[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha2 is now available

[Arnaud Spiwack]

😱
Thanks Sam and Noon! I'm obviously great at copy-pasting.


On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 14:36, Noon van der Silk <noonsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Arnaud,
>
> > For the sake of the future announcements, the first item should have
> s/TypeApplications/TypeApplications/
>
> I assume you mean "TypeApplications" instead of "TypeApplications", right?
>
> :D
>
> --
> Noon
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 at 13:30, Arnaud Spiwack <arnaud.spiwack at tweag.io>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ben.
>>
>> For the sake of the future announcements, the first item should have
>> s/TypeApplications/TypeApplications/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 17:09, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the
>>> second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source
>>> distributions, and documentation are available at
>>>
>>>                https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2
>>>
>>> GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
>>>
>>>  * Preliminary support the `TypeApplications` language extension
>>> [type-binders],
>>>    allowing types to be bound in type declarations.
>>>
>>>  * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for
>>>    non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language
>>>    [extended-literals]
>>>
>>>  * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of
>>>    higher-order patterns
>>>
>>>  * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING`
>>> pragma [warnings]
>>>
>>>  * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable`
>>>    constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors
>>> [unsatisfiable]
>>>
>>>  * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module
>>>    exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports]
>>>
>>>  * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation;
>>>    with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of
>>>    parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem]
>>>
>>>  * More efficient representation of info table provenance information,
>>>    reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when
>>>    `-finfo-table-map` is in use
>>>
>>> A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes].
>>> This alpha includes around two dozen bug-fixes relative to alpha 1.
>>>
>>> We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool,
>>> Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell
>>> Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial
>>> and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release
>>> management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been
>>> possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work
>>> comprise this release.
>>>
>>> As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see
>>> anything amiss.
>>>
>>> Happy compiling,
>>>
>>> ~ Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> [type-binders]:
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-decl-invis-binders.rst
>>> [extended-literals
>>> <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-decl-invis-binders.rst%5Bextended-literals>]:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-sized-literals.rst
>>> [unsatisfiable]:
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-unsatisfiable.rst
>>> [warnings]:
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-warning-pragmas-with-categories.rst
>>> [deprecated-exports
>>> <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-warning-pragmas-with-categories.rst%5Bdeprecated-exports>]:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-deprecating-exports-proposal.rst
>>> [jsem]:
>>> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-jsem.rst
>>> [release notes]:
>>> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes.html
>>> [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Arnaud Spiwack
>> Director, Research at https://moduscreate.com and https://tweag.io.
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>
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> Noon van der Silk, ن
>
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Arnaud Spiwack
Director, Research at https://moduscreate.com and https://tweag.io.
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