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[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
     core, and restored on startup.
   * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
     startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
+  * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
+    threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
   * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
     declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
   * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
@@ -12,7 +14,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
     fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
     Lars Brinkhoff)
   * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
-  * improvements to the Windows port:
+  * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
+  * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally 
+    manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier 
+    for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
+  * Improvements to the Windows port:
     ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
     ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
     ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.