diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.2-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.2-notes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9a67474f3e9fa38ac26a0c05318dbcb82a56fb7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.2-notes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<sect1 id="release-7-8-2">
+  <title>Release notes for version 7.8.2</title>
+
+  <para>
+    The 7.8.2 release is a bugfix release. The changes relative to
+    7.8.1 are listed below.
+  </para>
+
+  <sect2>
+    <title>GHC</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug which could cause GHC to reject programs which use a
+            type family on the right-hand side (RHS) of a type synonym
+            has been fixed.
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </sect2>
+</sect1>
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
index 6da700480c24e82d4c1e2ccffeb4376c10c39ce5..3292334ada51717da9fd519dc0eb9a89bf3b6d2a 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@
 
 
 &relnotes1;
+&relnotes2;
 
 </chapter>
 
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/ug-ent.xml.in b/docs/users_guide/ug-ent.xml.in
index ce87089f2446de4f2b3aeaf34bfa0fc5a6efda80..0b343ec647b702cdfafe336944632b8bf31f5df9 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/ug-ent.xml.in
+++ b/docs/users_guide/ug-ent.xml.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 <!ENTITY license        SYSTEM "license.xml">
 <!ENTITY intro          SYSTEM "intro.xml" >
 <!ENTITY relnotes1      SYSTEM "7.8.1-notes.xml" >
+<!ENTITY relnotes2      SYSTEM "7.8.2-notes.xml" >
 <!ENTITY using          SYSTEM "using.xml" >
 <!ENTITY code-gens      SYSTEM "codegens.xml" >
 <!ENTITY runtime        SYSTEM "runtime_control.xml" >