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The October 10, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

The October 3, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

The September 27, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the use of Haskell at this year's ICFP programming contest, the Sept. 2006 release of Hugs, recent Haskell' developments, Haskell-related talks at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming workshop, and more.

Hugs 98 September 2006 has been released. Hugs 98 is a Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: a decrease in the verbosity of the built-in printer, updated libraries, and bugfixes.

The September 18, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

This edition covers such topics as: recent Haskell-related software releases, the experimental GHCi debugger, recent Haskell' developments, talks from the Haskell Workshop, and more.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.6 release candidates are now available. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

The August 14, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

The ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Haskell Workshop has put out a call for participation. "The purpose of the Haskell 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."

The workshop will be held on September 17, 2006, in Portland, Oregon.

AngloHaskell has been announced. It will be an informal gathering of the Haskell community, taking place on August 4 and 5, 2006, in Cambridge, UK.

The July 3, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

The June 25, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers such topics as: the announcement of the GHC Hackathon, Haskell', extensible records using associated types, and more.

It has been announced that a Glasgow Haskell Compiler hackathon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on September 14 and 15, 2006.

The June 16, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the availability of the June 2006 Haskell Communities and Activities Report, recent Haskell-related software releases, Haskell' activity, the use of Haskell in operating system kernels, and more.

It has been announced that the June 2006 edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report is now available. The HCAR is a semiannual report on the status and activities of the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: the new 'Programming in Haskell' textbook estimated for publication during the last quarter of 2006; GHC, Hugs, nhc98 and yhc developments; related language projects; software written in Haskell; the use of Haskell in education; and more.

The May 22, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers topics such as: recent Haskell' developments, the May 2006 release of Hugs, and more.

Hugs 98 May 2006 has been released. Hugs 98 is a Haskell 98 implementation.

The May 8, 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-related software releases, Haskell' developments, emulating the SML top-level in Haskell, and more.

The May 1, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments in the Haskell community.

This edition covers: the release of GHC 6.4.2, Isaac Jones' Haskell' status report, recent discussion, Haskell'-related developments, and more.

Isaac Jones has written a brief status update concerning the Haskell' standardisation effort.

This report focuses on the class system and concurrency discussion.

A call for contributions has been put out for the May 2006 Haskell Communities & Activities Report. The HC&A is "is a bi-annual overview of the state of Haskell as well as Haskell-related projects over the last, and possibly the upcoming 6 months." Submissions are due by the middle of May.