GHC update 40 (#101)

* GHC update 40

* Update 2025-01-09-ghc-update-40.md

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Co-authored-by: Luite Stegeman <[email protected]>

Author: hsyl20

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+slug: 2025-01-09-ghc-update
+title: "IOG GHC Update #40"
+authors: [sylvain,luite]
+tags: [ghc,ghc-update]
+---
+
+Triweekly update from the GHC DevX team at IOG.
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+Previous updates can be found [here](https://engineering.iog.io/tags/ghc-update).
+
+## High-level Summary
+
+We wish you a happy and productive 2025 year!
+
+A small update this time due to the end of year vacations. Work on
+releasing GHC 9.6.7 and on building GHC with Cabal has been resumed.
+
+Sadly for us our teammate Jeff has decided to leave the team. We wish him all
+the best in his future endeavours! We are thankful for everything he has done
+with us. On the bright side, there should be an open position in our team soon,
+so stay tuned.
+
+## Details
+
+Luite: finalized the patch adding compiler flags to to switch off speculative
+evaluation. See [GHC#25284](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25284)
+and [GHC!13556](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13556) to be
+included in GHC 9.6.7.
+
+Luite: has been preparing the GHC 9.6.7 release between the holidays. The branch is pretty close to release at the time of writing. If you have any requests for the 9.6.7 release, please let us know! See [GHC#25559](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25559) and [GHC!13740](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13740).
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+Sylvain: worked on bootstrapping GHC with Cabal.
+
+Sylvain: worked on merging `ghc-prim` package into `ghc-internal`. See [GHC#24453](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24453) and [GHC!13752](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13752)