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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
+  * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
+    (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
+  * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
+    slots named by external symbols of public packages.  (reported by
+    Pascal Costanza)
+  * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in 
+    (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
+    via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
+  * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
+    more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
+    functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
+  * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
   * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
     be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one 
     executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
     platforms.  (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
+    the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin).  The
+    old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
+    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
   * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
     contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
     links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
     in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
   * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
-    markedly larger.
+    markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
   * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
     certain complicated string types.  (reported by Gary King)
   * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
@@ -88,7 +106,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
        that don't have a docstring
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 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
   * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
     GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and