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After months of work, GHC 6.10.1 is finally released!

The headlines include a parallel garbage collector, extensible exceptions, haddock 2, Data Parallel Haskell as an extralib, and much more besides.

Well-Typed is pleased to have been able to play its part in making this release happen, with Ian working with the Simons at GHC HQ and many other developers across the world to bring this release together.

Meanwhile, Duncan visitied Galois to team up with Don Stewart for some extensive pre-release testing. Their experiments with building all of the packages on Hackage give us confidence that this will be a solid release.

Thanks to everyone who played a part, be it development, testing or otherwise, in this release. We couldn’t have done it without your help!

ICFP is great fun as usual. There have been some good talks and there’s a packed schedule for the next few days. Of course the most important business takes place during the coffee breaks and in the pubs in the evenings.

One thing that feels pretty new and exciting this year is the number of Haskell hackers going professional and independent. Apart from Well-Typed of course there’s also the Tupil guys doing web development and Conal Elliott has himself up as a consultant doing functional graphics.

Thursday will be the Haskell Symposium. Don Stewart and I will be giving a short about the Haskell Platform. You can see the two page summary paper and I promise I’ll post the slides. I hope it will be videoed (guerrilla style so it will not just disappear into the black hole that is the ACM digital library).

Don and I will also be chairing the “Future of Haskell” discussion on Thursday afternoon. There are some interesting things to talk about, we’ll probably hear about progress on goals from last year, in particular SMP and Haskell-prime. Then we’ll open discussion to the floor to talk about key goals for next year. So I’m looking forward to that.

It’s been many months in the planning but we finally announced our new Haskell consultancy company - Well-Typed LLP.

We received many messages of support and advice. We’re most grateful for all this goodwill from the community.

There’s now one more argument you can make when selling Haskell in your organisation - there’s now a company dedicated to supporting your language of choice.

The next six months are going to be pretty exciting.