[Blog copy of the announcement here.]

I just pushed it to bitbucket and github, and you can install it from the text site on Hackage in the usual way:

cabal update
cabal install text

What's in this release?

• New functions for reading integers and floating point numbers, an oft-requested feature. They're fast, too: they range from parity with their bytestring counterparts, to up to 4 times faster. You can expect to parse 3 to 4 million Int values per second out of a text file, or up 2 million Double values per second. They're also easy to use, give error messages, and come in strict and lazy variants.

• UTF-8 decoding and encoding are now very fast. They're up to 9x faster than they were, and close to the performance of pure C UTF-8 decoding and encoding.

• The Eq and Ord instances are also now very fast, up to 5x faster than before. They're now faster than the bytestring instances.

• Several other common functions received drive-by performance improvements too.

• Better protection against rare crashes on really huge volumes of data.