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 - **Overloaded record fields ** - Adam Gundry implemented the overloaded records field proposal as part of the Haskell.org 2013 GSoC. This work will make it possible to not only have overloaded record field names, but also enable a wealth of other nice features, like polymorphic update/lookup, and automatically turning record fields into lens. More detail can be found on the GHC wiki \[ORF\].
 
-- **Pattern synonyms** - Gergo Erdi worked on an implementation of pattern synonyms for GHC, which will finally give us the power to abstract over patterns and give them names. While the design is not final (see the wiki for details\[PS\]), the results look promising, and hopefully will finally fix a long-standing 'abstraction hole' in the term language for Haskell.
+- **Pattern synonyms** - Gergo Erdi worked on an implementation of pattern synonyms for GHC, which will finally give us the power to abstract over patterns and give them names. While the design is not final (see the wiki for details\[PS\]), the results look promising, and hopefully fix a long-standing 'abstraction hole' in the term language for Haskell.
 
 - **Explicit Type Application** - Stephanie Weirich, Richard Eisenburg and Hamidhasan Ahmed have been working on adding explicit type applications to GHC. This allows the programmer to specify the \*types\* that should be instantiated for arguments to a function application, where normally they would be inferred. While this capability already exists in FC-pro (indeed, every FC-pro program has function application with explicitly applied types,) it has not been available in Haskell itself. While a lot of the syntax and design is not quite final, there are some details about the design available on the wiki\[TA\].
 
 
 But we're not sure what else might happen. It's a great time to step up to the plate and do something fun!
 
+# Development updates, joining in and a big Thank You!
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+In the past several months, GHC has seen a surge of community involvement, and a great deal of new contributors. We now have [37 committers](team-ghc), with **14 added in 2013 alone** - it's an exciting time to work GHC!
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+Amongst those who have rolled up their sleeves and helped us recently:
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+- Herbert Valerio Riedel
+- Takano Akio
+- Reid Barton
+- Kazu Yamamoto
+- Joachim Breitner
+- Carter Schonwald
+- Krzysztof Gogolewski
+- Jan Stolarek
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+As ever, there is a ton of stuff in the future for us to do. Don't wait - it might take a while. You should join us instead!
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