<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">After a lot of hard work by Alexey Kuleshevich, Leonhard Markert and Dominic Steinitz with help from Aleksey Khudyakov, I am happy to announce version 1.2 of random has finally landed on hackage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> * Much, much faster.</div><div class=""> * Higher quality default generator.</div><div class=""> * Addition of a monadic interface to support e.g. mwc-random.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See <a href="https://github.com/haskell/random/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md" class="">https://github.com/haskell/random/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md</a> for more details.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are a few libraries on hackage that do not compile with the latest version and we are providing PRs to fix those. Let us know if we forgot your favourite package.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'd also like to thank the reviewers especially Andrew Lelechenko and @chessai for taking the time to read through the code thoroughly and provide great feedback.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Happy Hacking</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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