TL;DR. If you see your name in one of the two lists below, please edit the entries for your contributions to 8.0 and plans for 8.2 in the 2016 GHC HCAR report [1]. The deadline is in a few short weeks so act soon! Hello GHC people, As you might know, it's that time of the year where we have an opportunity to reflect on the past and future strides taken by our glorious compiler in GHC's Haskell Communities and Activities Report submission [1]. We have had lots of great work go in to the imminent 8.0.1 release; let's make sure the community knows about it. Currently listed is, Adam Gundry Record system improvements Adam Sandberg Eriksson Strict pragma Duncan Coutts Environment files? Edward Z. Yang Backpack improvements Eric Seidel Implicit callstacks Eric de Casto Lopo ARM support George Karachalias Pattern match checker rewrite Herbert V. Riedel AIX support Jan Stolarek Injective type families Richard Eisenberg Visible type application, kind equalities Ryan Scott Improved Generics, DerivingLift Sergei Trofimovich Portability Simon Marlow Applicative do syntax, external GHCi Tamar Christina Windows improvements While Austin and I have done our best to stub out these entries, we need your help to fill in the details. If you see your name in this list please look at the current draft [1] and add what you can. Also, if you see anything missing from this list please let us know or, better yet, add an entry to the submission yourself. Also, if you are planning on including any major changes in the 8.2 release, please add an entry to the "upcoming plans" section. As far as I know at very least the following people should have interesting things to share, Andrew Farmer Profiler improvements Andrey Mokhov Shake build system Austin Seipp LLVM backend Bartosz Nikita Deterministic compilation Core Libs Committee Core libraries changes Edward Yang Backpack, Compact regions Giovanni Campagna Compact regions Simon Marlow Various things I'm sure Ömer Sinan Ağacan Unboxed sums, unpacking sum types Again, if you know of someone not on this list who is considering contributing to 8.2 please have them add their item to the report. If there is any way that Austin or I can help don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks for your contributions over the last year! Cheers, - Ben [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May16