From 82ffb39b2ba25eed806ff150b44a9051fa0ac95c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:47:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Rewrite announce file
Incredibly enough this hasn't been touched since 6.10.1
---
ANNOUNCE | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index f9f1c578020a..85282a2ceab3 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,35 +1,33 @@
==============================================================
- The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1
+ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.2
==============================================================
-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:
+The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new minor release of GHC. This is a
+bug-fix release and contains a number of important fixes,
- * Some new language features have been implemented:
- * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation
- * Generalised quasi-quotes
- * Generalised list comprehensions
- * View patterns
+ * Various typechecker issues have been fixed, including some bugs which allowed
+ the user to write unsafeCoerce
- * Type families have been completely re-implemented
+ * DWARF debug information is now more correct and supported on Windows
- * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions
+ * Portability issues resulting in crashes on SPARC, Linux/i386, ARM, AArch64,
+ and PowerPC have been fixed
- * Parallel garbage collection
+ * The event manager's multi-shot event registration functionality now works
+ correctly
- * Base provides extensible exceptions
+ * A bug where unaccounted for register aliasing could result in incorrect
+ floating-point results has been fixed
- * The GHC API is easier to use
+ * An infinite loop during program startup when iconv is unavailable hsa been
+ fixed
- * External core (output only) now works again
+A more thorough list of the changes in the release can be found in the release
+notes,
- * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC
+ http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.10.2/html/users_guide/release-7-10-2.html
-The full release notes are here:
-
- http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html
How to get it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -52,13 +50,12 @@ Background
Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
-an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
+an optimising compiler generating efficient code for a variety of
platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
-language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
-BSD-style open source license.
+language interfaces. GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
@@ -107,13 +104,13 @@ Mailing lists
We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
the web interfaces at
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
+ http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
+ http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-tickets
There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
+ https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
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