Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[0.8.4] - 2023.08.01

• Add support for the FldName NameSpace, which was introduced in template-haskell-2.21.0.0 (GHC 9.8).

[0.8.3] - 2023.02.27

• Support building with th-abstraction-0.5.*.
• Require th-abstraction-0.3.0.0 or later.

[0.8.2] - 2020-09-29

• Allow building with template-haskell-2.17.0.0 (GHC 9.0).
• Make deriveLift work for unlifted newtypes.

[0.8.1] - 2019-12-06

• Support GHC 8.10/template-haskell-2.16.
• Derive implementations of liftTyped (in addition to lift) when using template-haskell-2.16 or later.
• Fix a bug in which derived Lift instances for data types containing Addr# would fail to typecheck.

[0.8.0.1] - 2019-05-09

• Support GHC 8.8/template-haskell-2.15.

[0.8] - 2019-04-26

• Remove Lift (), Ratio, Identity and Const () instances. These are now provided in th-lift-instances package

• Use TemplateHaskellQuotes where available

[0.7.11] - 2018-08-27

• Support for GHC 8.6.

[0.7.10] - 2018-02-01

• Add support for data families

[0.7.9] - 2018-02-01

• Lift instances for Identity and Const.

[0.7.8] - 2018-02-01

• GHC 8.4 compatibility.

[0.7.7] - 2015-04-19

• GHC 8.2 compatibility.

[0.7.6] - 2015-01-18

• GHC 8.1 compatibility.

[0.7.5] - 2015-11-19

• Added makeLift, for cases when it's necessary to write the instance manually. (Thanks to Ryan Scott).
• Support empty datatypes and unboxed types.

[0.7] - 2014-12-07

• Support GHC 7.9 and hopefully 7.10, thanks to Richard Eisenberg.
• On versions of GHC that support role inference, don't constrain phantom type variables.
• Get rid of some orphan instances when using GHC >= 7.9.

[0.6] - 2013-12-09

• Support GHC 7.8, thanks to Michael Snoyberg.
• Support existentially quantified type variables in datatype declarations.
• Handle exotic kinds properly.

[0.5.2] - 2010-09-19

• Support older GHCs and Cabal, thanks to Ben Millwood.

[0.5] - 2010-08-05

• Support for contexts in datatypes, thanks to Ben Millwood.
• deriveLiftWith becomes deriveLift' and takes an Info structure rather than a custom reification function.
• Add deriveLiftMany to derive many Lift instances in one go.

[0.4] - 2010-08-02

• Add support for newtypes and records syntax, thanks to a patch by Ben Millwood.
• Add support for infix constructors.
• deriveLift returns a list of declarations.
• New deriveLiftWith function with custom reification, following a feature request by Jonas Duregård.

[0.3] - 2010-03-24

• Port to Template Haskell 2.4.
• Maintainer is now Mathieu Boespflug.

[0.2] - 2006-09-06

Initial release by Ian Lynagh.