diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 0c2b97fba72ebdc0ee8b0131a893966300070fa4..510d5d62df5e1957c67692926916b98f8de15827 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,35 +1,26 @@ - ============================================================== - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 - ============================================================== + ============================================================= + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 + ============================================================= -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 major release of GHC, 7.6.1. - * Some new language features have been implemented: - * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation - * Generalised quasi-quotes - * Generalised list comprehensions - * View patterns +Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4: - * Type families have been completely re-implemented + * Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and + supported features. - * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions + * Windows 64bit is now a supported platform. - * Parallel garbage collection + * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the + -fdefer-type-errors flag. - * Base provides extensible exceptions + * The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime + with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities. - * The GHC API is easier to use +Full release notes are here: - * External core (output only) now works again - - * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC - -The full release notes are here: - - http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~