- * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
- SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
- if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match
- * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
- useful: see the documentation string for REQUIRE
- * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
- modules in this release include a copy of the ASDF system definition
- facility, and an interface to the BSD Sockets API
+ ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
+ types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
+ better;
+ ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
+ INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
+ cases are accurately computed;
+ ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
+ if it is in the last clause;
+ ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
+ all cases;
+ ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
+ particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
+ * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
+ DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.