[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.12.1-alpha1 is now available

[Jeffrey Brown]

> * GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of [GHC Proposal
#281]

I feel like you buried the lede :)

Many thanks to everyone involved!

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 6:51 AM Zubin Duggal <zubin at well-typed.com> wrote:

> The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability
> of the first alpha release of GHC 9.12.1. Binary distributions, source
> distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org
> ][].
>
>
> We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly.
>
> GHC 9.12 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:
>
>   * The new language extension [OrPatterns] allowing you to combine
> multiple
>     pattern clauses into one.
>
>   * The [MultilineStrings] language extension to allow you to more easily
> write
>     strings spanning multiple lines in your source code.
>
>   * Improvements to the OverloadedRecordDot extension, allowing the
> built-in
>     `HasField` class to be used for records with fields of non lifted
> representations.
>
>   * The [NamedDefaults] language extension has been introduced allowing
> you to
>     define defaults for typeclasses other than `Num`.
>
>   * More deterministic object code output, controlled by the
> `-fobject-determinism`
>     flag, which improves determinism of builds a lot (though does not
> fully do so)
>     at the cost of some compiler performance (1-2%). See #12935 for the
> details
>
>   * GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of [GHC Proposal
> #281].
>
>   * ... and many more
>
> A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes][].
> As always, GHC's release status, including planned future releases, can
> be found on the GHC Wiki [status][].
>
> We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool,
> Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell
> Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial
> and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release
> management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been
> possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work
> comprise this release.
>
> As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see
> anything amiss.
>
>
> [release notes]:
> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha1/docs/users_guide/9.12.1-notes.html
> [status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status
> [downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha1
> [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new
> [OrPatterns]:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0522-or-patterns.rst
> [MultilineStrings]:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0569-multiline-strings.rst
> [GHC Proposal #281]:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0281-visible-forall.rst
> [NamedDefaults]:
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0409-exportable-named-default.rst
>
>
> Cheers,
> Zubin
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