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.. _release-8-2-1:

Release notes for version 8.2.1
===============================

The significant changes to the various parts of the compiler are listed
in the following sections. There have also been numerous bug fixes and
performance improvements over the 8.0 branch.

Highlights
----------

The highlights since the 8.0 branch are:

- TODO FIXME
- SCC annotations can now be used for declarations.

Full details
------------

Language
~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

- Pattern synonym signatures can now be applied to multiple patterns, just like
  value-level binding signatures. See :ref:`patsyn-typing` for details.

Compiler
~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

- Old profiling flags ``-auto-all``, ``-auto``, and ``-caf-all`` are deprecated
  and their usage provokes a compile-time warning.

- Support for adding cost centres to declarations is added. The same `SCC`
  syntax can be used, in addition to a new form for specifying the cost centre
  name. See :ref:`scc-pragma` for examples.

GHCi
~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

Template Haskell
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

- ``addModFinalizer`` now exposes the local typing environment at the splice
  point. This allows ``reify`` to see local and top-level definitions in the
  current declaration group when used as in

  .. code-block:: none

      f x = $(addModFinalizer (reify 'x >>= runIO . print) >> [| x |])

-  Reifying types that contain unboxed tuples now works correctly. (Previously,
   Template Haskell reified unboxed tuples as boxed tuples with twice their
   appropriate arity.)

-  Splicing singleton unboxed tuple types (e.g., ``(# Int #)``) now works
   correctly. Previously, Template Haskell would implicitly remove the
   parentheses when splicing, which would turn ``(# Int #)`` into ``Int``.

Runtime system
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

- The :ref:`heap profiler <prof-heap>` can now emit heap census data to the GHC
  event log, allowing heap profiles to be correlated with other tracing events
  (see :ghc-ticket:`11094`).

Build system
~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

Package system
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

hsc2hs
~~~~~~

-  TODO FIXME.

Libraries
---------

array
~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.5.0.0)


.. _lib-base:

base
~~~~

See ``changelog.md`` in the ``base`` package for full release notes.

-  Version number 4.10.0.0 (was 4.9.0.0)

- ``Data.Either`` now provides ``fromLeft`` and ``fromRight``

- ``Data.Type.Coercion`` now provides ``gcoerceWith``, which is analogous to
  ``gcastWith`` from ``Data.Type.Equality``.

binary
~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.7.1.0)

bytestring
~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.10.4.0)

Cabal
~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.18.1.3)

containers
~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.5.4.0)

deepseq
~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.3.0.2)

directory
~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.2.0.2)

filepath
~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.3.0.2)

ghc
~~~

-  The ``GHC.initGhcMonad`` function no longer installs signal handlers by
   default. This means that the RTS won't attempt to handle Ctrl-C gracefully.
   If you would like to use GHC's signal handlers, call
   ``GHC.installSignalHandlers`` during initialization.

ghc-boot
~~~~~~~~

-  This is an internal package. Use with caution.

-  TODO FIXME.

ghc-prim
~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.3.1.0)

-  Added new ``isByteArrayPinned#`` and ``isMutableByteArrayPinned#`` operation.

-  New function ``noinline`` in ``GHC.Magic`` lets you mark that a function
   should not be inlined.  It is optimized away after the simplifier runs.

haskell98
~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 2.0.0.3)

haskell2010
~~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.1.1.1)

hoopl
~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 3.10.0.0)

hpc
~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.6.0.1)

integer-gmp
~~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 0.5.1.0)

old-locale
~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.0.0.6)

old-time
~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.1.0.2)

process
~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.2.0.0)

template-haskell
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 2.9.0.0)

-  Added support for unboxed sums :ghc-ticket:`12478`.

-  Added support for visible type applications :ghc-ticket:`12530`.

time
~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 1.4.1)

unix
~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 2.7.0.0)

Win32
~~~~~

-  Version number XXXXX (was 2.3.0.1)

Known bugs
----------

-  TODO FIXME