0.8.0.78.vector-nil-string.3:

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@@ -1781,6 +1781,14 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
     to warn on static type mismatches and function
     redefinition.  (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
+  * when issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
+    SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
+    restart for use in user handlers.  It is expected that the
+    COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
+    supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
+    handleable in a similar fashion; other than
+    SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE, an implementation detail, no such
+    note subtypes yet exist.
   * changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
     ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
     ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
@@ -1825,6 +1833,18 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
   * bug fix: an argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
     being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
     time, but signals a compile-time warning.
+  * fixed simple vector readable printing.
+  * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
+    precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
+    (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
+  * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
+    strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
+  * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
+    the arguments in the correct order.  (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
+  * fixed bug 235b: compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
+    in type inference.  (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
+  * bug fix: reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
+    (e.g. '||::FOO) now works corectly.  (reported by Henrik Motakef)
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
     ** arbitrary numbers, not just reals, are allowed in certain
@@ -1834,7 +1854,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
        association between the name and a class.
     ** generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
-       six methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
+       five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
        after the first few invocations.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
     ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
        values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
@@ -1851,6 +1871,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
        argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
        otherwise, it creates a new class.
+    ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
+       of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
+    ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
+    ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
+       treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
+       SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles