Changelog for base package

4.8.0.0 Mar 2015

• 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)

4.7.0.2 Dec 2014

• Bundled with GHC 7.8.4

• Fix performance bug in Data.List.inits (#9345)

• Fix handling of null bytes in Debug.Trace.trace (#9395)

4.7.0.1 Jul 2014

• Bundled with GHC 7.8.3

• Unhide Foreign.ForeignPtr in Haddock (#8475)

• Fix recomputation of TypeRep in Typeable type-application instance (#9203)

• Fix regression in Data.Fixed Read instance (#9231)

• Fix fdReady to honor FD_SETSIZE (#9168)

4.7.0.0 Apr 2014

• 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).