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---
title: GF 3.12 Release Notes
date: 02 August 2025
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## 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