Changelog of @haskell/deepseq 1.4.0.0

Changelog for deepseq package

1.4.0.0 Dec 2014

  • Bundled with GHC 7.10.1

  • Switch to Generics based DefaultSignature rnf method implementation (based on code from deepseq-generics)

    Compatibility Note: if you need the exact default-method semantics of deepseq prior to 1.4, replace occurences of

    instance NFData XYZ

    by

    instance NFData XYZ where rnf x = seq x ()

  • New NFData instances for base types:

    • Control.Applicative.Const
    • Control.Applicative.ZipList
    • Control.Concurrent.ThreadId
    • Data.Functor.Identity.Identity
    • Data.Monoid.{Dual,First,Last,Any,All,Sum,Product}
    • Data.Ord.Down
    • Data.Proxy.Proxy
    • Data.Typeable.Internal.TyCon
    • Data.Typeable.Internal.TypeRep
    • Data.Unique.Unique
    • Data.Void.Void
    • GHC.Fingerprint.Type.Fingerprint
    • Numeric.Natural.Natural
    • System.Mem.StableName.StableName
    • Foreign.C.Types.C*

1.3.0.2 Nov 2013

  • Bundled with GHC 7.8.1
  • Update package description to Cabal 1.10 format
  • Add support for GHC 7.8
  • Drop support for GHCs older than GHC 7.0.1
  • Add /since: .../ annotations to Haddock comments
  • Add changelog

1.3.0.1 Sep 2012

  • No changes

1.3.0.0 Feb 2012

  • Add instances for Fixed, a->b and Version

1.2.0.1 Sep 2011

  • Disable SafeHaskell for GHC 7.2

1.2.0.0 Sep 2011

  • New function force
  • New operator $!!
  • Add SafeHaskell support
  • Dropped dependency on containers

1.1.0.2 Nov 2010

  • Improve Haddock documentation

1.1.0.1 Oct 2010

  • Enable support for containers-0.4.x

1.1.0.0 Nov 2009

  • Major rewrite

1.0.0.0 Nov 2009

  • Initial release