September 2023 - Glasgow-haskell-users

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-rc1 is now available
by Ben Gamari 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-rc1 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: * Preliminary support the `TypeAbstractions` language extension, allowing types to be bound in type declarations [TypeAbstractions]. * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language [extended-literals] * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of higher-order patterns * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING` pragma [warnings] * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable` constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors [unsatisfiable] * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports] * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation; with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem] * More efficient representation of info table provenance information, reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when `-finfo-table-map` is in use A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. This candidate includes roughly 20 new commits relative to alpha 4, including what we believe should be nearly the last changes to GHC's boot libraries. As always, GHC's release status 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. Happy compiling, ~ Ben [TypeAbstractions]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-d… [extended-literals]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-s… [unsatisfiable]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-u… [warnings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-w… [deprecated-exports]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-d… [jsem]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-j… [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha4/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes… [status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status

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GHC 9.8.1-rc1 delayed
by Ben Gamari 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Hi all, Due to a rather late-breaking boot library mix-up I will need to delay the 9.8.1 release candidate by at least two days. I will provide a more specific timeline tomorrow when there is more clarity on what needs to happen to resolve the situation. Cheers, - Ben

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha4 is now available
by Ben Gamari 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha4 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including: * Preliminary support the `TypeAbstractions` language extension, allowing types to be bound in type declarations [TypeAbstractions]. * Support for the `ExtendedLiterals` extension, providing syntax for non-word-sized numeric literals in the surface language [extended-literals] * Improved rewrite rule matching behavior, allowing limited matching of higher-order patterns * Better support for user-defined warnings by way of the `WARNING` pragma [warnings] * The introduction of the new `GHC.TypeError.Unsatisfiable` constraint, allowing more predictable user-defined type errors [unsatisfiable] * Implementation of the export deprecation proposal, allowing module exports to be marked with `DEPRECATE` pragmas [deprecated-exports] * The addition of build semaphore support for parallel compilation; with coming support in `cabal-install` this will allow better use of parallelism in multi-package builds [jsem] * More efficient representation of info table provenance information, reducing binary sizes by over 50% in some cases when `-finfo-table-map` is in use A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes]. This alpha includes roughly 40 new commits relative to alpha 3, including what we believe should be nearly the last changes to GHC's boot libraries. 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. Happy compiling, ~ Ben [TypeAbstractions]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0425-d… [extended-literals]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0451-s… [unsatisfiable]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0433-u… [warnings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0541-w… [deprecated-exports]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0134-d… [jsem]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0540-j… [release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha4/docs/users_guide/9.8.1-notes…

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