v0.1.5.0

See README for installation and upgrade instructions.

Note: the binary tarballs' contents have changed, and they now enclose their contents in a directory, and include documentation. If you have a script that should only extract the stack executable, use something like tar xzf stack-0.1.5.0-x86_64-osx.tar.gz --strip-components=1 stack-0.1.5.0-x86_64-osx/stack.

MinGHC installers have also been updated to include this version of stack (and will continue to be updated for future releases).

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 in stack.yaml to specify the variant (also
    --ghc-variant command-line option)
  • setup-info in stack.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-run stack 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 #912
• stack 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 to true #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

v0.1.4.0

See README for installation and upgrade instructions.

Note: while stack-0.1.4.1 is on Hackage, the only change is to a comment so that stack's haddocks build. Therefore, no new binaries were generated. Functionally, v0.1.4.0 is identical to v0.1.4.1.

Note: we have stopped uploading new versions to the Fedora 20 repository, since that version of Fedora has reached end of life. If you are using Fedora 20, use stack upgrade or download the general Linux binary.

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 translitation for encoding on stdout and stderr #824
• By default, stack upgrade automatically installs GHC as necessary #797
• Added the ghc-options field to stack.yaml #796
• Added the extra-path field to stack.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 if GHC_PACKAGE_PATH is present #860
• stack solver and stack 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

v0.1.3.1

This is a patch release to fix a bug in v0.1.3.0.

See README for installation and upgrade instructions.

Note: on Windows, this version does some trickery with code pages to work around issues with GHC's output. If you run into any trouble, please report it (see issue #757).

Bug fixes:

• Ignore disabled executables #763

0.1.3.0

See README for installation and upgrade instructions.

Note: on Windows, this version does some trickery with code pages to work around issues with GHC's output. If you run into any trouble, please report it (see issue #757).

Major changes:

• Overhauled target parsing, added --test and --bench options #651
  • For details, see Build commands Wiki page
• 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
• Respect TemplateHaskell addDependentFile dependency changes (#105)
  • TH dependent files are taken into account when determining whether a package needs to be built.

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
• 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 project
• list-dependencies command #638
• --upgrade-cabal option to stack 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)

0.1.2.0

• Add --prune flag to stack dot #487
• Add --[no-]external,--[no-]include-base flags to stack dot #437
• Add --ignore-subdirs flag to init command #435
• Handle attempt to use non-existing resolver #436
• Add --force flag to init 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 and Reddit discussion)
• Add the --file-watch flag to auto-rebuild on file changes #113
• Rename stack docker exec to stack exec --plain
• Add the --skip-msys flag #377
• --keep-going, turned on by default for tests and benchmarks #478
• concurrent-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

0.1.1.0

• 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

0.1.0.0- first stable release

This is the first stable release of stack, intended for general purpose development by people with good Haskell experience. This release mostly focuses on bug fixes and performance enhancements, but also includes some new features from last week:

• Fall back to cabal dependency solver when a snapshot can't be found
• Basic implementation of stack new #137
• stack solver command #364
• stack path command #95
• Haddocks #143:
  • Build for dependencies
  • Use relative links
  • Generate module contents and index for all packages in project

0.0.3- third beta release

This contains a number of improvements and bug fixes since the first beta release, but is still to be considered a beta! Changes include (but are not limited to):

• --prefetch #297
• upload command ported from stackage-upload #225
• --only-snapshot #310
• --resolver #224

0.0.2- second beta release

This contains a number of improvements and bug fixes since the first beta release, but is still to be considered a beta! Changes include (but are not limited to):

• 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 into stack 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)

0.0.0

This is the first public release of stack. This is beta software. It is expected to have bugs. As tempting as it is, please do not start building production systems on top of it.