[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha1 is now available

[George Colpitts]

my original email corrected below

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 8:51 AM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I believe llvm 15 does not work in this alpha as 21936 is still open. Is
> that correct?
>
> I also believe that when it does work ghc 9.6 will not be compatible with
> earlier versions of llvm 15. 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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