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Below are the major highlights of 8.6.
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- An early version of the GHCi `:doc` command
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- Improved support for **cross-compilation** (Moritz Angermann)
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- Deriving via ([ proposal](https://github.com/Icelandjack/ghc-proposals/blob/239cfc8ef532db95f15ea392e073061f04273d8e/proposals/0000-deriving-via.rst), Ryan GL Scott)
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### Build system and miscellaneous changes
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- Improved Windows support, including support for split sections, a new IOCP-based I/O manager, and long file paths (Tamar Christina)
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## Landed in `master` branch
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- Deriving via ([ proposal](https://github.com/Icelandjack/ghc-proposals/blob/239cfc8ef532db95f15ea392e073061f04273d8e/proposals/0000-deriving-via.rst), Ryan GL Scott)
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- An early version of the GHCi `:doc` command
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- [QuantifiedConstraints](quantified-constraints)
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- The core functionality of the `ghc-heap-view` package has been merged into GHC, allowing introspection into the structure of GHC's heap. (Patrick Dougherty, [ Phab:D3055](https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3055))
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- Many improvements to exhausiveness checking ([\#14546](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/14546))
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