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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.rst
index 0e1d0a2563..14b0beff75 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.rst
@@ -204,11 +204,6 @@ base
this functionality was only available from ``GHC.Conc``.
-bin-package-db
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-- This is an internal package, and should not be used.
-
binary
~~~~~~
@@ -254,6 +249,24 @@ ghc
strictness annotations as the user wrote them, whether from an
imported module or not.
+- Moved `startsVarSym`, `startsVarId`, `startsConSym`, `startsConId`,
+ `startsVarSymASCII`, and `isVarSymChar` from `Lexeme` to the `GHC.Lemexe`
+ module of the `ghc-boot` library.
+
+ghc-boot
+~~~~~~~~
+
+- This is an internal package. Use with caution.
+
+- This package was renamed from `bin-package-db` to reflect its new purpose
+ of containing intra-GHC functionality that needs to be shared across
+ multiple GHC boot libraries.
+
+- Added `GHC.Lexeme`, which contains functions for determining if a
+ character can be the first letter of a variable or data constructor in
+ Haskell, as defined by GHC. (These functions were moved from `Lexeme`
+ in `ghc`.)
+
ghc-prim
~~~~~~~~