1.0.6.38: thread and interrupt safe ADD/REMOVE-METHOD

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -10,16 +10,23 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
   * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
     has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
     has the owning thread as its value.
+  * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
+    WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
+    for details.
   * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
     "a constant string".
   * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)  
   * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
+  * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
+    on Linux.
   * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
     methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
     interrupt safe.
   * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
     and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
-    fixed).
+    fixed.)
+  * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
   * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included