1.0.29.38: better DESCRIBE

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aec4085..219257d 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,12 +2,19 @@
   * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
     SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
     of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
+  * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
+  * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
+    discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
   * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
     values in other threads.
   * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
     about object allocation.
   * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
     is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
+  * optimization: (EXPT -1 INTEGER) is compiled into (IF (EVENP INTEGER) 1 -1).
+    (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
+  * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
+    contains more pertinent information.
   * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
     provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
     note being issued is now considered a bug.)
@@ -23,11 +30,17 @@
     (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
   * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
     directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
-    Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, and Cyrus Harmon)
+    Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
   * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
     (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
   * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
     global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
+  * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
+    FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and obias Rautenkranz)
+  * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
+    anymore.
+  * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
+    (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
   * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad