Update changelog for 3.11 by going through all commit messages since GF-3.10

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What's new? See the [release notes](release-3.11.html).
#### Note: GF core and RGL
#### Note: GF core and the RGL
The following instructions explain how to install **GF core**, i.e. the compiler, shell and run-time systems.
Obtaining the **Resource Grammar Library (RGL)** is done separately; see the section at the bottom of this page.
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## Installing from a binary package
Binary packages are available for Debian/Ubuntu, macOS, and Windows and include:
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[Binary packages on GitHub](https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-core/releases/tag/RELEASE-3.11)
### Debian/Ubuntu
#### Debian/Ubuntu
To install the package use:
```
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The Ubuntu `.deb` packages should work on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and similar Linux distributions.
### macOS
#### macOS
To install the package, just double-click it and follow the installer instructions.
The packages should work on at least 10.13 (High Sierra) and 10.14 (Mojave).
### Windows
#### Windows
To install the package, unpack it anywhere.
You will probably need to update the `PATH` environment variable to include your chosen install location.
<!-- see Inari's notes on [Installing GF on Windows](http://www.grammaticalframework.org/~inari/gf-windows.html#toc3). -->
For more information, see [Using GF on Windows](https://www.grammaticalframework.org/~inari/gf-windows.html) (may be outdated).
## Installing the latest release from source

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title: GF 3.11 Release Notes
date: ? December 2020
date: ... December 2020
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## Installation
See the [download page](index.html).
See the [download page](index-3.11.html).
## What's new
From this release, the binary GF core packages do not contain the RGL.
The RGL's release cycle is now completely separate from GF's. See [RGL releases](https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-rgl/releases).
Over ... changes have been pushed to GF core
Over 400 changes have been pushed to GF core
since the release of GF 3.10 in December 2018.
## General
- Testsuite.
- Compatibiilty with new versions of GHC.
- Make the test suite work again.
- Compatibility with new versions of GHC, including multiple Stack files for the different versions.
- Updates to build scripts and CI.
- Bug fixes.
## GF compiler and run-time library
- More improvements to error messages.
- Huge improvements in time & space requirements for grammar compilation.
- Add CoNLL output to `visualize_tree` shell command.
- Add canonical GF as output format in the compiler.
- Add PGF JSON as output format in the compiler.
- Deprecate JavaScript runtime in favour of updated [TypeScript runtime](https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gf-typescript).
- Improvements to Haskell export.
- Improvements to the C runtime.
- Improvements to `gf -server` mode.
- Clearer compiler error messages.
## Other
- Web page and documentation improvements.
- Add WordNet module to GFSE.