============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.1 ============================================================== The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, including: * Several new language features and changes have been implemented: - Applicative is now a superclass of Monad and in the Prelude. - Many prelude combinators have been generalized - Static pointers * GHC now has preliminary and experimental support for DWARF based debugging. * `integer-gmp` has been completely rewritten. * Type-checking plugins can now extend the type checker. * Support for partial type signatures * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. * Preliminary support for 'backpack' features like signatures. * Typeable is now generated by default for all data types automatically. We've also fixed a handful of issues reported since RC3: - A bug in the call arity analysis that would result in invalid core was fixed (#10176) - A bug in the Win32 package causing it to fail to load was fixed (#10165) - ghc-prim has (correctly) been bumped to version 0.4.0.0, to comply with the PVP. - Several libraries have been bumped to their latest available versions after coordination. The full release notes are here: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-10... How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug Hashes & Signatures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/ you will find a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the tarballs, using my GPG key (0F8F 3AA9 9235 C704 ADA0 B419 B942 AEE5 3B58 D86F). -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/