1.0.15.3: Have PROBE-FILE return NIL whenever a truename can't be found.

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
+  * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
+    NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
+  * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
+
 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
   * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
     well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
@@ -11,8 +16,14 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
     when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
   * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
     weakness if any.
+  * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
+    is now more efficient.
+  * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
+    'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
+  * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
+    full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
   * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
-    control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
+    control variables.  (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
   * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
     keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
   * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
@@ -21,7 +32,15 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
     well.
   * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
     non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
-    methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
+    methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE.  (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
+  * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
+    create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
+    obsoletion of a superclass.  (thanks to Andy Hefner)
+  * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
+    suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
+  * improvements to the Windows port:
+     ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
+        using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
   * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits