Add a release note: GHCi import syntax
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2 <sect1 id="release-6-14-1">
3   <title>Release notes for version 6.14.1</title>
4
5   <para>
6     The significant changes to the various parts of the compiler are
7     listed in the following sections. There have also been numerous bug
8     fixes and performance improvements over the 6.12 branch.
9   </para>
10
11   <sect2>
12     <title>Highlights</title>
13     <itemizedlist>
14       <listitem>
15         <para>
16           Due to changes in the runtime system, version 2.0 or later
17           (preferably version 2.2 or later) of the
18           <literal>parallel</literal> library should be used, or
19           parallelism will be lost.
20         </para>
21       </listitem>
22
23       <listitem>
24         <para>
25           The full Haskell <literal>import</literal> syntax can now been
26           used to bring modules into scope in GHCi.
27         </para>
28       </listitem>
29     </itemizedlist>
30   </sect2>
31
32 <!--
33   <sect2>
34     <title>Language changes</title>
35     <itemizedlist>
36     </itemizedlist>
37   </sect2>
38
39   <sect2>
40     <title>Warnings</title>
41     <itemizedlist>
42     </itemizedlist>
43   </sect2>
44
45   <sect2>
46     <title>Runtime system</title>
47
48     <itemizedlist>
49     </itemizedlist>
50   </sect2>
51
52   <sect2>
53     <title>Build system</title>
54     <itemizedlist>
55     </itemizedlist>
56   </sect2>
57
58   <sect2>
59     <title>Compiler</title>
60     <itemizedlist>
61     </itemizedlist>
62   </sect2>
63
64   <sect2>
65     <title>GHCi</title>
66     <itemizedlist>
67     </itemizedlist>
68   </sect2>
69
70   <sect2>
71     <title>Template Haskell</title>
72     <itemizedlist>
73     </itemizedlist>
74   </sect2>
75
76   <sect2>
77     <title>Package Handling</title>
78     <itemizedlist>
79     </itemizedlist>
80   </sect2>
81
82   <sect2>
83     <title>Libraries</title>
84   </sect2>
85 -->
86 </sect1>
87