[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha1 is now available

[George Colpitts]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 1:01 PM George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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. 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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>>
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