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<pre class="commit-message" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 0;">Add release note about fix to #16502.

We thought we needed to update the manual, but the fix for #16502
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC27" class="line" lang="plaintext">* GHC now more faithfully implements the instance-lookup scheme described with</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC42" class="line" lang="plaintext">  workaround unnecessary.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC43" class="line" lang="plaintext">  </span>
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