1

• The Show1 class has been completely overhauled. Show1 now uses the function showbPrecWith, which takes as an argument a function of type Int -> a -> Builder to show occurrences of the type parameter (instead of requiring the type parameter to be a Show instance). This matches the new implementation of Show1 in the next version of transformers. A similar Show2 class (with the function showbPrecWith2) was also added.
• As a consequence, Show1 instances should no longer be defined in terms of showbPrec; rather, Show instances should be defined in terms of showbPrecWith or showbPrecWith2, and Show1 instances can be defined in terms of showbPrecWith2.
• The showbPrec1 function is no longer a class method of Show1, but is now a standalone function defined in terms of showbPrecWith. showbPrec1 can be useful for defining Show instances. A similar showbPrec2 function was also added.
• The monomorphic functions in the many submodules of this package have been generalized (where possible) to use Show1 and Show2 instances. These functions have -PrecWith and -PrecWith2 suffixes, respectively.
• Because of the generality of the new showPrecWith function, Show1 instances are now possible for Ratio, Alt, Rec1, M1, (:+:), (:*:), and (:.:).
• Removed many silly instances for FromStringShow and FromTextShow, since they'll never be used in the ways suggested by those instances to begin with.
• The Template Haskell engine has been completely overhauled. Deriving Show1 and Show2 instances are now possible using the deriveShow1 and deriveShow2 functions. See the documentation in Text.Show.Text.TH for more details. In addition, the mkShowbPrecWith, mkShowbPrec1, mkShowbPrecWith2, and mkShowbPrec2 functions were added.
• Removed the ability to call deriveShow or mkShowbPrec (or other functions prefixed with mk-) using a data family name. This is considered a misfeature. If you want to derive Show for data family instances, use the corresponding data instance or newtype instance constructor name as an argument instead.
• Removed PragmaOptions, deriveShowPragmas, defaultInlineShowbPrec, defaultInlineShowb, and defaultInlineShowbList, as it was impossible to make Template Haskell-generated pragmas work consistently across different versions of GHC. If you really want to use INLINE and SPECIALIZE instance pragmas with your Template Haskell-generated code, create manual instances with mkShowbPrec and family.
• Show1 instances can now be created generically using the genericShowbPrecWith function in Text.Show.Text.Generics. A genericShowbPrec1 was also added.
• Added generic-deriving as a dependency, which allows generics-related code to be exported on more versions of GHC
• ConType (in Text.Show.Text.Generics) now has an Inf String constructor instead of Inf Builder. As a result, ConType now always an Eq and Ord instance, and a Read ConType instance was added.
• Typeable instances for the promoted data constructors 'FromStringShow and 'FromTextShow
• Added showbFPFormat to Text.Show.Text.Data.Floating
• Revamped test suite

0.8.1.1

• Retroactive CHANGELOG update

0.8.1

• Fix test suite build with older versions of QuickCheck

0.8

• Exported formatRealFloatB and formatRealFloatAltB from Text.Show.Text.Data.Floating. Reexported FPFormat (from text) in the same module, and added a Text Show instance for it.
• The Show instance for Ratio a now only requires a Show a constraint if using base-4.4.0.0 or later (if using base-4.3.0.0, it requires a (Show a, Integral a) constraint)
• Added showbSingPrec to Text.Show.Text.GHC.TypeLits (if using base-4.6)
• Modules which were previously exported only if using a recent-enough version of GHC/base (e.g., Text.Show.Text.GHC.Generics) are now always exposed. If the functionality that the module provides is not available on a given version of GHC/base, the module will not expose anything.
• Bump lower version bounds of text to 0.11.1 due to reexporting FPFormat
• Added showbUnicodeException, showbI16Prec, showbDecodingPrec, and showbSizePrec functions (and corresponding Show instances) to Text.Show.Text.Data.Text
• Made GShow in Text.Show.Text.Generics poly-kinded
• The Template Haskell deriver (and GShow) now handles "infix" data constructors that are applied as prefix correctly (e.g., data Amp a = (:&) a a)
• The Template Haskell deriver now handles showable unlifted types (Char#, Double#, Float#, Int#, and Word#) correctly on GHC 7.11 and later
• The Template Haskell derive now does not parenthesize record types regardless of precedence on GHC 7.11 and later
• Fixed build on GHC 7.2
• Changed test-suite to use hspec, which allows for it to be built on GHC 7.0 and 7.2

0.7.0.1

• Disabled print-related tests, as they sporadically break referential transparency for unknown reasons
• Fixed build on Windows

0.7

• Added showbConstPrec (and corresponding Show and Show1 instances for Const) to Text.Show.Text.Control.Applicative
• Added showbUArrayPrec (and corresponding Show instance for UArrays) and showbIArrayPrec to Text.Data.Text.Data.Array.
• Renamed showbListDefault to showbListWith to match how Text.Show names it
• Exposed showbShortByteString with all versions of bytestring by using the bytestring-builder package
• Corrected the Show instance for Lexeme (in Text.Show.Text.Text.Read.Lex)
• Fixed TypeRep output on GHC 7.10 and later
• Removed LitChar and LitString from Text.Show.Text.Data.Char, as they were not as useful as I had imagined.
• Removed the deprecated replicateB function
• Typable instances for Show, Show1, and GShow (with GHC 7.8 and later)
• Typeable instance for ConType
• Only derive Eq and Ord for ConType if a recent-enough version of text is used
• Changed the implementations of some functions in Text.Show.Text.Debug.Trace to use ByteStrings instead of Strings

0.6.0.1

• Forgot to include some header files in text-show.cabal

0.6

• deriveShow can now construct instances for data families, using either the data family name or a data instance constructor as an argument. See the documentation in Text.Show.Text.TH for more details.
• Fixed a bug in which infix backticked data constructors (e.g., data Add = Int `Plus` Int) would not be shown correctly.
• Fixed typo in Text.Show.Text.GHC.RTS.Flags
• Removed the phantom-type detecting mechanism with template-haskell-2.9.0.0 or higher. This method of finding phantom types is intrinsically flawed and is not usable on older GHCs.
• Added generics support with the Text.Show.Text.Generic and Text.Show.Text.Debug.Trace.Generic modules
• Deprecated replicateB in favor of timesN from the semigroups library
• Added FromTextShow to Text.Show.Text, which admits a String Show instance for any data type with a Text Show instance (the counterpart of FromStringShow)
• Added Monoid and Semigroup instances for FromStringShow, Semigroup instance for LitString, IsChar instance for LitChar, and IsString instance for [LitChar]
• Changed the String Show instances of FromStringShow, LitChar, and LitString to more closely match the Text Show instances. As a result, the Read instances for these data types were also changed so that read . show = read . show = id.
• Removed the recent-text flag. We'll allow users to build with older versions of text, but the latest version is recommended. Because of this, the integer-simple and integer-gmp flags are not needed.
• Removed the integer-gmp2 flag, as it supported a configuration that didn't actually compile on GHC
• Removed the transformers-four flag, as it is not needed now that transformers-compat is a dependency

0.5

• Fix build for GHC 7.10, old GHC versions, and Windows
• Removed the Text.Show.Text.Data.Containers and Text.Show.Text.Data.Time modules. The modules for the data types in containers and time were migrated to a separate library, text-show-instances.
• Removed the -ftext-format flag, as text-show no longer uses text-format.
• A serious bug in the text package that caused segfaults when building large Integers was fixed in text-1.2.0.2. A flag (-frecent-text) was added that allows you to take advantage of this.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the output of functions in the Text.Show.Text.Data.Floating module to not match base depending on what version of base is used.
• The type signatures of lambda expressions generated by mkShow and related functions were loosened to allow them to be used to "manually" derive Show instances for data types with higher-kinded type parameters or type arguments with restricted Show instances. This should not be a breaking change; you can simply do more with mkShow et al. than you could before. For more information, see the documentation in Text.Show.Text.TH.
• Loosened the Show instance of Complex a to only depend on Show a (previously required RealFloat a) if using base-4.4.0.0 or later
• Moved showbRatioPrec to Text.Show.Text.Data.Ratio, showbComplexPrec to Text.Show.Text.Data.Complex, showbProxy to Text.Show.Text.Data.Proxy, and showbFingerprint to Text.Show.Text.GHC.Fingerprint
• Added deriveShowPragmas to Text.Show.Text.TH to allow users to specify INLINE or SPECIALIZE instance pragmas with Show instances.
• Added FromStringShow, showbSpace, showbUnary, showbUnary1, and showbBinary1 to Text.Show.Text
• Added mkShowList, mkShowListLazy, and mkShowbList to Text.Data.Text.TH
• For base-4.8.0.0 and above, added the Text.Show.Text.Data.Functor.Identity, Text.Show.Text.Data.Void, Text.Show.Text.GHC.RTS.Flags, Text.Show.Text.GHC.StaticPtr, and Text.Show.Text.Numeric.Natural modules. Also added Show instances for AllocationLimitExceeded in Text.Show.Text.Control.Exception and Alt in Text.Show.Text.Data.Monoid. Also fixed the Show instance for Fixed values.
• Added the Text.Show.Text.Data.GHC.Conc.Windows module (Windows-only)
• Added the Text.Show.Text.Data.OldTypeable module for base-4.7
• Added the Text.Show.Text.GHC.TypeLits module for base-4.6 and above
• Added the Text.Show.Text.Debug.Trace and Text.Show.Text.Debug.Trace.TH modules as an analog to Debug.Trace
• Added the Show1 class and corresponding instances for unary type constructors.
• Added LitChar and LitString to Text.Show.Text.Data.Char
• Exported asciiTabB in Text.Show.Text.Data.Char
• Renamed showbTextStrict to 'showbText' (to keep with naming conventions in the text library) and added showbBuilder to Text.Show.Text.Data.Text.

0.4.1

• Added the utility functions toText and toString for working with Builders.

0.4

• Due to GHC bug #5289, projects that depend on the double-conversion library (such as text-format, a dependency of text-show) may break due to GHC incorrectly linking against libstdc++. Therefore, text-show was changed so that it does not depend on text-format by default. This behavior can be changed by using the -ftext-format flag when using cabal.
• Added showbZonedTime to Text.Show.Text.Data.Time (and corresponding Show instance for ZonedTime)
• Exposed showbMaskingState (is was already there, I just forgot to export it)
• If using GHC 7.6 or earlier, depend on tagged so that Data.Proxy (and thus showbProxy from Text.Show.Text.Data.Typeable) can be used
• Refactored code to use Template Haskell derivations when possible

0.3.1.0

• Added showList and showListLazy
• Don't use showbListDefault to show containers data types
• Added the ability to splice show functions for arbitrary data types (even if they aren't Show instances). These functions are mkShow, mkShowLazy, mkShowPrec, mkShowPrecLazy, mkShowb, mkShowbPrec, mkPrint, mkPrintLazy, mkHPrint, and mkHPrintLazy.

0.3.0.0

• Lots of bugfixes
• Show instances for many other data types in base, containers and time
• Exposed internal modules with monomorphic functions
• Text.Show.Text now exports Data.Text.Lazy.Builder for convenience
• Add showLazy, showPrec, showPrecLazy, printLazy, hPrint, hPrintLazy, lengthB, and replicateB
• Template Haskell derivation of Show instances (doesn't support data families yet)

0.2.0.0

• Added Show instances for strict and lazy Text

0.1.0.0

• Initial commit