[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.10.5 released

The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.5. Source and binary distributions are available at the [usual place](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.5/). This release adds native ARM/Darwin support, as well as bringing performance improvements and fixing numerous bugs of varying severity present in the 8.10 series: - First-class support for Apple M1 hardware using GHC's LLVM ARM backend - Fix a bug resulting in segmentation faults where code may be unloaded prematurely when using the parallel garbage collector (#19417) along with other bugs in the GC and linker (#19147, #19287) - Improve code layout fixing certain performance regressions (#18053) and other code generation bug fixes (#19645) - Bug fixes for signal handling when using the pthread itimer implementation. - Improvements to the specializer and simplifier reducing code size and and memory usage (#17151, #18923,#18140, #10421, #18282, #13253). - Fix a bug where typechecker plugins could be run with an inconsistent typechecker environment (#19191). - Fix a simplifier bug which lead to an exponential blow up and excessive memory usage in certain cases A complete list of bug fixes and improvements can be found in the release notes: [release notes](https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.10.5/docs/html/users_guide/8.10.5-notes...) As always, feel free to report any issues you encounter via [gitlab.haskell.org](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new).
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Zubin Duggal