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- The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04
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+ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2.2
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-We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 5.04.
+The GHC Team is pleased to announce the latest patchlevel release of
+GHC, 6.2.2. This is a bugfix release only, there are no new features.
+Code that worked with 6.2.1 will work unchanged with 6.2.2.
-Highlights include:
-
- * Hierarchical libraries, with documentation produced by Haddock.
-
- * New type system extensions: full rank-N types and kind
- annotations.
-
- * New heap profiling facilities (retainer profiling, biographical
- profiling).
-
- * MacOS X support
-
-See the release notes for a full list of the changes:
-
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/release-5-04.html
+A lot of bugfixes have gone into 6.2.2; we believe it is one of the
+most stable releases of GHC ever. Thanks to everyone who has been
+involved in testing pre-releases and submitting bug reports.
+This will also be the last release along the 6.2 branch, the next
+release (out "soon") will be 6.4 with plenty of new features.
How to get it
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Background
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Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
-current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
+current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
+revised December 2002.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
* i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
* sparc-sun-solaris2
- * alpha-dec-osf3
- * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X)
-
-Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
-wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
-
- * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
- * i386-unknown-solaris2
- * mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
- * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
+ * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
-The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what
-ports work; it can be found at
+Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
+difficulty. The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete
+run-down of what ports work and how to go about porting to a new
+platform; it can be found at
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html