<listitem>
<para>
+ Lazy I/O now throws an exception if an error is
+ encountered, in a divergence from the Haskell 98 spec which
+ requires that errors are discarded (see Section 21.2.2 of
+ the Haskell 98 report). The exception thrown is the usual
+ IO exception that would be thrown if the failing IO
+ operation was performed in the IO monad, and can be caught
+ by <literal>System.IO.Error.catch</literal>
+ or <literal>Control.Exception.catch</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
It is now possible to create your own handles.
For more information, see the
<literal>GHC.IO.Handle</literal> haddock docs.