Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc On branch : ghc-7.6
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/b5e0c5ad425d93dad61959ebec64b09f742db63a >--------------------------------------------------------------- commit b5e0c5ad425d93dad61959ebec64b09f742db63a Author: Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> Date: Sun Sep 2 15:50:00 2012 +0100 Update ANNOUNCE for 7.6.1 >--------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCE | 37 ++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 0c2b97f..510d5d6 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,35 +1,26 @@ - ============================================================== - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 - ============================================================== + ============================================================= + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 + ============================================================= -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: +The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1. - * Some new language features have been implemented: - * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation - * Generalised quasi-quotes - * Generalised list comprehensions - * View patterns +Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4: - * Type families have been completely re-implemented + * Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and + supported features. - * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions + * Windows 64bit is now a supported platform. - * Parallel garbage collection + * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the + -fdefer-type-errors flag. - * Base provides extensible exceptions + * The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime + with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities. - * The GHC API is easier to use +Full release notes are here: - * External core (output only) now works again - - * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC - -The full release notes are here: - - http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
