0.8.20.29:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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 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 refuse to start 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 
@@ -49,6 +53,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
     on x86-64
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
+    ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
+       correctable errors to be signalled.
+    ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
+    ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
+       operands.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
   * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)