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## Dates
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Cut release branch in November 2018. Release in April 2019.
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Cut release branch in November 2018. Release in March 2019.
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## Libraries Status
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Below are the major highlights of 8.8.
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### Compiler
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- A safer and more efficient `with#` combinator to control object lifetime ([\#14375](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14375))
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- Improved compilation time for type-family-heavy programs ([\#8095](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/8095), [ Phab:D4766](https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4766))
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- [ Proposal 83: Collapse \`PolyKinds\` and \`TypeInType\`](https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/83)
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- [ Proposal 81: Visible dependent quantification](https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/81)
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- [ Proposal 54: Top-level kind signatures: CUSKs](https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/54)
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- Next iteration of [Trees That Grow](implementing-trees-that-grow)
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- Continued focus on performance:
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- Some possible tickets: [\#15418](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15418), [\#15455](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15455), [\#14980](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14980), [\#14013](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14013), [\#15488](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15488), [\#15519](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15519), [\#14062](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14062), [\#14035](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14035), [\#15176](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15176), [\#15304](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/15304)
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### Build system and miscellaneous changes
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- [ Reinstallable lib:ghc](https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2017-July/014424.html)
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- The Hadrian build system will hopefully become the default
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## Landed in `master` branch
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