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