[commit: ghc] master: Release note blurbs for directory. (97736ee)

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commit 97736ee1f1cfa389e98e554980a7e3ba7f4135d5
Author: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 25 12:28:34 2013 -0500

    Release note blurbs for directory.
    
    Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>


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97736ee1f1cfa389e98e554980a7e3ba7f4135d5
 docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index 81ce955..8908a22 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -779,6 +779,23 @@
                     Version number XXXX (was XXXX)
                </para>
            </listitem>
+            <listitem>
+                <para>
+                    The function <literal>findExecutables</literal>
+                    now correctly checks to see if the execute bit is
+                    set on Linux, rather than just looking in
+                    <literal>$PATH</literal>.
+               </para>
+           </listitem>
+            <listitem>
+                <para>
+                    There are several new functions for finding files,
+                    including <literal>findFiles</literal> and
+                    <literal>findFilesWith</literal>, which allow you
+                    to search for a file given a set of filepaths, and
+                    run a predicate over them.
+               </para>
+           </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
     </sect3>