ghc/docs/users_guide/5-02-notes.sgml

   1 <sect1 id="release-5-02">
   2   <title>Release notes for version 5.02</title>
   3
   4   <sect2>
   5     <title>User-visible compiler changes</title>
   6   </sect2>
   7
   8   <sect2>
   9     <title>New experimental features</title>
  10   </sect2>
  11
  12   <sect2>
  13     <title>User-visible library changes</title>
  14     <itemizedlist>
  15       <listitem>
  16         <para>The <literal>SocketPrim</literal> and
  17         <literal>BSD</literal> modules in the <literal>net</literal>
  18         package have been re-written to use the FFI, be more portable,
  19         and be more thread-safe.  There are minor user-visible
  20         changes: the functions <function>writeSocket</function>,
  21         <function>readSocket</function> and
  22         <function>readSocketAll</function> have been removed (use
  23         <function>socketToHandle</function> and
  24         <literal>Handle</literal> operations instead).</para>
  25       </listitem>
  26
  27       <listitem>
  28         <para>New function: <function>Exception.throwDynTo</function>.
  29         See <xref linkend="sec-Dynamic-Exceptions">.</para>
  30       </listitem>
  31
  32     </itemizedlist>
  33   </sect2>
  34
  35   <sect2>
  36     <title>Build system changes</title>
  37   </sect2>
  38
  39   <sect2>
  40     <title>Internal changes</title>
  41   </sect2>
  42
  43 </sect1>
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