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| author | Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> | 2012-06-01 14:31:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> | 2012-06-01 14:31:48 +0100 |
| commit | a671471d82813779052cc8768fd7ec8d3ff9701c (patch) | |
| tree | af9e43e4d8e395170cd592c6bc3ed677ae7dc66b | |
| parent | 46949a1236657e40a5df79b83b27ceaa08b3eaf5 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-a671471d82813779052cc8768fd7ec8d3ff9701c.tar.gz | |
Update ANNOUNCE for 7.4.1
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@@ -1,43 +1,15 @@ ============================================================= - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.4.1 + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.4.2 ============================================================= -The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.4.1. +The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. +This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 7.4.1, so we +recommend upgrading. -Here are some of the highlights of the 7.4 branch since 7.2 and 7.0: +The release notes are here: - * The Num class no longer has Eq or Show superclasses. - - * There is a new feature Safe Haskell (-XSafe, -XTrustworthy, -XUnsafe). - The design has changed since 7.2. - - * There is a new feature kind polymorphism (-XPolyKinds). - A side-effect of this is that, when the extension is not enabled, in - certain circumstances kinds are now defaulted to * rather than being - inferred. - - * There is a new feature constraint kinds (-XConstraintKinds). - - * It is now possible to give any sort of declaration at the ghci prompt. - For example, you can now declare datatypes within ghci. - - * The profiling and hpc implementations have been merged and overhauled. - Visible changes include renaming of profiling flags, and a new - semantics for the cost-centre stacks (which should in most cases - result in more useful and intuitive profiles). The +RTS -xc flag now - also gives a stack trace. - - * It is now possible to write compiler plugins. - - * DPH support has been significantly improved. - - * There is now preliminary support for registerised compilation using - LLVM on the ARM platform. - -Full release notes are here: - - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/release-7-4-2.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |