It seems as if there is no migration documentation,
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/status/migration/8.8. Will that be
forthcoming?
Thanks
George
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:51 PM Ben Gamari
Hello everyone,
The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha1
A draft of the release notes is also available [1].
This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes relative to GHC 8.6:
* Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see #15934)
* A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator
* The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce allocations significantly for some programs.
* Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of the Haskell AST in tooling
* More locations where users can write `forall` (GHC Proposal #0007)
* Further work on the Hadrian build system
This release starts the pre-release cycle for GHC 8.8. This cycle is starting quite a bit later than expected due recent work on GHC's CI and release infrastructure. See the GHC Blog [2] for more on this.
As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.
Happy compiling!
Cheers,
- Ben
[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-alpha1/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.1-n... [2] https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20190405-ghc-8.8-status.html _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users