[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.12.1-alpha3 is now available

The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability
of the third alpha release of GHC 9.12.1. Binary distributions, source
distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org][].


We hope to have this release available via ghcup shortly.

GHC 9.12 will bring a number of new features and improvements, including:

  * The new language extension [OrPatterns] allowing you to combine multiple
    pattern clauses into one.

  * The [MultilineStrings] language extension to allow you to more easily write
    strings spanning multiple lines in your source code.

  * Improvements to the OverloadedRecordDot extension, allowing the built-in
    `HasField` class to be used for records with fields of non lifted representations.

  * The [NamedDefaults] language extension has been introduced allowing you to
    define defaults for typeclasses other than `Num`.

  * More deterministic object code output, controlled by the `-fobject-determinism`
    flag, which improves determinism of builds a lot (though does not fully do so)
    at the cost of some compiler performance (1-2%). See #12935 for the details

  * GHC now accepts type syntax in expressions as part of [GHC Proposal #281].

  * The WASM backend now has support for TemplateHaskell.

  * ... and many more

A full accounting of changes can be found in the [release notes][].
As always, GHC's release status, including planned future releases, can
be found on the GHC Wiki [status][].

We would like to thank GitHub, IOG, the Zw3rk stake pool,
Well-Typed, Tweag I/O, Serokell, Equinix, SimSpace, the Haskell
Foundation, and other anonymous contributors whose on-going financial
and in-kind support has facilitated GHC maintenance and release
management over the years. Finally, this release would not have been
possible without the hundreds of open-source contributors whose work
comprise this release.

As always, do give this release a try and open a [ticket][] if you see
anything amiss.


[release notes]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha3/docs/users_guide/9.12.1-notes.html
[status]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/GHC-status
[downloads.haskell.org]: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.12.1-alpha3
[ticket]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/new
[OrPatterns]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0522-or-patterns.rst
[MultilineStrings]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0569-multiline-strings.rst
[GHC Proposal #281]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0281-visible-forall.rst
[NamedDefaults]: https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0409-exportable-named-default.rst

Cheers,
Zubin

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