0.8.8.21:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 044f4e9..1d40778 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2323,6 +2323,10 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
   * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
     (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
     assembler and linker.  (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
+  * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
+    WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
+    more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
+    behaviour.
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
@@ -2340,6 +2344,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
        their output stream on EOF from read.
     ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
        have been read to end-of-file.
+    ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
+       STRING-STREAMS.
+    ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
+       description of determination of which consecutive characters
+       constitute a word.
+    ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", 
+       rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles