Generate release notes for 3.4

Author: phadej

release-notes/Cabal-3.4.0.0.md

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+### Significant changes
+
+- Add cabal-version: 3.4 [!6663](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6663)
+  
+  See various changes in https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/file-format-changelog.html#cabal-version-3-4
+  
+- Support GHC-8.12 [#6903](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6903) [#6904](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6904) [#6905](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6905) [!6545](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6545) [!6552](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6552) [!6553](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6553) [!6563](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6563) [!6735](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6735) [!6844](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6844) [!6848](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6848) [!6865](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6865) [!6908](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6908) [!6947](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6947)
+  
+  - Support for `-this-package-key` deprecation
+  - Use process `createPipe`
+  - Add support for WINIO to Cabal
+  - Adopt to simplfied subsumption changes
+  
+  There are no magical `IO = WithCallStack Prelude.IO` alias in Cabal,
+  as it is hard to get working with GHC-8.12's simplified subsumption.
+  
+- Treat `pkg:sublib` dependency syntax as is in `cabal-version: 3.4` [#6083](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6083) [!6893](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6893) [!6907](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6907)
+  
+  In `cabal-version: 3.4` cabal files the dependency definition
+  
+  ```cabal
+  build-depends: somesublib
+  ```
+  
+  is not using in-package sublibraries. You have to be explicit and write
+  
+  ```cabal
+  build-depends: thispkg:somesublib
+  ```
+  
+  This fixes an issue, where it was impossible to refer to extenral
+  library, if you had sublibrary of the same name.
+  
+- Dependency type refactorings [#5570](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/5570) [#6894](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6894) [!6768](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6768) [!6798](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6798) [!6895](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6895) [!6896](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6896) [!6897](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6897) [!6898](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6898)
+  
+  With additions of (public) sublibraries, `Dependency` type use for multiple needs become painful.
+  Therefore a new type `PackageVersionConstraint` was added to serve *constraint on package* use-case.
+  `Dependency` type is *dependency on a library component*, i.e. representing `build-depends` entry.
+  
+  - Use PackageVersionConstraint more
+  - Add NonEmptySet and use it in Dependency
+  
+### Other changes
+
+- Tests additions [#6409](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6409) [!6753](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6753) [!6759](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6759) [!6802](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6802) [!6842](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6842) [!6872](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6872)
+  
+  - Add shrinker, so writing big non-generic product shrinkers is easier
+  - Add `hs-source-dirs: NL .` test-case
+  - Add public multilib test(s)
+  
+- Code organization [!6599](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6599) [!6642](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6642) [!6734](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6734) [!6745](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6745) [!6746](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6746) [!6817](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6817) [!6818](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6818) [!6821](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6821) [!6867](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6867)
+  
+  - Split `Distribution.Client.Types` module
+  - Move cabal-testsuite code into `src/`
+  - Add `ProjectFlags`
+  - Add `NixStyleOptions`
+  - Internal refactorings to install command.
+  - Make own modules for `InstallMethod` and `OverwritePolicy`
+  - Make cabal-install compilable with `NoImplicitPrelude`
+  - Refactor shared `TargetProblem` data types into their own module.
+  - Template `cabal-install.cabal` using zinza
+  
+- The grammar of most package description fields is formally documented [!6591](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6591) [!6593](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6593) [!6704](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6704) [!6766](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6766) [!6778](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6778) [!6780](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6780) [!6781](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6781) [!6791](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6791) [!6800](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6800)
+  
+  See https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/buildinfo-fields-reference.html
+  
+- Fix ghci being launched before other sources are built. [!6923](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6923)
+  
+  Related to foreign calls to C-sources.
+  
+- Remove `-any` and `-none` syntax for version ranges in cabal-version: 3.4 [#6589](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6589) [!6786](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6786)
+  
+  Use `>=0` (or empty in dependencies) and `<0` respectively.
+  
+- Add pijul to known repository type [#6610](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6610) [!6684](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6684)
+  
+  Pijul is now explicitly recognized version control system.
+  However `cabal-install` isn't yet able to use it in
+  `source-repository-package`.
+  
+- Rename Flag to CompilerFlag and PackageFlag [#6710](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6710) [!6725](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6725)
+  
+  There was three Flag's. Now they are
+  
+  - `Flag` (cli parsing)
+  - `PackageFlag`
+  - `CompilerFlag`
+  
+  This allows wild-imports without `hiding (Flag)`.
+  
+- Accept "linux-androideabi" as an alias for Android for determining buildOS [!6301](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6301) [!6949](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6949)
+  
+  `Cabal` will able to parse `linux-androideabi` from the value of `System.Info.os`.
+  
+- Refactor Distribution.PackageDescription module [!6855](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6855)
+  
+  Now it re-exports a collection of modules, not individual symbols.
+  
+- Use process jobs when spawning subprocesses [!6529](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6529) [!6536](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6536)
+  
+  Many toolchain tools written for POSIX systems rely on the exec system
+  call. Unfortunately, it is not possible to implement exec in a
+  POSIX-compliant manner on Windows. In particular, the semantics of the
+  exec implementation provided by the widely-used msvcrt C runtime
+  will cause process's waiting on the exec'ing process to incorrectly
+  conclude that the process has successfully terminated when in fact it is
+  still running in another process.
+  
+  For this reason, the process library exposes the use_process_jobs
+  flag to use a more strict (although still not POSIX-compliant) mechanism
+  for tracking process completion.
+  This is explained in [the Process.hs comment](https://github.com/haskell/process/blob/master/System/Process.hs#L399)
+  
+  Unfortunately, job support in the process library is currently quite
+  broken and was only recently fixed. Consequently, we only enable job
+  object support for process releases >= 1.6.8.
+  
+- Remove `AnyVersion` and `WildcardVersion` constructors from `Version` [!6742](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6742)
+  
+  This changes makes `Version` type less "syntactic",
+  i.e. contains less constructors for semantically same version ranges.
+  
+- Cabal-QuickCheck package with `Arbirary` instances [#6882](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6882) [!6557](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6557) [!6891](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6891)
+- Create Cabal-tree-diff package with `ToExpr` instances [!6789](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6789)
+- `Cabal.Distribution.Compiler`: add `Traversable` instance for `PerCompilerFlavor` [!6763](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6763)
+- Improvements to cabal-testsuite framework [!6643](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6643)
+- Update copyright years to 2020 [!6644](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6644)
+- Documentation updates and typo-fixes [!6504](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6504) [!6550](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6550) [!6560](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6560) [!6613](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6613) [!6660](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6660) [!6668](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6668) [!6669](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6669) [!6686](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6686) [!6697](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6697) [!6761](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6761) [!6928](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6928) [!6940](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6940) [!6951](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6951) [!6953](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6953) [!6954](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6954)
+- Flag assignment parsing refactorings [#6853](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6853) [!6854](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6854) [!6858](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6858)
+- Add foo:bar syntax to mixins [#6281](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6281) [!6912](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6912)
+- default-language field is optional in cabal-version: 3.4 [#6288](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6288) [!6924](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6924) [!6926](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6926)
+- Split `KnownRepoType` out of `RepoType` [#6432](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6432) [!6612](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6612)
+- Include component name in unit-id [#6485](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6485) [!6547](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6547)
+- Change 'optional-packages' default to empty, when cabal.project is mising. [#4797](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4797) [#6739](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6739) [!6740](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6740)
+- Fix rpmvercmp (trailing non-digit characters) [#6805](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6805) [!6808](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6808)
+- other changes [!6556](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6556) [!6598](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6598) [!6910](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6910)
+- Package description parser benchmark [!6594](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6594)
+- Add `licenceIsFsfLibre` [!6878](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6878)
+- Add `+stderr` modifier to `Verbosity` [!6929](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6929)
+- Mark public-libs as experimental feature [!6605](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6605)
+- Add rewriteFileLBS and use it to write setup wrapper [!6574](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6574)
+- Add SPDX License List 3.9 [#6879](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/6879) [!6662](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6662) [!6944](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6944)
+- Change specVersion to have CabalSpecVersion type [!6653](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6653)
+- Better UTF8 handling, parsed `ShortText` is now valid. [!6588](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6588)
+- More checks in version range parser [!6586](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6586)
+- Require cabal-versions `>=1.25` to be exact [!6654](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6654)
+- Add and use weeder [!6779](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6779) [!6790](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/6790)