+changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
+ * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
+ version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
+ --disable-debugger option instead.
+ * Null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
+ significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
+ * improved the startup banner. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook and
+ Teemu Kalvas)
+ * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
+ as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
+ COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
+ * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
+ *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
+ * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
+ (reported by Rajat Datta).
+ * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
+ * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
+ (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
+ * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
+ ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
+ errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
+ handle.
+ * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+ ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
+ assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
+ transformations.
+ ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
+ ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
+ types for complex arguments better.
+ ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
+ complex types.
+ ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
+ ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
+ of type BIT-VECTOR.
+ ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
+ ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
+ resulting in GC crashes.
+
changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
+ * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
+ been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
+ SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
+ new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
* incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
can be set by them.
+ * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
+ various incompatible changes.
* internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
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