+ * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
+ by Gabe Garza)
+ * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
+ "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
+ Robert J. Macomber)
+ * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
+ vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
+ * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
+ *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
+ * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
+ closures.
+ * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
+ when compiled with SAFETY 0.
+ * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
+ ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
+ handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
+ input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
+ ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
+ OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
+ ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
+ interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
+ lisp characters are not eight bits.
+ * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+ ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
+ the correct number of arguments.
+ ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
+ to displaced strings.
+ ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
+ constituent characters by the tokenizer.