Hello

Below it states

   - Fixed a critical code generation regression where sub-word division
   produced incorrect results (#26711 </ghc/ghc/-/issues/26711>, #26668
   (closed) </ghc/ghc/-/issues/26668>), similar to the bug fixed in 9.12.2

However when I test 26711 it on 9.12.3.20260311 ( 9.12.3.20260311) on my
Apple Silicon Mac it is still broken, I've updated 26711. Maybe the above
means that just 26668 is fixed but 26711 is not?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 6:15 AM Zubin Duggal via ghc-devs <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability
> of the release candidate for GHC 9.12.4. Binary distributions, source
> distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org][]
> and
> via [GHCup](https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/).
>
> GHC 9.12.4 is a bug-fix release fixing many issues of a variety of
> severities and scopes, including:
>
> * Fixed a critical code generation regression where sub-word division
> produced
>    incorrect results (#26711, #26668), similar to the bug fixed in 9.12.2
> * Numerous fixes for register allocation bugs, preventing data corruption
>    when spilling and reloading registers
>    (#26411, #26526, #26537, #26542, #26550)
> * Fixes for several compiler crashes, including issues with
>    CSE (#25468), SetLevels (#26681),
>    implicit parameters (#26451), and the type-class specialiser (#26682)
> * Fixed cast worker/wrapper incorrectly firing on INLINE functions (#26903)
> * Fixed LLVM backend miscompilation of bit manipulation operations
>    (#20645, #26065, #26109)
> * Fixed associated type family and data family instance changes not
> triggering
>    recompilation (#26183, #26705)
> * Fixed negative type literals causing the compiler to hang (#26861)
> * Improvements to determinism of compiler output (#26846, #26858)
> * Fixes for eventlog shutdown deadlocks (#26573)
>    and lost wakeups in the RTS (#26324)
> * Fixed split sections support on Windows (#26696, #26494) and the LLVM
> backend (#26770)
> * Fixes for the bytecode compiler, PPC native code generator, and Wasm
> backend
> * The runtime linker now supports COMMON symbols (#6107)
> * Improved backtrace support: backtraces for `error` exceptions are now
>    evaluated at throw time
> * `NamedDefaults` now correctly requires the class to be standard or have
> an
>    in-scope default declaration, and handles poly-kinded classes (#25775,
> #25778, #25882)
> * ... and many more
>
> A full accounting of these fixes can be found in the
> [release notes][]. As always, GHC's release status, including planned
> future
> releases, can be found on the GHC Wiki [status][].
>
> This release candidate will have a two-week testing period. If all goes
> well
> the final release will be available the week of 26 March 2026.
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>
> [release notes]:
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