1 <sect1 id="release-5-02">
2 <title>Release notes for version 5.02</title>
5 <title>User-visible compiler changes</title>
9 <title>New experimental features</title>
13 <title>User-visible library changes</title>
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>
28 <para>New function: <function>Exception.throwDynTo</function>.
29 See <xref linkend="sec-Dynamic-Exceptions">.</para>
36 <title>Build system changes</title>
40 <title>Internal changes</title>
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