From 48bf40d4faeeaf92d2def41fd9c4c5e6fa8f66ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 16:25:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update ANNOUNCE for GHC 7.8.1
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
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==============================================================
- 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
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