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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
+  * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
+    system has been added.  (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+  * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
+    callbacks).  (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
+  * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
+    Dietz)
+  * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
+    Kreuter)
+  * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
+  * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
+    grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
+  * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
+    (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
+  * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as 
+    required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
+    (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
+  * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
   * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
-  * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common 
+    immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
+  * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current.  (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
   * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF