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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/9.4.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/9.4.1-notes.rst
index a77b6b451b..2576a21cea 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/9.4.1-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/9.4.1-notes.rst
@@ -383,3 +383,7 @@ Compiler
- GHC no longer carries ``Derived`` constraints. Accordingly, several functions
in the plugin architecture that previously passed or received three sets of
constraints (givens, deriveds, and wanteds) now work with two such sets.
+
+- A new argument has been added to the ``HsOpTy`` constructor of the ``HsType``
+ datatype, to track the presence of a promotion tick. Plugins which manipulate
+ the Haskell AST will need to take this change into account.
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using-warnings.rst b/docs/users_guide/using-warnings.rst
index 9eaf63ed80..13c04f7d98 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/using-warnings.rst
+++ b/docs/users_guide/using-warnings.rst
@@ -1652,6 +1652,13 @@ of ``-W(no-)*``.
Will raise two warnings because ``Zero`` and ``Succ`` are not
written as ``'Zero`` and ``'Succ``.
+ This also applies to list literals since 9.4. For example: ::
+
+ type L = [Int, Char, Bool]
+
+ will raise a warning, because ``[Int, Char, Bool]`` is a promoted list
+ which lacks a tick.
+
.. ghc-flag:: -Wunused-binds
:shortdesc: warn about bindings that are unused. Alias for
:ghc-flag:`-Wunused-top-binds`, :ghc-flag:`-Wunused-local-binds` and