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authorAustin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>2013-10-02 01:28:52 -0500
committerAustin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>2013-10-02 01:29:13 -0500
commit5af8ae596b1766b06130dbc8a0cac6604f13e88b (patch)
treec3bce95e318f339f97c8a6fc082e082a29b2a0ad
parentfd74014079f14bd3ab50e328e52c44ef97d40e05 (diff)
downloadhaskell-5af8ae596b1766b06130dbc8a0cac6604f13e88b.tar.gz
Release note updates.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>
-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml42
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index 09a250ae16..8488cc273a 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -418,6 +418,23 @@
in the future.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ GHC now persists annotations to interface files,
+ meaning they can be read by GHC API clients.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There is a new set of primops for utilizing
+ hardware-based prefetch instructions, to help
+ guide the processors caching decisions.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Currently, these are only supported with the LLVM
+ backend and x86/amd64 backends.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -462,7 +479,12 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- TODO FIXME
+ Template Haskell now supports Roles (TODO FIXME: elaborate?)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Template Haskell now supports annotation pragmas.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -681,7 +703,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
+ Version number 0.7.1.0 (was 0.5.1.1)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -692,7 +714,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
+ Version number 0.10.3.0 (was 0.10.0.0)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -703,7 +725,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
+ Version number 1.18.1 (was 1.16.0)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -857,6 +879,13 @@
Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Several bugs have been fixed, including deadlocks
+ in <literal>readProcess</literal> and
+ <literal>readProcessWithExitCode</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -879,6 +908,11 @@
Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There is now support for annotation pragmas.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>