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The March 5, 2007 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

It has been announced that Issue 6 (~311 KB .pdf) of The Monad.Reader is now available. "The Monad.Reader is a quarterly magazine about all things Haskell. It is less-formal than journal, but somehow more enduring than a wiki-page."

The January 31, 2007 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 January 2, 2007 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: inlining higher-order functions, implicit parallelism in functional applications, and more.

The December 20, 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, rebinding >>= for restricted monads, automonadization of code, Haskell' developments, and more.

The December 12, 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 December 5, 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 availability of the November 2006 Haskell Communities and Activities Report, recent Haskell-related software releases, Haskell' developments, and more.

It has been announced that the November 2006 edition of the Haskell Communities & Activities Report is now available. The HC&A is a semiannual overview of the state of Haskell, the Haskell community and Haskell-related projects.

The November 28, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

The 2007 Haskell Hackathon has been announced. "The plan is to hack on Haskell infrastructure, tools, libraries and compilers."

It will be held from January 10 to 12, 2007, in Oxford, UK.

The November 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: the announcement of YCR2JS, Haskell' developments, recent Haskell-related discussion, and more.

Yhc Core to Javascript Converter has been announced. It is a tool that converts Haskell code to JavaScript, via the translation of York Haskell Compiler binary core files.

It has been announced that the comp.lang.haskell newsgroup has been created.

It has been announced that a Haskell meeting is planned for December 5, 2006, in Leipzig, Germany.

The October 31, 2006 edition of the Haskell Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Haskell community.

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

The October 24, 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, the inclusion of the 'Yet Another Haskell Tutorial' into the Haskell wikibook, Haskell' developments, and more.

The October 19, 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 release of GHC 6.6, the release of Pugs 6.2.13, the release of Generic Haskell 1.60, other Haskell-related software releases, recent Haskell' developments, and more.

A call for contributions has been put out for the November 2006 edition of the Haskell Communities and Activities Report. The HC&A 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 November 6, 2006.

Generic Haskell 1.60 has been released. Generic Haskell is an extension of Haskell that supports generic programming.

This release includes: type-indexed values, type-indexed types, support for Generic Views, plus other changes and fixes.

Glasgow Haskell Compiler 6.6 has been released. GHC is a portable, open-source, optimising Haskell 98 implementation.

This release includes: SMP support, support for impredicative polymorphism, changes to the way scoped type variables work, support for bang patterns, garbage collector enhancements, relaxed rules for instance declarations, new core library modules, plus other changes.