Build release archives (and validate) with GHC 9.2.3 (backport #8272) (#8273)

* Build release archives (and validate) with GHC 9.2.3

(cherry picked from commit f55ae05)

# Conflicts:
#	.gitlab-ci.yml

* Add a changelog file

(cherry picked from commit 73323db)

* Fix bootstrap cabal-install version in gitlab-ci.yml

(cherry picked from commit 5ee0cab)

# Conflicts:
#	.gitlab-ci.yml

* Update .gitlab-ci.yml, fixing a shallow conflict

Co-authored-by: Mikolaj Konarski <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Mikolaj Konarski <[email protected]>

Author: mergify[bot]

.github/workflows/bootstrap.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         ghc: ["8.6.5", "8.8.4", "8.10.7", "9.0.2", "9.2.3"]
         include:
           - os: macos-latest
-            ghc: "8.10.7"
+            ghc: "9.2.3"
     name: Bootstrap ${{ matrix.os }} ghc-${{ matrix.ghc }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:

.github/workflows/validate.yml

@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ on:
 env:
   # We choose a stable ghc version across all os's
   # which will be used to do the next release
-  GHC_FOR_RELEASE: '8.10.7'
+  GHC_FOR_RELEASE: '9.2.3'
   # Ideally we should use the version about to be released for hackage tests and benchmarks
-  GHC_FOR_SOLVER_BENCHMARKS: '8.10.7'
-  GHC_FOR_COMPLETE_HACKAGE_TESTS: '8.10.7'
+  GHC_FOR_SOLVER_BENCHMARKS: '9.2.3'
+  GHC_FOR_COMPLETE_HACKAGE_TESTS: '9.2.3'
   COMMON_FLAGS: '-j 2 -v'
 
 jobs:

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ variables:
   # Commit of ghc/ci-images repository from which to pull Docker images
   DOCKER_REV: "4ed1a4f27828ba96a34662dc954335e29b470cd2"
 
-  GHC_VERSION: 8.10.7
-  CABAL_INSTALL_VERSION: 3.8.0.20220526
+  GHC_VERSION: 9.2.3
+  CABAL_INSTALL_VERSION: 3.6.2.0
 
 workflow:
   rules:

changelog.d/pr-8272

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+synopsis: Build release archives (and validate) with GHC 9.2.3
+packages: cabal-install
+prs: #8272
+issues: #8271
+
+description: {
+
+- The release binaries are now built with GHC 9.2.3, which fixes some minor snags
+
+}