .stack-work/odir (#529)
- Fixed GHCi issue: Specifying A instead of A.ext for modules (#498)
- Add
--prune
flag tostack dot
#487 - Add
--[no-]external
,--[no-]include-base
flags tostack dot
#437 - Add
--ignore-subdirs
flag to init command #435 - Handle attempt to use non-existing resolver #436
- Add
--force
flag toinit
command - exec style commands accept the
--package
option (see Reddit discussion) stack upload
without arguments doesn't do anything #439- Print latest version of packages on conflicts #450
- Flag to avoid rerunning tests that haven't changed #451
- Stack can act as a script interpreter (see [Script interpreter] (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/wiki/Script-interpreter) and Reddit discussion)
- Add the
--file-watch
flag to auto-rebuild on file changes #113 - Rename
stack docker exec
tostack exec --plain
- Add the
--skip-msys
flag #377 --keep-going
, turned on by default for tests and benchmarks #478concurrent-tests: BOOL
#492- Use hashes to check file dirtiness #502
- Install correct GHC build on systems with libgmp.so.3 #465
stack upgrade
checks version before upgrading #447
- Remove GHC uncompressed tar file after installation #376
- Put stackage snapshots JSON on S3 #380
- Specifying flags for multiple packages #335
- single test suite failure should show entire log #388
- valid-wanted is a confusing option name #386
stack init
in multi-package project should use local packages for dependency checking #384- Display information on why a snapshot was rejected #381
- Give a reason for unregistering packages #389
stack exec
accepts the--no-ghc-package-path
parameter- Don't require build plan to upload #400
- Specifying test components only builds/runs those tests #398
STACK_EXE
environment variable- Add the
stack dot
command stack upgrade
added #237--stack-yaml
command line flag #378--skip-ghc-check
command line flag #423
Bug fixes:
- Haddock links to global packages no longer broken on Windows #375
- Make flags case-insensitive #397
- Mark packages uninstalled before rebuilding #365
- Fall back to Cabal dependency solver when a snapshot can't be found
- Basic implementation of
stack new
#137 stack solver
command #364stack path
command #95- Haddocks #143:
- Build for dependencies
- Use relative links
- Generate module contents and index for all packages in project
--prefetch
#297upload
command ported from stackage-upload #225--only-snapshot
#310--resolver
#224stack init
#253--extra-include-dirs
and--extra-lib-dirs
#333- Specify intra-package target #201
- Fix some Windows specific bugs #216
- Improve output for package index updates #227
- Automatically update indices as necessary #227
- --verbose flag #217
- Remove packages (HTTPS and Git) #199
- Config values for system-ghc and install-ghc
- Merge
stack deps
functionality intostack build
install
command #153 and #272- overriding architecture value (useful to force 64-bit GHC on Windows, for example)
- Overhauled test running (allows cycles, avoids unnecessary recompilation, etc)
- First public release, beta quality