-
Bundled with GHC 8.6.1
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The STM invariant-checking mechanism (always and alwaysSucceeds), which
was deprecated in GHC 8.4, has been removed (as proposed in
https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/blob/master/proposals/0011-deprecate-stm-invariants.rst).
This is a bit earlier than proposed in the deprecation pragma included in
GHC 8.4, but due to community feedback we decided to move ahead with the
early removal.
Existing users are encouraged to encapsulate their STM operations in safe
abstractions which can perform the invariant checking without help from the
runtime system.
-
Add a new module GHC.ResponseFile (previously defined in the haddock
package). (#13896)
-
Move the module Data.Functor.Contravariant from the
contravariant package to base.
-
($!) is now representation-polymorphic like ($).
-
Add Applicative (for K1), Semigroup and Monoid instances in
GHC.Generics. (#14849)
-
asinh for Float and Double is now numerically stable in the face of
non-small negative arguments and enormous arguments of either sign. (#14927)
Numeric.showEFloat (Just 0) and Numeric.showGFloat (Just 0)
now respect the user’s requested precision. (#15115)
-
Data.Monoid.Alt now has Foldable and Traversable instances. (#15099)
-
Data.Monoid.Ap has been introduced
-
Control.Exception.throw is now levity polymorphic. (#15180)
-
Data.Ord.Down now has a number of new instances. These include:
MonadFix, MonadZip, Data, Foldable, Traversable, Eq1, Ord1,
Read1, Show1, Generic, Generic1. (#15098)
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Bundled with GHC 8.4.1
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System.IO.openTempFile is now thread-safe on Windows.
-
Deprecated GHC.Stats.GCStats interface has been removed.
-
Add showHFloat to Numeric
-
Add Div, Mod, and Log2 functions on type-level naturals
in GHC.TypeLits.
-
Add Alternative instance for ZipList (#13520)
-
Add instances Num, Functor, Applicative, Monad, Semigroup
and Monoid for Data.Ord.Down (#13097).
-
Add Semigroup instance for EventLifetime.
-
Make Semigroup a superclass of Monoid;
export Semigroup((<>)) from Prelude; remove Monoid reexport
from Data.Semigroup (#14191).
-
Generalise instance Monoid a => Monoid (Maybe a) to
instance Semigroup a => Monoid (Maybe a).
-
Add infixl 9 !! declaration for Data.List.NonEmpty.!!
-
Add <&> operator to Data.Functor (#14029)
-
Remove the deprecated Typeable{1..7} type synonyms (#14047)
-
Make Data.Type.Equality.== a closed type family. It now works for all
kinds out of the box. Any modules that previously declared instances of this
family will need to remove them. Whereas the previous definition was somewhat
ad hoc, the behavior is now completely uniform. As a result, some applications
that used to reduce no longer do, and conversely. Most notably, (==) no
longer treats the *, j -> k, or () kinds specially; equality is
tested structurally in all cases.
-
Add instances Semigroup and Monoid for Control.Monad.ST (#14107).
-
The Read instances for Proxy, Coercion, (:~:), (:~~:), and U1
now ignore the parsing precedence. The effect of this is that read will
be able to successfully parse more strings containing "Proxy" et al.
without surrounding parentheses (e.g., "Thing Proxy") (#12874).
-
Add iterate', a strict version of iterate, to Data.List
and Data.OldList (#3474)
-
Add Data instances for IntPtr and WordPtr (#13115)
-
Add missing MonadFail instance for Control.Monad.Strict.ST.ST
-
Make zipWith and zipWith3 inlinable (#14224)
-
Type.Reflection.App now matches on function types (fixes #14236)
-
Type.Reflection.withTypeable is now polymorphic in the RuntimeRep of
its result.
-
Add installSEHHandlers to MiscFlags in GHC.RTS.Flags to determine if
exception handling is enabled.
-
The deprecated functions isEmptyChan and unGetChan in
Control.Concurrent.Chan have been removed (#13561).
-
Add generateCrashDumpFile to MiscFlags in GHC.RTS.Flags to determine
if a core dump will be generated on crashes.
-
Add generateStackTrace to MiscFlags in GHC.RTS.Flags to determine if
stack traces will be generated on unhandled exceptions by the RTS.
-
getExecutablePath now resolves symlinks on Windows (#14483)
-
Deprecated STM invariant checking primitives (checkInv, always, and
alwaysSucceeds) in GHC.Conc.Sync (#14324).
-
Add a FixIOException data type to Control.Exception.Base, and change
fixIO to throw that instead of a BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar exception
(#14356).
-
Bundled with GHC 8.2.1
-
Data.Type.Bool.Not given a type family dependency (#12057).
-
Foreign.Ptr now exports the constructors for IntPtr and WordPtr
(#11983)
-
Generic1, as well as the associated datatypes and typeclasses in
GHC.Generics, are now poly-kinded (#10604)
-
New modules Data.BifoldableandData.Bitraversable(previously defined in thebifunctors` package) (#10448)
-
Data.Either now provides fromLeft and fromRight (#12402)
-
Data.Type.Coercion now provides gcoerceWith (#12493)
-
New methods liftReadList(2) and liftReadListPrec(2) in the
Read1/Read2 classes that are defined in terms of ReadPrec instead of
ReadS, as well as related combinators, have been added to
Data.Functor.Classes (#12358)
-
Add Semigroup instance for IO, as well as for Event and Lifetime
from GHC.Event (#12464)
-
Add Data instance for Const (#12438)
-
Added Eq1, Ord1, Read1 and Show1 instances for NonEmpty.
-
Add wrappers for blksize_t, blkcnt_t, clockid_t, fsblkcnt_t,
fsfilcnt_t, id_t, key_t, and timer_t to System.Posix.Types (#12795)
-
Add CBool, a wrapper around C’s bool type, to Foreign.C.Types
(#13136)
-
Raw buffer operations in GHC.IO.FD are now strict in the buffer, offset, and length operations (#9696)
-
Add plusForeignPtr to Foreign.ForeignPtr.
-
Add type family AppendSymbol (m :: Symbol) (n :: Symbol) :: Symbol to GHC.TypeLits
(#12162)
-
Add GHC.TypeNats module with Natural-based KnownNat. The Nat
operations in GHC.TypeLits are a thin compatibility layer on top.
Note: the KnownNat evidence is changed from an Integer to a Natural.
-
The type of asProxyTypeOf in Data.Proxy has been generalized (#12805)
-
liftA2 is now a method of the Applicative class. liftA2 and
<*> each have a default implementation based on the other. Various
library functions have been updated to use liftA2 where it might offer
some benefit. liftA2 is not yet in the Prelude, and must currently be
imported from Control.Applicative. It is likely to be added to the
Prelude in the future. (#13191)
-
A new module, Type.Reflection, exposing GHC’s new type-indexed type
representation mechanism is now provided.
-
Data.Dynamic now exports the Dyn data constructor, enabled by the new
type-indexed type representation mechanism.
-
Data.Type.Equality now provides a kind heterogeneous type equality
evidence type, (:~~:).
-
The CostCentresXML constructor of GHC.RTS.Flags.DoCostCentres has been
replaced by CostCentresJSON due to the new JSON export format supported by
the cost centre profiler.
-
The ErrorCall pattern synonym has been given a COMPLETE pragma so that
functions which solely match again ErrorCall do not produce
non-exhaustive pattern-match warnings (#8779)
-
Change the implementations of maximumBy and minimumBy from
Data.Foldable to use foldl1 instead of foldr1. This makes them run
in constant space when applied to lists. (#10830)
-
mkFunTy, mkAppTy, and mkTyConApp from Data.Typeable no longer exist.
This functionality is superceded by the interfaces provided by
Type.Reflection.
-
mkTyCon3 is no longer exported by Data.Typeable. This function is
replaced by Type.Reflection.Unsafe.mkTyCon.
-
Data.List.NonEmpty.unfold has been deprecated in favor of unfoldr,
which is functionally equivalent.
-
Bundled with GHC 8.0
-
error and undefined now print a partial stack-trace alongside the error message.
-
New errorWithoutStackTrace function throws an error without printing the stack trace.
-
The restore operation provided by mask and uninterruptibleMask now
restores the previous masking state whatever the current masking state is.
-
New GHC.Generics.packageName operation
-
Redesigned GHC.Stack.CallStack data type. As a result, CallStack’s
Show instance produces different output, and CallStack no longer has an
Eq instance.
-
New GHC.Generics.packageName operation
-
New GHC.Stack.Types module now contains the definition of
CallStack and SrcLoc
-
New GHC.Stack.Types.emptyCallStack function builds an empty CallStack
-
New GHC.Stack.Types.freezeCallStack function freezes a CallStack preventing future pushCallStack operations from having any effect
-
New GHC.Stack.Types.pushCallStack function pushes a call-site onto a CallStack
-
New GHC.Stack.Types.fromCallSiteList function creates a CallStack from
a list of call-sites (i.e., [(String, SrcLoc)])
-
GHC.SrcLoc has been removed
-
GHC.Stack.showCallStack and GHC.SrcLoc.showSrcLoc are now called
GHC.Stack.prettyCallStack and GHC.Stack.prettySrcLoc respectively
-
add Data.List.NonEmpty and Data.Semigroup (to become
super-class of Monoid in the future). These modules were
provided by the semigroups package previously. (#10365)
-
Add selSourceUnpackedness, selSourceStrictness, and
selDecidedStrictness, three functions which look up strictness
information of a field in a data constructor, to the Selector type class
in GHC.Generics (#10716)
-
Add URec, UAddr, UChar, UDouble, UFloat, UInt, and UWord to
GHC.Generics as part of making GHC generics capable of handling
unlifted types (#10868)
-
The Eq, Ord, Read, and Show instances for U1 now use lazier
pattern-matching
-
Keep shift{L,R} on Integer with negative shift-arguments from
segfaulting (#10571)
-
Add forkOSWithUnmask to Control.Concurrent, which is like
forkIOWithUnmask, but the child is run in a bound thread.
-
The MINIMAL definition of Arrow is now arr AND (first OR (***)).
-
The MINIMAL definition of ArrowChoice is now left OR (+++).
-
Exported GiveGCStats, DoCostCentres, DoHeapProfile, DoTrace,
RtsTime, and RtsNat from GHC.RTS.Flags
-
New function GHC.IO.interruptible used to correctly implement
Control.Exception.allowInterrupt (#9516)
-
Made PatternMatchFail, RecSelError, RecConError, RecUpdError,
NoMethodError, and AssertionFailed newtypes (#10738)
-
New module Control.Monad.IO.Class (previously provided by transformers
package). (#10773)
-
New modules Data.Functor.Classes, Data.Functor.Compose,
Data.Functor.Product, and Data.Functor.Sum (previously provided by
transformers package). (#11135)
-
New instances for Proxy: Eq1, Ord1, Show1, Read1. All
of the classes are from Data.Functor.Classes (#11756).
-
New module Control.Monad.Fail providing new MonadFail(fail)
class (#10751)
-
Add GHC.TypeLits.TypeError and ErrorMessage to allow users
to define custom compile-time error messages.
-
Redesign GHC.Generics to use type-level literals to represent the
metadata of generic representation types (#9766)
-
The IsString instance for [Char] has been modified to eliminate
ambiguity arising from overloaded strings and functions like (++).
-
Move Const from Control.Applicative to its own module in
Data.Functor.Const. (#11135)
-
Re-export Const from Control.Applicative for backwards compatibility.
-
Expand Floating class to include operations that allow for better
precision: log1p, expm1, log1pexp and log1mexp. These are not
available from Prelude, but the full class is exported from Numeric.
-
New Control.Exception.TypeError datatype, which is thrown when an
expression fails to typecheck when run using -fdefer-type-errors (#10284)
-
The bitSize method of Data.Bits.Bits now has a (partial!)
default implementation based on bitSizeMaybe. (#12970)
-
Alt, Dual, First, Last, Product, and Sum now have Data,
MonadZip, and MonadFix instances
-
The datatypes in GHC.Generics now have Enum, Bounded, Ix,
Functor, Applicative, Monad, MonadFix, MonadPlus, MonadZip,
Foldable, Foldable, Traversable, Generic1, and Data instances
as appropriate.
-
Maybe now has a MonadZip instance
-
All and Any now have Data instances
-
Dual, First, Last, Product, and Sum now have Foldable and
Traversable instances
-
Dual, Product, and Sum now have Functor, Applicative, and
Monad instances
-
(,) a now has a Monad instance
-
ZipList now has Foldable and Traversable instances
-
Identity now has Semigroup and Monoid instances
-
Identity and Const now have Bits, Bounded, Enum, FiniteBits,
Floating, Fractional, Integral, IsString, Ix, Num, Real,
RealFloat, RealFrac and Storable instances. (#11210, #11790)
-
() now has a Storable instance
-
Complex now has Generic, Generic1, Functor, Foldable, Traversable,
Applicative, and Monad instances
-
System.Exit.ExitCode now has a Generic instance
-
Data.Version.Version now has a Generic instance
-
IO now has a Monoid instance
-
Add MonadPlus IO and Alternative IO instances
(previously orphans in transformers) (#10755)
-
CallStack now has an IsList instance
-
The field spInfoName of GHC.StaticPtr.StaticPtrInfo has been removed.
The value is no longer available when constructing the StaticPtr.
-
VecElem and VecCount now have Enum and Bounded instances.
-
Bundled with GHC 7.10.1
-
Make Applicative a superclass of Monad
-
Add reverse application operator Data.Function.(&)
-
Add Data.List.sortOn sorting function
-
Add System.Exit.die
-
Deprecate versionTags field of Data.Version.Version.
Add makeVersion :: [Int] -> Version constructor function to aid
migration to a future versionTags-less Version.
-
Add IsList Version instance
-
Weaken RealFloat constraints on some Data.Complex functions
-
Add Control.Monad.(<$!>) as a strict version of (<$>)
-
The Data.Monoid module now has the PolyKinds extension
enabled, so that the Monoid instance for Proxy are polykinded
like Proxy itself is.
-
Make abs and signum handle (-0.0) correctly per IEEE-754.
-
Re-export Data.Word.Word from Prelude
-
Add countLeadingZeros and countTrailingZeros methods to
Data.Bits.FiniteBits class
-
Add Data.List.uncons list destructor (#9550)
-
Export Monoid(..) from Prelude
-
Export Foldable(..) from Prelude
(hiding fold, foldl', foldr', and toList)
-
Export Traversable(..) from Prelude
-
Set fixity for Data.Foldable.{elem,notElem} to match the
conventional one set for Data.List.{elem,notElem} (#9610)
-
Turn toList, elem, sum, product, maximum, and minimum
into Foldable methods (#9621)
-
Replace the Data.List-exported functions
all, and, any, concat, concatMap, elem, find, product, sum,
mapAccumL, mapAccumR
by re-exports of their generalised Data.Foldable/Data.Traversable
counterparts. In other words, unqualified imports of Data.List
and Data.Foldable/Data.Traversable no longer lead to conflicting
definitions. (#9586)
-
New (unofficial) module GHC.OldList containing only list-specialised
versions of the functions from Data.List (in other words, GHC.OldList
corresponds to base-4.7.0.2’s Data.List)
-
Replace the Control.Monad-exported functions
sequence_, msum, mapM_, forM_,
forM, mapM, sequence
by re-exports of their generalised Data.Foldable/Data.Traversable
counterparts. In other words, unqualified imports of Control.Monad
and Data.Foldable/Data.Traversable no longer lead to conflicting
definitions. (#9586)
-
Generalise Control.Monad.{when,unless,guard} from Monad to
Applicative and from MonadPlus to Alternative respectively.
-
Generalise Control.Monad.{foldM,foldM_} to Foldable
-
scanr, mapAccumL and filterM now take part in list fusion (#9355,
#9502, #9546)
-
Remove deprecated Data.OldTypeable (#9639)
-
New module Data.Bifunctor providing the Bifunctor(bimap,first,second)
class (previously defined in bifunctors package) (#9682)
-
New module Data.Void providing the canonical uninhabited type Void
(previously defined in void package) (#9814)
-
Update Unicode class definitions to Unicode version 7.0
-
Add Alt, an Alternative wrapper, to Data.Monoid. (#9759)
-
Add isSubsequenceOf to Data.List (#9767)
-
The arguments to == and eq in Data.List.nub and Data.List.nubBy
are swapped, such that Data.List.nubBy (<) [1,2] now returns [1]
instead of [1,2] (#2528, #3280, #7913)
-
New module Data.Functor.Identity (previously provided by transformers
package). (#9664)
-
Add scanl', a strictly accumulating version of scanl, to Data.List
and Data.OldList. (#9368)
-
Add fillBytes to Foreign.Marshal.Utils.
-
Add new displayException method to Exception typeclass. (#9822)
-
Add Data.Bits.toIntegralSized, a size-checked version of
fromIntegral. (#9816)
-
New module Numeric.Natural providing new Natural type
representing non-negative arbitrary-precision integers. The GHC.Natural
module exposes additional GHC-specific primitives. (#9818)
-
Add (Storable a, Integeral a) => Storable (Ratio a) instance (#9826)
-
Add Storable a => Storable (Complex a) instance (#9826)
-
New module GHC.RTS.Flags that provides accessors to runtime flags.
-
Expose functions for per-thread allocation counters and limits in GHC.Conc
disableAllocationLimit :: IO ()
enableAllocationLimit :: IO ()
getAllocationCounter :: IO Int64
setAllocationCounter :: Int64 -> IO ()
together with a new exception AllocationLimitExceeded.
-
Make read . show = id for Data.Fixed (#9240)
-
Add calloc and callocBytes to Foreign.Marshal.Alloc. (#9859)
-
Add callocArray and callocArray0 to Foreign.Marshal.Array. (#9859)
-
Restore invariant in Data (Ratio a) instance (#10011)
-
Add/expose rnfTypeRep, rnfTyCon, typeRepFingerprint, and
tyConFingerprint helpers to Data.Typeable.
-
Define proper MINIMAL pragma for class Ix. (#10142)
-
Bundled with GHC 7.8.1
-
Add /Since: 4.[4567].0.0/ Haddock annotations to entities
denoting the package version, when the given entity was introduced
(or its type signature changed in a non-compatible way)
-
The Control.Category module now has the PolyKinds extension
enabled, meaning that instances of Category no longer need be of
kind * -> * -> *.
-
There are now Foldable and Traversable instances for Either a,
Const r, and (,) a.
-
There are now Show, Read, Eq, Ord, Monoid, Generic, and
Generic1 instances for Const.
-
There is now a Data instance for Data.Version.
-
A new Data.Bits.FiniteBits class has been added to represent
types with fixed bit-count. The existing Bits class is extended
with a bitSizeMaybe method to replace the now obsolete
bitsize method.
-
Data.Bits.Bits gained a new zeroBits method which completes the
Bits API with a direct way to introduce a value with all bits cleared.
-
There are now Bits and FiniteBits instances for Bool.
-
There are now Eq, Ord, Show, Read, Generic. and Generic1
instances for ZipList.
-
There are now Eq, Ord, Show and Read instances for Down.
-
There are now Eq, Ord, Show, Read and Generic instances
for types in GHC.Generics (U1, Par1, Rec1, K1, M1,
(:+:), (:*:), (:.:)).
-
Data.Monoid: There are now Generic instances for Dual, Endo,
All, Any, Sum, Product, First, and Last; as well as
Generic1 instances for Dual, Sum, Product, First, and Last.
-
The Data.Monoid.{Product,Sum} newtype wrappers now have Num instances.
-
There are now Functor instances for System.Console.GetOpt’s
ArgOrder, OptDescr, and ArgDescr.
-
A zero-width unboxed poly-kinded Proxy# was added to
GHC.Prim. It can be used to make it so that there is no the
operational overhead for passing around proxy arguments to model
type application.
-
New Data.Proxy module providing a concrete, poly-kinded proxy type.
-
New Data.Coerce module which exports the new Coercible class
together with the coerce primitive which provide safe coercion
(wrt role checking) between types with same representation.
-
Control.Concurrent.MVar has a new implementation of readMVar,
which fixes a long-standing bug where readMVar is only atomic if
there are no other threads running putMVar. readMVar now is
atomic, and is guaranteed to return the value from the first
putMVar. There is also a new tryReadMVar which is a
non-blocking version.
-
New Control.Concurrent.MVar.withMVarMasked which executes
IO action with asynchronous exceptions masked in the same style
as the existing modifyMVarMasked and modifyMVarMasked_.
-
New threadWait{Read,Write}STM :: Fd -> IO (STM (), IO ())
functions added to Control.Concurrent for waiting on FD
readiness with STM actions.
-
Expose Data.Fixed.Fixed’s constructor.
-
There are now byte endian-swapping primitives
byteSwap{16,32,64} available in Data.Word, which use
optimized machine instructions when available.
-
Data.Bool now exports bool :: a -> a -> Bool -> a, analogously
to maybe and either in their respective modules.
-
Data.Either now exports isLeft, isRight :: Either a b -> Bool.
-
Debug.Trace now exports traceId, traceShowId, traceM,
and traceShowM.
-
Data.Functor now exports ($>) and void.
-
Rewrote portions of Text.Printf, and made changes to Numeric
(added Numeric.showFFloatAlt and Numeric.showGFloatAlt) and
GHC.Float (added formatRealFloatAlt) to support it. The
rewritten version is extensible to user types, adds a “generic”
format specifier “%v”, extends the printf spec to support much
of C’s printf(3) functionality, and fixes the spurious warnings
about using Text.Printf.printf at (IO a) while ignoring the
return value. These changes were contributed by Bart Massey.
-
The minimal complete definitions for all type-classes with cyclic
default implementations have been explicitly annotated with the
new {-# MINIMAL #-} pragma.
-
Control.Applicative.WrappedMonad, which can be used to convert a
Monad to an Applicative, has now a
Monad m => Monad (WrappedMonad m) instance.
-
There is now a Generic and a Generic1 instance for WrappedMonad
and WrappedArrow.
-
Handle ExitFailure (-sig) on Unix by killing process with signal sig.
-
New module Data.Type.Bool providing operations on type-level booleans.
-
Expose System.Mem.performMinorGC for triggering minor GCs.
-
New System.Environment.{set,unset}Env for manipulating
environment variables.
-
Add Typeable instance for (->) and RealWorld.
-
Declare CPP header <Typeable.h> officially obsolete as GHC 7.8+
does not support hand-written Typeable instances anymore.
-
Remove (unmaintained) Hugs98 and NHC98 specific code.
-
Optimize System.Timeout.timeout for the threaded RTS.
-
Remove deprecated functions unsafeInterleaveST, unsafeIOToST,
and unsafeSTToIO from Control.Monad.ST.
-
Add a new superclass SomeAsyncException for all asynchronous exceptions
and makes the existing AsyncException and Timeout exception children
of SomeAsyncException in the hierarchy.
-
Remove deprecated functions blocked, unblock, and block from
Control.Exception.
-
Remove deprecated function forkIOUnmasked from Control.Concurrent.
-
Remove deprecated function unsafePerformIO export from Foreign
(still available via System.IO.Unsafe.unsafePerformIO).
-
Various fixes and other improvements (see Git history for full details).
