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 Infrastructure/misc
 
 - A new `release` workflow creates github releases, uploads release binaries and generates release notes.
+- Github release binaries for mac and linux are now in .tar.gz format (longer tarred and zipped). 
 - There is a new `oldest` workflow for testing the oldest GHC we support (currently 8.10.7).
 - The `binaries-mac-x64` workflow has been bumped from GHC 9.4 to 9.8.
 - The master branch's `ci` workflow has been updated to Ubuntu 24.04