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Priorities for upcoming GHC releases
by Zubin Duggal 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi all, We detail our plans for upcoming GHC releases in a new blog post: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/blog/20240521-ghc-release-priorities.html The summary is that we will prioritise work on the 9.10, 9.6 and master branches over work on the 9.8 branch for the coming few months due to time and resource constraints. This does not mean that we are dropping support for GHC 9.8, but that releases in this series might be made at a slower pace than usual. Cheers, Zubin.

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GHC 9.10.1 is now available
by Ben Gamari 10 May '24

10 May '24

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.10.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org] and shortly via [GHCup]. GHC 9.10 brings a number of new features and improvements, including: * The introduction of the `GHC2024` language edition, building upon `GHC2021` with the addition of a number of widely-used extensions. * Partial implementation of the [GHC Proposal #281], allowing visible quantification to be used in the types of terms. * [Extension] of LinearTypes to allow linear `let` and `where` bindings * The implementation of the [exception backtrace proposal], allowing the annotation of exceptions with backtraces, as well as other user-defined context * Further improvements in the info table provenance mechanism, reducing code size to allow IPE information to be enabled more widely * Javascript FFI support in the WebAssembly backend * Improvements in the fragmentation characteristics of the low-latency non-moving garbage collector. * ... 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]. 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/9.10.1/docs/users_guide/9.10.1-notes.html [GHC Wiki]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status [exception backtrace]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/330 [GHC Proposal #281]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/281 [linear let]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/624 [downloads.haskell.org] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.10.1 [ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new [GHCup]: https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/

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