0.7.4.1:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1059,6 +1059,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
        specification.)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+  * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+    Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
   * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
     this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
     (thanks to Dan Barlow)
@@ -1070,8 +1072,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
     and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
     backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
     Toy)
-  * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
-    Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+  * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
+    fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
   * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
     INFO database to support symbol macros.
   * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
@@ -1090,6 +1092,46 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
     future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
     sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
       <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
+  * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
+    dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings 
+    that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
+  * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
+    can deal with.
+  * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
+    default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
+    Martin Atzmueller)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
+  * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
+    invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
+    to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
+    to Pierre Mai)
+  * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
+  * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
+    no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
+  * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
+    valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
+    (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
+    Dan Barlow)
+  * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
+    to Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
+    on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
+    in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
+  * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
+    is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
+    an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A\7fB") returns
+    |A\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
+  * bug 140 fixed: redefinition of classes with different supertypes
+    is now reflected in the type hierarchy. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
+  * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
+    a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname;
+    instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe