# Cylc 7.8.4 Released

**URL:** <https://cylc.discourse.group/t/cylc-7-8-4-released/139>\
**Category:** Cylc Announce\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/cylc-7-8-4-released/139 "2019-09-04T07:12:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/cylc-7-8-4-released/139/1 "2019-09-04T07:12:24Z")

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Maintenance release with several important fixes and several enhancements. Highlights:

- support alternate suite run directories (e.g. to put fast-running sub-suites on fast local disk);
- faster suite validation
- fix delayed stall on reloading a suite after removing tasks from the graph;
- fix xtrigger cycle sequence specificity;
- record all xtrigger return values for re-use at suite restart

See [CHANGES.md](https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow/blob/7.8.x/CHANGES.md#cylc-784-2019-09-04).

Download the release [here](https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow/releases/tag/7.8.4).