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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
+  * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
+  * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
+    x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
+    cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
+    iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
+    iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
+    iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
+    cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
+  * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
+    non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
   * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
     more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
+  * optimization: Faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
+    platforms
+  * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
+    Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
+    workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
+    mounted.
+  * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
+    PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL.  (reported by
+    Faré Rideau)
+  * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
+    have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
+  * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
+    confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
+    funcallable-instances.  (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
+  * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
+    consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
   * threads
     ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
        child thread
     ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
        the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
        Hannu Koivisto)
+    ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
+       Hannu Koivisto)
+    ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
+       and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
+       interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
+    ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
        the :method-class keyword argument.