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diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-02-notes.vsgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-02-notes.vsgml
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--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-02-notes.vsgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/3-02-notes.vsgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<sect1>Release notes for version~3-02---4/97
+<sect1>Release notes for version~3-02---5/97
 <label id="release-3-02">
 <p>
 
@@ -6,13 +6,23 @@ Changes made since 3.01:
 
 <itemize>
 
-<item> CharLike and IntLike closures fixed (should reduce allocation
-slightly).
+<item> After a prolonged rest in the bit bucket, the Specialiser is
+now back on-line again! It has been completely rewritten and the
+implementation is a great deal simpler than the version that came with
+@ghc-0.29@.
+(ToDo: insert summary of capabilities.)
 
-<item> Pattern binding desugaring improved to eliminate intermediate
-tuples in some cases.
+<item> The addition of a data type or an instance to a module A should
+now mostly avoid the recompilation of modules that import A.
+
+<item> More internal code cleanup and simplifications
+
+<item> @showList@ and @Show@ instances for tuples now uses @","@ as
+element separators rather than @", "@. Changed to make the strings
+generated by 
+
+<item> Misc. bugfixes to 
 
-<item> Fixed parsing problem: declaring a record with an infix constructor.
 
 <item> When computing the Makefile dependencies, using either
 <tt/ghc -M/ (preferred) or by invoking the <tt/mkdependHS/ script
@@ -35,4 +45,9 @@ fixed.
 <item> Bump some of the constants that affect unfolding agression:
 performance is now better than 2.10, and binary sizes are smaller.
 
+<item> Add NOINLINE pragma, and use it for unsafePerformIO and
+friends.  Remove PrelUnsafe and PrelUnsafeST, move the contents into
+PrelIOBase and PrelST respectively.  Add NOINLINE pragma to
+LazyST.runST.
+
 </itemize>