[commit: ghc] ghc-7.8: Release note updates for 7.8.3 (e7d041b)

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On branch  : ghc-7.8
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/e7d041be96b39de2a3c0ab8535a0757a2e1876de/ghc

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commit e7d041be96b39de2a3c0ab8535a0757a2e1876de
Author: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 4 10:13:11 2014 -0500

    Release note updates for 7.8.3
    
    Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>


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e7d041be96b39de2a3c0ab8535a0757a2e1876de
 docs/users_guide/7.8.3-notes.xml | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.3-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.3-notes.xml
index 1345e4e..197a932 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.3-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.3-notes.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A handful of bugs in the pattern synonyms implementation
+            have been fixed (issues #9161, #8966, #9023, #9175).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
+            A bug in runtime system which would cause
+            <literal>tryReadMVar</literal> to deadlock has been fixed
+            (issue #9148).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             A segmentation fault for compiled programs using
             <literal>makeStableName</literal> has been fixed (issue
             #9078).
@@ -38,6 +51,12 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A bug in the code generator that could cause segmentation
+            faults has been fixed (issue #9045).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             A bug which caused <literal>gcc</literal> to error when
             compiling large assembly source files has been fixed
             (issue #8768).
@@ -45,6 +64,13 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A bug which caused a performance regression in the new
+            `Typeable` implementation (due to recomputation of known
+            values) has been fixed (issue #9203).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             Several memory leaks and bugs in the runtime system and C
             libraries have been fixed. These issues were found using
             Coverity Scan.
@@ -59,6 +85,14 @@
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
           <para>
+            A bug which could result in programs using all available
+            memory, due to a regression in the <literal>Read</literal>
+            instance for <literal>Data.Fixed.Pico</literal> has been
+            fixed (issue #9231).
+          </para>
+       </listitem>
+       <listitem>
+          <para>
             The libraries <literal>haskeline</literal>,
             <literal>xhtml</literal>, <literal>terminfo</literal>,
             <literal>transformers</literal>, and