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[Anton-Latukha]

0.9.0 is out.

Currently, the main questions that I see that project has for the next release milestone are:

(I am basically rephrasing text from previous release thread, please add your ideas)

• Unused dependencies? #588 Lets free from unneeded dependencies using GHC 8.10 feature
• Please, support GHC 8.8/8.10 #592 GHC 8.10, - it already builds - so it leads https://matrix.hackage.haskell.org/#/package/hnix 🥇. To claim the official support of GHC 8.10 - make our CI test for it. Because Nixpkgs currently 8.8.3. CI should also have classic Cabal build for us to easily detect Nixpkgs problems.
• Please, pass own test suite inside the Nixpkgs #618 doCheck all tests for HNix in Nixpkgs

Official GHC 8.10 support and having a set of proper dependencies is enough legitimacy to form the next release, by these criteria it is a minor release.

[Anton-Latukha]

In fact Nixpkgs synced-up to our needs and now CI builds GHC 8.10: https://travis-ci.org/github/haskell-nix/hnix/jobs/698345815
Wow, that escalated quickly, we can enable mandatory GHC 8.10 now.

But classic Cabal build is still a needed build to have to monitor Nixpkgs further.
In last year Nixpkgs lost in stability.

[sjakobi]

It would be nice to make a release now that hnix is compatible with the latest repline. Or are there issues or PRs that we should wait for?

• Maybe builtins.nixVersion: version 2.0 -> 2.3 #668?
• Please, pass own test suite inside the Nixpkgs #618 looks mostly blocked on Nixpkgs not using GHC 8.10 yet, so maybe it's not worth waiting for!?

[Anton-Latukha]

Yey.

It felt like infinity to me.

But you actually said this "just" 3 days ago.

Yes.
We needed #668.

Lets form a release right on this place.

I am Ok with anybody forming a release. @sorki (@jwiegley) can/should be entitled (have rights) to make a release, since in this release he shown his skills and brought the major swath of contributions. Or if he would lazily pass it to me - I can/want form it, since it would be second release ever for me, so I learn more, and also is @sjakobi wants - he can make a release, since I did the previous release.

[sjakobi]

@sorki Are you interested in preparing the release?

Otherwise I can do it, but I'd probably need you to check the changelog! :)

[sorki]

Yup! Drafted at #673

[Anton-Latukha]

Ok, since no one took responsibility to make a release, sorki so far probably didn't get the rights to Hackage, and we already ironed a changelog.

I would make a release then.

[Anton-Latukha]

Release made.

Docs uploaded manually.

[Anton-Latukha]

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