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@@ -1619,12 +1619,44 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     CLOS classes.
   * an interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
     des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
-    MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.  
+    MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
   * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered a
     private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
     interface.
+  * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
+    control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
+    addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port.  Users affected by
+    this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
+    libraries, and will know who they are.
+  * known functions, which cannot be open coded by backend, are
+    considered to be able to check types of their arguments.
+    (reported by Nathan J. Froyd)
+  * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: it is
+    now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
+    forward-referenced superclasses.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+  * fixed evaluation order in optional entries.  (reported by Gilbert
+    Baumann)
+  * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
+    specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
+  * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
+    not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
+  * Experimental native threads support, on x86 Linux.  This is not 
+    compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to the target
+    features.  See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual for 
+    details.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
+       list;
+    ** condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
+       of multiple initargs for a given slot;
+    ** the USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
+       exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
+       condition;
+    ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
+       forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
+       causes an error;
 
-planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
+planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe later, it might impact TRACE. They both
     encapsulate functions, and it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE