[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha1 is now available

[George Colpitts]

Hi

I believe llvm does not work in this alpha as 21936 is still open. Is that
correct?

I also believe that when it does work it will require llvm 15 which will be
incompatible with earlier versions of ghc. Is that correct?

Thanks
George




On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 7:02 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

>
> The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC
> 9.6.1-alpha1. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available
> at downloads.haskell.org:
>
>     https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1-alpha1/
>
> This is the first alpha release in the 9.6 series which will bring a
> number of exciting features:
>
> * A new Javascript code generation backend
>
> * A new WebAssembly code generation backend,
>
> * Significant latency improvements in the non-moving garbage collector
>
> * Support for loading of multiple components in GHCi
>
> * Efficient support for delimited continuations
>
> * Improvements in error messages
>
> * Numerous improvements in compiler-residency
>
> Note that both the Javascript and WebAssembly backends are still in a
> state of infancy and are present in this release as a technology
> preview; we hope that they will mature considerably before the final
> 9.6.1 release.
>
> Please give this release a try and open a [ticket] if you see anything
> amiss.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/
>
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