diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index f9f1c578020a14f88ffa2892cb0dd571308643e4..daf862f12a3f0b4cf35fbade642a1ea080bdf491 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,35 +1,32 @@ ============================================================== - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 ============================================================== The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, including: - * Some new language features have been implemented: - * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation - * Generalised quasi-quotes - * Generalised list comprehensions - * View patterns - - * Type families have been completely re-implemented - - * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions - - * Parallel garbage collection - - * Base provides extensible exceptions - - * The GHC API is easier to use - - * External core (output only) now works again - - * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC + * New type-system features + * Closed type families + * Role checking + * An improved solver for type naturals + * Better support for cross compilation + * Full iOS support + * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager + * Dynamic linking for GHCi + * Several language improvements + * Pattern synonyms + * Overloaded list syntax + * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class + * A new parallel --make mode + * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support + * A brand-new low level code generator + * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. The full release notes are here: - http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html + http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~