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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ channel, ~#xmobar~, at [[ircs://irc.libera.chat][Libera]].
* Breaking news
+ - Starting with version 0.51, we introduced a new GHC support policy: xmobar
+ officially supports only the GHC versions that upstream marks as /suitable
+ for use/ in the [[https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status][official GHC status overview]].
+ At the time of writing, this means GHC versions from 9.6 to 9.14.
+
- Starting with version 0.45, we use cairo/pango as our drawing engine
(instead of plain X11/Xft). From a user's point of view, that change
should be mostly transparent, except for the facts that it's allowed
@@ -92,9 +97,6 @@ channel, ~#xmobar~, at [[ircs://irc.libera.chat][Libera]].
cabal install xmobar -fall_extensions
#+end_src
- Starting with version 0.35.1, xmobar requires at least GHC version
- 8.4.x. to build. See [[https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar/issues/461][this issue]] for more information.
-
See [[https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar/src/branch/master/doc/compiling.org#optional-features][here]] for a list of optional compilation flags that will enable some
optional plugins.