Base package
The base package contains the Prelude and its support libraries, and a large collection of useful libraries ranging from data structures to parsing combinators and debugging utilities. It is specific to the GHC implementation of Haskell.
This package includes the following:
and many others.
Versions
The base package is shipped alongside the GHC compiler itself, but version numbers for the base package do not match the GHC version number. Here is a partial list of which version of the base package shipped with each GHC version. For more details, see also
- GHC wiki > All released GHC versions
- GHC wiki > GHC Boot Library Version History
- Snoyman.com > GHC/base/Cabal/Win32 versions
- Hackage > base
| GHC version | base version |
|---|---|
| 6.10.1 (Nov 2008) | 4.0.0.0 |
| 6.10.2 (Apr 2009) | 4.1.0.0 |
| 6.10.3 (May 2009) | 4.1.0.0 |
| 6.10.4 (Jul 2009) | 4.1.0.0 |
| 6.12.1 (Dec 2009) | 4.2.0.0 |
| 6.12.2 (Apr 2010) | 4.2.0.1 |
| 6.12.3 (Jun 2010) | 4.2.0.2 |
| 7.0.1 (Nov 2010) | 4.3.0.0 |
| 7.0.2 (Mar 2011) | 4.3.1.0 |
| 7.0.3 (Mar 2011) | 4.3.1.0 |
| 7.0.4 (Jun 2011) | 4.3.1.0 |
| 7.2.1 (Aug 2011) | 4.4.0.0 |
| 7.2.2 (Nov 2011) | 4.4.1.0 |
| 7.4.1 (Feb 2012) | 4.5.0.0 |
| 7.4.2 (Jun 2012) | 4.5.1.0 |
| 7.6.1 (Sep 2012) | 4.6.0.0 |
| 7.6.2 (Jan 2013) | 4.6.0.1 |
| 7.6.3 (Apr 2013) | 4.6.0.1 |
| 7.8.1 (Apr 2014) | 4.7.0.0 |
| 7.8.2 (Apr 2014) | 4.7.0.0 |
| 7.8.3 (Jul 2014) | 4.7.0.1 |
| 7.8.4 (Dec 2014) | 4.7.0.2 |
| 7.10.1 (Apr 2015) | 4.8.0.0 |
| 7.10.2 (Jul 2015) | 4.8.1.0 |
| 7.10.3 (Dec 2015) | 4.8.2.0 |
| 8.0.1 (May 2016) | 4.9.0.0 |
| 8.0.2 (Jan 2017) | 4.9.1.0 |
| 8.2.1 (Jul 2017) | 4.10.0.0 |
| 8.2.2 (Nov 2017) | 4.10.1.0 |
| 8.4.1 (Mar 2018) | 4.11.0.0 |
| 8.4.2 (Apr 2018) | 4.11.1.0 |
| 8.4.3 (May 2018) | 4.11.1.0 |
| 8.4.4 (May 2018) | 4.11.1.0 |
| 8.6.1 (Sep 2018) | 4.12.0.0 |
| 8.6.2 (Nov 2018) | 4.12.0.0 |
| 8.6.3 (Dec 2018) | 4.12.0.0 |
| 8.6.4 (Mar 2019) | 4.12.0.0 |
| 8.6.5 (Apr 2019) | 4.12.0.0 |
| 8.8.1 (Jul 2019) | 4.13.0.0 |
| 8.8.2 (Jan 2020) | 4.13.0.0 |
| 8.8.3 (Feb 2020) | 4.13.0.0 |
| 8.8.4 (Jul 2020) | 4.13.0.0 |
| 8.10.1 (Mar 2020) | 4.14.0.0 |
| 8.10.2 (Aug 2020) | 4.14.1.0 |
| 8.10.3 (Dec 2020) | 4.14.1.0 |
| 8.10.4 (Feb 2021) | 4.14.1.0 |
| 8.10.5 (Jun 2021) | 4.14.2.0 |
| 8.10.6 (Aug 2021) | 4.14.3.0 |
| 8.10.7 (Aug 2021) | 4.14.3.0 |
| 9.0.1 (Feb 2021) | 4.15.0.0 |
| 9.0.2 (Dec 2021) | 4.15.1.0 |
| 9.2.1 (Oct 2021) | 4.16.0.0 |
| 9.2.2 (Mar 2022) | 4.16.1.0 |
| 9.2.3 (May 2022) | 4.16.2.0 |
| 9.2.4 (Jul 2022) | 4.16.3.0 |
| 9.2.5 (Nov 2022) | 4.16.4.0 |
| 9.2.6 (Feb 2023) | 4.16.4.0 |
| 9.2.7 (Feb 2023) | 4.16.4.0 |
| 9.2.8 (May 2023) | 4.16.4.0 |
| 9.4.1 (Aug 2022) | 4.17.0.0 |
| 9.4.2 (Aug 2022) | 4.17.0.0 |
| 9.4.3 (Nov 2022) | 4.17.0.0 |
| 9.4.4 (Dec 2022) | 4.17.0.0 |
| 9.4.5 (Apr 2023) | 4.17.1.0 |
| 9.4.6 (Aug 2023) | 4.17.2.0 |
| 9.4.7 (Aug 2023) | 4.17.2.0 |
| 9.4.8 (Nov 2023) | 4.17.2.1 |
| 9.6.1 (Mar 2023) | 4.18.0.0 |
| 9.6.2 (May 2023) | 4.18.0.0 |
| 9.6.3 (Sep 2023) | 4.18.1.0 |
| 9.6.4 (Jan 2024) | 4.18.2.0 |
| 9.6.5 (Apr 2024) | 4.18.2.1 |
| 9.6.6 (Jul 2023) | 4.18.2.1 |
| 9.6.7 (Mar 2025) | 4.18.3.0 |
| 9.8.1 (Oct 2023) | 4.19.0.0 |
| 9.8.2 (Feb 2024) | 4.19.1.0 |
| 9.8.3 (Oct 2024) | 4.19.2.0 |
| 9.8.4 (Dec 2024) | 4.19.2.0 |
| 9.10.1 (May 2024) | 4.20.0.0 |
| 9.12.1 (Dec 2024) | 4.21.0.0 |
| 9.12.2 (Mar 2025) | 4.21.0.0 |