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Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.4.2 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source Haskell compiler and interactive environment.

This release includes: compatibility with GCC 4.x, support for FFI calls from interpreted code in GHCi on x86-64, a new ':set prompt' GHCi command, an upgrade of Cabal to version 1.1.4, plus other changes and bugfixes.

The April 17, 2006 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, Haskell'-related developments, and more.

The April 10, 2006 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, the conversion of the 1990 to 2000 Haskell mailing list archives into HTML, recent Haskell' activity, and more.

The April 3, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell' activity, using Haskell on mobile devices, ideas for a better reflection API, and more.

The March 27, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the new Planet Haskell feed aggregator, the addition of concurrency support to Yhc, GHC 6.4.2 release candidates, Haskell'-related developments, and more.

The March 20, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers: recent Haskell' developments, the upcoming GHC 6.4.2 release, and more.

The March 6, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the use of Haskell as a markup language, the release of Edison 1.2rc2, recent Haskell' developments, and more.

The February 27, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the revival of the Edison data structres library, recent Haskell' news, and more.

The February 20, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the announcement of the 2006 Haskell Workshop, Haskell' developments, and more.

The Haskell Workshop 2006 has put out a call for papers. The purpose of the workshop is to "discuss experience with Haskell, and possible future developments for the language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell."

It will be held on September 17, 2006, in Portland, Oregon. The submission deadline is June 2, 2006.

The February 13, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It is a summary of recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell' developments, the use of Haskell in higher education, and more.

The February 6, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the addition of support for bang patterns to GHC, the release of EclipseFP 0.9.1, and more.

Simon Peyton-Jones has mentioned that there are internships available at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

He and Simon Marlow would like to encourage individuals interested in working on Haskell-related projects to apply. Some of the projects they have in mind include: adding parallel garbage collection to GHC, investigating parallel Haskell applications, using GHC as a library, C-- code generation, and building a debugger into GHCi.

The January 30, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: Robert Dockins' new C-- front-end, recent Haskell' developments, adding impredicative types to GHC, and more.

The January 23, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the Haskell' effort, the switch of GHC to darcs, monadic regions, lexically-scoped type variables, Haskell-related papers, and more.

Isaac Jones has announced the Haskell' process, which will work towards a new Haskell standard.

As per the mission statement: "Haskell' will be a conservative refinement of Haskell 98. It will be the work of this committee to adopt a set of language extensions and modifications and to standardize a new set of libraries. We will strive to only include tried-and-true language features, and to define them at least as rigorously as Haskell 98 was defined. This standard will reflect the realities of developing practical applications in the Haskell language. We will work closely with the rest of the Haskell community to create this standard."

The January 16, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It is a summary of recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases, writing high-performance Haskell code, improvements to the Computer Language Shootout benchmarks written in Haskell, and more.

The January 3, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It is a summary of recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell-related software releases, making Haskell more open to contribution from users, creating type variables with unboxed kind, and more.

Hashell 0.011a has been released. Hashell allows Haskell to be used a shell programming language.

The November 29, 2005 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It lists recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers: monads in other programming languages, the status of the Java target support in GHC, GHC 6.6 progress, and the use of Haskell in higher education, and more.