Ben, Thank you for your effort. It is greatly appreciated.
One nit though: I noticed the Haddocks for ghc and the libraries don't come with hyperlinked source but instead with the old, deprecated HsColour sources. Grepping on GitLab showed some commits around switching --hyperlinked-sources on unfortinately it doesn't Am Mi., 30. Dez. 2020 um 16:17 Uhr schrieb Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com>: > > Hello all, > > The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first > release candidate of GHC 9.0.1 series. Source and binary distributions are > available at the usual place: > > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-rc1/ > > This release candidate comes quite a bit later than expected after > difficulty finding a performance neutral fix for a critical soundness bug, > #17760. See [1] for details on the solution, particularly > if you are a library maintainer currently using the touch# primop or > withForeignPtr. > > Nevertheless, this release has nevertheless seen a considerable amount of > testing and consequently we hope that this should be the last > pre-release before the final release. > > In addition to numerous bug fixes, GHC 9.0.1 will bring a number of new > features: > > * A first cut of the new LinearTypes language extension [2], allowing > use of linear function syntax and linear record fields. > > * A new bignum library (ghc-bignum), allowing GHC to be more easily > used with integer libraries other than GMP. > > * Improvements in code generation, resulting in considerable > performance improvements in some programs. > > * Improvements in pattern-match checking, allowing more precise > detection of redundant cases and reduced compilation time. > > * Implementation of the "simplified subsumption" proposal [3] > simplifying the type system and paving the way for QuickLook > impredicativity in GHC 9.2. > > * Implementation of the QualifiedDo extension [4], allowing more > convenient overloading of `do` syntax. > > * Improvements in compilation time. > > And many more. See the release notes [5] for a full accounting of the > changes in this release. > > As always, do test this release and open tickets for whatever issues you > encounter. > > Cheers, > > - Ben > > [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/migration/9.0#ghc-prim-07 > [2] > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0111-linear-types.rst > [3] > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0287-simplify-subsumption.rst > [4] > https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0216-qualified-do.rst > [5] > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-rc1/docs/html/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.html > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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