CHANGES.md



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Changes in version 2.18.2


to be released


Fix renaming of type variables after specializing instance method signatures (#613)


Move markup related data types to haddock-library


Fix: Show empty constraint contexts in pattern type signatures (#663)


Fix: Generate constraint signatures for constructors exported as pattern
synonyms (#663)


Changes in version 2.18.1


Synopsis is working again (#599)


Per-argument documentation on class methods working again (#647)


Support user defined signatures on pattern synonyms


Support for bundled pattern synonyms (#494, #551, #626)


Changes in version 2.17.4


Fix 'internal error: links: UnhelpfulSpan' (#554, #565)


Hyperlink backend knows about DataKinds (#510)


Fix rendering of class methods for Eq and Ord (#549)


Export MDoc and toInstalledIface from Haddock.Types


Changes in version 2.17.3.1

Disable NFData instances for GHC types when GHC >= 8.0.2 (#537)


Changes in version 2.17.3

Remove framed view of the HTML documentation


Changes in version 2.17.2

Fix portability of documentation building within GHC


Changes in version 2.17.1


Included with GHC 8.0.1


Fixed Makefile for GHC installation


Fixed clean rule of GHC Makefile


Changes in version 2.17.0 (not released)


Support typesetting of mathematical expressions via Mathjax (#397)


Describe orphan instances defined in a module in its documentation (#449)


Produce specialized type signatures for typeclass methods (#425)


Support GCC-like response files (#470)


Changes in version 2.16.2


Generate hyperlinked source ourselves (#410, part of GSOC 2015)


Fix expansion icon for user-collapsible sections (#412)


Break up response file arguments on newlines


Various HTML fixes (#301, #406, #407, #421)


Line anchors in hyperlinked source (#420)


Changes in version 2.16.1


Don't default to type constructors for out-of-scope names (#253 and
#375)


Fix Hoogle display of constructors (#361)


Fully qualify names in Hoogle instances output (#263)


Output method documentation in Hoogle backend (#259)


Don't print instance safety information in Hoogle (#168)


Expand response files in arguments (#285)


Build the main executable with -threaded (#399)


Use SrcSpan of declarations for inferred type sigs (#207)


Fix cross-module instance locations (#383)


Fix alignment of Source link for instances in Firefox (#384)


Changes in version 2.16.0


Experimental collapsible header support (#335)


Add support for markdown links and images


Allow an optional colon after the closing bracket of definition lists.
This is to disambiguate them from markdown links and will be require with a
future release.


Fix re-exports of built-in type families (#310)


Fix parsing of infix identifiers such as elem.


Print missing docs by default and add --no-print-missing-docs


parser: now parses out some meta data too, breaking the API


parser: markdown syntax for images and URLs is now accepted:
<> style for images and  style for links is now
considered deprecated.  for links is still OK.


parser: add support for @since element: this is paragraph-level
element of the form ‘@since x.y.z’ where x.y.z is the version
number. The way it is rendered is subject to change.


properly render package ID (not package key) in index (#329)


links to source location of class instance definitions


Fix code blocks in presence of Windows line endings


Deal better with long synopsis lines (#151)


Changes in version 2.15.0


Always read in prologue files as UTF8 (#286 and Cabal #1721)


parser: don't wrap headers in DocParagraph (#307)


parser: don't mangle append order for nested lists (pandoc #1346)


parser: preserve list ordering in certain scenarios (#313)


parser: update the attoparsec version used internally giving slight
parsing performance boost.


Move development to be against latest GHC release and not GHC HEAD.


Further split up the package to separate the executable from the
library, necessary by things like GHCJS. We now have
‘haddock-library’ which are the parts that don't use GHC API,
‘haddock-api’ which are (some of) the parts that do use GHC API and
‘haddock’ which merely provides the executable.


Export few extra functions in the API.


Add compatibility with GHC 7.8.2.


Omit unnecessary ‘forall’s (#315 and #86)


Remove some files which were really old or did not belong in the
repository in the first place.


Changes in version 2.14.3


Fix parsing of identifiers with ^ or ⋆ in them (#298)


Fix anchors (#308)


Changes in version 2.14.2


Always drop --split-objs GHC flag for performance reasons (#292)


Print kind signatures GADTs (#85)


Drop single leading whitespace when reasonable from @-style blocks (#201)


Fix crashes associated with exporting data family record selectors (#294)


Changes in version 2.14.1


Render * and -> with their UnicodeSyntax equivalents if -U is enabled


Display minimal complete definitions for type classes


Hide right hand side of TF instances with hidden names on the RHS


Changes in version 2.14.0


Print entities with missing documentation (#258)


Print a warning message when given -optghc instead of --optghc (#5)


Add --compatible-interface-versions (#231)


Allow to generate latex documentation for FFI declarations (#247)


Add copyright and license information to generated documentation


Improved to Unicode support


Bold markup support


Nested paragraphs


Better escaping


Header markup


Parser should no longer fail to parse any markup


# OPTIONS_HADDOCK show-extensions # pragma will show the GHC extensions
enabled in the module.


Properly render License field (#271)


Print type/data family instances (for exported types only)


Fix display of poly-kinded type operators (#189)


PatternSynonyms support


Fix display of implicit parameters (#260)


Fix rendering of Contents when links are present (#276)


Fix documentation duplication on record fields (#195)


Add --source-entity-line for exact line links (eg. things defined
inside TH splices) (#79)


Display fixity information for names with nonstandard fixities


Bird tracks specified like "> code" no longer suffer from an extra leading
space in the code output


Changes in version 2.13.2


Handle HsExplicitListTy in renamer (#213)


Allow haddock markup in deprecation messages


Export more types from Documentation.Haddock


Include everything that is required to run the test suite with the cabal
package (#230)


Changes in version 2.13.1


Hide instances that are "internal" to a module


Add support for properties in documentation


Fix a bug with spurious superclass constraints


Fix and extend the Haddock API


Changes in version 2.12.0


Labeled URLs (e.g <http://example.net/ some label>)


Improved memory usage (new dependency: deepseq)


Changes in version 2.11.0


Show deprecation messages for identifiers


List identifiers declared on the same line (with a common type) separately


Don't crash on unicode strings in doc comments


Fix reporting of modules safe haskell mode


Fix a case where we were generating invalid xhtml


Improved --qual option (no crashes, proper error messages)


A new --qual option "aliased" which qualifies identifiers by the module alias
used in the source code


The Haddock API restores GHC's static flags after invocation


Access to unexported identifiers through the Haddock API again


Changes in version 2.10.0


Require GHC >= 7.4


Safe Haskell indications on module pages


Type declarations on identifiers no longer necessary


Add flag --interface-version


Warn when comment refers to in-scope identifier without documentation


Bug fix: links to out-of-scope things (#78)


Bug fix: module references to other packages work again


Changes in version 2.9.4


Require GHC >= 7.2


Support Alex 3.x


Changes in version 2.9.3
[This is the version that comes with GHC 7.2.1 although it claims it's 2.9.2!]


Build with GHC 7.2.1


Support blank lines in results of examples


A type signature for multiple names generates one signature in the output


Minor bug fixes


Changes in version 2.9.2


Build with GHC 7.0.2


Write Hoogle output in utf8; fixes GHC build on Windows


Changes in version 2.9.1


Fix build in GHC tree


Improve .cabal file


Changes in version 2.9.0


Drop support for ghc < 7


New flag --qual for qualification of names


Print doc coverage information to stdout when generating docs


Include an 'All' option in the A-Z subdivided index


Make TOC group header identifiers validate


Minor changes to the API


Changes in the version that comes with GHC 7.0.1
[This version claims it is 2.8.0 but is actually based on 2.8.1]


Fix URL creation on Windows: Use / not \ in URLs.


Support GHC 7.0


Changes in version 2.8.1

Fix build on Windows with MinGW


Changes in version 2.8.0


HTML backend completely rewritten to generate semantically rich XHTML
using the xhtml package.


New default CSS based on the color scheme chosen for the new Haskell
wiki, with a pull-out tab for the synopsis.


Theme engine based on CSS files. Themes can be switched from the
header menu. (New flags --built-in-themes and --theme. The latter
is an alias for --css which now has extended semantics).


Markup support for executable examples/unit-tests. To be used with an
upcoming version of the DocTest program.


Addition of a LaTeX backend.


Frames-mode can be enabled from the header menu.


Path to source entities can be specified per package, so that source
links work for cross-package documentation.


Support for a second form of enumerated lists (1. 2. etc).


Additions and changes to the Haddock API.


New flag --no-tmp-comp-dir to tell Haddock to write and pick up
compilation files (.o, .hi, etc) to/from GHC's output directory instead
of a temporary directory.


Various bug fixes.


Changes in version 2.6.1 (bug fix release from the stable branch)

Fix #128


Changes in version 2.7.2

Add Paths_haddock to library


Changes in version 2.7.1:

Fix problems with library part of .cabal file


Changes in version 2.7.0:


Instances can be commented


The Haddock API now exposes more of the internals of Haddock


Bug fixes (most importantly #128)


Changes in version 2.6.0:


Drop support for GHC 6.10.*


Add support for GHC 6.12.1


Cross-package documentation: full documentation show up when re-exporting
things coming from external packages


Lexing and parsing the Haddock comment markup is now done in Haddock
again, instead of in GHC


Slightly prettier printing of instance heads


Support platforms for which GHC has no native code generator


Add a flag --print-ghc-libdir


Minor bug fixes


Changed in version 2.5.0:


Drop support for GHC 6.8.*


Add support for GHC 6.10.3 and 6.10.4


Revert to the old multi-page index for large packages (#106)


Show GADT records in the generated documentation


Create output directory if it doesn't exist (#104)


Use the native codegen instead of compiling via C for TH modules


Add --use-unicode flag for displaying prettier versions of common symbols


Multiple verbosity levels: remove --verbose and add --verbosity=n


Changed in version 2.4.2:


Support GHC 6.10.2


Haddock no longer crashes on Template Haskell modules (#68)
(only with GHC 6.10.2 or above)


Fix problem with Template Haskell-generated declarations disappearing (#59)


Generate two anchors for each link for compatibility between IE and Opera
(#45)


Improved error messages


Show re-exports from external packages again (GHC ticket #2746)


Store hidden modules in .haddock files again (needed by the haddock
library)


Avoid processing boot modules


Pragmas may exist between document comments and declarations


Do not indicate that a constructor argument is unboxed


Fix problem with non-working links to ghc-prim


Allow referring to a specific section within a module in a module link
(#65)


Fixes to the Hoogle backend


Improvements to the haddock library


Many other fixes (including #67, #69, #58, #57)


Changed in version 2.4.1:

Depend on base 4.* when GHC >= 6.9, otherwise 3.*


Changed in version 2.4.0:


Add framed view of the HTML documentation


Build with GHC 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 again


Support images in documentation comments again


Small improvements to the Hoogle output


A few bugs has been fixed


Changed in version 2.3.0:


Support for GHC 6.10.1


Slightly improved space usage


Fix a bug that made hidden modules show up in the contents & index pages


Fix a bug that made Haddock load modules twice


Improvements to the Hoogle output


Changed in version 2.2.2:

Relax version dependency on ghc-paths


Changes in version 2.2.1:


Support for GHC 6.8.3


The Hoogle backend is back, thanks to Neil Mitchell. The plan is to be
compatible with the upcoming Hoogle 4 pre-release


Show associated types in the documentation for class declarations


Show type family declarations


Show type equality predicates


Major bug fixes (#1 and #44)


It is no longer required to specify the path to GHC's lib dir


Remove unnecessary parenthesis in type signatures


Changes in version 2.1.0:


Fix a bug that made links point to the defining module instead
of the "best" one (e.g Int pointing to GHC.Base instead of Data.Int)


Fix a couple of smaller bugs


The representation of DocName was changed in the library


Add a flag --no-warnings for turning off warnings


Changes in version 2.0.0.0:


The GHC API is used as the front-end


Haddock now understands all syntax understood by GHC 6.8.2


Haddock can generate documentation for some of the language extensions
in GHC 6.8.2


Format of module attributes has changed. The only way of specifying
module attributes is via a new OPTIONS_HADDOCK pragma. Example:
# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide, prune #


Haddock understands literate source files


Add a small library to read Haddock's interface files


Add a flag -B for passing the path to the GHC lib dir


Add a flag --optghc for passing options to GHC


Add a flag --ghc-version for printing the GHC version


Remove --use-package, --allow-missing-html, --ghc-pkg, in favour of only
supporting --read-interface


Remove --package flag, the GHC flag -package-name can be used instead


Remove --no-implicit-prelude flag, the GHC flag -XNoImplicitPrelude can
be used instead


Changes in version 0.9:


Infix type operators, e.g., first :: a~>a' -> (a,b)~>(a',b)


Add a search box to the index page which automatically narrows
the index to the search as you type (thanks to Neil Mitchell).


Add a --ghc-pkg flag


Add a flag --allow-missing-html


URL expansion for %%, %L, %{LINE}


added substitution %{FILE///c}


Lexing of /.../ is now more like '...', in that a / character must
be matched by another / character on the same line, otherwise it
is treated as a literal '/'.  This removes a common source of
accidental parse errors in documentation.


Various bugs were fixed.


Cabal 1.2 is now required, and Haddock builds with GHC 6.8.x.


Changes in version 0.8:


Haddock has a Cabal build system, and will build on Windows without
Cygwin or MSYS.  GHC 6.4 or later is required.


New options: --comments-base, --comments-module, --comments-entity
for generating links to pages (eg. wiki) for collecting user comments.


New options: --source-base, --source-module, --source-entity
for generating links to source code.  Haddock now understands
# LINE # pragmas, which means it can figure out the correct
name for the source file even if the file is preprocessed.


Haddock generates output for populating the Hoogle search engine.


New markup <> for including images.


Changes in version 0.7:


Changes in the way Haddock decides where to direct hyperlinks.  Each entity
is now assigned a single "home" module, and all hyperlinks are directed
to that module.  See the docs ("Hyperlinking and re-exported entities")
for details.


New options --ignore-all-exports, --hide


New option --use-package for creating documentation that hyperlinks to
the HTML documentation for existing packages on your system.  It works
by querying ghc-pkg for the location of the Haddock interface and
HTML for the given package.


Parts of the HTML documentation, notably lists of instances, are
now "collapsible" with a +/- button.  Also, the contents page is now
in the form of tree in which subtrees can be collapsed.


Support for Microsoft DevHelp and HtmlHelp 2.0 formats.


Support for a short description for each module for the contents page.


Compiles with GHC 6.4+


Various bugfixes


Changes in version 0.6:


Implicit parameters, zip comprehensions and 'mdo' are now
supported by the parser.


Some lexical bugs were fixed, mainly concerning literal paragraphs
next to non-literal paragraphs.


New options:  --gen-index, --use-index, --gen-contents and --use-contents,
for generting a combined index and contents for several libraries
from the appropriate .haddock files.


There is now one index rather than separate Function/Constructor and
Type/Class indices.  Where a name refers to several entities, these
are listed separately in the index.


New option: -v, elicits more verbose warnings.  Some warnings are
now turned off by default; Haddock should be a little less noisy
in general.


Markup for definition lists has been added.  See the documentation
for details.


New option: --package for setting the package name.  The package
is listed alongside each module name in the combined contents.


Entities which are re-exported from another package now at least
leave a hyperlink in the generated HTML, rather than nothing at all.


Some fixes for bugs which caused incorrect hyperlinks in the
generated HTML.  In particular, instances should now be linked
correctly.


Some aesthetic improvements to the generated HTML.


Changes in version 0.5:


Compiles with recent versions of GHC.


A few bugs have been fixed.


New labelling/linking feature (see "Anchors" in the manual).


Changes in version 0.4:


Import declarations which list entities in parentheses, or with
hiding clauses, are now properly supported.  Modulo one or two
small infelicities, the full Haskell modules system is now supported.


Haddock is now more flexible about the placing of separators
(commas, semicolons) in relation to doc comments.


There is support for generating and reading "interface files"
which describe the exports of a set of modules.  This is useful
for generating documentation which hyperlinks to
previously-generated documentation.


Support for generating the extra files required by the Microsoft
Help compiler.


New option: --prologue specifies a file of documentation which is
placed on the contents page.


Many bugs fixed


Changes in version 0.3:


Documentation on individual function arguments is now implemented


Links can be made to identifiers that aren't in scope, by using
the fully qualified name.


Instances are collected and listed with the appropriate classes
and datatypes (not for derived instances yet).


Single quotes are only interpreted specially when they surround a
legal Haskell identifier, otherwise they are treated literally.


Bird-tracked text is now literal.  If you want marked-up text in
a code block, use the @...@ notation instead.


Various changes to the layout, it generally looks nicer now.


Various bugs fixed.


Changes in version 0.2:


The [...] markup for typewriter font has been changed to @...@.


Module attributes introduced (see the documentation for details).


 ...  style comments may now be used for documentation annotations


Recursive modules are detected and reported as an error.


Existential constructors and rank-N types are now groked by the parser


Some type rendering cleaned up


`abc' is accepted as well as 'abc' to markup an identifier


Several bugs fixed, and error messages improved.