0.6.8.16:

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@@ -566,8 +566,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
      non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been 
   incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
-  calling functions which no longer exist.
+  calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
+  opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that 
   it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
   variable.
+* The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
+  as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
+  some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)