[ANN] Release v0.14.4

[ivanperez-keera]

I'm really happy to announce release 0.14.4. This release includes the long-awaited infrastructure for benchmarks in Yampa, which can now be used to also evaluate the performance of changes proposed.

This release also introduces upper bounds for benchmark and testing dependencies, which is generally good practice and was leading to warnings when uploading the packages to hackage.

The benchmark implemented in this release is just a start; you can improve it by adding more cases. You can also help by adjusting existing applications and games to be used for benchmarking in an automated fashion (without human intervention -- that is, no need for keyboard inputs or mouse clicks). See the work on Haskell Titan for ideas about how to do this.

This release compiles with all versions of GHC from 7.6 to 9.6 (it's been tested with the latest version of each release, meaning 7.6.3, 7.8.4, 7.10.3, ..., all the way to GHC 9.6.2).

For details on the release, see: v0.14.4.

Happy Haskelling!