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@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ Template Haskell
eventlog events similar to ``traceBinaryEvent#`` but allows the user to pass
the event payload as a binary blob instead of a ``String``.
+- The ``StableName#`` type parameter now has a phantom role instead of
+ a representational one. There is really no reason to care about the
+ type of the underlying object.
+
``ghc`` library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -114,6 +118,10 @@ Template Haskell
- Support the characters from recent versions of Unicode (up to v. 12) in literals
(see :ghc-ticket:`5518`).
+- The ``StableName`` type parameter now has a phantom role instead of
+ a representational one. There is really no reason to care about the
+ type of the underlying object.
+
Build system
~~~~~~~~~~~~