February 2021 - Glasgow-haskell-users

[ANN] cabal-install-3.4.0.0
by Emily Pillmore 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

The Cabal team is excited to announce the release of cabal-install 3.4. This is the third release of the 3.0 release series, bringing a support for the `Cabal-Version: 3.4` `.cabal` file format. This introduces a number of user-facing features including: - Support for GHC 9.0 - Package sublibrary dependency syntax - Allowing omission of the `default-language` declaration - A mixins field allowing the user to specify a sublibrary - [Many other features]( https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/file-format-changelog.html#cabal-ver… ) In addition, the `cabal-install` frontend itself has gained a number of new features including: - New `active-repositories` `cabal.project` fields allowing users to specify an order and various ways of combining package repositories - Improvements to `cabal init` - A rework of the `cabal v2-sdist` command. `cabal v1-sdist` is removed as of this version - `source-repository-package` directories are no longer local - A new `list-bin` command - `cabal sandbox` is now removed in favor of default nix-style builds - `cabal list` now accepts regular expressions - More rich `index-state` syntax. `v2-freeze` saves `index-state` I'd also like to thank the many contributors who offered patches, tickets, and other help in the preparation of this release. We appreciate all of your help! For a full set of release notes, see https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/release-notes/cabal-install-3.…. If you have issues, we'd love to hear about there here: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues. Happy hacking! Emily

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.10.4 released
by Ben Gamari 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.4. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ This is a small bug-fix release, fixing two bugs present in 8.10.3: * Fix a linker hang triggered by dynamic code loading on Windows (#19155) * Fix a crash caused by inappropriate garbage of heap-allocated data reachable from foreign exports (#19149) As always, feel free to report any issues you encounter via [gitlab.haskell.org](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new). Cheers, - Ben

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.1 released
by Ben Gamari 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.0.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ In addition to numerous bug fixes, GHC 9.0.1 will bring a number of new features: * A first cut of the new LinearTypes language extension [2], allowing use of linear function syntax and linear record fields. * A new bignum library, ghc-bignum, improving portability and allowing GHC to be more easily used with integer libraries other than GMP. * Improvements in code generation, resulting in considerable runtime performance improvements in some programs. * Improvements in pattern-match checking, allowing more precise detection of redundant cases and reduced compilation time. * Implementation of the "simplified subsumption" proposal [3] simplifying the type system and paving the way for QuickLook impredicativity in GHC 9.2. * Implementation of the QualifiedDo extension [4], allowing more convenient overloading of `do` syntax. * An experimental new IO manager implementation for Windows platforms, both improving performance and fixing many of the quirks with the old manager built on POSIX-emulation. * Improvements in compilation time. And many more. See the release notes [5] for a full accounting of the changes in this release. As always, feel free to report any issues you encounter via gitlab.haskell.org. Cheers, - Ben [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/migration/9.0#ghc-prim-07 [2]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0111-l… [3]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0287-s… [4]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0216-q… [5]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.h…

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