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The ACM SIGPLAN 2008 Haskell Symposium has put out a call for papers. "The purpose of the Haskell Symposium is to discuss experience with Haskell, and future developments for the language. The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell."

The submission deadline is June 23, 2008. The symposium will be held on September 25, 2008, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Generic Haskell 1.80 (Emerald) has been released. Generic Haskell is an extension of Haskell that supports generic programming.

This release includes: support for generic views for generic types, and improvements to the implementation of type-indexed types.

Disciplined Disciple Compiler Alpha 1 has been released. "Disciple is an explicitly lazy dialect of Haskell which supports destructive update, computational effects, type directed field projections and some other useful things."

This is the initial alpha release of DDC.

The March 9, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

The February 23, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

The February 10, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers recent Haskell-related software releases, blog postings, and more.

The 4th Haskell Hackathon has been announced. It will be held from April 11 to 13, 2008, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The January 5, 2008 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of GHC 6.8.2, the release of nhc98 1.2, other Haskell-related software releases, Haskell-related blog activity, and more.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.8.2 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: GHCi improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.8.2 release candidates are now available. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

The November 11, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the release of GHC 6.8.1, other Haskell-related software releases, recent Haskell-related blog posts, and more.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.8.1 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: the completion of the first phase of the base package split, performance improvements due to the use of pointer tagging in the code generator, the addition of Haskell Program Coverage support to the compiler, an interactive debugger for GHCi, bug fixes, and other changes.

The October 25, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases, Haskell papers presented at conferences, Haskell-related blog posts, and more.

It has been announced that videos from the Haskell Workshop 2007 are now available.

The September 23, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarizes recent development within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases and blog posts, Haskell' developments, library changes, and more.

It has been announced that the next London Haskell User Group meeting will be held on September 20, 2007.

The August 7, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

The July 23, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases, recent Haskell' developments, recent Haskell-related blog postings, and more.

It has been announced that the May 2007 edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is now available. The HC&A is a semiannual overview of the state of Haskell, the Haskell community and Haskell-related projects.

It has been announced that the next Haskell in Leipzig meeting will be held on July 10, 2007.