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+<sect1>Compiler release notes
+<p>
+
+<itemize>
+<item> To reflect the fact that the <tt/Pretty/ library is part of
+the common Hugs / GHC extension libraries, <tt/Pretty/ has been moved
+from the <tt/misc/ library to <tt/exts/, i.e., only <tt/syslib exts/
+should be required to get at these extension libraries.
+</itemize>