0.8alpha.0.34:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5a501fd..891ee67 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1711,6 +1711,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
   * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS)
     as cross-compilation host.
+  * a contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
+    simple-streams interface has been included.  (thanks to Rudi
+    Schlatte)
+  * a contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
+    Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
   * minor incompatible change: the :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
     no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
     has been deleted.  (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
@@ -1719,6 +1724,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
     SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
     specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
   * compiler checks for duplicated variables in macro lambda lists.
+  * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
+    not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
+    choosing the CONTINUE restart).
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
        types.
@@ -1731,6 +1739,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
        no method was removed.
     ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
        slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
+    ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
+       DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
+       STRUCTURE-CLASS).
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles