As one commenter pointed out, you could use a rolling release distro like Arch or Fedora Rawhide and get the latest packages within days (sometimes hours) of th

As one commenter pointed out, you could use a rolling release distro like Arch or Fedora Rawhide and get the latest packages within days (sometimes hours) of the official release. I run vanilla Fedora and am usually at most six months behind the last release (though the GHC package is quite behind on Fedora, IIRC).