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Update ANNOUNCE for GHC 7.8.1

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The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1
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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 major release of GHC. There
have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
including: including:
* Some new language features have been implemented: * New type-system features
* Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation * Closed type families
* Generalised quasi-quotes * Role checking
* Generalised list comprehensions * An improved solver for type naturals
* View patterns * Better support for cross compilation
* Full iOS support
* Type families have been completely re-implemented * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager
* Dynamic linking for GHCi
* Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions * Several language improvements
* Pattern synonyms
* Parallel garbage collection * Overloaded list syntax
* Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class
* Base provides extensible exceptions * A new parallel --make mode
* Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support
* The GHC API is easier to use * A brand-new low level code generator
* Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.
* External core (output only) now works again
* Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC
The full release notes are here: The full release notes are here:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html
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