With heartfelt thanks to the many people who have already tried hs-bindgen and given us feedback, we have steadily been working towards the first official release (see Contributors for the full list). In case you missed the announcement of the first alpha, hs-bindgen is a tool for automatic construction of Haskell bindings for C libraries: just point it at a C header and let it handle the rest. Because we have fixed some critical bugs in this alpha release, but we’re not quite ready yet for the first full official release, we have tagged a second alpha release. In the remainder of this blog post we will briefly highlight the most important changes; please refer to the CHANGELOG.md of hs-bindgen and of hs-bindgen-runtime for the full list of changes, as well as for migration hints where we have introduced some minor backwards incompatible changes.

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