[commit: ghc] ghc-7.8: Update ANNOUNCE for GHC 7.8.2 (6808764)
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Repository : ssh://git@git.haskell.org/ghc
On branch : ghc-7.8
Link : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/68087642ef22e94d3dc401ae74ba6be66c23a7e0/ghc
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commit 68087642ef22e94d3dc401ae74ba6be66c23a7e0
Author: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
Date: Thu Apr 10 08:37:58 2014 -0500
Update ANNOUNCE for GHC 7.8.2
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
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68087642ef22e94d3dc401ae74ba6be66c23a7e0
ANNOUNCE | 30 +++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index daf862f..f81f057 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,32 +1,15 @@
==============================================================
- The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1
+ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.2
==============================================================
-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:
-
- * New type-system features
- * Closed type families
- * Role checking
- * An improved solver for type naturals
- * Better support for cross compilation
- * Full iOS support
- * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager
- * Dynamic linking for GHCi
- * Several language improvements
- * Pattern synonyms
- * Overloaded list syntax
- * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class
- * A new parallel --make mode
- * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support
- * A brand-new low level code generator
- * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.
+The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC, 7.8.2.
+
+This is a bugfix release relative to 7.8.1, so we recommend upgrading.
The full release notes are here:
- http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html
+ http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-2.html
How to get it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -79,7 +62,8 @@ Supported Platforms
The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
is here:
- http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
+ http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
+ http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners
Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
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