ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.1

[Austin Seipp]

Hello all,

A minor amedment: I accidentally named one of the tarballs slightly wrong.

ghc-7.8.1-x86_64-apple-darwin-mountainlion.tar.bz2 should have been
ghc-7.8.1-x86_64-apple-darwin-mavericks.tar.bz2, similarly with the
.tar.xz. I simply forgot to rename it appropriately! The hashes have
not changed.

Lion builds will come soon too for users of 10.7 and such.

An updated SHA256SUMS.sig is attached. Thanks for Edsko de Vries for
pointing it out!

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>    ==============================================================
>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1
>    ==============================================================
>
> 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 full release notes are here:
>
>   http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html
>
> How to get it
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
>
>         http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
>
> We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
> platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
> place.
>
> Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
> system isn't available yet, please try again later.
>
>
> Background
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
>
> GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell.  Included is
> an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
> platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
> development.  The distribution includes space and time profiling
> facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
> language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
> language interfaces (C, whatever).  GHC is distributed under a
> BSD-style open source license.
>
> A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
> specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
> contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
> Haskell home page (see below).
>
>
> On-line GHC-related resources
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
>
> GHC home page              http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> GHC developers' home page  http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
> Haskell home page          http://www.haskell.org/
>
>
> Supported Platforms
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
> is here:
>
>    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
>
> Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
> difficulty.  The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
> new platform:
>
>     http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
>
>
> Developers
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> We welcome new contributors.  Instructions on accessing our source
> code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
> available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:
>
>   http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
>
>
> Mailing lists
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
> the web interfaces at
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
>     http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
>
> There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
> www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
>
> Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
>
> Please report bugs using our bug tracking system.  Instructions on
> reporting bugs can be found here:
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
>
> Hashes & Signatures
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Included in this email is a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the
> tarballs, using my GPG key (keyid 0x3B58D86F).
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/



-- 
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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