Release timetable

The Haskell Platform follows a time-based release process. A new major release with library extensions and new tools appears every 6 months, on the following schedule. Minor releases, with bug fixes, occur between these major dates.

Third major release: 2011.x.0.0

• November 1, 2010: deadline for proposals to add new packages to release.
• GHC 6.14, October 2010.
• Freeze for 2011.2.0.0: December 15.
• Release candidates for 2011.2.0.0: December 16-25.
• Release of 2011.2.0.0: Jan 2, 2011.

Second major release: 2010.2.0.0

2010.2.0.0

Based on bug reports and polishing from the 2010.1.0.0 release (March 2010), we plan for 2010.2.0.0 in early July.

• GHC 6.12.2 release with improved Cabal on Windows: April 2010
• Release held up due to blocking bugs in 6.12.2. Waiting for 6.12.3
• GHC 6.12.3 released: June 12.
• Freeze for 2010.2.0.0: July 14.
• Release candidates for 2010.2.0.0.
• Release of 2010.2.0.0: July 24.

2010.1.0.0 beta

2010.2.x is the first to include GHC 6.12:

• Determine decision model for packages
• Determine number of packages to add. 0.
• Upgrade package versions in darcs .cabal file: Mar 7
• Freeze for 2010.2.0.0: March 6
• Beta release candidate: March 20 http://code.haskell.org/~dons/code/haskell-platform/snapshot/
• Release for 2010.1.0.0: March 21, 2010 (during ZuriHac)

First major release, 2009.2.x

• 2009.2.0, Monday 4th May 2009 (actual release slipped by one day)
• Freeze for package changes for 2009.2.0.1: Monday 18th May
• 2009.2.0.1, Monday 1st June (4 weeks after .0)
• 2009.2.0.2 delayed for 6.10.4 (releasd: Jul 16)
• Freeze for package changes to 2009.2.0.2: Wednesday July 22
• 2009.2.0.2, Wednesday July 29 (8 weeks after .1, originally planned for July 13, delayed due to GHC 6.10.4)