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+++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,55 +1,28 @@
-	     The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.04
+	     The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.02
 	    ==============================================
 
 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 2.04. Source distribution is freely available
-via the World-Wide Web and anon. FTP; details below.
+Compiler (GHC), version 3.02.  The source distribution is freely
+available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
 
 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997.  Haskell
-related information is available from the Haskell home page at:
+related information is available from the Haskell home page at
 
 	http://haskell.org/
 
-
 + What's new
 =============
 
-Release 2.04 represent work done through May '97; highlights include:
-
- * Data constructors can now have polymophic fields, and ordinary
-   functions can have polymoprhic arguments.  Details on
-
-	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/quantification.html
-
-   Existential types coming, but not done yet.
-
- * Pattern guards implemented, see
-	
-	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/guards.html
-
- * Compiler can now compile itself (i.e., no real dependence on
-   the Haskell 1.2 compiler anymore (version 0.29)).
+GHC 3.02 is a source-only release.  Major news items:
 
- * Faster compilation
-   Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it still slower
-   than GHC-0.29, the Good Old Compiler. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
-	
- * Code quality is better, the simplifier and inlining machinery has been
-   refurbished. Not sure how much better.
-
- * powerpc-ibm-aix is now a supported GHC platform, due to the 
-   Heroic Efforts of Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>.
-
- * It has been tested against a large suite of (mostly) Haskell 1.2
-   programs (the NoFib suite). Bunch of bugs related to new 
-   Haskell 1.4 has been weeded out.
-
- * A couple of Haskell 1.4 features are still incompletely supported,
-   notably polymorphic strictness annotations, and Unicode.
-
-Please see the release notes for a complete discussion of What's New.
+	* A new specialiser,
+	* A new unsafeCoerce# primitive.
+	* A NOINLINE pragma.
+	* Many bugs fixed, including several performance-related ones,
 
+GHC 3.02 produces the fastest code since 0.29, but there's still
+plenty of tuning to do.
 
 + Mailing lists
 ================
@@ -77,10 +50,10 @@ comp.lang.functional FAQ  http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
 + How to get it
 ================
 
-The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
-be self-explanatory:
+The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
+self-explanatory:
 
-	ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
+	http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
 
 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
 README file to find all of the documentation about this release.  NB:
@@ -92,16 +65,20 @@ for tar, please)!
 ======================
 
 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
-memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
-version 0.29 or 2.02/2.03). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
+memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
+2.10 at least). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
 
-  * alpha-dec-osf2
+  * alpha-dec-osf{2,3}
   * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
   * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
   * mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
   * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
-  * powerpc-ibm-aix
+  * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
 
 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort.  The installer's
-guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work.
+guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
+an on-line version can be found at
+
+   http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html
 
+EOF