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[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
   * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
-    the manual for details; add :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in
-    customize-target-features.lisp to enable them.
+    the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
+    removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
+    if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
+    compiled in unconditionally.
   * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
     home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
     The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
@@ -9,9 +11,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
     an implementation-internal package.
   * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
     It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
-  * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
-    causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by Marco
-    Baringer)
+  * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method 
+    bodies are now more legible.
   * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
     designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
   * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
@@ -23,9 +24,22 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
   * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
     methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
     and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
+  * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
+    float exponents.  (rereported by Peter Seibel)
   * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
     longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
     GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
+  * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
+    causes an instance of the condition to be created.  (reported by
+    Marco Baringer)
+  * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
+    SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
+    description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
+  * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
+    user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
+    SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
+    non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
+  * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
   * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides