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+.. _release-8-6-4:
+
+Release notes for version 8.6.5
+===============================
+
+GHC 8.6.5 is a bug-fix release, fixing a few regressions found in 8.6.4.
+
+
+Highlights
+----------
+
+The highlights, since the 8.6.5 release, are:
+
+- Binary distributions once again ship with Haddock documentation including
+  syntax highlighted source of core libraries (:ghc-ticket:`16445`)
+
+- A build system issue where use of GCC with ``-flto`` broke ``configure``
+  was fixed (:ghc-ticket:`16440`)
+
+- Several packaging issues with the Windows binary distributions have been resolved.
+  (:ghc-ticket:`16408`, :ghc-ticket:`16398`, :ghc-ticket:`16516`).
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+Note that the LLVM code generator (:ghc-flag:`-fllvm`) in GHC 8.6, as well as
+all earlier releases, are affected by :ghc-ticket:`14251`, which can result in
+miscompilation of some programs calling functions with unboxed floating-point
+arguments. While originally scheduled to be fixed for this release, the fix
+ended up being more difficult than anticipated and, given that issue is not a
+strict regression from 8.4, we decided to proceed with the release.
+
+Included libraries
+------------------
+
+The package database provided with this distribution also contains a number of
+packages other than GHC itself. See the changelogs provided with these packages
+for further change information.
+
+.. ghc-package-list::
+
+    libraries/array/array.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/base/base.cabal:               Core library
+    libraries/binary/binary.cabal:           Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/bytestring/bytestring.cabal:   Deppendency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Cabal.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc-pkg`` utility
+    libraries/containers/containers.cabal:   Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/deepseq/deepseq.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/directory/directory.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/filepath/filepath.cabal:       Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    compiler/ghc.cabal:                      The compiler itself
+    libraries/ghci/ghci.cabal:               The REPL interface
+    libraries/ghc-boot/ghc-boot.cabal:       Internal compiler library
+    libraries/ghc-compact/ghc-compact.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/ghc-prim/ghc-prim.cabal:       Core library
+    libraries/haskeline/haskeline.cabal:     Dependency of ``ghci`` executable
+    libraries/hpc/hpc.cabal:                 Dependency of ``hpc`` executable
+    libraries/integer-gmp/integer-gmp.cabal: Core library
+    libraries/mtl/mtl.cabal:                 Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/parsec/parsec.cabal:           Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/process/process.cabal:         Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/template-haskell/template-haskell.cabal:     Core library
+    libraries/text/text.cabal:               Dependency of ``Cabal`` library
+    libraries/time/time.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/transformers/transformers.cabal: Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/unix/unix.cabal:               Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/Win32/Win32.cabal:             Dependency of ``ghc`` library
+    libraries/xhtml/xhtml.cabal:             Dependency of ``haddock`` executable
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/index.rst b/docs/users_guide/index.rst
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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Contents:
    8.6.2-notes
    8.6.3-notes
    8.6.4-notes
+   8.6.5-notes
    ghci
    runghc
    usage