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Update ANNOUNCE for GHC 7.8.2

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The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.2
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The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.8.2.
have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
including: This is a bugfix release relative to 7.8.1, so we recommend upgrading.
* 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: 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 How to get it
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...@@ -79,7 +62,8 @@ Supported Platforms ...@@ -79,7 +62,8 @@ Supported Platforms
The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
is here: 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 Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
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