• Language

• The new option --erased-cubical turns on a variant of Cubical Agda (see #4701).

When this variant of Cubical Agda is used glue (and some related builtins) may only be used in erased settings, and higher constructors must be erased. One can import regular Cubical Agda code from this variant of Cubical Agda, but names defined using Cubical Agda are (mostly) treated as if they had been marked as erased. See the reference manual for more details.

The GHC and JS backends can compile code that uses --erased-cubical if the top-level module uses this flag.

This feature is experimental.

• The cubical interval I now belongs to its own sort, IUniv, rather than SSet. For J : ISet and A : J → Set l, we have (j : J) → A : Set l, that is, the type of functions from a type in ISet to a fibrant type is fibrant.

Compiler backends

• Both the GHC and JS backends now refuse to compile code that uses --cubical.

Note that support for compiling code that uses --erased-cubical has been added to both backends (see above).

• The new option --ghc-strict-data, which is inspired by the GHC language extension StrictData, makes the GHC backend compile inductive data and record constructors to constructors with strict arguments.

This does not apply to certain builtin types—lists, the maybe type, and some types related to reflection—and might not apply to types with COMPILE GHC … = data … pragmas.

• The new option --ghc-strict, which is inspired by the GHC language extension Strict, makes the GHC backend generate mostly strict code.

Functions might not be strict in unused arguments.

Function definitions coming from COMPILE GHC pragmas are not affected.

This flag implies --ghc-strict-data, and the exceptions of that flag applies to this flag as well.

LaTeX backend

• Files agda.sty and postprocess-latex.pl are now found in the latex/ subdirectory of the Agda data directory (agda --print-agda-dir).

• 🖨 agda.sty is now versioned (printed to the .log file by latex) (see #5473).

• Italics correction (inserted by \textit e.g. in \AgdaBound) now works, thanks to moving the \textcolor wrapping to the outside in agda.sty (see #5471).