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-   ==============================================================
-    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
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