1.0.37.8: add ATOMIC-DECF, fix WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE-BUGLET

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
+  * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
+    SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
+    SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF.
+  * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
+    now bivalent.
+  * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
+    NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
+    generic function call.
+  * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
+  * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
+  * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
+    to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
   * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
     stack frame thrown from.
   * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
@@ -53,6 +68,14 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
   * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
   * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
     due to it, so that handlers can run.
+  * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
+    parsing. (lp#309128)
+  * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
+    &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
+  * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
+    expanded calls (lp#542174)
+  * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
+    than just at toplevel form.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
   * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and