draft changelog for 3.12

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+title: GF 3.12 Release Notes
+date: 02 August 2025
+---
+
+## Installation
+
+See the [download page](index-3.12.html).
+
+## What's new
+This release adds support for Apple Silicon M1 Mac computers and newer versions of GHC.
+
+Over 70 commits have been merged to gf-core since the release of GF 3.11 in July 2021.
+
+## General
+- Support for ARM, allowing to run GF on Mac computers with Apple Silicon M1
+- Support for newer versions of GHC (8.10.7, 9.0.2, 9.2.4, 9.4, 9.6.7)
+- Support compiling with Nix
+- Better error messages
+- Improvements to several GF shell commands
+- Several bug fixes and performance improvements
+
+## GF compiler and run-time library
+- Syntactic sugar for table update: `table {cases ; vvv => t \! vvv}.t` can now be written as `t ** { cases }`  
+- Adjust the `-view` command depending on the OS
+- Improve output of the `visualize_dependencies` (`vd`) command for large dependency trees
+- Reintroduce syntactic transfer with `pt -transfer` and fix a bug in `pt -compute`
+- Bug fix: apply `gt` to all arguments when piped
+- Fix many "Invalid character" messages by always encoding GF files in UTF-8
+- Improve performance with long extend-lists
+- Improve syntax error messages
+- Add support for BIND tokens in the Python bindings
+- Allow compilation with emscripten
+
+## Other
+- Add support for Visual Studio Code