diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index daf862f12a3f0b4cf35fbade642a1ea080bdf491..f81f057255c2455ccb29d1e4480e30d48f72e5b6 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,32 +1,15 @@ ============================================================== - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.2 ============================================================== -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: - - * 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 GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.8.2. + +This is a bugfix release relative to 7.8.1, so we recommend upgrading. The full release notes are here: - http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html + http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-2.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -79,7 +62,8 @@ Supported Platforms The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: - http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors + http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms + http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a