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   2 <sect1 id="release-6-6">
   3   <title>Release notes for version 6.6</title>
   4
   5   <sect2>
   6     <title>User-visible compiler changes</title>
   7     <itemizedlist>
   8       <listitem>
   9         <para>
  10           GHC now supports SMP:
  11           when you compile with <option>-threaded</option>, you now get
  12           an RTS flag <option>-N</option> that allows you to specify the
  13           number of OS threads that GHC should use. Defaults to 1.
  14           See <xref linkend="sec-using-smp" /> and <xref
  15           linkend="lang-parallel" />.
  16         </para>
  17       </listitem>
  18       <listitem>
  19         <para>
  20           GHC's modules are now also bundled into a
  21           <literal>ghc</literal> package, allowing programs to make use
  22           of GHC as a library. The interface has not yet been properly
  23           designed, so is subject to change.
  24         </para>
  25       </listitem>
  26       <listitem>
  27         <para>
  28           GHC now handles impredicative polymorphism and there are
  29           changes to the way scoped type variables work; see
  30           <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-January/009565.html"> Simon's e-mail</ulink>
  31           for more details.
  32         </para>
  33       </listitem>
  34       <listitem>
  35         <para>
  36           GHC now supports bang patterns to require a function is strict
  37           in a given argument, e.g.
  38           <programlisting>
  39     f (!x, y) = [x,y]</programlisting>
  40           is equivalent to
  41           <programlisting>
  42     f (x, y) | x `seq` False = undefined
  43              | otherwise = [x,y]</programlisting>
  44         </para>
  45       </listitem>
  46       <listitem>
  47         <para>
  48           The restriction that you cannot use two packages together if
  49           they contain a module with the same name has been removed.
  50           In implementation terms, the package name is now included in
  51           every exported symbol name in the object file, so that
  52           modules with the same name in different packages do not
  53           clash.  See <xref linkend="package-overlaps" />.
  54         </para>
  55       </listitem>
  56       <listitem>
  57         <para>
  58           GHC now treats source files as UTF-8 (ASCII is a strict
  59           subset of UTF-8, so ASCII source files will continue to
  60           work as before). However, invalid UTF-8 sequences are
  61           ignored in comments, so ASCII code with comments in, for
  62           example, Latin-1 will also work.
  63         </para>
  64       </listitem>
  65       <listitem>
  66         <para>
  67           GADTs can now use record syntax. Also, if the datatype could
  68           have been declared with Haskell 98 syntax then deriving
  69           clauses are permitted. For more info see <xref linkend="gadt" />.
  70         </para>
  71       </listitem>
  72       <listitem>
  73         <para>
  74           There is a new pragma <literal>LANGUAGE</literal> which allows
  75           extensions to be specified portably, i.e. without having to
  76           resort to the <literal>OPTIONS_GHC</literal> pragma and giving
  77           GHC-specific options. The arguments to the pragma are the same
  78           extensions that Cabal knows about. More info in
  79           <xref linkend="language-pragma" />.
  80         </para>
  81       </listitem>
  82       <listitem>
  83         <para>
  84           When you use <command>ghc --make</command>, GHC will now take
  85           the executable filename from the name of the file containing
  86           the <literal>Main</literal> module rather than using
  87           <filename>a.out</filename>. The <filename>.exe</filename>
  88           extension is appended on Windows, and it can of course be
  89           overridden with <option>-o</option>.
  90         </para>
  91       </listitem>
  92       <listitem>
  93         <para>
  94           GHC's garbage collector now deals more intelligently with
  95           mutable data, so you mostly no longer need to worry about GC
  96           performance when a lot of memory is taken up by
  97           <literal>STArray</literal>s, <literal>IOArray</literal>s,
  98           <literal>STRef</literal>s or <literal>IORef</literal>s.
  99         </para>
 100       </listitem>
 101       <listitem>
 102         <para>
 103           GHC now allows more generalisation when typing mutually
 104           recursive bindings, resulting in more programs being accepted.
 105           See <xref linkend="typing-binds" /> for more details.
 106         </para>
 107       </listitem>
 108       <listitem>
 109         <para>
 110           The rules for instance declarations have been further relaxed.
 111           You are now permitted to have instances whose heads contain
 112           only type variables, e.g.
 113           <programlisting>
 114     instance C a</programlisting>
 115           and instances whose constraints are not only type variables,
 116           e.g.
 117           <programlisting>
 118     instance C2 Int a => C3 [a] b</programlisting>
 119           For more details, see <xref linkend="instance-rules" />.
 120         </para>
 121       </listitem>
 122       <listitem>
 123         <para>
 124             The following flags (and, where appropriate, their inverses)
 125             used to be static (can only be given on
 126             the command line) but are now dynamic (can also be given in
 127             a <literal>GHC_OPTIONS</literal> pragma or with
 128             <literal>:set</literal> in GHCi):
 129             <option>-c</option>,
 130             <option>-hcsuf</option>,
 131             <option>-hidir</option>,
 132             <option>-hisuf</option>,
 133             <option>-o</option>,
 134             <option>-odir</option>,
 135             <option>-ohi</option>,
 136             <option>-osuf</option>,
 137             <option>-keep-hc-file</option>,
 138             <option>-keep-s-file</option>,
 139             <option>-keep-raw-s-file</option>,
 140             <option>-keep-tmp-files</option>,
 141             <option>-tmpdir</option>,
 142             <option>-i</option>,
 143             <option>-package</option>,
 144             <option>-hide-package</option>,
 145             <option>-ignore-package</option>,
 146             <option>-package-conf</option>,
 147             <option>-no-user-package-conf</option>,
 148             <option>-fcontext-stack</option>,
 149             <option>-fexcess-precision</option>,
 150             <option>-fignore-asserts</option>,
 151             <option>-fignore-interface-pragmas</option>,
 152             <option>-I</option>,
 153             <option>-framework</option>,
 154             <option>-framework-path</option>,
 155             <option>-l</option>,
 156             <option>-L</option>,
 157             <option>-main-is</option>,
 158             <option>-no-hs-main</option>,
 159             <option>-split-objs</option>,
 160             <option>-pgmL</option>,
 161             <option>-pgmP</option>,
 162             <option>-pgmc</option>,
 163             <option>-pgma</option>,
 164             <option>-pgml</option>,
 165             <option>-pgmdll</option>,
 166             <option>-pgmdep</option>,
 167             <option>-pgmF</option>,
 168             <option>-optl</option>,
 169             <option>-optdll</option>,
 170             <option>-optdep</option>,
 171             <option>-fno-asm-mangling</option>.
 172             See <xref linkend="static-dynamic-flags" /> for more on
 173             the meaning of static and dynamic flags, and
 174             <xref linkend="flag-reference" /> for more on the flags
 175             themselves.
 176         </para>
 177       </listitem>
 178       <listitem>
 179         <para>
 180           There is a new flag <option>-x</option> for overriding the
 181           default behaviour for source files; see
 182           <xref linkend="overriding-suffixes" /> details.
 183         </para>
 184       </listitem>
 185       <listitem>
 186         <para>
 187           The <option>-fglobalise-toplev-names</option>
 188           flag has been removed.
 189         </para>
 190       </listitem>
 191       <listitem>
 192         <para>
 193           The <option>-fallow-overlapping-instances</option> flag is
 194           implied by the <option>-fallow-incoherent-instances</option>
 195           flag.
 196         </para>
 197       </listitem>
 198       <listitem>
 199         <para>
 200           The directory that the <filename>foo_stub.c</filename> and
 201           <filename>foo_stub.h</filename> files are put in can now be
 202           controlled with the <option>-stubdir</option> flag.
 203           See <xref linkend="options-output" /> for more details.
 204         </para>
 205       </listitem>
 206       <listitem>
 207         <para>
 208           When the <option>-fno-implicit-prelude</option> is given,
 209           the equality test performed when pattern matching against an
 210           overloaded numeric literal now uses the
 211           <literal>(==)</literal> in scope, rather than the one from
 212           <literal>Prelude</literal>. Likewise, the subtraction and
 213           inequality test performed when pattern matching against
 214           <literal>n+k</literal> patterns uses the
 215           <literal>(-)</literal> and <literal>(>=)</literal> in scope.
 216         </para>
 217       </listitem>
 218       <listitem>
 219         <para>
 220           Another change to <option>-fno-implicit-prelude</option>:
 221           with the exception of the arrow syntax, the types of
 222           functions used by sugar (such as do notation, numeric
 223           literal patterns) need not match the types of the
 224           <literal>Prelude</literal> functions normally used.
 225         </para>
 226       </listitem>
 227       <listitem>
 228         <para>
 229           The <literal>InstalledPackageInfo</literal> syntax has
 230           changed. Now
 231           instead of <literal>extra-libs</literal> we have
 232           <literal>extra-libraries</literal>,
 233           instead of <literal>extra-hugs-opts</literal> we have
 234           <literal>hugs-options</literal>,
 235           instead of <literal>extra-cc-opts</literal> we have
 236           <literal>cc-options</literal>,
 237           instead of <literal>extra-ld-opts</literal> we have
 238           <literal>ld-options</literal>,
 239           and instead of <literal>extra-frameworks</literal> we have
 240           <literal>frameworks</literal>.
 241           See <xref linkend="installed-pkg-info" /> for details.
 242         </para>
 243       </listitem>
 244       <listitem>
 245         <para>
 246           If you <literal>newtype</literal> the IO monad, e.g.
 247           <programlisting>
 248     newtype MyIO a = MyIO (IO a)</programlisting>
 249           then GHC will now allow you to have FFI calls return
 250           <literal>MyIO <replaceable>t</replaceable></literal>
 251           rather than just
 252           <literal>IO <replaceable>t</replaceable></literal>.
 253           See <xref linkend="ffi-newtype-io"/>
 254         </para>
 255       </listitem>
 256       <listitem> <para> GHC's mechansim for deriving user-defined classes
 257           for newtypes has been further generalised, to multi-parameter type
 258           classes and higher-kinded types.  See <xref
 259           linkend="newtype-deriving"/>.
 260           </para></listitem>
 261       <listitem>
 262         <para>
 263           By default, pattern bindings in GHC are now monomorphic.
 264           This means that some valid Haskell 98 programs will get
 265           rejected, but we believe they will be few in number.
 266           To revert to the old behaviour use the
 267           <option>-fno-mono-pat-binds</option> flag.
 268           More details are in <xref linkend="options-language" />.
 269         </para>
 270       </listitem>
 271       <listitem>
 272         <para>
 273           GHCi already does more defaulting than Haskell 98 so that, for
 274           example, <literal>reverse []</literal> shows a result rather
 275           than giving an ambiguous type variable error. There is now a
 276           flag <option>-fextended-default-rules</option> to use these
 277           defaulting rules with GHC too.
 278           More details are in <xref linkend="extended-default-rules" />.
 279         </para>
 280       </listitem>
 281       <listitem>
 282         <para>
 283           You can now give both class and instance declarations in
 284           <filename>.hs-boot</filename> files. More details in
 285           <xref linkend="mutual-recursion" />.
 286         </para>
 287       </listitem>
 288       <listitem>
 289         <para>
 290           Linear implicit parameters have been scheduled for removal for some
 291           time.  In 6.6 we've removed them from the user manual, and they may
 292           well disappear from the compiler itself in 6.6.1.
 293         </para>
 294       </listitem>
 295       <listitem>
 296         <para>
 297           It is now possible, with the <literal>-I</literal> RTS flag,
 298           to control the amount of idle time that happens before a major
 299           GC is performed.
 300         </para>
 301       </listitem>
 302       <listitem>
 303         <para>
 304           The old syntax for FFI declarations (deprecated since 5.04)
 305           is no longer accepted.
 306         </para>
 307       </listitem>
 308       <listitem>
 309         <para>
 310           The <option>-split-objs</option> flag can now be used with
 311           <option>--make</option>, and hence can be used by cabal.
 312         </para>
 313       </listitem>
 314       <listitem>
 315         <para>
 316           Template Haskell used to have limited support for type signatures in
 317           patterns, but since that design is in flux for Haskell (let alone
 318           Template Haskell), we've removed type signatures in patterns from
 319           Template Haskell.
 320         </para>
 321       </listitem>
 322     </itemizedlist>
 323   </sect2>
 324
 325   <sect2>
 326     <title>GHCi changes</title>
 327
 328     <itemizedlist>
 329       <listitem>
 330         <para>
 331           GHCi now allows tab completion of in-scope names and modules
 332           on platforms that use readline (i.e. not Windows).
 333         </para>
 334       </listitem>
 335       <listitem>
 336         <para>
 337           GHCi now has a <literal>:main</literal> command that allows
 338           you to call the <literal>main</literal> function with
 339           command-line arguments.
 340           See <xref linkend="ghci-commands" /> for more information.
 341         </para>
 342       </listitem>
 343       <listitem>
 344         <para>
 345           GHCi now has <literal>:ctags</literal> and
 346           <literal>:etags</literal> commands to generate tags files for
 347           vi-style and emacs-style editors respectively.
 348           See <xref linkend="ghci-commands" /> for more information.
 349         </para>
 350       </listitem>
 351     </itemizedlist>
 352   </sect2>
 353
 354   <sect2>
 355     <title>Libraries</title>
 356     <para>
 357       Libraries are now divided into core libraries (those that are
 358       necessary to build GHC) and extra libraries. Decoupling the extra
 359       libraries means that they can release independently of GHC
 360       releases, and makes development builds of GHC quicker as they no
 361       longer need to build unnecessary libraries.
 362     </para>
 363
 364     <para>
 365       The hslibs libraries have finally been removed.
 366     </para>
 367   </sect2>
 368
 369   <sect2>
 370     <title>Core Libraries</title>
 371     <sect3>
 372       <title>base</title>
 373       <itemizedlist>
 374         <listitem>
 375           <para>
 376             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
 377           </para>
 378         </listitem>
 379         <listitem>
 380           <para>
 381             We now have <literal>Read</literal> and
 382             <literal>Show</literal> instances for up to 15-tuples (used
 383             to be up to 5-tuples).
 384           </para>
 385         </listitem>
 386         <listitem>
 387           <para>
 388             New module <literal>Control.Applicative</literal> that
 389             describes a structure intermediate between a functor and
 390             a monad: it provides pure expressions and sequencing, but
 391             no binding.
 392           </para>
 393         </listitem>
 394         <listitem>
 395           <para>
 396             <literal>Control.Exception</literal> now exports
 397             <literal>bracketOnError</literal>, which behaves like
 398             <literal>bracket</literal> but only runs the final
 399             action if the main action raised an error.
 400           </para>
 401         </listitem>
 402         <listitem>
 403           <para>
 404             There is a new module
 405             <literal>Control.Monad.Instances</literal> which
 406             provides <literal>Monad</literal> and
 407             <literal>Functor</literal> instances for
 408             <literal>((->) r)</literal> (were in
 409             <literal>mtl</literal>'s
 410             <literal>Control.Monad.Reader</literal>),
 411             a <literal>Functor</literal> instance for
 412             <literal>(Either a)</literal> (was in <literal>mtl</literal>'s
 413             <literal>Control.Monad.Error</literal>) and a
 414             <literal>Functor</literal> instance for
 415             <literal>((,) a)</literal> (new).
 416           </para>
 417         </listitem>
 418         <listitem>
 419           <para>
 420             The <literal>MonadFix</literal> instance for
 421             <literal>((->) r)</literal> is now in
 422             <literal>Control.Monad.Fix</literal> (was in
 423             <literal>mtl</literal>'s
 424             <literal>Control.Monad.Reader</literal>).
 425           </para>
 426         </listitem>
 427         <listitem>
 428           <para>
 429             <literal>Control.Monad.ST</literal> now exports
 430             <literal>unsafeSTToIO</literal>.
 431           </para>
 432         </listitem>
 433         <listitem>
 434           <para>
 435             The <literal>HasBounds</literal> class has been removed from
 436             <literal>Data.Array.Base</literal>, and its
 437             <literal>bounds</literal> method is now in the
 438             <literal>IArray</literal> class. The
 439             <literal>MArray</literal> class
 440             has also gained a method <literal>getBounds</literal>.
 441           </para>
 442         </listitem>
 443         <listitem>
 444           <para>
 445             <literal>Data.Array.Base</literal> now provides an
 446             <literal>MArray (STArray s) e (Lazy.ST s)</literal>
 447             instance.
 448           </para>
 449         </listitem>
 450         <listitem>
 451           <para>
 452             <literal>Data.Array.Storable</literal> now exports a
 453             function <literal>unsafeForeignPtrToStorableArray</literal>.
 454           </para>
 455         </listitem>
 456         <listitem>
 457           <para>
 458             The new <literal>Data.ByteString</literal> hierarchy
 459             provides time and space-efficient byte vectors.
 460             The old <literal>Data.PackedString</literal> module is now
 461             deprecated as a result, although there is not yet a
 462             replacement if you need full unicode support.
 463           </para>
 464         </listitem>
 465         <listitem>
 466           <para>
 467             <literal>GHC.Exts</literal> now provides a function
 468             <literal>inline</literal> which, provided the RHS is visible
 469             to the compiler, forcibly inlines its argument.
 470             Otherwise, it acts like <literal>id</literal>.
 471           </para>
 472         </listitem>
 473         <listitem>
 474           <para>
 475             <literal>GHC.Exts</literal> now provides a function
 476             <literal>lazy</literal> which forces GHC to think that its
 477             argument is lazy in its first argument.
 478           </para>
 479         </listitem>
 480         <listitem>
 481           <para>
 482             <literal>Data.FiniteMap</literal> has been removed
 483             (deprecated since 6.4). Use <literal>Data.Map</literal>
 484             instead.
 485           </para>
 486         </listitem>
 487         <listitem>
 488           <para>
 489             <literal>Data.Char</literal> now exports
 490             <literal>isLetter</literal>,
 491             <literal>isMark</literal>,
 492             <literal>isNumber</literal>,
 493             <literal>isPunctuation</literal>,
 494             <literal>isSymbol</literal>,
 495             <literal>isSeparator</literal>,
 496             <literal>isAsciiUpper</literal>,
 497             <literal>isAsciiLower</literal> and
 498             <literal>toTitle</literal>.
 499             It also exports a function
 500             <literal>generalCategory</literal> that tells you the
 501             category of a character in terms of a datatype
 502             <literal>GeneralCategory</literal>.
 503           </para>
 504         </listitem>
 505         <listitem>
 506           <para>
 507             <literal>Data.Dynamic</literal> now exports a function
 508             <literal>dynTypeRep</literal>.
 509           </para>
 510         </listitem>
 511         <listitem>
 512           <para>
 513             There is a new module <literal>Data.Eq</literal> which
 514             just exports the <literal>Eq</literal> class.
 515             Likewise, a new module <literal>Data.Ord</literal>
 516             exports the <literal>Ord</literal> class, as well as the
 517             handy <literal>comparing</literal> function.
 518           </para>
 519         </listitem>
 520         <listitem>
 521           <para>
 522             There is a new module <literal>Data.Fixed</literal>
 523             providing fixed-precision arithmetic.
 524           </para>
 525         </listitem>
 526         <listitem>
 527           <para>
 528             There is a new module <literal>Data.Foldable</literal>
 529             providing a class for foldable datatypes. It gives instances
 530             for <literal>Maybe</literal>, <literal>[]</literal> and
 531             <literal>Array i</literal>.
 532           </para>
 533         </listitem>
 534         <listitem>
 535           <para>
 536             There is a new module <literal>Data.Traversable</literal>
 537             providing a class for data structures that can be traversed
 538             from left to right. It gives instances
 539             for <literal>Maybe</literal>, <literal>[]</literal> and
 540             <literal>Array i</literal>.
 541           </para>
 542         </listitem>
 543         <listitem>
 544           <para>
 545             <literal>Data.FunctorM</literal> has been deprecated;
 546             use <literal>Data.Foldable</literal> and
 547             <literal>Data.Traversable</literal> instead.
 548           </para>
 549         </listitem>
 550         <listitem>
 551           <para>
 552             The <literal>toConstr</literal> definitions for tuples in
 553             <literal>Data.Generics.Instances</literal> now actually
 554             evaluate their arguments to tuples before returning
 555             anything.
 556           </para>
 557         </listitem>
 558         <listitem>
 559           <para>
 560             <literal>Data.IntMap</literal> now exports
 561             <literal>notMember</literal>,
 562             <literal>alter</literal>,
 563             <literal>mapMaybe</literal>,
 564             <literal>mapMaybeWithKey</literal>,
 565             <literal>mapEither</literal> and
 566             <literal>mapEitherWithKey</literal>.
 567             It also has <literal>Monoid</literal>,
 568             <literal>Foldable</literal> and <literal>Read</literal>
 569             instances.
 570           </para>
 571         </listitem>
 572         <listitem>
 573           <para>
 574             <literal>Data.IntSet</literal> now exports
 575             <literal>notMember</literal>. It also has
 576             <literal>Monoid</literal> and <literal>Read</literal>
 577             instances.
 578           </para>
 579         </listitem>
 580         <listitem>
 581           <para>
 582             <literal>Data.Map</literal> now exports
 583             <literal>notMember</literal>,
 584             <literal>alter</literal>,
 585             <literal>mapMaybe</literal>,
 586             <literal>mapMaybeWithKey</literal>,
 587             <literal>mapEither</literal>,
 588             <literal>mapEitherWithKey</literal>,
 589             <literal>minView</literal> and
 590             <literal>maxView</literal>.
 591             It also has <literal>Monoid</literal>,
 592             <literal>Traversable</literal>, <literal>Foldable</literal>
 593             and <literal>Read</literal> instances.
 594           </para>
 595         </listitem>
 596         <listitem>
 597           <para>
 598             <literal>Data.Set</literal> now exports
 599             <literal>notMember</literal>,
 600             <literal>minView</literal> and
 601             <literal>maxView</literal>.
 602             It also has <literal>Monoid</literal>,
 603             <literal>Foldable</literal>
 604             and <literal>Read</literal> instances.
 605           </para>
 606
 607           <para>
 608             The old, deprecated (since 6.4) interface consisting of
 609             <literal>emptySet</literal>,
 610             <literal>mkSet</literal>,
 611             <literal>setToList</literal>,
 612             <literal>unitSet</literal>,
 613             <literal>elementOf</literal>,
 614             <literal>isEmptySet</literal>,
 615             <literal>cardinality</literal>,
 616             <literal>unionManySets</literal>,
 617             <literal>minusSet</literal>,
 618             <literal>mapSet</literal>,
 619             <literal>intersect</literal>,
 620             <literal>addToSet</literal> and
 621             <literal>delFromSet</literal> has been removed.
 622           </para>
 623         </listitem>
 624         <listitem>
 625           <para>
 626             <literal>Data.Monoid</literal> no longer contains the
 627             <literal>Monoid</literal>
 628             instances for <literal>Map</literal>,
 629             <literal>IntMap</literal>, <literal>Set</literal> and
 630             <literal>IntSet</literal>. They have been moved to their own
 631             modules, as above. The <literal>(a -> a)</literal> instance
 632             has been replaced with a
 633             <literal>Monoid b => Monoid (a -> b)</literal> instance.
 634             The module also now exports
 635             <literal>Dual</literal>,
 636             <literal>Endo</literal>,
 637             <literal>All</literal>,
 638             <literal>Any</literal>,
 639             <literal>Sum</literal> and
 640             <literal>Product</literal> types, and
 641             <literal>Monoid</literal> instances for them.
 642           </para>
 643         </listitem>
 644         <listitem>
 645           <para>
 646             There is a new module <literal>Data.Sequence</literal>
 647             for finite sequences. The <literal>Data.Queue</literal>
 648             module is now deprecated in favour of this faster, more
 649             featureful replacement.
 650           </para>
 651         </listitem>
 652         <listitem>
 653           <para>
 654             <literal>Data.Tree</literal> now has
 655             <literal>Data</literal>, <literal>Typeable</literal>,
 656             <literal>Traversable</literal> and
 657             <literal>Foldable</literal>
 658             instances for the
 659             <literal>Tree</literal> datatype.
 660           </para>
 661         </listitem>
 662         <listitem>
 663           <para>
 664             <literal>Data.Typeable</literal> now uses
 665             <option>-fallow-overlapping-instances</option>, so the
 666             generic instances can be overriden for your own datatypes.
 667           </para>
 668         </listitem>
 669         <listitem>
 670           <para>
 671             <literal>Debug.Trace</literal> now exports
 672             <literal>traceShow</literal>, which is the same as
 673             <literal>trace</literal> except its first argument can be
 674             any showable thing rather than being required to be a
 675             string.
 676           </para>
 677         </listitem>
 678         <listitem>
 679           <para>
 680             <literal>Foreign.C.Types</literal> now also defines
 681             <literal>CIntPtr</literal>,
 682             <literal>CUIntPtr</literal>,
 683             <literal>CIntMax</literal> and
 684             <literal>CUIntMax</literal>.
 685           </para>
 686         </listitem>
 687         <listitem>
 688           <para>
 689             <literal>Foreign.ForeignPtr</literal> now exports
 690             <literal>FinalizerEnvPtr</literal>,
 691             <literal>newForeignPtrEnv</literal> and
 692             <literal>addForeignPtrFinalizerEnv</literal>.
 693             Together, these allow the use of finalizers which are passed
 694             an additional environment parameter.
 695           </para>
 696         </listitem>
 697         <listitem>
 698           <para>
 699             <literal>Foreign.Marshal.Utils</literal> no longer exports
 700             the <literal>withObject</literal> function, deprecated since
 701             5.04; use <literal>with</literal> instead.
 702           </para>
 703         </listitem>
 704         <listitem>
 705           <para>
 706             Foreign.Ptr now also defines
 707             <literal>IntPtr</literal>,
 708             <literal>ptrToIntPtr</literal>,
 709             <literal>intPtrToPtr</literal>,
 710             <literal>WordPtr</literal>,
 711             <literal>ptrToWordPtr</literal> and
 712             <literal>wordPtrToPtr</literal>.
 713           </para>
 714         </listitem>
 715         <listitem>
 716           <para>
 717             There are now <literal>Bounded</literal> instances for up to
 718             15-tuples (used to be up to 4-tuples).
 719           </para>
 720         </listitem>
 721         <listitem>
 722           <para>
 723             The <literal>Text.Html</literal> and
 724             <literal>Text.Html.BlockTable</literal> modules have now
 725             been removed, with the new <literal>html</literal> and
 726             <literal>xhtml</literal> packages providing replacements.
 727           </para>
 728         </listitem>
 729         <listitem>
 730           <para>
 731             <literal>Text.Read</literal> now exports a function
 732             <literal>parens</literal> which parses a value in an
 733             arbitrary number of parentheses.
 734           </para>
 735         </listitem>
 736         <listitem>
 737           <para>
 738             The <literal>ForeignPtr</literal> datatype has been altered
 739             to make it more efficient. There are also new functions
 740             <literal>mallocPlainForeignPtr</literal> and
 741             <literal>mallocPlainForeignPtrBytes</literal> which
 742             do not allow you to attach a finalizer to the
 743             <literal>ForeignPtr</literal>.
 744           </para>
 745         </listitem>
 746         <listitem>
 747           <para>
 748             The <literal>Text.Regex</literal> and
 749             <literal>Text.Regex.Posix</literal> modules have been removed.
 750             Instead, use the new <literal>regex-compat</literal> package
 751             for a drop-in <literal>Text.Regex</literal> replacement, or
 752             the new library in the new <literal>regex-posix</literal>
 753             package.
 754           </para>
 755         </listitem>
 756       </itemizedlist>
 757     </sect3>
 758
 759     <sect3>
 760       <title>Cabal</title>
 761       <itemizedlist>
 762         <listitem>
 763           <para>
 764             Version number 1.1.5 (was 1.1.4).
 765           </para>
 766         </listitem>
 767         <listitem>
 768           <para>
 769             Support for JHC, symmetric to the support for the other
 770             implementations, has been added throughout.
 771           </para>
 772         </listitem>
 773         <listitem>
 774           <para>
 775             Support for object splitting and building in-place
 776             has been added throughout.
 777           </para>
 778         </listitem>
 779         <listitem>
 780           <para>
 781             Added a <filename>debianTemplate</filename> directory with
 782             templates for building Debian packages from Cabal packages.
 783           </para>
 784         </listitem>
 785         <listitem>
 786           <para>
 787             Added <filename>cabal-setup</filename>, a user interface to
 788             building and installing Cabal packages.
 789           </para>
 790         </listitem>
 791         <listitem>
 792           <para>
 793             Added <filename>cabal-install</filename>, an automated
 794             installer for cabal packages.
 795           </para>
 796         </listitem>
 797         <listitem>
 798           <para>
 799             There is now a <literal>Network.Hackage</literal> hierarchy
 800             for code needed by hackage, the package server.
 801           </para>
 802         </listitem>
 803         <listitem>
 804           <para>
 805             There are now modules
 806             <literal>Distribution.Simple.<replaceable>compiler</replaceable></literal>
 807             for each of <literal>GHC</literal>, <literal>NHC</literal>,
 808             <literal>Hugs</literal> and <literal>JHC</literal>.
 809             The <literal>Distribution.Simple.Build</literal> and
 810             <literal>Distribution.Simple.Install</literal> modules have
 811             shrunk correspondingly.
 812           </para>
 813         </listitem>
 814         <listitem>
 815           <para>
 816             <literal>Distribution.GetOpt</literal> is no longer a
 817             visible module.
 818           </para>
 819         </listitem>
 820         <listitem>
 821           <para>
 822             <literal>Distribution.Simple</literal> exports a function
 823             <literal>defaultMainArgs</literal>, which is identical to
 824             <literal>defaultMain</literal> except that the arguments are
 825             given as a list of strings rather than being retrieved with
 826             <literal>getArgs</literal>.
 827           </para>
 828         </listitem>
 829         <listitem>
 830           <para>
 831             <literal>Distribution.Simple.Configure</literal>
 832             no longer exports
 833             <literal>LocalBuildInfo</literal>,
 834             but does now export
 835             <literal>configDependency</literal> and
 836             <literal>configCompilerAux</literal>.
 837           </para>
 838         </listitem>
 839         <listitem>
 840           <para>
 841             <literal>Distribution.Simple.LocalBuildInfo</literal> now
 842             exports <literal>mkHaddockDir</literal>,
 843             <literal>distPref</literal>,
 844             <literal>srcPref</literal>,
 845             <literal>autogenModulesDir</literal> and
 846             <literal>mkIncludeDir</literal>.
 847           </para>
 848         </listitem>
 849         <listitem>
 850           <para>
 851             <literal>Distribution.PackageDescription</literal> now
 852             exports <literal>haddockName</literal>.
 853           </para>
 854         </listitem>
 855         <listitem>
 856           <para>
 857             <literal>Distribution.Simple.Utils</literal> now exports
 858             <literal>copyDirectoryRecursiveVerbose</literal>,
 859             <literal>dirOf</literal>,
 860             <literal>distPref</literal>,
 861             <literal>haddockPref</literal> and
 862             <literal>srcPref</literal>.
 863             It no longer exports <literal>mkGHCiLibName</literal>.
 864           </para>
 865         </listitem>
 866       </itemizedlist>
 867     </sect3>
 868
 869     <sect3>
 870       <title>haskell98</title>
 871       <itemizedlist>
 872         <listitem>
 873           <para>
 874             No change (version 1.0).
 875           </para>
 876         </listitem>
 877       </itemizedlist>
 878     </sect3>
 879
 880     <sect3>
 881       <title>parsec</title>
 882       <itemizedlist>
 883         <listitem>
 884           <para>
 885             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
 886           </para>
 887         </listitem>
 888         <listitem>
 889           <para>
 890             No other change.
 891           </para>
 892         </listitem>
 893       </itemizedlist>
 894     </sect3>
 895
 896     <sect3>
 897       <title>readline</title>
 898       <itemizedlist>
 899         <listitem>
 900           <para>
 901             No change (version 1.0).
 902           </para>
 903         </listitem>
 904       </itemizedlist>
 905     </sect3>
 906
 907     <sect3>
 908       <title>regex-base</title>
 909       <itemizedlist>
 910         <listitem>
 911           <para>
 912             Version 0.71.
 913           </para>
 914         </listitem>
 915         <listitem>
 916           <para>
 917             New library that provides common functions for different
 918             regex backends.
 919           </para>
 920         </listitem>
 921       </itemizedlist>
 922     </sect3>
 923
 924     <sect3>
 925       <title>regex-compat</title>
 926       <itemizedlist>
 927         <listitem>
 928           <para>
 929             Version 0.71.
 930           </para>
 931         </listitem>
 932         <listitem>
 933           <para>
 934             New package providing a replacement
 935             <literal>Text.Regex</literal> module.
 936           </para>
 937         </listitem>
 938       </itemizedlist>
 939     </sect3>
 940
 941     <sect3>
 942       <title>regex-posix</title>
 943       <itemizedlist>
 944         <listitem>
 945           <para>
 946             Version 0.71.
 947           </para>
 948         </listitem>
 949         <listitem>
 950           <para>
 951             A new package providing POSIX regexes.
 952           </para>
 953         </listitem>
 954       </itemizedlist>
 955     </sect3>
 956
 957     <sect3>
 958       <title>stm</title>
 959       <itemizedlist>
 960         <listitem>
 961           <para>
 962             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
 963           </para>
 964         </listitem>
 965         <listitem>
 966           <para>
 967             A new module <literal>Control.Monad.STM</literal>
 968             contains the
 969             <literal>MonadPlus</literal> instance for
 970             <literal>STM</literal> and the function
 971             <literal>check</literal> (both used to be in
 972             <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM</literal>).
 973             It also re-exports
 974             <literal>STM</literal>,
 975             <literal>atomically</literal>,
 976             <literal>retry</literal>,
 977             <literal>orElse</literal> and
 978             <literal>catchSTM</literal>.
 979           </para>
 980         </listitem>
 981         <listitem>
 982           <para>
 983             A new module
 984             <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM.TArray</literal> defines
 985             <literal>TArray</literal>, a transactional array, and makes
 986             it an instance of <literal>MArray</literal>.
 987           </para>
 988         </listitem>
 989         <listitem>
 990           <para>
 991             <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan</literal> now provides
 992             a function <literal>newTChanIO</literal>, which allows
 993             <literal>TChan</literal>s to be created in the IO monad.
 994             Similarly, <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM.TMVar</literal>
 995             provides <literal>newTMVarIO</literal> and
 996             <literal>newEmptyTMVarIO</literal>, and
 997             <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar</literal> exports
 998             <literal>newTVarIO</literal>.
 999           </para>
1000         </listitem>
1001         <listitem>
1002           <para>
1003             <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM.TVar</literal> exports
1004             <literal>registerDelay</literal>.
1005           </para>
1006         </listitem>
1007         <listitem>
1008           <para>
1009             The <literal>Control.Concurrent.STM</literal> module has been
1010             updated to re-export all the new modules.
1011           </para>
1012         </listitem>
1013       </itemizedlist>
1014     </sect3>
1015
1016     <sect3>
1017       <title>template-haskell</title>
1018       <itemizedlist>
1019         <listitem>
1020           <para>
1021             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
1022           </para>
1023         </listitem>
1024         <listitem>
1025           <para>
1026             A <literal>Show</literal> instance is now derived for
1027             <literal>Info</literal>, <literal>Fixity</literal> and
1028             <literal>FixityDirection</literal> in
1029             <literal>Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax</literal>.
1030           </para>
1031         </listitem>
1032         <listitem>
1033           <para>
1034             In <literal>Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax</literal>, there is
1035             a type <literal>PkgName</literal> and functions
1036             <literal>mkPkgName</literal> and
1037             <literal>pkgString</literal>
1038             for dealing with package names.
1039           </para>
1040         </listitem>
1041         <listitem>
1042           <para>
1043             The <literal>patGE</literal> function in
1044             <literal>Language.Haskell.TH.Lib</literal> now takes the
1045             final expression separately to the list of statements
1046             rather than splitting it off itself.
1047           </para>
1048         </listitem>
1049       </itemizedlist>
1050     </sect3>
1051
1052     <sect3>
1053       <title>unix</title>
1054       <itemizedlist>
1055         <listitem>
1056           <para>
1057             No change (version 1.0).
1058           </para>
1059         </listitem>
1060       </itemizedlist>
1061     </sect3>
1062
1063     <sect3>
1064       <title>Win32</title>
1065       <itemizedlist>
1066         <listitem>
1067           <para>
1068             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
1069           </para>
1070         </listitem>
1071         <listitem>
1072           <para>
1073             Now maintained by Esa Ilari Vuokko.
1074           </para>
1075         </listitem>
1076         <listitem>
1077           <para>
1078             There is a new module
1079             <literal>System.Win32.Console</literal>
1080             providing an interface to the Windows Console API.
1081           </para>
1082         </listitem>
1083         <listitem>
1084           <para>
1085             There is a new module
1086             <literal>System.Win32.DebugApi</literal>
1087             providing an interface to the Windows DebugApi.
1088           </para>
1089         </listitem>
1090         <listitem>
1091           <para>
1092             There is a new module
1093             <literal>System.Win32.FileMapping</literal>
1094             for working with memory-mapped files.
1095           </para>
1096         </listitem>
1097         <listitem>
1098           <para>
1099             There is a new module
1100             <literal>System.Win32.SimpleMAPI</literal>
1101             for using the Windows mail API.
1102           </para>
1103         </listitem>
1104         <listitem>
1105           <para>
1106             There is a new module
1107             <literal>System.Win32.Time</literal>
1108             for using the Windows time API.
1109           </para>
1110         </listitem>
1111         <listitem>
1112           <para>
1113             <literal>iNVALID_HANDLE_VALUE</literal> has moved from
1114             <literal>Graphics.Win32.Misc</literal> to
1115             <literal>System.Win32.Types</literal>.
1116           </para>
1117         </listitem>
1118         <listitem>
1119           <para>
1120             <literal>System.Win32.File</literal> has a new
1121             function <literal>getFileInformationByHandle</literal>
1122             and associated data types.
1123           </para>
1124         </listitem>
1125         <listitem>
1126           <para>
1127             <literal>System.Win32.Info</literal> has a new
1128             function <literal>getSystemInfo</literal> and associated
1129             data types.
1130           </para>
1131         </listitem>
1132         <listitem>
1133           <para>
1134             <literal>System.Win32.Process</literal> now has many more
1135             exports.
1136           </para>
1137         </listitem>
1138         <listitem>
1139           <para>
1140             <literal>System.Win32.Types</literal> has new types
1141             <literal>LARGE_INTEGER</literal>, <literal>DDWORD</literal>
1142             and <literal>SIZE_T</literal>. It also has new helper
1143             functions <literal>ddwordToDwords</literal> and
1144             <literal>dwordsToDdword</literal> to split and combine
1145             ddwords into high and low components.
1146           </para>
1147         </listitem>
1148         <listitem>
1149           <para>
1150             <literal>System.Win32</literal> re-exports
1151             <literal>System.Win32.FileMapping</literal>,
1152             <literal>System.Win32.Time</literal>
1153             and <literal>System.Win32.Console</literal>.
1154           </para>
1155         </listitem>
1156       </itemizedlist>
1157     </sect3>
1158   </sect2>
1159
1160   <sect2>
1161     <title>Extra Libraries</title>
1162     <sect3>
1163       <title>ALUT</title>
1164       <itemizedlist>
1165         <listitem>
1166           <para>
1167             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
1168           </para>
1169         </listitem>
1170         <listitem>
1171           <para>
1172             <literal>Sound.ALUT.BuiltInSounds</literal> has been removed.
1173             Its <literal>Phase</literal> and <literal>Duration</literal>
1174             exports are now exported by
1175             <literal>Sound.ALUT.Loaders</literal> and its
1176             <literal>helloWorld</literal>,
1177             <literal>sine</literal>,
1178             <literal>square</literal>,
1179             <literal>sawtooth</literal>,
1180             <literal>impulse</literal> and
1181             <literal>whiteNoise</literal>
1182             exports are now constructors of the
1183             <literal>Sound.ALUT.Loaders.SoundDataSource</literal>
1184             datatype.
1185           </para>
1186         </listitem>
1187       </itemizedlist>
1188     </sect3>
1189
1190     <sect3>
1191       <title>arrows</title>
1192       <itemizedlist>
1193         <listitem>
1194           <para>
1195             Version number 0.2 (was 0.1).
1196           </para>
1197         </listitem>
1198         <listitem>
1199           <para>
1200             <literal>Control.Sequence</literal> has been removed in
1201             favour of the new <literal>Control.Applicative</literal>
1202             module in <literal>base</literal>.
1203           </para>
1204         </listitem>
1205       </itemizedlist>
1206     </sect3>
1207
1208     <sect3>
1209       <title>cgi</title>
1210       <itemizedlist>
1211         <listitem>
1212           <para>
1213             Version 2006.8.14.
1214           </para>
1215         </listitem>
1216         <listitem>
1217           <para>
1218             <literal>cgi</literal> is a new package, developing on
1219             what used to be <literal>Network.CGI</literal> in the
1220             <literal>network</literal> package.
1221           </para>
1222         </listitem>
1223       </itemizedlist>
1224     </sect3>
1225
1226     <sect3>
1227       <title>fgl</title>
1228       <itemizedlist>
1229         <listitem>
1230           <para>
1231             Version number 5.3 (was 5.2).
1232           </para>
1233         </listitem>
1234         <listitem>
1235           <para>
1236             <literal>Data.Graph.Inductive.Graph</literal> no longer
1237             exports <literal>UContext</literal>.
1238           </para>
1239         </listitem>
1240         <listitem>
1241           <para>
1242             <literal>Data.Graph.Inductive.Graph</literal> now exports
1243             <literal>delLEdge</literal>.
1244           </para>
1245         </listitem>
1246       </itemizedlist>
1247     </sect3>
1248
1249     <sect3>
1250       <title>GLUT</title>
1251       <itemizedlist>
1252         <listitem>
1253           <para>
1254             Version number remains 2.0.
1255           </para>
1256         </listitem>
1257         <listitem>
1258           <para>
1259             In <literal>Graphics.UI.GLUT.Initialization</literal>,
1260             <literal>DisplayMode</literal> has a new constructor
1261             <literal>WithAuxBuffers</literal> and
1262             <literal>DisplayCapability</literal> has a new constructor
1263             <literal>DisplayAux</literal>. These represent freeglut-only
1264             features.
1265           </para>
1266         </listitem>
1267         <listitem>
1268           <para>
1269             There are new examples in
1270             <filename>BOGLGP/Chapter03/OnYourOwn1.hs</filename>,
1271             <filename>RedBook/AAIndex.hs</filename>,
1272             <filename>RedBook/AARGB.hs</filename>,
1273             <filename>RedBook/AccAnti.hs</filename>,
1274             <filename>RedBook/AccPersp.hs</filename>,
1275             <filename>RedBook/Alpha3D.hs</filename>,
1276             <filename>RedBook/DOF.hs</filename>,
1277             <filename>RedBook/FogIndex.hs</filename>,
1278             <filename>RedBook/Multisamp.hs</filename>,
1279             <filename>RedBook/PointP.hs</filename>,
1280             <filename>RedBook/PolyOff.hs</filename>,
1281             <filename>RedBook/Stencil.hs</filename>,
1282             <filename>RedBook/Stroke.hs</filename> and
1283             <filename>RedBook/Torus.hs</filename>,
1284             and the examples in
1285             <filename>RedBook/Font.hs</filename> and
1286             <filename>RedBook/Histogram.hs</filename> have been
1287             improved.
1288           </para>
1289         </listitem>
1290       </itemizedlist>
1291     </sect3>
1292
1293     <sect3>
1294       <title>haskell-src</title>
1295       <itemizedlist>
1296         <listitem>
1297           <para>
1298             No change (version 1.0).
1299           </para>
1300         </listitem>
1301       </itemizedlist>
1302     </sect3>
1303
1304     <sect3>
1305       <title>HGL</title>
1306       <itemizedlist>
1307         <listitem>
1308           <para>
1309             No change (version 3.1).
1310           </para>
1311         </listitem>
1312       </itemizedlist>
1313     </sect3>
1314
1315     <sect3>
1316       <title>html</title>
1317       <itemizedlist>
1318         <listitem>
1319           <para>
1320             Version 1.0.
1321           </para>
1322         </listitem>
1323         <listitem>
1324           <para>
1325             <literal>html</literal> is a new package, developing on
1326             what used to be <literal>Text.Html</literal> and
1327             <literal>Text.Html.BlockTable</literal> in the
1328             <literal>base</literal> package.
1329           </para>
1330         </listitem>
1331         <listitem>
1332           <para>
1333             <literal>Text.Html.BlockTable</literal> exports a new
1334             function <literal>empty</literal>.
1335           </para>
1336         </listitem>
1337       </itemizedlist>
1338     </sect3>
1339
1340     <sect3>
1341       <title>HUnit</title>
1342       <itemizedlist>
1343         <listitem>
1344           <para>
1345             No change (version 1.1).
1346           </para>
1347         </listitem>
1348       </itemizedlist>
1349     </sect3>
1350
1351     <sect3>
1352       <title>mtl</title>
1353       <itemizedlist>
1354         <listitem>
1355           <para>
1356             No change (version 1.0).
1357           </para>
1358         </listitem>
1359       </itemizedlist>
1360     </sect3>
1361
1362     <sect3>
1363       <title>network</title>
1364       <itemizedlist>
1365         <listitem>
1366           <para>
1367             Version number 2.0 (was 1.0).
1368           </para>
1369         </listitem>
1370         <listitem>
1371           <para>
1372             <literal>Network.CGI</literal> has been removed; use the
1373             <literal>cgi</literal> package instead.
1374           </para>
1375         </listitem>
1376         <listitem>
1377           <para>
1378             <literal>Network.BSD</literal> no longer exports
1379             <literal>symlink</literal> or <literal>readlink</literal>;
1380             use
1381             <literal>System.Posix.Files.createSymbolicLink</literal> and
1382             <literal>System.Posix.Files.readSymbolicLink</literal>
1383             instead.
1384           </para>
1385         </listitem>
1386         <listitem>
1387           <para>
1388             <literal>Network.BSD</literal> now exports
1389             <literal>defaultProtocol</literal>.
1390           </para>
1391         </listitem>
1392         <listitem>
1393           <para>
1394             <literal>Network.Socket.SocketStatus</literal> now has a
1395             constructor <literal>ConvertedToHandle</literal> for sockets
1396             that have been converted to handles.
1397           </para>
1398         </listitem>
1399         <listitem>
1400           <para>
1401             <literal>Network.Socket.Family</literal> now has the
1402             following additional constructors:
1403             <literal>AF_NETROM</literal>,
1404             <literal>AF_BRIDGE</literal>,
1405             <literal>AF_ATMPVC</literal>,
1406             <literal>AF_ROSE</literal>,
1407             <literal>AF_NETBEUI</literal>,
1408             <literal>AF_SECURITY</literal>,
1409             <literal>AF_PACKET</literal>,
1410             <literal>AF_ASH</literal>,
1411             <literal>AF_ECONET</literal>,
1412             <literal>AF_ATMSVC</literal>,
1413             <literal>AF_IRDA</literal>,
1414             <literal>AF_PPPOX</literal>,
1415             <literal>AF_WANPIPE</literal> and
1416             <literal>AF_BLUETOOTH</literal>.
1417           </para>
1418         </listitem>
1419         <listitem>
1420           <para>
1421             In <literal>Network.URI</literal>,
1422             <literal>parseabsoluteURI</literal> has been deprecated with
1423             a new function <literal>parseAbsoluteURI</literal> taking
1424             its place.
1425           </para>
1426         </listitem>
1427       </itemizedlist>
1428     </sect3>
1429
1430     <sect3>
1431       <title>ObjectIO</title>
1432       <itemizedlist>
1433         <listitem>
1434           <para>
1435             No change (version 1.0).
1436           </para>
1437         </listitem>
1438       </itemizedlist>
1439     </sect3>
1440
1441     <sect3>
1442       <title>OpenAL</title>
1443       <itemizedlist>
1444         <listitem>
1445           <para>
1446             Version number 1.3 (was 1.2).
1447           </para>
1448         </listitem>
1449         <listitem>
1450           <para>
1451             No other change.
1452           </para>
1453         </listitem>
1454       </itemizedlist>
1455     </sect3>
1456
1457     <sect3>
1458       <title>OpenGL</title>
1459       <itemizedlist>
1460         <listitem>
1461           <para>
1462             Version number 2.1 (was 2.0).
1463           </para>
1464         </listitem>
1465         <listitem>
1466           <para>
1467             No other change.
1468           </para>
1469         </listitem>
1470       </itemizedlist>
1471     </sect3>
1472
1473     <sect3>
1474       <title>QuickCheck</title>
1475       <itemizedlist>
1476         <listitem>
1477           <para>
1478             No change (version 1.0).
1479           </para>
1480         </listitem>
1481       </itemizedlist>
1482     </sect3>
1483
1484     <sect3>
1485       <title>time</title>
1486       <itemizedlist>
1487         <listitem>
1488           <para>
1489             Version 1.0.
1490           </para>
1491         </listitem>
1492         <listitem>
1493           <para>
1494             <literal>time</literal> is a new package, for dealing with
1495             dates, times and time intervals.
1496           </para>
1497         </listitem>
1498       </itemizedlist>
1499     </sect3>
1500
1501     <sect3>
1502       <title>X11</title>
1503       <itemizedlist>
1504         <listitem>
1505           <para>
1506             Version number 1.2 (was 1.1).
1507           </para>
1508         </listitem>
1509         <listitem>
1510           <para>
1511             In <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types</literal>,
1512             <literal>XGCValues</literal> has been renamed
1513             <literal>GCValues</literal> and
1514             <literal>XSetWindowAttributes</literal> has been renamed
1515             <literal>SetWindowAttributes</literal>.
1516           </para>
1517         </listitem>
1518         <listitem>
1519           <para>
1520             In <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Misc</literal>,
1521             <literal>allocaXSetWindowAttributes</literal> has been
1522             renamed <literal>allocaSetWindowAttributes</literal>.
1523           </para>
1524         </listitem>
1525         <listitem>
1526           <para>
1527             The <literal>FontStruct</literal> type has moved from
1528             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types</literal> to
1529             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Font</literal>.
1530           </para>
1531         </listitem>
1532         <listitem>
1533           <para>
1534             The
1535             <literal>Point</literal>,
1536             <literal>Rectangle</literal>,
1537             <literal>Arc</literal>,
1538             <literal>Segment</literal> and
1539             <literal>Color</literal> types in
1540             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types</literal>
1541             are now proper datatypes rather than synonyms for tuples.
1542             They all have a <literal>Storable</literal> instance.
1543           </para>
1544         </listitem>
1545         <listitem>
1546           <para>
1547             The <literal>Byte</literal> and <literal>Short</literal>
1548             types from <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types</literal> have
1549             been removed.
1550             The following type synonyms, which had already been marked
1551             &quot;Backwards compatibility&quot;, have also been removed:
1552             <literal>ListPoint</literal>,
1553             <literal>ListRectangle</literal>,
1554             <literal>ListArc</literal>,
1555             <literal>ListSegment</literal> and
1556             <literal>ListColor</literal>.
1557           </para>
1558         </listitem>
1559         <listitem>
1560           <para>
1561             <literal>Eq</literal>,
1562             <literal>Ord</literal>,
1563             <literal>Show</literal>,
1564             <literal>Typeable</literal> and
1565             <literal>Data</literal> are now derived for:
1566             <literal>XEvent</literal>,
1567             <literal>FdSet</literal> and
1568             <literal>TimeZone</literal> in
1569             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Event</literal>,
1570             <literal>FontStruct</literal> in
1571             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Font</literal>,
1572             <literal>XErrorEvent</literal>,
1573             <literal>XComposeStatus</literal> and
1574             <literal>XTextProperty</literal> in
1575             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Misc</literal>,
1576             <literal>Region</literal> in
1577             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Region</literal>,
1578             <literal>Display</literal>,
1579             <literal>Screen</literal>,
1580             <literal>Visual</literal>,
1581             <literal>GC</literal>,
1582             <literal>GCValues</literal>,
1583             <literal>SetWindowAttributes</literal>,
1584             <literal>Point</literal>,
1585             <literal>Rectangle</literal>,
1586             <literal>Arc</literal>,
1587             <literal>Segment</literal> and
1588             <literal>Color</literal> in
1589             <literal>Graphics.X11.Xlib.Types</literal>.
1590           </para>
1591         </listitem>
1592       </itemizedlist>
1593     </sect3>
1594
1595     <sect3>
1596       <title>xhtml</title>
1597       <itemizedlist>
1598         <listitem>
1599           <para>
1600             Version 2006.8.14.
1601           </para>
1602         </listitem>
1603         <listitem>
1604           <para>
1605             <literal>xhtml</literal> is a new package, developing on
1606             what used to be <literal>Text.Html</literal> and
1607             <literal>Text.Html.BlockTable</literal> in the
1608             <literal>base</literal> package.
1609           </para>
1610         </listitem>
1611       </itemizedlist>
1612     </sect3>
1613   </sect2>
1614
1615   <sect2>
1616     <title>Internal changes</title>
1617     <itemizedlist>
1618       <listitem>
1619         <para>
1620           GHC development now has its own integrated
1621           <ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc">wiki and bug
1622           tracker</ulink>.
1623         </para>
1624       </listitem>
1625       <listitem>
1626         <para>
1627           GHC has now moved to darcs. See
1628           <ulink
1629           url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GhcDarcs">the
1630           wiki</ulink> for more details. The sources have moved around a
1631           bit within the tree as a result, most notably the GHC sources
1632           are no longer kept within a <filename>ghc/</filename>
1633           subdirectory.
1634         </para>
1635       </listitem>
1636       <listitem>
1637         <para>
1638           The native code generator is now capable of compiling loops,
1639           which gets us a big step closer to being able to compile
1640           entirely without gcc on well-supported arches.
1641         </para>
1642       </listitem>
1643     </itemizedlist>
1644   </sect2>
1645 </sect1>
1646