[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 is available!

Sat May 21 17:03:05 UTC 2016

Hopefully this makes it into the Haskell Platform soon

Is it already in Stackage? 😀

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Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D

Casey

On May 21, 2016 8:39 AM, <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations! Thank you everyone for all your hard work!
>
> Tom
>
>
> > El 21 may 2016, a las 11:18, Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> escribió:
> >
> >
> >           ===============================================
> >            The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.0.1
> >           ===============================================
> >
> > The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first
> > new super-major version of our Haskell compiler in six years, GHC 8.0.1.
> >
> > This release features dozens of exciting developments including,
> >
> > * A more refined interface for implicit call-stacks, allowing libraries
> to
> >   provide more helpful runtime error messages to users
> >
> > * The introduction of the DuplicateRecordFields language extension,
> allowing
> >   multiple record types to declare fields of the same name
> >
> > * Significant improvements in error message readability and content,
> including
> >   facilities for libraries to provide custom error messages, more
> aggressive
> >   warnings for fragile rewrite rules, and more helpful errors for missing
> >   imports
> >
> > * A rewritten and substantially more thorough pattern match checker,
> providing
> >   more precise exhaustiveness checking in GADT pattern matches
> >
> > * More reliable debugging information including experimental backtrace
> support,
> >   allowing better integration with traditional debugging tools
> >
> > * Support for desugaring do-notation to use Applicative combinators,
> allowing
> >   the intuitive do notation to be used in settings which previously
> required
> >   the direct use of Applicative combinators
> >
> > * The introduction of Strict and StrictData language extensions, allowing
> >   modules to be compiled with strict-by-default evaluation of bindings
> >
> > * Great improvements in portability, including more reliable linking on
> >   Windows, a new PPC64 code generator, support for the AIX operating
> system,
> >   unregisterised m68k support, and significant stabilization on ARM
> targets
> >
> > * A greatly improved user's guide, with beautiful and modern PDF and HTML
> >   output
> >
> > * Introduction of type application syntax, reducing the need for proxies
> >
> > * More complete support for pattern synonyms, including record pattern
> synonyms
> >   and the ability to export patterns "bundled" with a type, as you would
> a data
> >   constructor
> >
> > * Support for injective type families and recursive superclass
> relationships
> >
> > * An improved generics representation leveraging GHC's support for
> type-level
> >   literals
> >
> > * The TypeInType extension, which unifies types and kinds, allowing GHC
> to
> >   reason about kind equality and enabling promotion of more constructs
> to the
> >   type level
> >
> > * ...and more!
> >
> > A more thorough list of the changes included in this release can be
> found in the
> > release notes,
> >
> >
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/8.0.1-notes.html
> >
> > As always, we have collected various points of interest for users of
> previous
> > GHC releases on the GHC 8.0 migration page,
> >
> >    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.0
> >
> > Please let us know if you encounter anything missing or unclear on this
> page.
> >
> > This release is the culmination of nearly eighteen months of effort by
> over one
> > hundred contributors. We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed
> code, bug
> > reports, and feedback over the past year. It's only because of their
> efforts
> > that GHC continues to evolve.
> >
> >
> > How to get it
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Both the source tarball and binary distributions for a wide variety of
> platforms
> > are available at,
> >
> >    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> >
> >
> > Background
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Haskell is a standardized lazy functional programming language.
> >
> > The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a state-of-the-art programming
> suite for
> > Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating efficient 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. GHC
> is
> > distributed under a BSD-style open source license.
> >
> >
> > Supported Platforms
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
> can be
> > found on the GHC wiki
> >
> >    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
> >
> > 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 getting started with
> hacking on GHC
> > are available from GHC's developer site,
> >
> >    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
> >
> >
> > Community Resources
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > There are mailing lists for GHC users, develpoers, and monitoring bug
> tracker
> > activity; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at
> >
> >
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
> >    http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
> >    http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-tickets
> >
> > There are several other Haskell and GHC-related mailing lists on
> > www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
> >
> >    https://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
> >
> > Some GHC developers hang out on the #ghc and #haskell of the Freenode IRC
> > network, 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
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