1.0.37.57: better DEFMETHOD pretty-printing

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
-changes relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
+changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
   * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
-    like for any other thread-related datastructure (MUTEX, etc.)
+    like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
   * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
     contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
   * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
@@ -31,11 +31,16 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
        SOCKET-PEERNAME.
     ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
        (lp#540413)
+    ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
+       CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
+       from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
   * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
     ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
     ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
     ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
        incurred an off-by-one miscount.
+  * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
+  * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
   * 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
@@ -48,6 +53,15 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
     CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
     condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
     up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
+  * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
+    against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
+    END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
+  * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
+    block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
+  * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
+    :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
+  * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
+  * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
   * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows