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Update ANNOUNCE for 7.4.1

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The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.4.1
The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.4.2
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The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.4.1.
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC.
This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 7.4.1, so we
recommend upgrading.
Here are some of the highlights of the 7.4 branch since 7.2 and 7.0:
The release notes are here:
* The Num class no longer has Eq or Show superclasses.
* There is a new feature Safe Haskell (-XSafe, -XTrustworthy, -XUnsafe).
The design has changed since 7.2.
* There is a new feature kind polymorphism (-XPolyKinds).
A side-effect of this is that, when the extension is not enabled, in
certain circumstances kinds are now defaulted to * rather than being
inferred.
* There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds).
* It is now possible to give any sort of declaration at the ghci prompt.
For example, you can now declare datatypes within ghci.
* The profiling and hpc implementations have been merged and overhauled.
Visible changes include renaming of profiling flags, and a new
semantics for the cost-centre stacks (which should in most cases
result in more useful and intuitive profiles). The +RTS -xc flag now
also gives a stack trace.
* It is now possible to write compiler plugins.
* DPH support has been significantly improved.
* There is now preliminary support for registerised compilation using
LLVM on the ARM platform.
Full release notes are here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/release-7-4-2.html
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